Zhong Kui
le chasseur de fantômes au visage laid
earthZhong Kui fut privé de ses honneurs à cause de sa laideur et mourut en protestation, puis se leva comme le grand vainqueur des démons ; rêver de lui, c'est apprendre que ce que le monde a rejeté en vous peut être exactement ce dont il a besoin pour se protéger.
To the friend who buried him he sent his own sister as bride, escorted by a wedding procession of demons; even his gratitude arrives with teeth.
He passed the highest examination and was stripped of it for his face, and dashed his head against the palace steps; the underworld valued what the court could not see.
People paste his fierce portrait on their doors at New Year, and the demons keep walking; the ugliest guardian is the kindest inside.
He rides a donkey, not a war-horse, with a sword too big for him and eighty thousand ghosts under his command; elegance was never the point.