9 Most POWERFUL Gods in Chinese Mythology
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2016
- You've Heard about the powerful gods like Poseidon and Zeus, but did you know ancient China had a lot of powerful deities as well? Here are some deities that you may be surprised about that have a whole lot of power.
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Chinese heaven is also one of the most organized divine bureaucracy in the world. Instead of all the infighting like in Greek/Norse mythology, Chinese gods work towards the same goal for the most part, and Gods are willing to work with demons to achieve a better goal if needed be.
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Dewa&dewi budhisme,konghucu,&ateis.dewa&dewi.animisme,dinamisme,politeisme,kejawen,&twaisme.mktn.
I wonder if it's a reflection of the cultures and beliefs of the countries/societies where those myths originate from? Western gods tend to be more combative and conflict-prone than Eastern ones, who tend to be more peaceful and diplomatic by comparison (except for some, ofc)? Idk, just my personal observations. If you dive deep into Western vs Eastern cultures, you will find lots of different and contrasting elements.
Monkey king sounds like a total badass. His story reminds me of Herakles and Gilgamesh.
Thanks so much for all those stories. I find Chinese mythology very complex and not that well known.
Hyy....if u do some research in hindu mythology you may get some answers of monkey king....we hindu say him as hanuman....and the story of hanuman is so similar or so same with monkey king even the characteristics.... And as at the last the buddha calmed him down we have lord ram how calmed him down and then the story goes to the west and south of asia
@@bhavinpatel1449 thanks, I know about Lord Hanuman and Ramayana, not in much detail though. I always considered him as very strong and powerful deity.
Jaroslav Doležel sun wukong has great balls of steel
For being called the great sage of equal heaven or dasheng
This is why my favorite character is sun wukong
And it's lucky tho coz my lunar animal is monkey
i guess similar to hanuman
I haven’t watched the video yet but when I was little monke king was a monkey that can just shove a stick in his ear
I'm here to brush up on my Chinese mythology to play Black Myth: Wukong!
yo fr same!!!!!
I appreciate this finally someone who actually wants to know about more Chinese Gods and not just bandwag Wukong.
I liked sun wukong before the game but I wanna know more either way
I can’t wait to get my hands on that game
Wukong is definitely my favorite god of them all
that's good. I'm waiting for the game so bad
Pangu reminds me a lot of Ymir from Norse Mythology. Both were primordial giants, both had influences over the creation of the world and both formed their respective lands with their body parts and blood. It’s eerie how similar the comparisons are.
Its the Social Collective unconscience.
1) 盘古开天辟地 "Panku open the sky and split the earth"
2)女娲造人 "Niuwa creates mankind"
Chinese creation mythology. My mom read it to me when I was five and I'm gonna read it to my son when he's five.
3）伏羲造阴阳 “ God FuXi created Yin（power of earth）and Yang（power of sky）, men have Yang power and women have Yin power.
4）大禹治水 “ Emperor Yu actually is also god，he stoped the flood in his smart way.
章金莱 Two blossom at the same time
@@vincentsun886 哈哈哈哈哈
@@vincentsun886 这都能开花，秀
Vincent Sun at the same time, yeah
If there is a Deity of tiredness I would feel represented 😂😂
Or food...
Ya there is kumbakarna who sleeps alot .. although he is considered as rakhches in Hindu 😁
KumbaKharna :)
@@keelinmccoy5983 KumbhaKharna :]
In greece Hypnos
So happy you started the video with Kuan Yin. I adore her and she has so much history she could get a video all on her own! Good job, thank you for sharing all these tales.
my Chinese friend, in response to a Christian who was trying to convert him, retorted "why should I pray to your god when we Chinese have so many of our own, many even better than yours". this statement reverberates my mind even now. China is so rich culture and they should be proud of their ancestry and inheritance.
Rajeshwar Sharma mm Not trying to convert or anything lol But what I even see some christians miss is ...because of the philosophy probably of loving everyone that does come in the New Testament, however I'm not convinced by the Old Testament. Jesus said to love the women, the men, the sinners or people who made mistakes, the sick, the healthy, those who shared their faith and those who didn't, the "cursed", the poor, the rich,etc. I'm sure chinese gods are amazing, though I'm a bit ignorant to what extent their teachings affect humanity. For me to try to love and respect everyone sounds deep, beautiful and complete. It conducts to peace, to being honorable, to be honest, to respect others (family and elders of course, but literally everyone) which for me conducts to the biggest values of life, and even solves ethical problems. So for me it's more about their philosophy than believing someone to have powers (on any religion) ♡ I try to approach this in a more rational manner rather than basically magic. I may be wrong on the belief but I do believe that Love for myself and all humanity are 100% right. Again I don't stand by the old Testament, it makes me doubt a lot... but at least Jesus's teachings ring Truth to me. Hope this clears a bit of this topic! I don't talk on the name of christians or anything (to some of them I may not even be exactly christian, because I'm catholic, Idk how to explain this in english rn), this is just what I have researched ♡ And If you want to teach me something I don't know about chinese gods feel free ^^ I like to learn. Currently I want to read Confucius who is considered super wise, though I've heard that he still places the unit before the individual which I'm not 100% convinced about, but hey, I will check it out! I like keeping an open mind and learn fascinating things about other cultures.
All God is good
none of those chinese gods promised you heaven and eternal life.
The Chinese people's beliefs are complex, just like Chinese culture, because after 4,000 years of development, it has never been interrupted. China's popular ancestor worship and bloody sacrifices in the Shang Dynasty, Taoism appeared in the Zhou Dynasty, Taoism for the Chinese It is very important that many of China's mythical figures are from Taoism. In fact, Taoism cannot be regarded as a kind of religion. It is a kind of philosophical thought. The same Han Dynasty Buddhism was introduced to China and was localized. Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism were finally Incorporate together, in which Confucianism requires everyone to strictly demand themselves and make their morals perfect, but Confucianism never talks about life and death. Confucius said, if you can't understand the meaning of life, how can you know the death?
so instead of 1 imaginary friend chinese have few hundred.
random viewer: *drinks water *
mike: panggu's sweat is water
random viewer: *pukes out the water*
Good thing I was drinking coke then! :))
@@Vict0r1984
Check the first ingredient.
@@spiritualcoconut4478 lmao
*proceeds to drink water*
Panggu is like a hardcore Atlas.
Why is it always the palace of the eastern dragon king that gets destroyed.
Henry von Rintelen Because he's a bitch. I assume we're talking Ao Kuang?
he's the most powerful of all the dragon kings, to show anyone who's more powerful than dragons, they target him.
Because the western dragon king would be on the other side of Europe. The southern dragon king would be below India, and the northern dragon king would be above Russia. All of which is kind of out of the way for Chinese history, myth, and legend to really talk about.
Is Red Boy Ne Zhe? I don't know TONS about Taoist legends
Ah ok.
I like Guan Yu. He was a faithful brother to Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, one of the Five Tiger Generals of Shu Han, badass crescent dragon blade, and his beard is magnificent.
Personally, when I hear powerful Gods, my mind tends to go to my favorite character, Sun Wukong. Sure, he's technically not a God, but he's still up there.
Chaos/Havoc in Heaven is a great story.
This was soo cool.! Chinese mitology is so full of wonders, thank you for this video.! Wish to see more of this in the upcoming videos.!!
Sup babe
thanks Mike for posting these video. and I hope you make more of it bc I enjoyed it very much. Im not chinese but I grew up with family that love ancient Chinese drama. I know every single god you just talk about, I love the old version of those. journey to the west is bestttt! chinese story is so interesting, I can never get enough. 😄plz make more . thnky.
No problem, and thank you so much for all the support!
Loved to listen as you made it fun and understandable. Would love to get to know more deities and the stories behind them.
I totally grew up with these gods! It's so nice to hear the origins now as an adult as I only have my Vietnamese dramas from long ago.
Honorable mention: Guan Yu, god of war, and actually a real person in the period following the fall of the Han dynasty! Probably couldn't beat Sun Wukong though.
Would probably outsmart him though
Guan Yu was a real person in history being worshipped as a god by people, the real god of war of China Myth is called Xing Tian
To further draw links between the characters here, some say that the magical rock that eventually gives birth to the Monkey King (Wukong) is a leftover of the stone of five colors used by the Goddess of Creation (Nvwa) to repair the broken sky, which in my opinion makes the story even more epic.
什么有人说？看看原书，孙悟空是书中产物，就是灵石剩下来的
loved every bit of this video! I see the Shen Yen orchestration every year in mass display and have been curious so I will now indeed see it next time it is in LA. I appreciate your enthusiasm love and share of your ancient knowledge
Love all your channels, thank you so much for all the info! Instead of going and searching other channels i just go to your channels and watch all the cool stuff!
I appreciate videos like this, where the creators get as excited as I do about myths and legends.
I love the story of sun wu kong. Please keep on making videos like this
Thanks! We're definitely going to make more Chinese culture related videos, so keep an eye out for our future content!
Technically, Sun Wu kong is not a god or diety. He is just a character from a novel that get popularized by an ancient audience who loved the tale. But one can also argued that his is probably how alot of god and dieties came to be in ancient human societies.
Thank you so much for making these videos! You're videos are always so interesting. I've watched many of them more than once, and no matter how many times I watch them they're still so much fun to watch!
Kia ora, thank you Mike Chen. I'm really interested in your beautiful Chinese culture. Your presentations are so informing and with an open heart, I'm such a believer...
LOVE! These videos!
Fun Video braw! Hey let's do a history of Guan Yu!!!
YES!! Guan Yu is awesome! I'd love a video on him.
He is not a god . But after death, he was respected like a god
I'm really loving these vids.. a number of these stories I knew years ago but forgot and this is so wonderful to revive them and I only wish these were more detailed .. because they are so enjoyable.. thank you so much.. I was having trouble remembering what the story was about the monkey.. all of these are really fascinating .
Informative! Thanks for making this.
Love these history videos
Chinese mythology, paintings and music is so mystical, colourful and nice.
really great video! thank u
this was just what i needed thank you keep making videos
this was my favorite especially the monkey King I saw a movie with jet Lee and a similar stort
I love the one with Donnie yen!
+DERPSICLES no he is not a god and it is spelled sun wukong
+B P Tee I am very aware he is a heavenly being and you need to watch your grammar and mouth
Yeeesssss the movie was amaziiiinh
The title is ''forbidden kingdom''?
I love mythology I had no idea that Chinese had their own I'm going to read up on it now thank you this brings me much joy
check out "Investiture of the Gods" It's stories about how gods and goddess became gods/goddess.
i think every culture, minor or major, has its own mythology. Back then people needs something to explain things they didnt understand yet
@zhic2 thank you I will
Thanks for watching!
Chunky Nerdet
Great video!!!
You are such a good story teller I love your videos and I enjoy learning about Ancient Chinese history and culture!
Thank you for the video. I am Daoist and have a shrine to Jade Emperor in my home.
I Love this stuff!😍😍😍
Thanks for the video!
i love your passion for these tales. keep em coming. ;)
Smite guys, where are you?
lol here 😂
Trying to figure out who the heavenly ruler is
Sorry. Warframe guy here.
I love smite rendition of wukong. Looks so cool
Yooo😂
I've always heavily adored journey to the west, despite Tripitaka (hope i spelt that right) being the main character, Sun Wukong has always been my favorite. His iconic characteristics has always been my favorite thing, how he was born, his stubbornness and his determination, and more ofc. Hes such a lovable character (imp).
thank you so much! actually i've been into chinese novels these days and the names can be confusing. this video was really interesting and helped me a lot. thx again!
Glad I found this channel, good stuff.
yaaay chen dynasty
Chen Dynasty! yeah!!
I like it when you do these videos keep them coming.
Interesting Mike ! Great Job ! I too grew up watching drama series of Godess Guan yin, Mongkey King, Etc
I'm surprised you didn't include Shen Er Long. He was powerful and strategic as well!
He`s Er Lang Shen, not Shen Er Long bro. Shen means god in Chinese, not a family name
Watching Nezha and the monkey king kick ass were highlights of my childhood.
love you and love this channel. keep up the good work!
Awesome Chanel bro, i am cuban and i grew listening to Sun wo kong stories! Tha ks alot for sharing!
Just call the channel "Mike Chen". You're cool enough:)
Andrew N He already has channel called that. Only except, he speaks in Chinese on that channel.
Andrew N that's a food/vlogging channel. He speaks english on there
Sosmcs See Thats Mikey Chen. He's talking aboot Mike Chen
Andrew N Tons of Mike Chens out there
Forgive me my spelling! Pangu (The God who held up the skies for 18,000 years) sounds a lot like our God (for Māori and Pacific Island Nations) of The Forest and progenitor of Man - Tane which is the same word for "Man".
Love this Channel 💯👍💯🙌
Great video, I would love to see more if possible.
awesome vid. please more mythology!
I am a staunch Buddhist, but I am curious about some of the Chinese gods having watched Sun Wukong in Journey to the West 1986 series many times. With the exception of Tathagata (Buddha), Guanyin Goddess (Goddess of Mercy) is the most powerful and often comes to help Sun Wukong and the Tang priest. At the end of the journey, Sun Wukong was appointed as the Victorious Fighting Buddha. The thing I want to know is this ~ who is more powerful? Sun Wukong or Erlang Shen? Erlang Shen is the nephew of the Jade Emperor, the 2nd most popular god after Guayin, the best warrior general in Heaven.
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as a Christian, i agree. It is very interesting. As for your question, Considering that they actually fought at one point IIRC, at a time when Erlang had every reason to be going all out while Wukong has later feats showing that he wasn't even close to going full force, yeah Wukong wins.
@@jonathangoodwin5609 So, it is confirmed. Sun Wukong, the Victorious Fighting Buddha is more powerful than Erlang Shen, the best and most powerful warrior god.
I also grew up with journey to the west, and also agree that version is the best. Even with the outdated cgi, just the music and everything about it is so so good! I remember always getting a stick and pretending I was the monkey king..... So many good memories
This is truly beautiful. Throughout my life and in my personal spiritual quest I have studied the many different deities throughout the world and have always found comfort in the spiritual contributions of beautiful China. Thank you for sharing and educating.
I love that king yama constantly looks done with his job like I feel you pal 👌
Heck Yeah ! the classic Journey to the West ! that WuKong is the best ! and I grew up watching it too ! Vietnamese Dubbed version lol
Glad you're going with Chen Dynasty.
Can't disappoint the viewers, heheh
wow I loved this thank you. love your energy too
Best video ever! thanks very much!
I've always found mythology very interesting. Being a Touhou fan makes me immediatley compare these to Japanese mythology and see where certian Japanese legends came from. I also compare it to the legends of other places (such as similarities with Ymir and Pangu as well as Nu wa and Prometheus) as well as scientific theory due to my own religion combining all religions and emphasising modern science.
I'm also happy with the name change
aListers ikr? Another parallel: I think I remember another promethean deity (I think from one of the new world mythologies) who formed humans from mud but as he was going got drunk and his work got sloppy. When he sobered up realized he'd made many people with physical disabilities. In his guilt he devoted himself to watching over them before all others.
Fun fact, Meiling is likely a reference to the story of the coi jumping over the gate of Dragon to become a real dragon.
Japanese people came from China
Ion Huang Yes but those Chinese travellers mixed with Ainu and Jomon upon arrival on the islands, making them ethnically unique.
Agreed! Cant stop keeping up with vid like this!
Me: *knows mostly all of them because my mom watch all the Chinese movies/drama*
My friend: How are they the most powerful? And how is that kid one of the most powerful god!?
Me: ....
You should answer him: Don’t be fooled by the way he looks...
heeey i've seen shenyun, it really is amazing :D the colours and the interactive backdrop is so fun
Thankyou for the video
Sir i just can't example
how much goldenly/heavenly beautiful and peaceful is Chinese culture
i love it i just love it
the original journey to the west was the best. grew up watching it also. I still take out the DVD to watch occasionally. 😁 I've heard of all you mentioned but not the giant guy. they need to make more drama of him and nu wa.
Nui Nui
u could be my Chinese goddess 🙏
I found your video very informative. Thank you
I love the video!
You forget my mom.
Edit: I got grounded for this comment.
you forgot guan yu
Rip
wtf would your mom read this comment anyways
No you fuckin didn’t
😂😂😂
pangou's creation is a bit similar to "in the beginning there was chaos..."
How many creation myths are there that starts with "in the beginning there was chaos"???
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 myths are actually way more interesting than just stories. I can't speak for all myths but the Greek story of creation is very close to a fairytale version of the big bang and the cooling of the earth and theories like that. They also have a big flood story. Myths are understandable versions of natural phenomena before the invention of books. Since these were passed down as stories they had to be comprehensive for everyone. Educated or not.
@@BansheeVanRaven well yeah but as I asked, *HOW MANY???*
*How many* are there do we know of our collective ancestors explaining the beginning of the universe as "in the beginning, there was chaos"???
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 I'd assume all that had a religion. Even Christianity has a version but they changed it from chaos to logos (the word)for some reason.
Amazing video :)
Dopeness thank you for sharing!
Journey to the West is the BOMB!!
Tina Zheng anytime I here the original theme song 👌👌
9:16 that sounds a lot like Ymir's in Norse mythology lol
I love these kind of videos!
thank you so much, there's not enough information on chinese mythology on the Internet so it's very helpful :)
Chen Dynasty perfect new name yup I'm the first to say that
Thanks man
Actually got a few mistakes on the nezha story. He actually washed his red scarf while not knowing what it would do to the ocean, not waving his hoops. And he killed dragon prince. Not the king himself. Anyway great stories!
@@TheChenDynasty love your videos ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I love these videos. I know most of these from the monkey king story. I grew up watching the cartoon version and that's how I learned mandarin. The monkey king is the best. And I always though neza? Was a girl from the cartoon lol
Cheryl lin m
your such a good story teller :)
Tai Natsume
what about Jesus Christ
Love this channel and all it's videos
Asian cultures like Japanese and Chinese are so fascinating to me.
As a Filipino-chinese, I only believe in Kuan yin Pusa , Omitofo, earth store buddha, Kuan Ti.
awesome video :D
I just have to say that thanks to this video I was finally able to find out the title of an animated film my grandma had over 30 years ago, which my twin and I adored and I could never remember the name of to find again. 'Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King' (English title - I now have to search for an English sub but wow wow!). Thank you so much!
I really love Chinese culture :3 please keep doing more of these
Chinese Mythology is very complicated and incredibly massive, since we adopt characters from literatures throughout the dynasties as gods, sometimes we also pray to historical figures (关公，诸葛亮）, and often times land gods 地祖公, stove gods 灶神, wealth god 财神, sky gods(天神的翻译？）, etc. We also pray to our ancestors literally, setting up shrines for elders that had passed away.
Religion for Chinese people is embedded with heavy essence of culture especially Taoism, I don’t have a specific religion but my family do follow the customs of both Taoism and Buddhism. However, Chinese in different parts of the world would worship different gods, for example in Taiwan and some coastal parts of China people pray to Ma Zu (妈祖), who protects sailors or those who travel on the sea.
I'm a Malaysian Chinese and we pray to all kinds of gods, my home also has a shrine for GuangYin, land god and sky god, and we're a modern family. Basically it’s normal for us to have a shrine(not massive ones lol)for gods, just like Christians put crosses in their homes. Even if we might not be particularly religious we just have them as a tradition.
Loky Says sir as same like the Hindus of pakistan Sindh pray to jhulelaal the avatar of sea God Varun.....
They are part of our culture even before the rise of first Jew....
I like that how communism in China favoured and respect Chinese culture at utmost highest regard but in India communist not theyvwant to adopt Christianity and western following
China always cheer for that ..😊
@@Zayn_Priyadarshin That's because you did not see what the party does with the Himalayas...Terrible this censorship, and destroy any religion without discrimination is Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist, Islamic or Christian...Censorship affects everything and the government is willing to kill, especially the last two.
The Communist government even uses the Confucius who is in the Chinese culture to establish and continue their power, but it is with the precepts completely distorted.
As for the resemblance between religions, I agree...In fact, there are few real distinctions.
In fact, including the Chinese way of praising gods as well as the Hindu, they are similar to how one does with saints in Christian strands...And the existential philosophies too, so the Orient is not so different from the West religiously.
So only communism that harms us by isolating such nations.
Admit, and the situation in India I do not understand much.
I don’t know if it’s the difference in culture. But my monk who is Vietnamese told me that Kwan Yin was once a princess. But her father hated her because she wasn’t a boy. She grew up with hate but only wanted to be love so she tried her best. Her father passed away and was sent to hell. She wanted him to come out of hell but she had to sacrificed her arm. She did so and brought her father back. Buddha saw Kwan Yin and gave her 1000 arms to not only help her father but help everyone around the world.
I LOVE THIS, THANKYOU
God I so wish I could afford Shen Yun.
The first one is like the mixture of Virgin Mary (mercy and purity) and a hindu deity (multiple heads and hands).
The man who broke the egg...he reminds me Atlas.
DuskSunDawn
觀世音菩薩 is indeed a Buddhist goddess / deity; her name in Sanskrit is Avalokiteshvara and was originally portrayed as a male in ancient India. There are plenty of parallels between Buddhist and Hindu deities since all of them came from India so I'm not exactly surprised there
Virgin Mary year 300-400
Guan Ying 100 B.C
The aspects of appearance and character owe a lot to influence from Jesuit missionaries sent by the Portugese by way of Macao in the 1600's. Before then, Guan Ying was more unusual and bore more resemblance to the Buddhist deity introduced from India around 400 B.C.
It's different. Guan Yin is Avalokitesvara and she didn't have a child during her life as human. And she sits on the lotus while Virgin Mary always stands up on her feet ( can be seen on all the statues all over the world ).
The fact that I know the details to all these myths makes me rethink my life
Love this list. Have you done the Eight Immortals yet?
Why Chinese mythology is very familiar with Hindus
Like purusha as phongu (who wake up from void, split ying and yang, who lifted one world from other)
Nu wa - bithadi
King of hell with yama
Person beyond jade king with prajapathi
Etc
Mostly similar
I thought 哪吒 beaten up the Dragon King son，敖丙，not the dragon king，in fact because Neza killed his son，the dragon king forced 李靖，his dad to kill his own son or he will make tsunamis destroy the village，Neza, not wanting to trouble his dad or the village，killed himself in front of the dragon king
Sophie Yang No, that's Neza's story, there's only one, he angered the dragon king and had to kill himself, after he died he went to his Taoist master and the master gave him a body made of lotus flower, leaves and roots and blew an air of life into the body and revived him, later Neza became a deity and so did his father 托塔李天王. Mike only said a part of the story
Blue Kimono he beat up both
He killed 敖丙 and beaten east sea dragon king
Neza vs Dragons is in 封神演义, in Journey to the West Neza is arse is being hand to him by Sun Wu Kong... lol
Its Nezha
Very interesting. I love learning about different cultures myths and gods.
loved this