Back Βουνό Πενλάι Greek Penglai (monto) Esperanto Penglai Shan Spanish Penglai Shan French Gunung Penglai ID Monte Penglai Italian 蓬萊 Japanese 봉래산 Korean Penglai (mitologia) Polish Гора Пэнлай Russian
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 "The Immortal Island of Penglai", by Chinese artist Yuan Jiang (1708), held by Palace Museum | |
| Genre | Chinese mythology |
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| Type | Legendary island of immortals, Otherworld |
| Character(s) | The Eight Immortals |
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.svg) "Penglai" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蓬萊仙島 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 蓬莱仙岛 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 蓬莱 | ||||||||||||||||
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Penglai (Chinese: 蓬萊仙島; lit. 'Penglai Immortal[1] Island') is a legendary land of Chinese mythology. It is known in Japanese mythology as Hōrai and Bồng Lai in Vietnam.[2]
- ^ The character 仙 literally refers to a Daoist holy person/immortal or a mythological being, but is often used to describe places which exhibit the qualities of these beings.
- ^ McCullough, Helen. Classical Japanese Prose, p. 570. Stanford Univ. Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8047-1960-8.
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