Heifeng Guai

Heifeng Guai (Chinese: 黑風怪), also translated as the Black Wind Demon, is a character from the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West. He is a demon based in a cave on Black Wind Mountain (黑風山). His true form is a black bear but he appears as a dark-complexioned man armed with a Black Tassel Spear. He steals Tang Sanzang's cassock during a fire. Sun Wukong goes to confront him later to take back the cassock but fails so he seeks help from Guanyin. The Black Wind Demon eventually surrenders to Guanyin and becomes the mountain's guardian deity.[1][2][3][4][5]

Heifeng Guai surrenders to Guanyin

References
  1. Wu Cheng-en: Journey to the West, chapter 23.
  2. 鸭绿江的传说 (in Chinese). 中国民间文艺出版社. 1984.
  3. 民間故事 (1989). 遼寧民間故事集(二) (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 遠流出版. ISBN 978-957-32-0069-7.
  4. 育光 (1984). 七彩神火: 满族民间传说故事 (in Chinese). 吉林人民出版社.
  5. Meeting, Association for Asian Studies (1 January 1990). Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0113-2.


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