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The title of King of Ghosts (gui wang), Zhong Kui's supernatural rank and the foundation of his authority over the spirit world.
A thousand years of Zhong Kui paintings from Wu Daozi's lost original to the game's modern reimagining.
Taoist exorcism traditions: the rituals, tools, and practices that may inform Black Myth: Zhong Kui's combat.
The Ten Courts of Hell in Chinese mythology, each presided over by a different Yama King.
Zhong Kui in film, television, other video games, and performance traditions.
Diyu, the Chinese underworld: a layered bureaucracy of the dead that forms the cosmological backdrop of Black Myth: Zhong Kui.
The legendary dream of Emperor Xuanzong that established Zhong Kui as the demon queller, inspiring a thousand years of art and folklore.
The mythological origin of Zhong Kui: a brilliant scholar who aced the imperial examinations, was rejected for his appearance, and became the King of Ghosts.
The Tang Dynasty imperial examination system, the context for Zhong Kui's tragic origin story.
