妖怪知典：山海经妖怪图鉴
Android app by vector123. Books & Reference · vector123
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- Unknown
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- 0.99 USD
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- Version
- 1.0.1
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-14
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Monster Encyclopedia is an app that provides an illustrated guide to traditional Chinese monsters and mythical creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It includes content on mythical beasts, divine animals, spirits, and ghost stories, taking you into the fantastical world of ancient texts and folk tales. Here you'll find information on monsters from ancient tales, myths, and folk stories. You can quickly search by name, pinyin, source, or tags, or browse different types of monsters by category, such as mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, auspicious mythical beasts, plant spirits, aquatic creatures, and ghost stories. Each monster entry includes a basic introduction, the original text from ancient texts, a modern Chinese explanation, physical characteristics, legendary abilities, habitats, and relevant sources, helping you understand traditional monster culture more easily. Whether you want to learn about the mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas or are interested in Chinese ghosts, divine beasts, and spirit stories, you can browse here at your leisure. In addition to the monster illustrations, the app also provides articles related to traditional monster culture, explaining the cultural logic behind the monster images in ancient legends by starting with common imagery such as mountains and forests, water, transformation, human faces and animal bodies, and foxes, snakes, fish, and birds. These articles allow you to understand why monsters often appear in mountains and forests, by water, why many monsters can transform into human form, why animals such as foxes, snakes, fish, birds, and turtles are often imbued with mysterious meanings, and the relationship between monsters and geographical imagination, concepts of calamities, beliefs in auspicious omens, and folk taboos. 【Main Functions】 1. Monster Encyclopedia: Includes various traditional Chinese monsters, mythical creatures from mountains and seas, divine beasts, spirits, and ghosts, with clear content categorization for easy browsing. 2. Original Texts and Modern Chinese Explanations: Some entries provide original texts from ancient books, accompanied by easy-to-understand modern Chinese explanations to help understand the origins and legendary backgrounds of monsters. 3. Appearance and Abilities Introduction: Provides complete encyclopedia information for each monster from the perspectives of physical characteristics, legendary abilities, locations of appearance, and related stories. 4. Multi-dimensional Search: Supports searching by monster name, pinyin, source, and tags to quickly find content of interest. 5. Monster Culture Articles: Provides articles on Chinese monster culture, offering accessible explanations of themes such as mythical creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, folk spirits, divine beasts and birds, ghost stories, auspicious omens and disasters, and geographical imagination. This helps you go beyond simply "s
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