East Wang Gong is recorded in the Han Dynasty, which is related to the concept of Yin and Yang in the Han Dynasty. He is the male god representing Yang.
Dong Wang Gong recorded in the Han Dynasty may be related to the Eastern Emperor and the Sun God Dong Jun in the pre-Qin Chu area.
In Taoism, Dong is considered to often take the stage on Ding Mao Festival to look around and observe the situation of people who practice Taoism and learn immortals all over the world. Therefore, anyone who gains the Tao must first worship Dong and then meet the Queen Mother of the West before flying into Sanqing for nine days to worship the Buddha, the Lingbao Buddha and the moral Buddha.
Dong is the latest recorded god in the Han Dynasty. There are several theories about his origin and belief formation in academic research. Guo Moruo's Ancient Society in Oracle Bone Inscriptions: In myths and legends, it is common for one person to become more than two people and one thing to become more than two things.
First of all, the East Emperor said
According to textual research, the word "East Emperor" may have been the ancestor of Chu in the pre-Qin period.
In addition, Qu Yuan's literature "Nine Songs" contains "the Eastern Emperor is too one". The East Emperor Taiyi, whose name is only found in Qu Yuan's literature. Some people think that "Eastern Emperor" was originally the ancestor of Chu State, and it was not the same god as "Taiyi", but combined with Qu Yuan to create a new supreme god in literature.
"Emperor Dong Taiyi", a pure literary figure in an orphan poem, is generally not included in textual research.
Some textual research on the concept of "East Emperor" holds that the word itself is related to the rising of the sun in the East and Chu.
Dong, the god of gods, has other nicknames, such as "East Emperor" and "East Palace Emperor" (such as Spring and Autumn Annals). The concept of "East Emperor" in the pre-Qin period was regarded as another name for Dong as early as the Han Dynasty.
Dong may have evolved from Dong Huang, the ancestor of Chu State, and inherited the concept of "Dong Huang" in the pre-Qin period.
The god above should be distinguished from the literary figure "Dong Huang Tai Yi" who is an orphan.
Second, Dong Jun said
Dong Jun, a god from Qin Jin, is also a god recorded in the pre-Qin literature "Nine Songs". Academia basically recognizes Dong Jun as the sun god.
Dong's nickname is "Dong Jun". In the Han Dynasty, Dong was regarded as a male god representing Yang. In the later period, Taoism directly believed that Dong had the nature of the sun.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's Shang Mo sang: "Go to Kunlun Mountain and meet the Queen Mother of the West."
Nine Songs is an ancient book in the pre-Qin period, which was written in the Han Dynasty. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao seemed to directly think that Dong was equal to "Nine Songs".
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The belief in immortals in Han Dynasty is very simple, and generally appears in the image of spouse gods, such as Chang 'e and Yi, Fuxi and Nuwa. Dong and the Queen Mother of the West also appeared in the image of spouse gods, and the Queen Mother of the West, later the Queen Mother, was probably under the Sanqing and above the four royal families at that time.
Dong has been recorded in Taoist or historical documents. For example, in The Complete Works of Three Religions Seeking Gods, there are different names such as "Eastern Emperor Yan Yangfu" and "Kaoxian Classic", that is, a Donghua. In the first month of the sixth year of Sheng Zhiyuan, the title was: Donghua Zifu Shaoyang Emperor.
Donghua Dijun's low-key place is not limited to these, because Donghua Dijun is also suspected of accepting Pig Bajie as a disciple, or at least enlightening Pig Bajie, who introduced himself:
From birth, I have a clumsy heart, greedy and lazy. Never repair its nature and its truth, chaos ecstasy endure the sun and the moon. Suddenly I met a true fairy in my spare time, so I sat down and said.
The above are just the first three sentences of Zhu Bajie's self-introduction, which roughly means that Zhu Bajie is a lazy person and has no qualification to become an immortal. He just met a true fairy and advised him to enlighten him. Of course, it's no use having a good master, because his qualifications are poor, so the true fairy gave him an elixir:
I have to call Dan nine times, and I have been working day and night. Up to the top door Mud Pill Palace, down to Yongquan point on the baseboard. Perirenal water flowed into Huachi, and Dantian recovered.
This shows that Zhu Bajie has been thoroughly remoulded after eating the nine-turn big return Dan, and the people who have the nine-turn big return Dan have searched the whole celestial world, and only the nine-turn big return Dan owned by Donghua Emperor. Although this nine-turn return to Dan is not necessarily nine-turn return to Dan, it must be related to Donghua the Great.
Since then, Pig's luck has changed, and the rake made by this old gentleman was named Marshal Tian Peng. It can be seen that Emperor Donghua was a noble man even if he was not the master of Pig Bajie.
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