People like to watch magic shows and sometimes learn to do magic tricks themselves. Today we can explain the magic tricks using science. However, I don't know how to explain magic tricks in mythology.

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I know a lot of urban legends are about haunted houses and people never get tired hearing more of the horror or bloody stories. However, today I am going to talk about a not so scary yet a little bit random story of a haunted house.

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In most people's mind, Chinese are relatively conservative and traditional especially in terms of sex, which is partly true due to the immense immense impact of Confucianism and Taoisim. However, throughout Chinese history and mythology, I would say China has a long history and tons of stories about homosexuality although today it is still illegal to get married for homosexual people in the country.

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People who have beliefs like to say god is everywhere and god is always with us. What about brothels? In Chinese mythology, there is a god protecting prostitution and brothels and his name is BaiMeiShen, which means White-eyebrow-ed god.

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In the west there are a lot of fictional characters only showing up during night time like vampires cat women or batman. I guess stories happened in the dark are more mysterious and adds the element of horror. Today we are going to talk about a bird appearing during nights called GuHuoNiao 姑获鸟 and it later got popular in Japan in Japanese it is called Ubume.

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In Chinese mythology, In a household, there are gods in charge of the gate,the kitchen, the land. We had an episode about the gate gods and today we are going to talk about the kitchen god 灶神 or 灶王.

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When you go to a Chinese restaurant or shop, you can always spot a statue worshiped somewhere. Today we are going to talk about Caishen, the god of wealth.

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Among all the deities and gods in Chinese mythology, there is a kid who is best known and liked in China. He tried to fight with Confucianism and failed. He is the punk boy Nezha.

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The Great Wall of China seems like a masculine master piece. However, the most famous story of it is all about a female Mengjiangnv. It is a love story however for me it is more about the adventure of a heroin.

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Ancient people respected nature and liked to imagine animals having magical powers. Today we are going to talk about a mythical creature based on tapirs which devour dreams.

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