Editing Chinese mythology (section)

====Mountains and in-between places====
{{Further|List of mythological Chinese mountains|Sacred Mountains of China}}

Various other mythological locales include what are known as fairylands or paradises, pillars separating Earth and Sky, ruined or otherwise. The Earth has many extreme and exotic locales – they are separated by [[Eight Pillars|pillars between Earth and Heaven, supporting the sky]], usually four or eight. Generally, Chinese mythology regarded people as living in the middle regions of the world and conceived the exotic earthly places to exist in the directional extremes to the north, east, south, or west. Eventually, the idea of an eastern and western paradise seems to have arisen. In the west, according to certain myths, there was Kunlun.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bellingham |first1=David |title=Myths and Legends |last2=Whittaker |first2=Clio |last3=Grant |first3=John |publisher=Wellfleet Press |year=1992 |isbn=1-55521-812-1 |location=Secaucus, New Jersey |page=132 |oclc=27192394}}</ref> On the eastern seacoast was [[Feather Mountain]], the place of exile of Gun and other events during or just after the [[Great Flood (China)|world flood]]. Further east was [[Fusang]], a mythical tree, or else an island (sometimes interpreted as Japan). The geography of China, in which the land seems to be higher in the west and tilt down toward the east and with the rivers tending to flow west-to-east was explained by the damage Gonggong did to the world pillar [[Mount Buzhou]], mountain pillars separating the sky from the world (China), which also displaced the Celestial Pole, so that the sky rotates off-center.