Yulü

THE OLDEST DOOR GODS, AND THE CORPUS HAD NO DOOR GODS AT ALL. They guard the ghost gate on the peach tree, which is why peachwood charms and then paper prints of the pair went on Chinese doors for two thousand years.

Domains

• the gate
• the peach tree
• inspection of the dead

Relations

• door god pair with: ShenshuReciprocated within this batch. THEY ARE A PAIR BY DEFINITION — one on each leaf of the door — and a single door god is not a thing the tradition has.Reference treatment of Shenshu and Yulü, the door gods: Shenshu and Yulü stand upon a giant peach tree that twists and coils as far as three thousand li; at the tree's north-east is the ghost gate, where the two gods inspect the transit of countless dead spirits, and those of evil deeds they bind with reed rope and feed to tigers. (secondary)

Sources

• One of the two door gods who stand upon the giant peach tree that twists and coils three thousand li; at the tree's north-east is the ghost gate, where the pair inspect the transit of the dead and bind the evil-deeded with reed rope to feed to tigers.: Reference treatment of Shenshu and Yulü, the door gods: Shenshu and Yulü stand upon a giant peach tree that twists and coils as far as three thousand li; at the tree's north-east is the ghost gate, where the two gods inspect the transit of countless dead spirits, and those of evil deeds they bind with reed rope and feed to tigers. (secondary)