Important Deities and Mythological Figures
- Deities with Buddhist appellations
- Dizang: ruler of the ten hells
- Four Heavenly Kings: four Buddhist guardian gods
- Gautama Buddha (釋迦牟尼, Shìjiā móu ní)
- Guanyin (also Kuanyin): bodhisattva associated with compassion
- Laughing Buddha
- Cangjie: had four eyes
- Chang'e: goddess of the Moon
- Chi You: tyrant who fought against the then-future Yellow Emperor
- Da Yu (Yu the Great): founder of the Xia Dynasty and famed for his introduction of flood control and for his upright moral character
- Daoji: folk hero known for wild and eccentric behavior; maintained a compassionate nature
- Eight Immortals
- Cao Guojiu
- Han Xiangzi
- Han Zhongli
- He Xiangu
- Lan Caihe
- Lu Dongbin
- Tie Guaili
- Zhang Guolao
- Erlang Shen: possessed a third eye in the middle of his forehead that saw the truth
- Four Emperors (四御, Sì yù): heavenly kings of Taoist religion
- Fangfeng: giant who helped fight flood, executed by Yu the Great
- Feng Meng: apprentice to Hou Yi, and his eventual murderer
- Yu Huang (Jade Emperor)
- Beiji Dadi
- Tianhuang Dadi
- Empress of Earth
- Gao Yao
- Gong Gong: water god/sea monster resembling a serpent or dragon
- Guan Yu: god of brotherhoods, martial power, and war
- Hànbá (旱魃)
- Hou Yi: archery deity; married to Chang'e, goddess of the Moon
- Hung Shing
- Jum sum: god of sleep and dreams
- Kua Fu: a giant who wanted to capture the sun
- Kui Xing: god of examinations and an associate of the god of literature, Wen Chang
- Lei Gong: god of thunder
- Lung Mo: Chinese woman deified after raising five infant dragons
- Matsu: goddess of the sea
- Meng Po: responsible for reincarnated souls forgetting previous lives
- Nezha: Taoist protection deity
- Sun Wukong (also the Monkey King)
- Tam Kung: sea deity with the ability to forecast weather
- The Cowherd and Weaver Girl
- Three August Ones and Five Emperors: a collection of legendary rulers
- Three Pure Ones: the Taoist trinity
- Daode Tianzun
- Lingbao Tianzun
- Yuanshi Tianzun
- Town god
- Tu Di Gong: god of wealth and merit
- Tu Er Shen: managed the love and sex between homosexual men
- Wenchang Wang: god of culture and literature
- Wong Tai Sin: possessed healing power
- Wu Gang: endlessly cut down a self-healing bay laurel on the moon
- Xi Wangmu: Queen Mother of the West
- Xiang River goddesses (Xiangfei)
- É huáng (娥皇)
- Nǚ yīng (女英).
- Xihe, goddess of the sun
- Xingtian: headless giant decapitated by the Yellow Emperor as punishment for challenging him; his face is on his torso as he has no head
- Yuqiang: Huangdi's descendent, god of north sea and wind
- Zao Jun: kitchen god
- Zhao Gongming (also Cai Shen): god of prosperity
- Zhong Kui: vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings
- Zhu Rong: god of fire
- Yifan Zhang: cat goddess who led a legion of cats to uphold righteousness before the Shang Era; descendant of Huangdi
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