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cover of episode Advanced | 中国的风神 | The Chinese God Of Wind | Mandarin Chinese Story

Advanced | 中国的风神 | The Chinese God Of Wind | Mandarin Chinese Story

2021/11/13
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It's winter time, and it's relatively warm when there's no wind. The temperature drops a lot when the wind blows. The power of wind can benefit many things, but it can also damage buildings and crops etc. Since ancient times, people's feelings towards wind could be very contradictory, it is a mixture of respect and fears. So people deified the wind, and developed the image of “God of Wind” during the Warring States Period. In today’s story, we are going to look at the history of “God of Wind”. We will see that in different regions, his looks are also differed. 

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