{"id":13239,"date":"2019-11-22T11:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=13239"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:14:48","slug":"chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-23-zhongkui-zhong-kui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-23-zhongkui-zhong-kui\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Myth Figures \u4e2d\u56fd\u795e\u8bdd\u4eba\u7269 23 ZhongKui \u949f\u9997"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>In Chinese folklores, Zhong Kui is a god who exorcises ghosts and evil spirits.<\/p>\n<p>As legend has it, he lived in Zhongnan Mountain in the early Tang  Dynasty. He was born with a panther-like head, ring-like eyes, an iron  face and curly whiskers. Though very ugly, he was a profoundly learned  and talented figure. As a man of integrity, he always upheld justice and  feared no evil or mischievous being. In 712 when Emperor Xuanzong of  the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, Zhong Kui went to Chang&#8217;an to take  the imperial civil examination. Impressed by Zhong&#8217;s five poems  entitled Holding Banquets in Yingzhou, the chief examiner praised him as  a prodigy and enrolled him top of all examinees. During the palace  examination, however, a treacherous minister named Lu Qi judged Zhong  Kui by the appearance, and repeatedly spoke ill of him before the  emperor. As a result, Zhong Kui failed to claim championship in the  exam. Infuriated, he bumped his head against a pillar in the palace and  thus killed himself. The entire court was shocked. Then Emperor Dezong  issued an imperial edict, conferring upon Zhong Kui the title of Demon  Queller who traveled all over the world to kill the evil and expel the  wicked. In addition, the official title of Number One Scholar was also  buried with him.<\/p>\n<p>The Painting of Zhong Kui Catching a Ghost, very popular among the  folk people, comes from a story recorded in The Book of Unofficial  History. Depicting Zhong Kui catching the evil spirit, it is believed to  convey the message of avoiding calamity and bringing on good fortune.  Therefore, people often buy the painting on festivals and put it up at  home.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, people would hang paintings of Zhong Kui on New Year&#8217;s  Eve only. Currently, however, it is on Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of  the 5th lunar month) that people paint Zhong Kui, hang the picture in  their own houses or give it away as a present. The change originated in  1757, the 22nd year of the Reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing  Dynasty. A great many people died of plague that year. Helplessly,  people resorted to Zhong Kui for help. They bought and put up Zhong&#8217;s  paintings, expecting him to exorcise the evil with his might. In the  following years, the practice was continued and gradually developed into  a custom.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2914649941\"><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>In Chinese folklores, Zhong Kui is a god who exorcises ghosts and evil spirits.As legend has it, he lived in Zhongnan Mountain in the early Tang  Dynasty. He was born with a panther-like head, ring-like eyes, an iron  face and curly whiskers. Though very ugly, he was a profoundly learned  and talented figure. As a man of integrity, he always upheld justice and  feared no evil or mischievous being. In 712 when Emperor Xuanzong of  the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, Zhong Kui went to Chang&#8217;an to take  the imperial civil examination. Impressed by Zhong&#8217;s five poems  entitled Holding Banquets in Yingzhou, the chief examiner praised him as  a prodigy and enrolled him top of all examinees. During the palace  examination, however, a treacherous minister named Lu Qi judged Zhong  Kui by the appearance, and repeatedly spoke ill of him before the  emperor. As a result, Zhong Kui failed to claim championship in the  exam. Infuriated, he bumped his head against a pillar in the palace and  thus killed himself. The entire court was shocked. Then Emperor Dezong  issued an imperial edict, conferring upon Zhong Kui the title of Demon  Queller who traveled all over the world to kill the evil and expel the  wicked. In addition, the official title of Number One Scholar was also  buried with him.<\/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":[130,46],"class_list":["post-13239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-myth-figures","tag-examination"],"views":293,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}