{"id":6571,"date":"2019-11-19T04:44:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T04:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/the-legend-of-ji-gong-ji-gong-chuan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T04:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T04:44:28","slug":"the-legend-of-ji-gong-ji-gong-chuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/the-legend-of-ji-gong-ji-gong-chuan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Ji Gong \u6d4e\u516c\u4f20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>The legend of Ji Gong (a legendary monk who helped  people with a magic fan) is a folk tale evolved from the story of Dao  Ji, a hierarch of the Chan sect in the Southern Song Dynasty. Dao Ji was  named by people as &quot;Ji Lunatic&quot; owning to his lunatic-like acts. Also,  he was awarded by the earthlings the title of &quot;Ji Gong&quot; living Buddha  for his pleasure in defending people against injustice, rewarding virtue  and punishing vice, as well as his almsgiving to the poor. Before and  after Dao Ji&#8217;s death, there were many occult legends a<em><\/em>bout him going  round on Tiantai Mountain, a famous Buddhist holy land in Zhejiang  Province. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the legend of Ji Gong has  been extensively spreading across China as a widely known folk tale.  There also exist abundant folk customs and stories related to him.<\/p>\n<p>The legend of Ji Gong takes root in a real historical figure,  featuring regio<em><\/em>nal originality and supernatural plots. Meanwhile, it is  characterized by extensive involvement of all aspects of life as well as  rich and diversified contents. It is an embodiment of common people&#8217;s  joy, anger, grief and happiness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over these 800 odd years, the legend of Ji Gong has been serving as  inexhaustible materials for literature and art. Other than verbal  performance, it is performed in the form of singing, dancing, drama,  fiction, movie, TV play, painting, calligraphy and carving. It has  hereby exerted great influence on every aspect in the field of culture  and art. Its impact has extended from Chinese mainland to Hong Kong,  Macao, and Taiwan as well as Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Europe  and America, etc. According to rough statistics, there exist up to a  thousand of Ji Gong Temples merely in Taiwan. As a peculiar cultural  phenomenon deeply impressive to common people, the legend of Ji Gong has  been included in the List of Natio<em><\/em>nal Oral and Intangible Culture  Heritages.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1018154618\"><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 legend of Ji Gong (a legendary monk who helped  people with a magic fan) is a folk tale evolved from the story of Dao  Ji, a hierarch of the Chan sect in the Southern Song Dynasty. Dao Ji was  named by people as &quot;Ji Lunatic&quot; owning to his lunatic-like acts. Also,  he was awarded by the earthlings the title of &quot;Ji Gong&quot; living Buddha  for his pleasure in defending people against injustice, rewarding virtue  and punishing vice, as well as his almsgiving to the poor. Before and  after Dao Ji&#8217;s death, there were many occult legends about him going  round on Tiantai Mountain, a famous Buddhist holy land in Zhejiang  Province. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the legend of Ji Gong has  been extensively spreading across China as a widely known folk tale.  There also exist abundant folk customs and stories related to 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":[9,2838],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-folktales","tag-culture"],"views":242,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","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=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}