Did Zhong Kui really exist in ancient times?

Yes, there is the prototype of Zhong Kui, the earliest prototype of Zhong Kui, which comes from Yi Yin, the right phase of Cheng Tang in Shang Dynasty. After Cheng Tang's death, Yi Yin was regent, exiled Tai Jia, and established himself as the son of heaven. According to the bamboo annals, Yi Yin was located in Taijia for seven years. Taijia sneaked out of the child and killed Yi Yin. Yi Yin became an evil ghost, so he became Zhong Kui. Zhong Kui's image is often ugly, ghost eater and talented, because he once served as Cheng Tang's right-hand man.

Yi Yin was born a slave. Legend has it that Cheng Tang's concubine picked mulberry in the air and suddenly saw a wooden basin floating in the mulberry river, which contained a baby, so she adopted it and named it "Yi Yin". Yi Yin was clever since childhood, and the gifted scholar liked Cheng Tang very much, making him the right-hand man. Yi Yin helped the Tang revolution, wiped it out, worked hard and had a lot of talents. So Yi Yin is also the representative of Kuixing.

Zhong Kui, whose real name is Zhong Ming Xiangzi Cheung Nam, is the god who kills ghosts and exorcises evil spirits in China folklore. In the past, China people often hung statues of Zhong Kui to ward off evil spirits. It is the "Tang Fuzhen Village Sheng Jun" in China traditional culture.

According to ancient records, he was a native of central and southern Yongzhou in the early Tang Dynasty. According to ancient records and research by experts and scholars, Zhong Kui is a native of Zhongnan Village, Zhongnan Town, zhouzhi county, in the middle of Xi 'an Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi Province, where there is a land temple in Zhongnan Zhong Kui. ) He has a pig iron face and looks strange. However, he is a talented, well-informed, knowledgeable and extremely talented person. He will always be upright, upright, and honest with others.

According to Shen Kuo's Meng Qian Bi Tan in the Northern Song Dynasty, during the Kaiyuan period, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty came back from Lishan tinker and suddenly got malignant malaria. The wizards tried their best, but they didn't get better after more than a month's work.

Late one night, Ming Taizu dreamed of a child, dressed in red, with one foot in boots, one barefoot and one boot hanging around his waist. This boy stole Yang Guifei's purple sachet and Ming Chengzu's jade emperor. Ming Chengzu was furious and dismissed it. The child calls himself a "loser". At this moment, I saw a GREAT GHOST man "wearing a blue robe and a horn belt, trying to catch the child, pointing at his eyes, breaking it and spitting it out".

Ming Taizu asked him who he was and said, "I finally went south to Zhong Kui, a scholar, and died because I failed to lift it. I was ordered to send him a green robe for burial and swear to rid the world of evil spirits. " Don woke up from a big dream and recovered his health.

So he called the great painter Wu Daozi for his portrait, and awarded it to the world, and ordered Zhong Kui to be hung on New Year's Eve, "to ward off evil spirits and calm down the evil spirit." Because of the strong admiration and criticism of Zhong Kui by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhong Kui was established as the first person to catch ghosts.

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It is recorded in Qing Qianlong's Zhong Kui Ghost Story in Tang Dynasty and Zhang Dafu's Pleasure on Earth in Qing Dynasty:

During the reign of Dezong in the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar named Zhong Kui, whose temperament was fierce and surprising. Although Zhong Kui is ugly, he is kind-hearted, talented and superb in martial arts.

Coincided with the autumn imperial examination, Zhong Kui bid farewell to relatives and friends, went to Beijing to catch the exam, and came to the imperial capital Chang 'an. He was very happy to see the number of towers and bustling scenes in Beijing, so he wandered in the street. He saw a divination pavilion in front of him and went to the pavilion and said, "Sir, I am a candidate. Please give me good or bad luck and calculate my future. " As he spoke, he wrote the word "embarrassed".

Mr. Juzi looked at the word "Zi" carefully, pondered for a while, and said, "The separation of Zi is the first in September, and now it is September. If you come to take the exam, you will definitely rank first. However, this first word has been thrown aside, and I am afraid that there will be a catastrophe in ten days. I hope that the public will be cautious. "

Hearing this, Zhong Kui thought: A gentleman is alive, so long as he is upright, how can there be great disaster? So, he didn't take it to heart, paid the money and left.

A few days later, Zhong Kui entered the examination room to take the exam. Zhong Kui read the exam questions and handed in the article at once. On that day, the examiner was Han Yu, assistant minister of the official department, and the deputy examiner was Lu Zhi, a university student. When they read Zhong Kui's paper, they couldn't help but shine at the moment and say with one voice, "Wizards, Wizards! This article is carefully chosen, comparable to Li Taibai and Du Zimei! " So I chose Zhong Kui as the first place.

After listening to Han Yu's performance, Dezong said that Zhong Kui, the champion of the new department, was outstanding in talent, so he summoned Zhong Kui in Jindian. When the son of heaven saw that he was ugly, he was suddenly unhappy. "I judge him according to my words and deeds. How can such an ugly person be ranked as the champion of Jinke? " Han Yu hurriedly knelt to play a way:

"The advantages and disadvantages of people are all manifested by appearance. The Lord doesn't smell Yan ying's three feet, and he blends in. Stumbling to help Han. Confucius judges a person by his appearance, but loses his feathers. I hope your majesty will think twice. " Dezong pondered for a moment and said, "Although Han's words are reasonable, when I went to see Emperor Taizong, eighteen bachelors went to Yingzhou for a beautiful talk. This person is the number one scholar, and I am afraid that the world will laugh at me for not knowing talents. "

Prime Minister Qilu is narrow-minded and jealous of talents. After hearing this, the emperor knelt down and said, "The top scholar in the gold medal list must study both inside and outside. There are 300 candidates in this subject, so there are not many. Why not choose another one? "

Zhong Kui couldn't help but fly into a rage and pointed to Qilu and cursed: "Isn't it a mistake to be so stupid in the DPRK?" After that, he punched Qilu. When Dezong saw this, he was furious and said, "How dare you make a scene in the Golden Temple? Take it quickly!" In a rage, Zhong Kui drew his sword from the waist of the general standing in the temple and sighed loudly: "A frustrated cat can't learn from a tiger, and a defeated parrot is not as good as a chicken." Say, commit suicide.

Dezong was surprised to see Zhong Kui commit suicide in a rage. In order to win people's hearts, Qilu was demoted, and Zhong Kui was named "exorcist". He traveled all over the world to fight evil spirits. YanJun also helped him practice a skill-two wronged and defeated generals, and Naiheqiao guarding the boy turned into a bat and served as a guide for Zhong Kui. In addition to ghosts, Zhong Kui played the role of the Jade Emperor, and was named "the Emperor who exorcised evil spirits, thundered and exorcised evil spirits".

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