According to legend, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty suddenly became seriously ill after a cruise and failed to be cured after many treatments. The emperor was very anxious. One night, he dreamed that a child in red stole his treasure, and the emperor scolded the child angrily.
At this moment, GREAT GHOST, wearing a broken hat, suddenly appeared, grabbed the kid and ate it. When the emperor asked him who he was, GREAT GHOST replied: I am a scholar in Zhong Nanshan, and my name is Zhong Kui. Because the emperor didn't like my ugly appearance, he decided not to admit me. He was killed on the steps of the palace in a rage and engaged in ghost hunting after his death.
Tang Xuanzong woke up from his dream. So he ordered Wu Daozi, the most famous painter at that time, to draw the image of Zhong Kui in his dream. Because the emperor himself was an ardent Taoist believer, with his strong support, Zhong Kui's position of catching ghosts was gradually established.
Zhong Kui, the extended information, is regarded by Chinese people all over the world as a "town house to protect the saints". According to the research of experts and scholars in Taoist history and folklore, Zhong Kui was born in Zhongnan County, Yongzhou in the early Tang Dynasty.
With leopard head and leopard eyes, a tough face, a strange face, little ambition, generous temperament, open and aboveboard, extraordinary courage, known as "righteousness." Zhong Kui admired Gao Xian from an early age. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Taoism was viewed from the bottom of Mount Zhongnan, and many hermits in the world gathered in Louguan. Louguan is ten miles away from the old town of Zhongnan, where Zhong Kui, a teenager, often works and meets strangers.
Outsiders think he looks strange, but by testing his character, they know that his future is limitless, so they accept Zhong Kui as their apprentice. Different people have given everything they have learned all their lives, so Zhong Kui is both civil and military. With the climax of folk culture research, Zhong Kui belief and Zhong Kui spirit spread all over the country. Since the Tang Dynasty, the controversy about the origin of Zhong Kui and the identity of Zhong Kui has once again entered people's field of vision.
Studying the hometown of Zhong Kui and Zhong Kui is not only of far-reaching historical significance, but also of great practical significance: on the one hand, it provides valuable reference materials for studying religious culture and folk culture; On the other hand, carry forward the spirit of Zhong Kui; More importantly, it provides a historical basis for the development of tourism resources.
Zhong Kui culture Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional folk festivals. The essential activities on this day gradually evolved into inviting Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui to dance, Zhong Kui to have fun, eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, mugwort leaves, smoked Atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica, tying Cynanchum bungeanum and making fragrant troughs.
Dragon Boat Festival is a very grand festival, especially with the active participation of people from Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui and Dragon Boat Race (water town), which is celebrated by the whole people.