{"id":17510,"date":"2020-01-03T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T12:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-festival-birthday-of-che-kung\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T12:06:40","slug":"chinese-festival-birthday-of-che-kung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/chinese-festival-birthday-of-che-kung\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Festival: Birthday of Che Kung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>  \t<strong>Che Kung&#39;s Birthday<\/strong>\uff08\u8f66\u516c\u8bdech\u0113 g\u014dng d&agrave;n\uff09 falls on the second day of the first lunar month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  \tNo self-respecting gambler would ever leave luck to chance and, in Hong Kong, <strong>Che Kung<\/strong>\uff08\u8f66\u516cch\u0113 g\u014dng\uff09 is the deity of choice for securing a winning hand.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe former Song dynasty (960-1279) military commander has quite the catalogue of skills under his belt; he was famed for being able to suppress uprisings and plagues, and is also believed to have accompanied the last Song dynasty emperor to <strong>Sai Kung<\/strong>\uff08\u897f\u8d21x\u012b g&ograve;ng\uff09 in what&#39;s now the New Territories. He later became revered as a god.<\/p>\n<p>  \tAnd his luck persisted; in Sha Tin, local folklore says construction of a <strong>Che Kung Temple<\/strong>\uff08\u8f66\u516c\u5e99ch\u0113 g\u014dng mi&agrave;o\uff09 300 years ago ended a plague that was devastating the area. By a wonderful stroke of coincidence, Sha Tin is also home to one of Hong Kong&#39;s racecourses.<\/p>\n<p>  \tOn his birthday, Che Kung temples are crowded &nbsp;with devotees hoping to catch him in a good mood. Around 100,000 people visit the Che Kung Temple in Tai Wai on this day, where they turn fan-bladed wheels and beat a drum to pray for good fortune in the coming year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3525470596\"><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>Che Kung&#39;s Birthday\uff08\u8f66\u516c\u8bdech\u0113 g\u014dng d&agrave;n\uff09 falls on the second day of the first lunar month.&nbsp;<\/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":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":207,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}