Ghost Catcher
Zhong kui (simplified Chinese: 钟馗; traditional Chinese: 鍾馗; pinyin: zhōngkuí) - strictly speaking is not a Door God but a mythical exorcist (ghost catcher); nonetheless his image is often displayed as the "backdoor general".
The practice of placing door god figures is fading as of late, after a brief revival in the 1980s.
In the novel Journey to the West a fictional account of Li Shimin's invention of the Door god is mentioned.
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Famous quotes containing the word ghost:
“I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; “That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.””
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)