page_title: Monkeys in Chinese culture
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Monkeys in Chinese culture / Taxonomy
context_page_description: Monkeys, particularly macaques and monkey-like gibbons, have played significant roles in Chinese culture for over two thousand years. Some examples familiar to English speakers include the zodiacal Year of the Monkey, the Monkey King Sun Wukong in the novel Journey to the West, and Monkey Kung Fu.
context_section_description: The simians (higher primates) of China include two families of Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae) and lesser apes or gibbons (Hylobatidae, lit. "wood walkers"), listed with modern Chinese nomenclature:
  Family: Cercopithecidae (舊大陸猴科)
  Genus: Macaca (獼猴屬)
  Stump-tailed macaque Macaca arctoides (短尾猴)
  Assam macaque Macaca assamensis (熊猴,阿薩姆猴)
  Rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta (馬騮)
  Tibetan macaque Macaca thibetana (藏酋猴)
  Genus: Semnopithecus (長尾葉猴屬)
  Gray langur Semnopithecus entellus (灰葉猴)
  Genus: Trachypithecus (烏葉猴屬)
  François' langur Trachypithecus francoisi (黑葉猴)
  Bonneted langur Trachypithecus pileatus (戴帽葉猴)
  White-headed langur Trachypithecus poliocephalus (白頭葉猴)
  Genus: Rhinopithecus (仰鼻猴屬)
  Black snub-nosed monkey Rhinopithecus bieti (滇金絲猴)
  Gray snub-nosed monkey Rhinopithecus brelichi (黔金絲猴)
  Golden snub-nosed monkey Rhinopithecus roxellana (川金絲猴)
  Family: Hylobatidae (長臂猿科)
  Genus: Bunopithecus (白眉長臂猿屬)
  Hoolock gibbon Bunopithecus hoolock (白眉長臂猿)
  Genus: Hylobates (長臂猿屬)
  Lar gibbon Hylobates lar (白掌長臂猿)
  Genus: Nomascus (黑冠長臂猿屬)
  Black crested gibbon Nomascus concolor (白頰長臂猿)
  White-cheeked crested gibbon Nomascus leucogenys (白胸長臂猿)
  Eastern black crested gibbon Nomascus nasutus (東方黑冠長臂猿)
caption: François' langur
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