{"id":6575,"date":"2019-11-19T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T08:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/big-mouthed-celestial-animal\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T08:36:49","slug":"big-mouthed-celestial-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/big-mouthed-celestial-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"Big-Mouthed Celestial Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Travellers to Yunnan and Sichuan in southwest China  are impressed by the colourfully painted wood ladles in the shape of a  strange animal hanging on the front doors of the dwellings of local  Miao, Yi and Han residents. The animal looks grotesque with a wide-open  mouth as if ready anytime to swallow the demons and goblins that dare to  invade. Obviously the wood ladle is a talisman designed to ward the  dwellings of evil and disaster.<\/p>\n<p>A variation of masks worn by exorcising dancers in south China, this  image of big-mouthed animal was born of totemism and primitive culture.  It is found in different place&#8211;glazed on eaves tiles for decorating a  temple, or carved on a stone pillar that stands by the road to guarantee  good luck and rich harvest for local people.<\/p>\n<p>Maling, a remote mountainous county of Sichuan, is best known for its  renditions of this legendary animal, which features a bizarre look and a  striking co<em><\/em>ntrast between bright red and green colours that is somewhat  neutralized with black and white. The Eight Diagrams is painted on its  forehead to render a mysterious Taoist touch to the animal. The Maling  style of big-mouthed animal is one of the major rural handicrafts of  Sichuan.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4219862553\"><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>Travellers to Yunnan and Sichuan in southwest China  are impressed by the colourfully painted wood ladles in the shape of a  strange animal hanging on the front doors of the dwellings of local  Miao, Yi and Han residents. The animal looks grotesque with a wide-open  mouth as if ready anytime to swallow the demons and goblins that dare to  invade. Obviously the wood ladle is a talisman designed to ward the  dwellings of evil and disaster.<\/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-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-folktales","tag-culture"],"views":146,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","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=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}