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| The Chinese Lunar New Year dates from 2600BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti [Yellow Emperor] introduced the first cycle of the zodiac. Huang Ti is the ancestor of the Chinese people and one of the Five Emperors of Heaven: Virtue of Earth. In the Biographies of the Immortals, it says he has magic power to control and order deities and spirits. The Books of Auguries of the Han Dynasty calls him the Dipper God, because his mother Fubao, felt in resonance with a huge bright lightning flashing around the Big Dipper In a magnificent palace in the Kunlun Mountains of the west is his heavenly door keeper with the face of a man, the body of a tiger and nine tails. He subdued almost everyone The Battle of Zhuolu except for Chi You of the Hmong tribe who created a fog covering five miles with the Kuafu, a clan of giants in the north named after their ancestor Kuafu who raced with the sun and died of thirst.The Queen Mother of the West : Hsi Wang Mu sent the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens down to the world to transmit Numinous Talismans, Daoist Skills, and the Book of Secret Correspondences to the Yellow Emperor. Chi You retreated until he reached Shanxi, where he was beheaded. To make sure the head would not reunite with the body, Huang Di sent it to be buried a thousand li away at Xiexian (xie, to sever, and xian, county ). The lake was tinted with his blood. “Yellow Spirit’s Yue Talisman” expels ghosts and the “Healing Bottle’ eliminates misfortunes of the living and dead. (4, 5, 6, 7) | |||||||||||||||