What are some ghosts and monsters in ancient Chinese legends? Is there a system similar to Japan?

There are many of them in the Book of Mountains and Seas.

There are many in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". Such as:

Snake water beast. The human face is jackal, winged, snake-walking, and the voice is like a cry. Recruit big water. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Middle Second Classic)" is contained.

Yingzhao has a horse body, tiger stripes, and bird wings), and the voice is like a grenade. It claims to be a god who watches the garden for the Emperor of Heaven, but it seems to be nothing more than a divine beast at best. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Western Three Classics)" is contained.

Folk bird (this is a word).

The mouth is red, and the body is emerald. Can resist fire. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas (The Classic of the West Mountains)" is contained.

The Chin Yuan bird, shaped like a bee, is about the size of a mandarin duck (probably a giant bee). The stinging beast died, and the stinging tree withered. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Western Three Classics)" is contained.

Philip is a bit like a raccoon dog, with a white tail. Nurturing it can relieve sorrows. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Zhongshan Classic)" is contained. See.

Ghosts have "impermanence ghosts", "white impermanence", "black impermanence", long tongues sticking out of the mouth, jumping and jumping, afraid of fear.

The landlord can go to see the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which has a detailed introduction, and the more famous ones are.

Nine-tailed fox, three-legged black, poor Qi, Ying Long...

1. Waste.

Wastefulness is one of the ghosts in ancient Chinese folklore, and wastefulness is an evil ghost that brings disaster to people. Legend.

He wears a red robe with a bull's nose, one foot on the ground, the other hanging from his waist, and an iron fan stuck in his waist. Therefore, the Chinese folk hung a statue of Zhong Kui on the door to drive away waste.

2. Yaksha. Yaksha was first used in ancient Indian mythology, in which it refers to the demigod, the attendant of the god of wealth, Kupila, who guards his gardens and wealth in the mountains of Mount Girosa. According to the Vishnu Purana, both the Yaksha and the Rakshasa were born at the same time as the living lord Bhorodiya, or at the feet of the great Brahma, and the two sides were usually hostile to each other.

According to Buddhism, the "Yaksha" is the dependent of the Northern Heavenly King Bishamen, and is one of the eight tribes of the Heavenly Dragon. Its image is sometimes depicted as a beautiful and athletic youth, and sometimes as a dwarf with a droopy belly.

3. Bull head and horse noodles.

The bull head and horse noodles are based on the image of the soul messenger in traditional Chinese culture. According to the "Iron City Mud Plough Sutra", when Ah Pang was a man, because he was not filial to his parents, he became a bull-headed human body in the underworld after his death, serving as a patrol and a servant to search for escaped sinners.

There is information that Buddhism originally only had ox heads, and when it was introduced to China, because the Chinese folk were most symmetrical and paired, they were equipped with horse noodles.

However, there is also information that the horse face is also called the horse face rakshasa and also comes from Buddhism. However, in my research, I did not find that there is a horse face in Hindu mythology as a servant of the underworld. In Tantra, there is the image of "King Ming with a Horse Face", but it is a great god in Tantric Buddhism, and according to legend, it is the incarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva, which is far from the underworld.

It is mainly derived from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

夔 (kui): Legend has it that there is a "Liupo Mountain" in the East China Sea, and Kui lives in this mountain.