Fengbo, 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 the patterns of a leopard. In the Ming dynasty he was on old man with a white beard carrying a fan and known as Count of the Wind (Fengbo Fang tianjun 風伯方天君).[1]
In the Han Feizi (韓非子) or book of master Han Fei, when Huangdi the Yellow Emperor gathers all the demons at Mount Tai Fengbo sweeps the path.[2][3]
According to the Shiji records of the Historian, temples and festivals in honour of Fengbo show that from early times he was an object of state ritual.[4]
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