What is the legend of Zhong Kui? Is Zhong Kui a man or a ghost?

Speaking of Zhong Kui, I believe many friends are familiar with it. In the impression of many of us, he is a ghost exorcist in China folklore from ancient times to the present. In ancient China, many families liked to hang portraits of Zhong Kui to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. This is the "Tang Fuzhen Zhai Sheng Jun" in China traditional culture. So how much do friends know about the legend of Zhong Kui? So now I will take you to know.

Most of the legends of Zhong Kui that many of us know come from operas or folklore about Zhong Kui, such as the story of Zhong Kui marrying his younger sister. During the Tang Dynasty in China, there was a scholar who was born in a poor family. He has studied poetry books 10,000 times since he was a child, and he is brilliant. But his only shortcoming is that he is extremely ugly, and he can't see the temperament of a scholar at all, and he doesn't have that charming, quiet and elegant temperament at all. It is also because of his appearance that he is often discriminated against by others in the imperial examination room. And this ugly scholar is Zhong Kui.

Zhong Kui, with his extraordinary talent, made it all the way through. However, at that time, Tang couldn't stand Zhong Kui's ugly face, so he was willful and jokingly cancelled Zhong Kui's admission. Zhong Kui studied hard at the cold window for more than ten years and went up in smoke like a joke. Zhong Kui can't accept this reality, because his appearance, even if he is talented, can't turn over, so Zhong Kui chose to die.

Since Zhong Kui committed suicide, Tang has been seriously ill. He is always harassed by all kinds of kids in his sleep, which makes Don unable to sleep peacefully. In the middle of the night, he dreamed of the little devil again. He dreamed that the kid sneaked into his palace, stole his favorite musical instrument and howled in the palace. When Tang was very upset, he suddenly saw a figure in a blue robe falling from the sky, grabbed the child with one hand, and immediately tore it into pieces and swallowed it.

Dream here, Tang suddenly woke up, and this strange disease was cured from then on. When Tang calmly recalled the blue robe in his dream, he suddenly realized that it was Zhong Kui, an ugly scholar in the examination room. So Tang Gaozong immediately recruited painters to paint Zhong Kui's portrait, and then hung it inside and outside the palace to keep peace and exorcise evil spirits. Since then, Zhong Kui's reputation has resounded throughout the country, thus becoming a legendary evil-catching god.

In fact, according to some historical records, it was recorded in Zhong Kui during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties thousands of years ago, saying that the name Zhong Kui came from a very famous folk wizard at that time. According to some historians, as early as 3000 years ago in Shang Dynasty, there was a wizard named Zhong Qiu, who was very famous among the people. His best spell is to pray for rain. Whenever the dry season comes, as long as the wizard clock does something, it will definitely work, and it will rain soon. So people use his name to refer to the position of a wizard. The pronunciation of Zhong is very similar to that of Zhong Kui. Over time, it spread slowly, and then the clock was mistakenly recorded as Zhong Kui. And this is also a statement of the origin of Zhong Kui.