Feilian (), also known as Xie Feng is the

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of the wind, or Feng Bo. He is a winged

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with the head of a deer and the tail of a snake. He carries wind with him in a bag and stirs up trouble. Feilian is kept in check by

Houyi Hou Yi () is a mythological Chinese archery, archer. He was also known as Shen Yi and simply as Yi (). He is also typically given the title of "Lord Archer". He is sometimes portrayed as a god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind. Oth ...

, the heavenly archer. He assists

Chiyou Chiyou (蚩尤, ) is a mythological being that appears in East Asian mythology. Individual According to the Song dynasty history book ''Lushi (book), Lushi'', Chiyou's surname was Jiang (surname 姜), Jiang (), and he was a descendant of Flame E ...

in a fight against the

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According to Dèng Xiǎohuā (鄧皢花), ''Fēilián'' ( OC: ZS ''*pɯl-ɡ·rem''; B&S ''*Cə.pə (k-) m''), glossed in

Shiji ''Records of the Grand Historian'', also known by its Chinese name ''Shiji'', is a monumental history of China that is the first of China's 24 dynastic histories. The ''Records'' was written in the early 1st century by the ancient Chinese hist ...

as "ill wind" 疾風 (

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: jí-fēng), might be a dialectal variant of (OC: 'ZS ''*plum''; B&S ''*prəm'') "wind".Schuessler, Axel, ''ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese'',

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, 2007, p. 238.

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