{"id":13235,"date":"2019-11-22T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-19-tai-sui-tai-sui-jun\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:32:12","slug":"chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-19-tai-sui-tai-sui-jun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-19-tai-sui-tai-sui-jun\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Myth Figures \u4e2d\u56fd\u795e\u8bdd\u4eba\u7269 19  Tai Sui \u592a\u5c81\u541b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Tai Sui is one of the few demon gods of divinities in Chinese folk culture and people tend to shy away from him.<br \/>  The term &quot;Tai Sui&quot; is derived from the &quot;Tai Sui Calendar System&quot; of  ancient China. &quot;Sui&quot; originally referred to Jupiter, which was  considered the head of all stars. But it was quite inconvenient to  calculate the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches based on the movement  of Jupiter, so people created a false and imaginary star moving directly  opposite to Jupiter. This star was called &quot;Tai Sui&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The directions the Tai Sui Star moves every year and its positions  were considered sacred, so there were a lot of taboos among the people.  Building, migrating or holding a wedding toward or against the moving  direction of Tai Sui were deemed offenses to Taisui and should be  avoided.<\/p>\n<p>In the Song Dynasty, the Tai Sui Star was personified and transformed  from an imaginary star to a god. In the Ming Dynasty, the belief in Tai  Sui was recognized by the ruling regime and sacrificial altars were  especially set up to pay tribute to Tai Sui.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4164290103\"><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>Tai Sui is one of the few demon gods of divinities in Chinese folk culture and people tend to shy away from him.<br \/>\n  The term &quot;Tai Sui&quot; is derived from the &quot;Tai Sui Calendar System&quot; of  ancient China. &quot;Sui&quot; originally referred to Jupiter, which was  considered the head of all stars. But it was quite inconvenient to  calculate the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches based on the movement  of Jupiter, so people created a false and imaginary star moving directly  opposite to Jupiter. This star was called &quot;Tai Sui&quot;.<\/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":[130,118],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-myth-figures","tag-culture"],"views":370,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","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=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}