Traditional Chinese Hand Water-color Painting Scroll---Zhong Kui Featured

Zhong Kui is the exorcist par excellence. His picture, a fierce-looking male brandishing a magic sword, used to be hung up in Chinese houses at the end of the Chinese lunar year in order to scare away evil spirits and demons. Zhong Kui was perhaps connected with the ancient Wuchang festivities which were held just before the New Year. At this feast, men wearing masks to represent the various gods drove all evil influences out of the city into the river or the sea. Zhong Kui is frequent hero on the traditional Chinese stage. In one 16th-century drama he is a scholar who lives with his sister in the mountains of Western China. He is keen to attend the Imperial examination, but lacks the money for the journey. So he goes to a rich benefactor who provides him with enough money and a sword. On his way to the capital, he visits a temple whose monks lay on a feast for his benefactor. Zhong Kui gets drunk, swears at the monks and spoils the feast. If the demons can harm men, he says, they should not be honored with feasts but stamped out. The spirits of starvation in Hell then complain to Guan Yin, the goddess of mercy. She pardons him; but at Buddha's behest he is nevertheless punished, and he falls ill. While an invalid, he is attacked by demons who alter his physical appearance, turn his face black, and give him a comic beard. He takes part in an examination and passes; at the ensuing examination, however, he is turned down because of his exceptionally hideous appearance. Deeply humiliated, he commits suicide. In Hell, however, he is admired and is given an army of 3,000 soldiers to help him slay demons.

Traditional Chinese hand water-color painting scroll.

Mounted on silk brocade scroll and ready to hang.

Handcrafted in China.

Dimensions:10"x36"

Preparation Time: 2-3 working days

Note:

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