{"id":17553,"date":"2020-01-05T05:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/hk-festival-monkey-god-festival\/"},"modified":"2020-01-05T05:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T05:22:54","slug":"hk-festival-monkey-god-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/hk-festival-monkey-god-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"HK Festival: Monkey God Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>  \t<strong>The Monkey God Festival<\/strong>(H&oacute;uw&aacute;ng D&agrave;n\u7334\u738b\u8bde) falls on the 16th day of the eighth lunar month.<\/p>\n<p>  \tSince the mischievous Monkey God first appeared in the Ming dynasty (1386&ndash;1644) novel Journey to the West, he&rsquo;s become a popular character in East Asian stories, with his antics even crossing over into Western television in more recent times.<\/p>\n<p>  \tIn mythology, he was born of a mystical stone on <strong>the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit<\/strong>(Hu\u0101gu\u01d2 Sh\u0101n\u82b1\u679c\u5c71), and through Taoist practices, acquired spectacular supernatural powers. But the Monkey God rebelled against heaven and was punished by Buddha, who trapped him under a mountain. He was later freed and redeemed himself by escorting the legendary <strong>monk Xuanzang<\/strong>(Xu&aacute;n Z&agrave;ng f\u01cesh\u012b&nbsp;\u7384\u5958\u6cd5\u5e08) on a perilous journey to India to bring Buddhist scriptures back to China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe Monkey God has since become revered in Chinese culture and, in bygone days, his festival was celebrated with demonstrations of seemingly supernatural acts. It&rsquo;s been said that a possessed medium could run barefoot over hot coals and climb a ladder of knives without sustaining any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>  \tToday, people remember the Monkey God by burning incense and paper offerings on his festival. The best place to see these rituals take place is at the Monkey God Temple at <strong>Po Tat Estate<\/strong>(B\u01ceod&aacute; C\u016bn \u5b9d\u8fbe\u90a8) in <strong>Sau Mau Ping<\/strong>(Xi&ugrave;m&agrave;o P&iacute;ng\u79c0\u8302\u576a) in <strong>Kowloon<\/strong>(Ji\u01d4l&oacute;ng \u4e5d\u9f99), where hundreds of people will turn up to present offerings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2638825060\"><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 Monkey God Festival(H&oacute;uw&aacute;ng D&agrave;n\u7334\u738b\u8bde) falls on the 16th day of the eighth lunar month.<\/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":[44,118],"class_list":["post-17553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs","tag-chinese-culture","tag-culture"],"views":168,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}