Description

Zhong Kui, a folk deity in Taoist tradition, is revered as the Supreme Vanquisher of Demons and Malevolent Spirits. He is also venerated under titles such as the Omnipotent Divine Responder and the Imperial Lord of Divine Thunder, Exorcism, and Household Blessings. His iconography, often affixed to household gates as a protective talisman, secures his role as one of China’s traditional Door Gods. Depicted in martial attire, he bears a leopard-like visage with piercing eyes, a dark countenance framed by a coiled beard, and is robed in crimson official garments with jet-black boots. Clutching a keen-edged sword, he glares ferociously to ward off spectral entities, embodying both divine wrath and safeguarding grace.