Myths And Legends Of China Mindmap

China has always been a 'secular' system using Confucius as the main spiritual leader

Honor and Dishonor affect the children and ancestors

like a tidal force, the effects can be felt through successive generations

Ancestors Family in 3 parts

Ancestor Worship - Most important

PanGu grew between the light and dark and eventually died, creating the universe from his body.

Light rose, Dark Sank and each day the distance between the two objects grew larger and larger

Sac Theory Many were human and deified

Chinese Popular Religion

Everyone Else (the grains of sand)

Human world divided into two halves

didn't have enough in the one to the north (northern star) and the heavens slipped (where Beijing is, thus Beijing is Heaven on Earth)

Want worship, ritual and notice from descendants in MALE line

Dead have personalities

A Sac grew, pulsated and eventually burst

Bureaucrats and aristocracy (those made from the clay)

Contemporaries Descendants

Sac is representative of Chaos (Wonton), but physically similar to a lymph-node

"Translated" by rising up to heaven in the presence of thousands of people

Gods Matsu - Brings fish and protects against Typhoon

Kneeling down on the banks of the yellow river and making people out of the yellow earth, got frustrated and 'whipped sand into heaps' and animated all of them

Worshipped in Taiwan/Fujian areas

Male or Female (orig. Female) who can go into a trance and either cross into other world or channel other spirits

Creation Myths

Children appeared to her in a dream Fatty - Hong Kong

Woman Gua Repaired the pillars of heaven by using the Five Elements

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Group seance - going to heavenly flower garden and learned to see future prevented son from having children

Shamans Brothers son was to take over his worship when he died, didn't

Shaman retrieved remains, put them into an urn, found a place to put the urn and then spoke with the spirit to reach an accord

Uncle who did not marry, have children etc

A combination of the elements plus yin/yang create objects Creative and Destructive Cycle Lunar Year due to agrarian base

Complimentary Forces

Divided according to the year

Each person developed a significant aspect of Chinese Culture

Five Elements Each Zodiac occurs once every 12 years and rotates through the five elements making a 60 year cycle.

Govern Time

Yin/Yang

Universe is Binary

Fu Xi - Marries sister starting family

Chinese Zodiacs also play a role

Yang: Light, Masculine, Positive

First Imperial Ruler

Yellow Emperor (Huang Diyi)

Great Men and Women Created society

Great Men Theory Gao Yao The Judge Quan Xu the Bureaucrat

Evolved a complex legal system

Cultural Heroes

Over 2000 years old

Created the idea of forms in triplicate

Yao - Yielded his thrown to the best successor, not the son

China.mmap - 9/20/2007 -

Be all and End All of Chinese Culture

Shen Nong (Lit. Divine farmer) starts agriculture

Yin: Dark, Feminine, Negative

Yu - Conquered the great flood by draining china

Xun - Model of filial piety

First Emperor

Not to be confused with Huang Di YI