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 chuán shuō legend / folklore / to repeat from mouth to mouth / they say that...
 shén huà legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology
 tú lì legend (of a map, etc) / diagram / illustration / graphical symbol
 chuán qí rén wù legendary person / legend (i.e. person)
宿 míng sù renowned senior figure / luminary / legend (in academia, sport etc)
 xiāng chuán to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
 mín jiān chuán shuō popular tradition / folk legend
 huǒ yàn shān Mountain of Flames of legend / fig. insurmountable obstacle / Mountain of Flames in Turpan depression in Xinjiang
 Hóng dēng jì The Legend of the Red Lantern
 Sài ěr dá Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game)
 Sà ěr dá Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game) (Tw, HK, Macau)
 sān huáng wǔ dì three sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2] and five emperors 五帝[wu3 di4] of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography
 dū huì chuán qí urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都市傳奇|都市传奇
 Huáng hè Lóu Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi
 Bù zhōu Shān Buzhou Mountain, a mountain from Chinese legend
 Shè Diāo Yīng xióng Zhuàn Legend of the Condor Heroes, wuxia (武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2], martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸[Jin1 Yong1] and its screen adaptations
 dū shì chuán qí urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都會傳奇|都会传奇
 xiāng fēi zhú same as 斑竹[ban1 zhu2], mottled bamboo, since according to legend the spots on mottled bamboo are marks left by the tears shed by two of King Shun's 舜[Shun4] concubines (Ehuang 娥皇[E2 huang2] and Nüying 女英[Nu:3 ying1], known as the Concubines of the Xiang 湘妃[Xiang1 Fei1]) upon learning of his death
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