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

sibling of
Yaoji
manifests as
bird
allied with
Xing Tian
manifested by
Nuwa

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Sources

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