{"id":3452,"date":"2023-12-18T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T03:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2024-05-24T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T07:15:17","slug":"the-story-of-%e7%8e%84%e5%a4%a9%e4%b8%8a%e5%b8%9d-being-a-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/culture\/local-story\/3452\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of \u7384\u5929\u4e0a\u5e1d Being a Butcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"ffb-id-6po311ri fg-section fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"fg-container container fg-container-medium fg-container-lvl--1 \"><div class=\"fg-row row    \" ><div class=\"ffb-id-6po311rm fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-12 fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"ffb-id-6po311s0 fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    content-auther-style1 fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>by \u66fe\u51f1\u6684<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ffb-id-715jdv08 fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-12 fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"ffb-id-71o1nn03 fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    content-p-style1-en fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that \u7384\u5929\u4e0a\u5e1dused to be a butcher. Since killing even animals is a bad thing in the Buddhist teaching, Kuan-ing the Goddess of mercy told him that the only way to wash himself clean was to cut open his tummy in the river. And so he did. But his stomach and intestines turned into a turtle and a snake. These two animals harmed and even killed villagers, men and women alike. Using his Sword of the Seven Stars, he caught them both under his foot saving everybody from disaster. This scene eventually became his signature image.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><div class=\"ffb-id-71o1psru fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    content-p-style1-en fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>\u7384\u5929\u4e0a\u5e1d is seen as the one having the ability to bring good fortune and extend lifespan. He himself is solemn, holding the Seven Star Sword. As a matter of fact, \u7384\u5929\u4e0a\u5e1d&rsquo;s original form was the combo of both the turtle and the snake, originated from the worship of Chinese constellation in the ancient time. Last but not least, as you can see on this picture, he doesn&rsquo;t wear shoes, so he is also the so-called Barefoot Deity. Since Song Dynasty, he has been well worshiped. At present, people from both the slaughter industry and the meat-providing industry typically pray to him very much, for he is the patron God.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ffb-id-715jdv0d fg-image  img-responsive fg-text-dark\" width=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/\u5353\u8087\u660c\u8b8a\u57ce\u968d\u6545\u4e8b004.jpg\" alt=\"\u5353\u8087\u660c\u8b8a\u57ce\u968d\u6545\u4e8b004\"><p class=\"ffb-id-7a5hlfoi fg-paragraph text-left    content-picture-des fg-text-dark\">The statue of \u7384\u5929\u4e0a\u5e1d located on the Lotus Pond<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><style>.ffb-id-6po311ri{ padding-bottom: 20px;}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-6po311ri{ padding-bottom: 40px;}}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend has it that \u7384\u5929\u4e0a\u5e1dused to be a butcher. Since killing even animals is a bad thing in the Buddhist teaching, Kuan-ing the Goddess of mercy told him that the only way to wash himself clean was to cut open his tummy in the river. And so he did. But his stomach and intestines turned into a turtle and a snake. These two animals harmed and even killed villagers, men and women alike. Using his Sword of the Seven Stars, he caught them both under his foot saving everybody from disaster. This scene eventually became his signature image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-story","category-culture","post-wrapper"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4780,"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/4780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtown.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}