The forty-fourth time Che Chi Dou Fa said the wind and clouds
In the Journey to the West, the Che Chi Guo Dou Fa describes in detail the process of Xingyun Buyu in ancient Chinese mythology, which mentions the two wind gods of the wind mother-in-law and Xun Erlang, the two cloud gods of Tuiyun Boy and Buwu Langjun, the thunder god headed by the Nine Heavenly Yingyuan Thunder Puhua Tianzun, and the dragon king of the four seas who walks in rain.
These gods and immortals are familiar to most people, and if you want to investigate their origins, it is estimated that most people do not know their roots. Then, a smile will tell you more about the above immortals. (Due to the length of the article, I will talk about the storm today).
The wind mother-in-law in the 86th edition of "Journey to the West"
The Sundanese god in the murals of Yongle Palace
Wind God
Now everyone knows that the so-called gods are the ancients who did not understand natural phenomena, and things that could not be explained created a god, and the same was true of the wind god.
The earliest wind gods were all men, and there was more than one. According to the orientation, there is one in the southeast, south, and northwest, namely the cause of the south wind, the folding dan who holds the east wind, the Shi Yi who holds the west wind, and the bird who holds the north wind, and there is also a person named Yu Jiang, who is both the god of the wind, the god of the sea of the North Sea and the god of plague.
Yu Jiang
Coincidentally, there are also 5 wind gods in Greek mythology: Boreas Boreas, the god of the southern wind, Notus Notos, the god of the southern wind, Eurus Olos, the god of the east wind, zephyrus, and Aeolus Aeolus.
It may be that so many wind gods cannot be sacrificed at the same time, and the pragmatic Chinese unifies the wind god as a wind god.
This FengBo was originally one of Xuan You's brothers and participated in the Battle of Yanhuang with the Rain Master. After his defeat, he was surrendered by the Yellow Emperor. When the Yellow Emperor went out on tour, Feng Bo was responsible for blowing away the garbage dust on the road. Part-time sanitation job.
Wind bo in the Dazu stone carvings
During the Spring and Autumn Period, with the division of the region, the wind god was divided into two. People in the Central Plains use Sagittarius "Dustpan" as the wind god, called Jixing or Jibo, while in the south, "Fei Lian" is the wind god.
After han, Fei Lian and Ji Bo were fused together again, or called Feng Bo, and had a fixed shape of "white-bearded old man, holding a wheel in his left hand, holding a basket in his right hand, and like a fan wheel".
In the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Northern Qi, the Fengbo in the Jiangnan region became the Fengbo again, and it was said that the Fengbo was Meng po - yes, it was the Meng Po who gave people Meng Po soup at the Difu NaiHe Bridge. So don't underestimate Meng Po, who is a hidden master.
Wu Cheng'en, the author of "Journey to the West", is a native of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, and he followed this folk saying and wrote feng po as feng po, which is more cordial.
As for Sunjiro, it is because Sunda is the wind position in Bagua (Sun Wukong was not burned in the Bagua furnace or hid in the wind outlet), so he took the name of Sunjiro.
Push cloud boy
Bu Wu Lang Jun
Cloud God
The cloud god Tuiyun Boy and Buwu Langjun in "Journey to the West" are fabricated.
The earliest cloud god in China is "Yun Zhongjun", named "Fenglong" - this name is very graphic, ah, the cloud is not a bunch of plump uplifts? (Please be clear: I'm not driving.) ）
In "Leaving the Troubles", it is said: "I order Fenglong to ride on the clouds, and the Thunder Master rides in the clouds."
The Eastern Han Dynasty literary scholar Wang Yi commented in the Chu Ci Zhangju Yun Zhongjun: "Yun Zhongjun, Yun Shen, Feng Long Ye, Yi Yue Ping Feng [yì]. ”
The famous ancient Chinese enlightenment education textbook "Early Childhood Qionglin" "Astronomical Chapter" more explicitly said: "The Yunshi Department is Fenglong".
Why is the cloud god also called "screen"?
The screen is shielded, and the screen is obscure. If you think about it: when it's going to rain, the clouds are thick in the air, is it obscuring the daylight, and is the sky obscuring?
Screens in Roselle
In the early days, the cloud god also worked as a rain god and a thunder god.
There is a sentence in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Overseas East Classic: "The concubine of the rain master is in its north." Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty commented: "Rain Master, it is called Ping Fengye." ”
However, the "Chronicle of Sima Xiangru" also says: "Summoning Ping Feng To curse the wind and punish the rain master." The Tang Dynasty scholar Zhang Shoujie quoted the Three Kingdoms historian Wei Zhao as explaining: "(Ping Feng) Lei Shiye. ”
Later, with the expansion of the Heavenly Court, the part-time job of the Cloud God was revoked, and because the people felt that the cloud mist had little impact on agricultural production, the Cloud God became less and less existential. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the cloud god rejoined the official sacrifice, and in the folk, the cloud god could generally only be equipped with the dragon king in the dragon king temple - alas, it was really the old employees who could not create value and would be marginalized!