How do I understand biting incense and swallowing ghosts when Zhong Kui descends?

Biting incense and chewing-like movements were experiences of receiving Zhong Kui beyond my earlier understanding, not planned actions. The first time, I suddenly wanted to bite a bundle of incense. I held it in my teeth without eating it or thinking of taste. Other deities had not brought such actions, and I had not seen anyone receive him that way.

Later at an outside procession, seeing another medium of Zhong Kui biting incense surprised me. Incense mediates communication with Heaven, Earth, and deities, so I wondered whether it related to human qi becoming Zhong Kui’s qi. That was later speculation, not a confirmed principle.

At another client’s home purification, Zhong Kui suddenly came, and I opened my mouth widely with movements like swallowing and chewing ghosts. I had not anticipated it and found the recollection extraordinary after withdrawal. My body felt fine. I understood that the related spiritual energy may have left with Zhong Kui.

These are my religious experiences, not required actions for every medium or procedures to imitate. Wondering whether swallowing too many ghosts caused weight gain was a conversational joke, not an explanation of bodily changes.

Later I gained another interpretation: opening the mouth often suggests swallowing ghosts to me, while holding incense in the teeth can resemble an intention to discuss first rather than rush to force. Talking and reconciling where possible also matter in Sheng Zhen Men’s service. This is my interpretation from contact with Zhong Kui, not a confirmed sole meaning for every instance of biting incense.