Jingwei
nature_spirit intermediate Chinese single tradition · 3
A bird who is determined to dry up the sea. It was morphed from a girl who drowned in the sea.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 300 BCE
- Attested period
- -300 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Jiufeng, Jinnalaluo, Jiuweihu, Jueyuan, Yellow Emperor, King of Heaven, Jiangshi, Jiaolong, Jin Chan
- sibling of
- Yaoji
- manifests as
- bird
- allied with
- Xing Tian
- manifested by
- Nuwa
- child of
- Yan Emperor (Chidi)
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Jingwei, a bird who is determined to dry up the sea. It was morphed from a girl who drowned in the sea.”
#4174 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Birds in Chinese mythology Wang, Wen, et al. "The Origin of the Jingwei Gene and the Complex Modular Structure of Its Parental Gene, Yellow Emperor, in Drosophila melanogaster".”
#29625 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In this account, Yaoji is the third daughter of Yan Emperor (Chidi) and the sister of Jingwei.”
#29880 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat