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Dragon King

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The Dragon King, also known as the Dragon God, is a Chinese water and weather god. [1]

32 relations: Anping District, Ao Guang, Associations of good-doing, Cardinal direction, China, Chinese dragon, Chinese folk religion, Chinese nobility, Chthonic, Cosmology, East China Sea, Four Seas, Hebei, Houtu, Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, Lake Baikal, List of water deities, Nagaraja, Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King, Qinghai Lake, Shenlong, South China Sea, Tainan, Tudigong, Tutelary deity, Typhoon Longwang, Weather god, Wufang Shangdi, Yellow Dragon, Yellow Emperor, Yin and yang.

Anping District

Anping District is a district of Tainan, Taiwan.

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Ao Guang

Ao Guang is the Dragon King of the East Sea in Chinese religion.

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Associations of good-doing

The associations of good-doing are organised groups of the indigenous religion of Hebei province (河北民间宗教 Héběi mínjiān zōngjiào or 河北民间信仰 Héběi mínjiān xìnyǎng), or the "Pear Area" of China.

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Cardinal direction

The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese dragon

Chinese dragons or East Asian dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and East Asian culture at large.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han people, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods.

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Chinese nobility

Chinese sovereignty and peerage, the nobility of China, was an important feature of the traditional social and political organization of Imperial China.

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Chthonic

Chthonic (from translit, "in, under, or beneath the earth", from χθών italic "earth") literally means "subterranean", but the word in English describes deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in Ancient Greek religion.

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Cosmology

Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos "world" and -λογία, -logia "study of") is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe.

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East China Sea

The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China.

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Four Seas

The Four Seas were four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China.

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Hebei

Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.

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Houtu

Hòutǔ or Hòutǔshén, also Hòutǔ Niángniáng (in Chinese either or), otherwise called Demǔ or Demǔ Niángniáng, is the deity of deep earth and soil in Chinese religion and mythology.

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Investiture of the Gods

The Investiture of the Gods or also known by its Chinese names and is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods-and-demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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Journey to the West

Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.

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Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal (p; Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur; Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur, etymologically meaning, in Mongolian, "the Nature Lake") is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast.

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List of water deities

A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.

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Nagaraja

Nāgarāja "King of the nāga" (नागराज) is a figure commonly appearing in Indian religions.

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Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King

Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King (and also known as Nezha Conquers the Dragon King) is a 1979 Chinese animated film.

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Qinghai Lake

Qinghai Lake, Koko Nor (Mongolian: Хөх нуур) or Tso Ngonpo (Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་པོ།) is the largest lake in China.

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Shenlong

Shenlong, also Shen-lung, (literally "god dragon" or "spirit dragon", Japanese: 神竜 Shinryū) is a spiritual dragon from Chinese mythology who is the master of storms and also a bringer of rain.

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South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around.

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Tainan

Tainan (Hokkien POJ: Tâi-lâm), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality of Taiwan, facing the Formosan Strait or Taiwan Strait in the west and south.

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Tudigong

Tudigong (土地公 "Lord of the Soil and the Ground") or Tudishen (土地神 "God of the Soil and the Ground"), also known simply as Tudi (土地 "Soil-Ground") is a tutelary deity of a locality and the human communities who inhabit it in Chinese folk religion.

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Tutelary deity

A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.

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Typhoon Longwang

Typhoon Longwang, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Maring, was the deadliest tropical cyclone to impact China during the 2005 Pacific typhoon season.

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Weather god

A weather god is a deity in mythology associated with weather phenomena such as thunder, lightning, rain and wind.

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Wufang Shangdi

The Wǔfāng Shàngdì (五方上帝 "Five Forms of the Highest Deity"), or simply Wǔdì (五帝 "Five Deities") or Wǔshén (五神 "Five Gods") are, in Chinese canonical texts and common Chinese religion, the fivefold manifestation of the supreme God of Heaven (天 Tiān).

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Yellow Dragon

The Yellow Dragon (Kōryū or Ōryū Hwang-Ryong Hoàng Long) is the zoomorphic incarnation of the Yellow Deity of the centre of the universe in Chinese religion and mythology.

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Yellow Emperor

The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch, the Yellow God or the Yellow Lord, or simply by his Chinese name Huangdi, is a deity in Chinese religion, one of the legendary Chinese sovereigns and culture heroes included among the mytho-historical Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and cosmological Five Forms of the Highest Deity (五方上帝 Wǔfāng Shàngdì).

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Yin and yang

In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (and; 陽 yīnyáng, lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_King

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