More ludicrously hard questions from my insane run through of all things Chinese mythology. I really should consider playing “Smite” as it might just help me cement my knowledge of some of these world deities.
Questions
A symbol of wealth and prosperity with fiery red eyes, which three-legged golden toad with a two-word Chinese name is associated with the moon and is popularly used as a feng shui charm?
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JIN CHAN
Lin Moniang was a Fujianese shamaness who has been deified as which major goddess associated with sailors and other folk that earn their livelihood from the sea? There is a statue of her in Tainan and she is supposedly buried in a group of East China Sea islands that are named for her.
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MAZU / MATSU
On the twenty third of the twelfth lunar month which kitchen god goes up to heaven to report the goings on of households to the Jade Emperor? Legend tells of him becoming deified after he had burnt himself to death.
ZAO JUN
Providing the name for a unique sub-machine gun in “Cyperpunk 2077”, which ‘responsive’ dragon from Chinese mythology is a god of rain and a powerful servant of the Yellow Emperor? In contrast to Gonggong they are usually depicted with wings.
YINGLONG
Famous for its ability to eat an entire elephant, which monstrous snake from Chinese myth takes three years to digest that giant prey? The good news is a health elixir can then be made from the disgorged bones.
BASHE
Housing the National People’s Congress, which of China’s ‘Ten Great Buildings’ sits on the opposite side of Tiananmen Square to the National Museum of China? Both buildings were completed in 1959 to mark the ten year anniversary of the People’s Republic being established.
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GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE
Though the heads are not regenerated like the famous monster from Greek mythology, which beast from Chinese mythology has been called the Chinese hydra? His name has been used for the moon of dwarf planet Gonggong, that scattered disc member being named in turn for the water god that the serpentine creature served.
XIANGLIU
After Nüwa’s daughter Yandi died in the East Sea she was tranformed into which bird that tries to fill up the sea with twigs and pebbles? They feature in the video game “Smite”, one of their moves being ‘persistent gust’.
JINGWEI
Containing works from the Han period and by the earlier Warring States figures of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, the title of which poetry anthology references a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty that lasted until the ascendancy of the Qin?
CHU CI or VERSES/SONGS/ELEGIES OF CHU
Part of the “Three Li” with the “Zhouli” and the “Yili”, what is the classic Confucius work called the “Liji” known as in English?
BOOK OF RITES
Famous examples being “Journey to the West” and the 16th century “The Investiture of the Gods”, what name is given to a subgenre of Chinese fiction that centres around gods and demons’?
SHENMO