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may be unremarkable, in Mao's China not all that long ago folk religion was taboo, and even in today's China that they offer such displays of the old deities without blatant propaganda is surprising.
NOTES
1 The Feng-shen Yen-i is usually attributed to Hsü Chung-lin who lived during the first half of the 16th century.
2 The mythological gods of the Creation and pre-history are different from the “human” deities, the latter being canonised since the 11th century BC [and, indeed, up to the present day]
3 Confusion between the new dynasty, the Chou and the last ruler of the Shang, Chou Hsin was so general that it became the convention for a while to romanise the name of the last ruler of the Shang as Tsou rather than Chou.
Duke Fa of the Shang vassal state of Chou, the later King Wu [Wu Wang], the first emperor of the Chou dynasty
Filial piety prohibited a son from bearing a higher title than that borne by his father. Should he acquire the throne it was necessary that the title should first be conferred on his father, dead or alive. We therefore hear of names like Wen Wang [the Emperor Wen] and Chou Kung, awarded to his father and brother respectively, these being the titles
6 A mural portraying Duke Chou is one of the panels, together with others depicting Christ, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Mohammed, around the inside of the dome above the main hall of the cult centre temple of the I-kuan Tao at Nan Hua near Tainan.
7 The only image of Pai Chien noted in today's temples is in Havelock Road in Singapore where he is one of the 24 Heavenly Generals.
* The seven, who not long after this became Immortals, free from the cycle of rebirth and death, were:
Li Ching
The Three Princes, Chin Cha, Mu Cha and Na Cha
Yang Chien
Wei Hu
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may be unremarkable, in Mao's China not all that long ago folk reli- gion was taboo, and even in today's China that they offer such displays of the old deities without blatant propaganda is surprising.
NOTES
1 The Feng-shen Yen-i is usually attributed to Hsü Chung-lin who lived during
the first half of the 16th century.
2 The mythological gods of the Creation and pre-history are different from the “human” deities, the latter being canonised since the 11th century BC [and, indeed, up to the present day]
3 Confusion between the new dynasty, the Chou and the last ruler of the Shang, Chou Hsin was so general that it became the convention for a while to romanise the name of the last ruler of the Shang as Tsou rather than Chou.
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Duke Fa of the Shang vassal state of Chou, the later King Wu [Wu Wang], the first emperor of the Chou dynasty
Filial piety prohibited a son from bearing a higher title than that borne by his father. Should he acquire the throne it was necessary that the title should first be conferred on his father, dead or alive. We therefore hear of names like Wen Wang X [the Emperor Wen] and Chou Kung, awarded to his father and brother respectively.
these being the titles
6 A mural portraying Duke Chou is one of the panels, together with others depict
ing Christ, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Mohammed, around the inside of the dome above the main hall of the cult centre temple of the I-kuan Tao at Nan Hua near Tainan.
7 The only image of Pai Chien
noted in today's temples is in Havelock
Road in Singapore where he is one of the 24 Heavenly Generals.
* The seven, who not long after this became Immortals, free from the
rebirth and death, were :
Li Ching
The Three Princes, Chin Cha, Mu Cha and Na Cha Yang Chien
Wei Hu
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