Today we will keep talking about stories from Journey to the West 西游记. How the monkey king got his name Sun WuKong?

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We will the start talking about the stories from the book Journey to the West 西游记. Today we will talk about the birth of the Monkey King.

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I know we haven't really talked about dragon yet. Since there are so much about the dragon in Chinese mythology, today I decide to talk about the nine sons of the dragon.

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In Chinese history, there are four women considered as the Four Great Beauties. Today we will talk about the beauty Wang ZhaoJun 王昭君 whose beauty was so entrancing that birds in flight would fall from the sky.

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We talked about the Heavenly Dog in our last episode. In Chinese mythology, people sometimes get confused of the Heavenly Dog with another holy dog called XiaoTianQuan 哮天犬, Howling Celestial Dog . Today we are going to talk about the its owner. His name is ErLangShen 二郎神.

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Since recently we talked about some myths and legends about the moon, we will talk about a mythical creature that is considered to eat the moon or the sun during an eclipse today. It is TianGou 天狗, Heavenly Dog in Chinese mythology.

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Today we will keep talk about stories about the Mid-Autumn festival and they are great entertainment for tonight's moon gazing. Today we will talk about the Jade Rabbit and Chinese Sisyphus on the moon.

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It is almost the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节. We will use two episodes to share them with you. We will start with story of the goddess of the moon today.

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It is the rainy season after a great summer. Today we will talk about a cute tradition in ancient China since the Yuan dynasty 元代 and in Japan today that people do to pray for a sunny day.

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In Chinese history, there are four women considered as the Four Great Beauties. They are known for their beauty and they are remembered also due to their influences over the emperors. Today we will talk about one of the beauties XiShi 西施.

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