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During the Dragon Boat Festival in Suzhou, the white snake spirit Bai Suzhen is pressured by her husband Xu Xian into drinking Realgar wine, which weakens her human disguise. As she rests, she involuntarily reverts to her true form as a giant white serpent, and when Xu Xian discovers her in the bedroom, the shock is so great that his heart fails and he dies instantly. This tragic event leads...
While journeying to the West, the monk Tang Sanzang and his disciples are poisoned by a deceptive Daoist master who is actually the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord. Sun Wukong engages the demon in a fierce battle, only to be trapped by a terrifying canopy of blinding golden light emitted from the demon's many eyes. It is only through the intervention of the Bodhisattva Pilanpo and a divine needle...
After controlling the Great Flood, Yu the Great cast nine massive bronze tripod cauldrons to represent the nine provinces of ancient China. These vessels became sacred symbols of the Mandate of Heaven and the legitimacy of the imperial throne. They served as a physical manifestation of the unity and stability of the land under a single ruler.
In order to establish a calendar to help mortals track time, the Jade Emperor organized a Great Race for all the animals in the kingdom. The clever Rat, realizing he could not swim across the mighty Yellow River, persuaded the diligent and kindhearted Ox to carry him across. As the Ox approached the finish line on the opposite bank, the Rat leaped off the Ox's nose to claim first place,...
The legendary Yu the Great battles the monstrous nine-headed serpent Xiangliu, whose venom transforms fertile lands into desolate miasmas. Through strategic cunning and endurance, Yu manages to slay the beast to end the Great Flood's devastation and restore life to the earth.
Sun Wukong and his companions encounter the impassable Flaming Mountains during their journey to the West. To cross, Wukong must borrow the mystical Plantain Fan from Princess Iron Fan, leading to a series of deceptions and battles. After several attempts involving transformations and divine intervention, the monkey king successfully uses the fan to extinguish the eternal flames.
After leading the Zhou army to victory against the Shang Dynasty and receiving the mandate to deify the fallen heroes, the strategist Jiang Ziya is confronted by the ghost of his ex-wife, Lady Ma, who had abandoned him during his years of poverty. Despite her demands for a high celestial rank, Jiang Ziya appoints her as the Broom Star, the deity of misfortune and bad luck, symbolizing her...
Cancong was the legendary first king of the Shu kingdom and the progenitor of sericulture who possessed remarkable protruding eyes. He emerged from the Min Mountains to teach the ancient Sichuanese people how to domesticate silkworms and cultivate mulberry trees, transforming a nomadic society into a thriving agricultural civilization. His legacy remains immortalized in the enigmatic,...
During the fall of the Shang Dynasty, the immortal Lei Zhenzi underwent a radical physical transformation on Mount Zhongnan to gain the power necessary to save his father, King Wen of Zhou. By consuming two magical apricots provided by his master, Yunzhongzi, he sprouted massive wings of wind and thunder and took on the appearance of a blue-skinned, beak-faced celestial warrior. This...
After Nezha commits ritual suicide to save his family from the wrath of the Dragon Kings, his spirit seeks refuge with his mentor, the Daoist immortal Taiyi Zhenren. Using the divine properties of lotus roots, leaves, and blossoms from his celestial pond, Taiyi reconstructs a new, immortal body for his disciple. This rebirth transforms Nezha into a powerful deity, equipped with magical...