Lets Talk About Chinese Folk Religion

[Jimmy]

Interesting stuff. Hopefully someone else will contribute to the thread.

 

[Jimmy]

I made a new thread for toilet deities.

Interesting story!

I guess the moral of the story is don’t cheat on your wife!

 

[JustGeorge]

I guess the moral of the story is don’t cheat on your wife!

I wonder what became of the married couple in Zigu's story.

 

[Jimmy]

The more I read of her, the more my heart went out to her.

Interesting to note she was first human as well.

It is a sad little story

 

[Jimmy]

I wonder what became of the married couple in Zigu's story.

Well, having concubines was normal back then so he probably just replaced her.

 

[Jimmy]

I wonder what became of the married couple in Zigu's story.

Maybe he beat his wife with Zhang Langs leg. Oh! lol

 

[Quintessence]

I'm mostly familiar with Chang'e since in studying and worshiping Moon they are one of the many lunar gods I came across. Plus, there's a fair whack of Chinese international students in this town so the markets carry Moon Cakes for the festival and the hold events. I haven't been to one yet but I have had Moon Cakes. They're pretty great - I tend to love non-American sweets because they aren't stupidly overly sweet, just subtle sweet.

 

[JustGeorge]

I'm mostly familiar with Chang'e since in studying and worshiping Moon they are one of the many lunar gods I came across. Plus, there's a fair whack of Chinese international students in this town so the markets carry Moon Cakes for the festival and the hold events. I haven't been to one yet but I have had Moon Cakes. They're pretty great - I tend to love non-American sweets because they aren't stupidly overly sweet, just subtle sweet.

I've always wanted to try a moon cake...

I see Chang'e is associated with the fall festival. Few things are more moving than the moon on an autumn night; makes sense.

 

[rocala]

I remember reading about Zigu, the toilet goddess

Thanks for that JG. I had never heard of Zigu (AKA Maogu) and was intrigued. There is a good Wiki page about her.

Zigu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org