HISTORICAL PERSON
Tang Xuanzong
唐玄宗
Dream witness in a transmitted story.
Read the limit ↓THE RELATION ATLAS · ISSUE 01
Not a family tree.
A record of encounters.
These people and figures do not all belong to one world. Some are historical, some live inside stories, and one may be an error that became an image. Every connection below names what kind of connection it is and where it comes from.
story relationvisual or ritual relationlater fictional relation
Tang Xuanzong
HISTORICAL PERSON
Wu Daozi
吴道子
Painter named in that same story.
Read the limit ↓TRADITIONAL FIGURE
Zhong Kui
钟馗 / 鍾馗
Guardian image, literary subject, disputed origin.
Read the introduction →LITERARY DEMON
Xūhào
虚耗
Smaller demon confronted in one dream account.
Read the source ↓VISUAL / RITUAL FIGURE
“Little sister”
钟馗小妹
A companion image; not a proven sibling.
Read the limit ↓FICTIONAL COMPANION
Wen Zheng
文拯
A named connection in a later vernacular novel.
Read the source ↓SOURCE LEDGER
Read each line before you follow it.
The map is deliberately unequal. A solid-looking node does not make a story historical.
STORY RELATION
Tang Xuanzong ↔ Zhong Kui
Sui shi guang ji preserves a story in which the emperor dreams of Zhong Kui and recovers. Xuanzong was historical; the dream is a transmitted account, not a verified court event.
Read the cited excerpt ↗STORY RELATION
Wu Daozi ↔ Zhong Kui
The same account says the emperor ordered Wu Daozi to paint the figure from the dream. Treat this as a relationship inside the tradition, not evidence that a surviving painting proves the scene.
Read the cited excerpt ↗LITERARY RELATION
Xūhào ↔ Zhong Kui
In the dream narrative, Xūhào is the smaller harmful spirit Zhong Kui confronts. This is an antagonist inside a story, not a member of a pantheon with a fixed family line.
Read the seasonal-source excerpt ↗VISUAL / RITUAL RELATION
“Little sister” ↔ Zhong Kui
A seasonal-source excerpt mentions images of Zhong Kui with a “small sister.” Kengqing lu then warns that calling her his sister was an error. The label belongs on the map because the argument belongs on the map.
Read “Zhong Kui xiaomei” ↗LATER FICTIONAL RELATION
Wen Zheng ↔ Zhong Kui
Tang Zhong Kui quan zhuan gives Zhong Kui a named companion, Wen Zheng. It is included to show how later fiction expands a figure's social world. It is not evidence for a Tang-period acquaintance.
Read the novel passage ↗ONE RULE FOR THE ROAD
If a line needs a source, it stays on the map.
When it cannot carry a source, it does not become a relation just because it makes a prettier tree.
Read the first orientation note