{"id":13228,"date":"2019-11-22T00:37:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-12-taotie-tao-tie\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T00:37:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:37:26","slug":"chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-12-taotie-tao-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-12-taotie-tao-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Myth Figures \u4e2d\u56fd\u795e\u8bdd\u4eba\u7269 12 Taotie \u9955\u992e"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Taotie is a mysterious monster in ancient Chinese  mythology. It is said that the monster was extremely greedy of eating  and would eat anything within its sight. It even ate its own body. So,  the image of the taotie is just a big head and a big mouth without body.  The taotie ate too much and died as a result. The monster then became a  symbol of greediness and was used to describe people too gluttonous or  too greedy.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a ferocious animal motif often found in ritual vessels of the  Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The fierce-looking beast is mysterious and  terrifying. And some beasts even hold a human head in the mouth. Things  adorned with such a motif have a deterrent effect, symbolizing the power  of a ruler. The motif was called &quot;taotie pattern&quot; by later generations.<\/p>\n<p>According to other legends, the taotie was the fifth of the nine sons  of the dragon and it was said to be a big eater and fond of eating  human beings. Actually, the taotie was an abstract expressi0n of the  dark side of ancient society. The monster was used to symbolize the  barbarian slave society, which was the most imp0rtant connotation of the  ancient taotie culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-686829270\"><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>The Taotie is a mysterious monster in ancient Chinese  mythology. It is said that the monster was extremely greedy of eating  and would eat anything within its sight. It even ate its own body. So,  the image of the taotie is just a big head and a big mouth without body.  The taotie ate too much and died as a result. The monster then became a  symbol of greediness and was used to describe people too gluttonous or  too greedy.<\/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":[119,130,118],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-ancient-chinese","tag-chinese-myth-figures","tag-culture"],"views":274,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}