Ruyi Jingu Bang
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Ruyi Jingu Bang, or simply Ruyi Bang or Jingu Bang, is the poetic name of a magical staff wielded by the immortal monkey Sun Wukong in the 16th-century classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Guy Ngan's sculpture "Millennium Tree" (2005) in the Auckland Domain was inspired by Ruyi Jingu Bang
Yu the Great
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Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary sage-king in ancient China who was credited with "the first successful state efforts at flood control", his establishment of the Xia dynasty, which inau
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…light days prior and suggests that the monkey is fated to own it. The novel never explains how the pillar was made, only that it was originally used by Yu the Great to measure the depths of the world flood during times immemorial. The staff is initially described as a pillar of black iron twenty feet in height and…
Yu as depicted by Song-era artist Ma Lin (馬麟), National Palace Museum
King Yu as depicted in Wu Family Shrines in Jiaxiang, Shandong, from the mid 2nd century AD.
Qing dynasty illustration of Yu observing Emperor Shun's divination.
Yu as depicted in the album Portraits of Famous Men c. 1900, housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art