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Jingwei精卫

Archaic BeingsFiction

Transformed from Nüwa, the youngest daughter of the Flame Emperor, who drowned in the Eastern Sea; she often carries wood and stones to fill the sea.

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Jingwei, and the people around them.

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Yan Emperor
Jingwei—Yan Emperorfather-daughter
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是炎帝之少女，名曰女娃
Classic of Mountains and Seas, 北山經

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FeatureA Shanhaijing Bestiary Lineage: Why One Name Can Have Many BodiesModern bestiaries often give each creature one fixed design and canonical profile. Classic of Mountains and Seas works differently: a name may carry different bodies in different chapters, while a being can be predator, medicine, omen, divine official or actor in war. Its 'lineage' is therefore first a network of textual variants and functions, not a tidy biological family tree.

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father-daughterJingwei → Yan EmperorlitClassic of Mountains and Seas, 北山經
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1. 是炎帝之少女，名曰女娃
  Classic of Mountains and Seas, 北山經