Editing Chinese mythology (section)

====Vernacular novels and new media====
[[File:Long Corridor-通天河.jpg|thumb|Xuanzang, Monkey King, and companions riding mythological turtle across a river as depicted on a Long Corridor mural, Beijing, China]]
{{Further|Classic Chinese Novels|Zhiguai xiaoshuo|Chuanqi (short story)|Gods and demons fiction}}

Some myths were passed down through oral traditions literature, and art, such as theater and song before being recorded as novels. One example is ''[[Epic of Darkness]]''.  Books in the ''[[Gods and demons fiction|shenmo]]'' genre of [[Written vernacular Chinese|vernacular fiction]] revolve around gods and monsters. Important [[mythic fiction|mythological fiction]] which allude to these myths, include ''[[Investiture of the Gods|Fengshen Bang]]'' (''Investiture of the Gods''), a mythological fiction dealing with the founding of the [[Zhou dynasty]]; ''[[Journey to the West]]'' attributed to [[Wu Cheng'en]], published in the 1590s, a fictionalized account of the pilgrimage of [[Xuanzang]] to [[India]] to obtain [[Buddhist]] religious texts in which the main character and his companions such as [[Sun Wukong]] encounter ghosts, monsters, and demons, as well as the [[Flaming Mountains]]; and, ''[[Baishe Zhuan]]'' (''Madame White Snake''), a romantic tale set in [[Hangzhou]] involving a female snake who attained human form and fell in love with a man. ''[[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio]]'', by [[Pu Songling]] contains many stories of [[Huli jing|fox spirits]], and other phenomena. Another example is ''[[Zi Bu Yu]]'', a collection of supernatural stories compiled during the Qing dynasty.