{"id":6572,"date":"2019-11-19T05:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/the-matchmaker-hong-niang\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T05:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:39:34","slug":"the-matchmaker-hong-niang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/the-matchmaker-hong-niang\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matchmaker \u7ea2\u5a18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The Matchmaker, or Yue Lao (literally means the old man  in the moon), is the god who unites persons in marriage in a Chinese  legend that originated in Tang Dynasty. The figure later became a widely  known image of immortal. As the legend goes, the matchmaker holds a  book in his hands called &quot;the book of fate&quot;, on which the marriage of  all people are recorded. Also in his hands there is a red strand, and  o<em><\/em>nce he ties a man and a woman on their feet with the strand, the two  will surely become a couple even if they were o<em><\/em>nce irreco<em><\/em>ncilable  enemies or strangers far away from each other. There is a folk custom in  China to make statues of the matchmaker and build temple to pray for  blessings. There is such a temple by the West Lake of Hangzhou, in which  people can burn joss sticks, draw straws and vow to the god for their  marriage.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1398872411\"><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 Matchmaker, or Yue Lao (literally means the old man in the moon), is the god who unites persons in<\/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":[9,2838],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-folktales"],"views":180,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","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=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}