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Zhong Kui Supported by Ghosts
Luo Ping (Chinese, 1733–1799)
1700s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 96.9 x 48.9 cm (38 1/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In popular belief, Zhong Kui is a powerful guard against evil spirits, particularly on New Year’s Day and at the Double-Fifth Festival, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, when his image is displayed in households to prevent diseases and other misfortunes.
