{"id":13221,"date":"2019-11-21T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-07-door-gods-men-shen\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:35:59","slug":"chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-07-door-gods-men-shen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-07-door-gods-men-shen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Myth Figures \u4e2d\u56fd\u795e\u8bdd\u4eba\u7269 07 Door Gods \u95e8\u795e"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In former times, door gods of China were divinities  Taoists and common people believed to guard doors, as well as portraits  of door gods for posting on doors. Door gods are widely popular among  the Chinese people. Chinese New Year is the time for posting door god  portraits. In the past, people believed that posting an image of a door  god on the door could keep evil spirits away and bring back peace and  luck. Door gods were even included into gods worshipped by Taoists, who  would perform sacrificial rituals in honor of them.<\/p>\n<p>The belief in door gods has been around for quite a long time.  According to the pre-Qin Dynasty book the Classic of the Mountains and  Seas, Shen Tu, Yu Lei, Reed Ropes and Peach Wood were ghost-driving  gods.<\/p>\n<p>In the Tang Dynasty, another door god named Zhong Kui, an excellent ghost catcher, became popular.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-87383574\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In former times, door gods of China were divinities  Taoists and common people believed to guard doors, as well as portraits  of door gods for posting on doors. Door gods are widely popular among  the Chinese people. Chinese New Year is the time for posting door god  portraits. In the past, people believed that posting an image of a door  god on the door could keep evil spirits away and bring back peace and  luck. Door gods were even included into gods worshipped by Taoists, who  would perform sacrificial rituals in honor of them.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2837],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-13221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-myth-figures"],"views":254,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}