What are the names of the gods of wind, rain, thunder and snow in Chinese mythology?

1, China's ancient mythology of more than one god of thunder, the most famous one, from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas - Hai Nei Dong Jing": "Thunder in the Lei Ze there is the god of thunder, the dragon body and human head, and drums its belly is thunder." According to the "Records of the Grand Historian - Zhou Benji" records: "Jiang Yuan out of the wild, see the giant traces of people, the heart of the Xin Ran Yue, want to trample, trample and body movement, such as pregnant, about the period and give birth to a child." That's what it says.

The child born to Jiang Yuan was named Houji, and is considered to be the founder of the Zhou nation, and the poem "Shengmin," which describes this story, was also included in the Book of Songs. Legend has it that Huxu had a similar experience and gave birth to Fuxi, so some people later confused Fuxi with Houji.

There was also a man called Kui, who lived on Liubo Mountain in the East China Sea, and was like a hornless ox, pale gray, with only one foot, able to enter and leave the sea freely. Every in and out when there must be a big storm, at the same time roar like thunder. Yellow Emperor and Chiyu war, the soldiers were Chiyu to find all kinds of mountain spirits and water monsters, the Yellow Emperor decided to use some special materials to do drums, to inspire morale. So the above two were out of luck, the former was drawn bones for drumsticks, the latter was stripped of skin masked into a drum.

2, the god of the wind called Yujian: "Yujian" for the legendary god of the sea, wind and plague, also known as "Yujiang", "Yujing", is the grandson of the Yellow Emperor. Yujian, the god of the sea, ruled the North Sea, with a body like a fish, but with human arms and legs, and rode on a two-headed dragon; Yujian, the god of the wind, was said to be "Xuanmei," a minister of Zhuanxu, with a human face and a bird's body, and with a green snake hanging from each ear, with two green snakes on each foot, and ruled over the north.

It is said that Yujian's wind can spread plague, and if you meet the northwest wind it blows, you will be injured, so the northwest wind was also known as the "severe wind" by the ancients.

3, the rain god, the cloud god Ping Fei and the sea god Yu No. *** peer rain, is the original meaning of the ancient legend. The ancient myth of the East China Sea Dragon King Aoguang (that is, the first of the four gods of the sea) rate of wind, clouds, thunder, electricity, four gods of the rain, may be by the cloud God Ping Fei, God of the sea Yu No. **** peer rain legend evolved.

4, snow god. Ming Dynasty writer Zhang Dai has an encyclopedic work called "night boat", which has "Teng six snow" one, said the snow god Teng six. Cheng Dengji's "Young Learning Qionglin" "Astronomy" is even more explicit: "The cloud division is Fenglong, the snow god is Tenglue." The Chinese god of snow is Teng Liu.

Expanded information:

Chinese myths are traditional myths from the ancient times of China, reflecting the simple thoughts of the early Chinese children and the primitive fantasies of ancient people about natural phenomena and social life, and expressed in the form of supernatural images and fantasies. The stories and legends are "the forms of nature and society themselves processed in an unconscious artistic way through the fantasies of the people".

Myths of natural phenomena such as the formation of the sun, moon and stars?

Myths explaining the origin of the sun, moon and stars and natural phenomena such as wind, rain, thunder and lightning occupy an important place in Manchu mythology. Such as the "pool of heaven", "the sun and the legend of the moon", "moon Asha", "the North Star" and so on belong to this kind of myth. The Legend of the Sun and the Moon is a myth about the formation of the sun and the moon.

The legend says that when there was just heaven and earth. The sky and the ground were black and muddy. The two daughters of the God of Heaven, refined 33,333 little tori (sacred mirrors) and threw the glittering little tori into the sky, whereupon countless stars appeared in the sky. The sisters then took the ten red and large flaming tori that the god of heaven had refined and shone them on the ground, and the sky immediately brightened, and the trees, people, and animals on the ground could be seen clearly.

The ten flaming tori were like ten suns revolving in the sky, baking the people and all things on the earth. The wise man cut down a large tree to make a bow, and used the bark of the linden tree and the cane to make a string. He shot down eight flaming tori with his arrows, and finally only two remained. The god of heaven was angry and separated the two daughters, telling them to hold the tori and shine on them forever. The elder sister became "Shun" (the sun), and the younger sister became "Biya" (the moon).

Myths about natural phenomena such as wind, thunder, rain and snow are mostly scattered among various myths, and there are few myths about them alone. For example, in "Baiyun Gege" and "Tianchi," gods of natural phenomena such as thunder, wind, rain, hail and snow appear.?

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Mythology