Of all the creatures of the Chinese zodiac the dragon is considered ... eagerly anticipated Chinese aren't alone in venerating the mythical dragon. We explore its meaning in Japanese, Bhutanese ...

and it goes a little like this… The story goes that a race was organised by the Jade Emperor - one of the most important gods in traditional Chinese religion - who invited all the animals in the ...

The phoenix also appears in the Chinese myths of Feng Huang ... story is chock full of immortal heroes interacting with mythical creatures, so it can be easy to see why writers like Herodotus ...