Fengbo Zhang
Fengbo may refer to: *Fengbo (deity), Taoist deity of the wind * A Storm in a Teacup (short story) (), 1920 short story by Lu Xun *Fengbo station Fengbo Station () is a station on and the eastern terminus of Line 15 of the Beijing Subway. Station layout The station has an underground island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arra ...

Fengbo (deity)
Fengbo (Chinese: 風伯), also known as Fengshi, is the Taoist deity of the wind. In ancient times, he was depicted as a grotesque deity with the body of a deer, the head of a bird, horns, the tail of a snake, and patterns of a leopard. Eventually, Fengbo was replaced by Feng Po Po. According to the Records of the Grand Historian, he was an object of state ritual from early times, with temples and festivals held in honor of him. Mythology of the Ming dynasty In the mythology of the Ming dynasty, Fengbo was also known as the Count of the Wind (Chinese: 風伯方天君, pinyin: ''Fēng bó fāng tiān jūn''). He is depicted as an old man holding a fan, with a yellow cloak, a blue and red cap, and a white beard. He holds a goatskin bag of winds and directs them as he pleases. He is considered a stellar divinity, under the control of the star Ch’i of the Sagittarius constellation. In some myths, Fengbo lives in this constellation, where he looks after the solar breezes; when the m ...
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A Storm In A Teacup (short Story)
"Storm in a Teacup" () is a short story by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature. Originally published in September 1920 in the journal ''New Youth'' (新青年), it was later included in his first collection of short stories, '' A Call to Arms'' (吶喊). A Chinese boatman hears news of the abortive Manchu Restoration of July 1917 and fears that he will be executed as he had abandoned the queue after the fall of the Qing dynasty. At the same time his neighbour, who has kept his, exults. Background In 1644, after the conquest of China by the Manchurian Qing dynasty, Han Chinese males were forced on pain of execution to adopt the queue, a Manchurian hairstyle consisting of shaving the forehead and wearing the rest of one's hair in a long plait. On the other hand, during the Taiping Rebellion, the revolutionaries would execute anyone who wore the queue as a presumed Qing loyalist. After the last emperor Puyi abdicated in 1912, the Republic of China was established and ...
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