Lingzhi is transformed from Nuwa’s seven-colored auspicious clouds.


Release date:

2023-06-16

Fuxi and Nüwa may well be regarded as the chief architects of humankind!
However, the great savior of humanity is lingzhi.
Legend has it that during the Great Flood some twelve thousand years ago, Gonggong shattered the sky, leaving a gaping hole. The torrential downpour lasted for forty-nine days and forty-nine nights, nearly wiping out humanity. Fortunately, Fuxi and Nüwa, trapped in a rocky cave high on a mountain, survived by feasting on a giant spirit mushroom growing at the cave’s entrance. After consuming the mushroom, Nüwa not only lived but also gained divine powers, enabling her to vanquish Gonggong and mend the heavens. Later, she fashioned humans from clay, ensuring the continuation of humankind.
Moved by the wondrous powers of the lingzhi mushroom, Nüwa transformed six of the seven colors from the rainbow‑hued auspicious clouds beneath her feet into six varieties of lingzhi, leaving them in the mortal realm, while she herself ascended to the ninefold heavens aboard a azure cloud.
From that moment on, across the land of Jiuzhou, the ancient Eastern culture ushered in a splendid and vibrant saga centered on the lingzhi mushroom!
Illustration: Depiction of Fuxi and Nüwa holding immortality herbs, and an image of Nüwa flying through the heavens.

Nüwa ascended to the Nine Heavens and, at the same time, brought the lingzhi mushroom to the Immortal Realm. From then on, the immortals began to live days filled with “the taste of lingzhi”...