{"id":2705,"date":"2012-08-08T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:00:26","slug":"zhong-kui-comes-to-sunnydale-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2012\/08\/zhong-kui-comes-to-sunnydale-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhong Kui comes to Sunnydale High"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigh…<\/p>\n

I try to keep my posts to this blog to at least a minimal level of scholarly-ness. At the very least I try to avoid doing too many posts on weird Chinese English. Not that there is anything wrong with them, but there is a time and a place for everything. Plus if I start making fun of people’s English then the comments may fill up with odd quotes from things I have written in Chinese.<\/p>\n

However…. When I was in Pingyao, Shanxi (which is worth visiting, by the way) I went to the city-god temple. They had a shrine to Zhong Kui<\/a>, the demon queller, which was not much of a surprise.<\/p>\n

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The statue is undistinguished, and does not look very old. The sign, however, is great. In English it identifies him as<\/p>\n

\u201cZhong Kui, the popular beliefs of the Han ethnic areas folk,1<\/a><\/sup> is one of the Taoist God solely primarily of Buffy the governance ghosts, evil spirits exorcism of God….\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese text does not mention Buffy<\/a>, so I’m guessing this is a Google translate error of some sort.<\/p>\n

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  1. It is interesting that the more recent signs at Chinese sites treat the Han just like any other ethnic group. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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