{"id":6584,"date":"2019-11-19T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/ximu-spider-happiness-dropped-from-heaven\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:55:33","slug":"ximu-spider-happiness-dropped-from-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/ximu-spider-happiness-dropped-from-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Ximu Spider &#8211; Happiness Dropped from Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>Spiders were called &quot;ximu&quot; (meaning &quot;happy insects&quot;) in  ancient China. Even in today&#8217;s folk culture, spiders are believed to  bring happiness in the morning and wealth in the evening. In addition,  it is a custom to feature spiders as symbols for luck in auspicious  paintings. This custom originated from a story in ancient times: <\/p>\n<p>  One morning, an official woke up and walked out of his bedroom.  Suddenly, he saw a chestnut-sized spider hanging from a web on the door  beam. The spider was right in front of his eyes. The official danced  with joy and cried: &quot;this is a happy insect!&quot; Then, he couldn&#8217;t help  shouting &quot;happy insects dropped from Heaven; happiness dropped from  Heaven &hellip;&quot; A few days later, good news came: the emperor issued an order  of general amnesty and promised advancement to all officials. That&#8217;s how  the auspicious painting featuring a spider hanging from a web came  from. The painting was entitled with the name none other than &quot;Happiness  Dropped from Heaven&quot;. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3330861455\"><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>Spiders were called &quot;ximu&quot; (meaning &quot;happy insects&quot;) in ancient China. Even in today&#8217;s folk culture, spiders are believed to bring<\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-folktales","tag-culture"],"views":782,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}