A bilingual archive of Chinese cultural memory
From creation myths
to the present.
Explore deities, historical figures, spirits, creatures and objects across a source-aware timeline of Chinese myth and history.
Selected points on the timeline
Each entry separates narrative setting, earliest surviving record and the period when its familiar form took shape.
Six source layers, applied claim by claim.
Labels identify where a claim comes from. One figure may carry historical records, local worship and literary adaptation at the same time.
Objects, sites, inscriptions and datable material remains.
Chronicles, archives, gazetteers and near-contemporary writing.
Myth, oral tradition, local worship and later attribution.
Drama, storytelling, romance and staged adaptation.
Fiction, film, animation, games and other creative media.
Memes, short-video claims and online reinterpretation.
Two clocks prevent false precision.
Myths follow narrative sequence. Evidence follows the dates of texts, images and material remains.