Legends and Cults in Ancient China
Author | : Bernhard Karlgren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bernhard Karlgren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernard Karlgren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1985-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780879914783 |
Author | : Henry Romano |
Publisher | : DTTV PUBLICATIONS |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 2021-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
We have in China the universal worship of ancestors, which constitutes (or did until A.D. 1912) the State religion, usually known as Confucianism, and in addition we have the gods of the specific religions (which also originally took their rise in ancestor-worship), namely, Buddhism and Taoism. (Other religions, though tolerated, are not recognized as Chinese religions.) It is with a brief account of this great hierarchy and its mythology that we will now concern ourselves. Besides the ordinary ancestor-worship (as distinct from the State worship) the people took to Buddhism and Taoism, which became the popular religions, and the literati also honoured the gods of these two sects. Buddhist deities gradually became installed in Taoist temples, and the Taoist immortals were given seats beside the Buddhas in their sanctuaries. Every one patronized the god who seemed to him the most popular and the most lucrative. There even came to be united in the same temple and worshipped at the same altar the three religious founders or figure-heads, Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzŭ. The three religions were even regarded as forming one whole, or at least, though different, as having one and the same object: san êrh i yeh, or han san wei i, “the three are one,” or “the three unite to form one” (a quotation from the phrase T’ai chi han san wei i of Fang Yü-lu: “When they reach the extreme the three are seen to be one”). In the popular pictorial representations of the pantheon this impartiality is clearly shown.
Author | : Trenton Campbell |
Publisher | : Encyclopaedia Britannica |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1622753941 |
This authoritative volume examines the two main faiths, Confucianism and Daoism, that developed before China had meaningful contact with the rest of the world. Aspects of Buddhism later joined features of these faiths to form elements of Chinese ideology and, with the beliefs in immortals and the worship of ancestors, they led to a popular religion. The narrative describes the gods and goddesses that dominated China's mythology and folk culture, roughly from the 3rd millennium to 221 BCE, including the Baxian (Eight Immortals), Chang'e (moon goddess), Guandi (god of war), the Men Shen (door spirits), and Pan Gu (first man).
Author | : Lihui Yang |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195332636 |
Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items.
Author | : Tony Allan |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1448859913 |
Examines the myths and beliefs of ancient China.
Author | : Jehangir Cooverjee Coyajee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Chinese literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lianshan Chen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052118679X |
An illustrated introduction to the stories of deities, heroes and the origins of the universe that underpin traditional Chinese culture.
Author | : Michael V. Uschan |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2014-05-09 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 142051217X |
Readers are introduced to the elaborate mythology of ancient China. This book provides detailed discussion of the mythology's importance to its own culture and the impact it had on subsequent cultures. The numerous deities worshipped by the ancient Chinese are described and their importance to different groups and in different regions within the empire are explained. Stories are retold along with explanation of how they reflect the values and concerns of Chinese culture.
Author | : Zhi Dao |
Publisher | : DeepLogic |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in Myths and Legends of Ancient China, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.