all the waters consolidated there to become a deep pool. Like Guixu, Ganyuan is mentioned in Shanhaijing as located in the East of the Bohai Sea. However, another part of Shanhaijing claims Ganyuan is located in the Southeast instead of the East. According to Shanhaijing and Chuci, Ganyuan is also the home of the solar goddess Xihe, who gave birth to ten suns. There, Xihe bathed the suns while they rested during the night until nine of them were shot down by Houyi. In popular culture Guixu is a common location name in Chinese popular culture, especially in xianxia stories. Guixu is often depicted as a black hole-like void or whirlpool that sucks everything into it. In The Ferryman (), Guixu is a deep underwater kingdom where those lost in the sea are sucked in. There, they are eaten by the jiaoren who lives there. The jiaoren takes on the form of the ones they eat and returns to land to fulfill the wishes of the people who they eat. In The Starry Love (), Guixu is where the primordial chaos hundun was sealed. When broken, a black hole-like void will suck in the entire world and cause it to collapse. Maintaining the seal in Guixu is the main job of the protagonist Shaodian Youqin. In the Ghost Blows Out the Light book and TV series, Guixu is a whirlpool that hides a lost civilization in the South China Sea. References Locations in Chinese mythology Mythical utopias Asia in mythology Mythological places