Chinese legendary figures with European appearance
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I'm not clear what your question is exactly. I believe it's were some of the blue-eyed or pale characters in Chinese legend based real people of European origin.
Pale skin and blue eyes aren't exclusively European. Kafiristan is an example of somewhere which has blue-eyed people. While living in Kazakhstan I once met someone (an ethnic Kazakh, not a Russian) who had ginger hair.
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First off, it really shouldn't shock anyone that some ancient mummies in the Tarim Basin show European-esque features. That is the far, far western extreme of what is now considered China. Until as late as the middle ages (6th-8th century AD) an Indo-European language was spoken there. It really shouldn't be surprising that an area whose culture left behind Indo-European writing and artifacts also left behind human remains that looked a bit like Europeans. So the reasonable assumption is that those mummies were Tocharians.
There are some other non Indo-European people in East (not Central) Asia with some seemingly "European" features, but by and large they are isolated groups who are not particularly historically important. Among the most intriguing (to me at least) are the Ainu, whose historical range is shown below. They have a lot of superficial resemblances to Europeans (although not in hair color), but are apparently not genetically related at all. Their language is an isolate.
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