Speaking of Li Jing, the King of Tota, what people are most impressed by now is Nezha's confused father and his divine skill of "being 100% taken with a white blade with empty hands".
In fact, these are all misunderstandings brought about by literary and artistic works, especially "The Evolution of the Fengshen Gods", which is really very unfriendly to Li Jing, similar to the BBC and CNN's reports on china - can not deny your status, distort the facts, and destroy your image.
For example, at the beginning, the "Fengshen Yanyi" set up a "waste" persona for Li Jing, saying that he could not cultivate immortals at the Scattered Immortal Du'er Zhenren in West Kunlun, and only learned the Five Elements Escape Technique before returning to the mortal world to serve as the general soldier of Chen Tangguan in the Shang Dynasty.
However, Li Jing in "Fengshen Shen" was very good at drilling camps, and he sent his eldest son Jinzha to Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun (later Manjushri Bodhisattva), one of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Illuminati, as a disciple, and sent his second son Muzha to Puxian Zhenren (later Puxian Bodhisattva in Buddhism), who was also one of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Illuminati, to learn the art, and he later worshipped the Lantern Daoist (the Ancient Buddha of the Burning Lantern in later Buddhism) as a teacher, obtained the Linglong Pagoda, and solved the danger of Nezha's father. Later, he resigned from the official position of the Shang Dynasty and became a general of the Zhou Dynasty.
Of course, the most impressive thing for everyone is his way and attitude towards his third son, Nezha. "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" is a film that washes him white, but "Fengshen Yanyi" and "Journey to the West" are appropriate negative examples.
The story of Li Jing and Nezha in "The Evolution of the Fengshen Gods" is very familiar to everyone, and I will not repeat it, and the "Journey to the West" also secretly reveals the disharmony between the father and son, such as the golden-nosed white-haired rat in the bottomless pit of the hollow mountain that captured the Tang monk, and when Sun Wukong went to heaven to find Li Jing's important person, Li Jing thought that Sun Wukong had falsely accused, and took a knife to cut Sun Wukong but was blocked by Nezha holding up a sword. At this time, Li Jing's reaction was very strange, he did not scold Nezha for retreating, but "he was shocked", "but he immediately returned his hand, took the golden pagoda from the tower seat, and held it in his hand", before asking Nezha: "Baby, you put your sword on my sword, what do you say?" It can be seen that this father is also very insecure at home!
In fact, Li Jing was not so embarrassed.
If you think about it, how can Li Jing be a faint and incompetent person who can be a god, who can become the commander of the three armies of the Heavenly Court, and who is in charge of 100,000 Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals? Even if the Jade Emperor is blind, the "Three Qings" behind him are not stupid, and there are many people with outstanding military achievements and ambitions among the "Four Emperors" and "Five Elders", how can Li Jing maintain the stability of the Heavenly Court without the ability to survive and suppress those big men?
The real situation is that Li Jing's ability to canonize the gods has nothing to do with the Wu King's cutting, but he has won the unanimous recognition of the people and the imperial court with his military achievements, and is deified by the real people.
Li Jing, a medicine man, was born in the Li clan of Longxi and showed great military talent from an early age. His uncle Han Baohu was a famous general of the Sui Dynasty, and every time he talked to him about military affairs, he clapped his hands and praised him.
Li Jing's wife was also captivated by his talent and voluntarily eloped with him (this lady was named Red Breeze Girl, and this matter was called "Red Breeze Night Run", which made a good story through the ages. Lady Yin in "The Evolution of the Fengshen Gods" is fictional).
Li Jing followed Li Shimin the Prince of Qin to defeat Wang Shichong, and assisted Li Xiaogong (李孝恭), the King of Zhao Commandery (赵郡王), nanping Xiao (南平萧铣) and Fu Gong (助公祏), to appease the Lingnan tribes. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing destroyed the Eastern Turks in one fell swoop in northern Xinjiang, washed away the shame of Li Yuan and Li Shimin's condescension to the Turks, and expanded the territory of the Tang Dynasty "from the north of the Yin Mountains to the desert". At the age of 64, he also led an army to break through Tuguhun in the west and was awarded the title of Duke of Weiguo.
Some people may not feel it, but I will tell you that Li Jing's men fled the Turkic remnants to Central Asia and established the Seljuk Empire, which spanned Central Asia and West Asia, and later they also established the Ottoman Turkish Empire and destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire). Their descendants are Turkey, which is now known as the "husky of the country".
On the basis of his own actual combat experience, Li Jing also wrote a number of military books, such as "Mirror of the Six Armies," "Yin Rune Machine," "Jade Tent Classic," and "The Law of Guarding The Soldiers.", and the "History of Wars in Chinese Dynasties" commented on him: "Li Jing's use of troops is in line with Sun Tzu's words: 'Soldiers win because of the enemy' and 'those who win because of changes in the enemy can be called gods.' ”
Such a great general with outstanding military achievements was even more remembered after the decline of the Tang Dynasty. Five generations later, Emperor Mingzong of Tang gave Li Jing the title of Taibao(Taibao), and Later Jin Gaozu posthumously made Li Jing the Prince of Lingxian. It just so happens that in the Buddhist story that came to China, there was a Vishaman king who was named the Inspiration King. Due to the similarity of the names and the fact that both were guarding the north, the two were slowly confused, and the foreign King Vishamon was gradually wrapped up by the native Li Jingding.
King Vishaman
This Vishnu king was the Protector of Buddhism and the God of Blessings, and his original image was a pagoda in his right hand and a trident in his left hand. This top bag, the equipment fell into Li Jing's hands, the trident is too difficult to make, it is not enough to keep the pagoda town demon exorcism, so Li Jing became the King of Tota.
Where did King Vishaman go?
Vishamon is a Sanskrit transliteration, the transliteration is "Duowen", and The King of Vishaman is the King of Duowen, one of the four Great Heavenly Kings of Buddhism (also known as the Four Great Vajras), who guards the South Heavenly Gate in the Journey to the West, and is also one of the four generals of the Magician in the "Fengshen Yanyi". In order to match the positioning of "wind and rain", the magic weapon was also replaced by a mixed element umbrella and a multi-treasure mouse. (We will talk about this in detail later when we talk about the four heavenly kings)
Smell the King
In the Song Dynasty, in order to improve the heavenly court system headed by the Jade Emperor he had built, Emperor Huizong of Song posthumously named Li Jing the "Marquis of Huiwu", which further mythologized and promoted. His descendants also learned from him, and Li Jing was constantly promoted, from "Zhonghui JingwuGong", "Zhonglie Wang", "Fushi ZhonglieWang" to "Fushi Lingyou ZhonglieWang", and his name became bigger and bigger.
With the support and acquiescence of the imperial court, Taoism also continued to "paste gold" on Li Jing, and many Taoist works of Fangshu were published in the name of Li Jing, and there were countless folk shrine sacrifices.
In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a book of "Le Yi Tuqi Seven Kingdoms Spring and Autumn Ping dialect collection", which officially had the title of "Vishamentota Li Tianwang". In the yuan miscellaneous drama "Yang Donglai Criticizes journey to the West", there is also a description of "the millions of heavenly soldiers have always descended, the north of the town of Jinta Gaopan, the well-known and surnamed in the four seas, and Li Tianwang under the Visha Gate".
In the Ming Dynasty, the "Journey to the West" and "The Evolution of the Fengshen Gods" completely made King Tota the Heavenly King Li Jing, and also made up a story of a cowardly father who was afraid of his son, And Li Jing's great military achievements were covered up by this kind of family ethics story.
In fact, even in the "Fengshen Yanyi", Li Jing was able to become holy in the flesh and make the whole family rank in the Immortal Class, could this not be a big contribution to get such a result? Xu Zhonglin deliberately concealed the truth!
In addition, according to the records of the Journey to the West, Li Jing's whole family gave birth to a daughter in heaven after the heavens -- it should be known that the rules of the heavenly court are strict, and it is strictly guarded against the love of men and women, and only the Jade Emperor and a small number of powerful people have the privilege of having children. Li Jing can not only control 100,000 Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, but also continue to "create people", which is not an ordinary treatment!
In addition, Li Jing's martial arts are also extraordinary, not like in "100,000 Cold Jokes", which will only be "100% white bladed empty-handed". In the earliest Chinese martial arts novels, Li Jing and his wife Hongfu, as well as his best friend Qiu Qike, are called the "Three Heroes of Wind and Dust", which belongs to the list of the top masters of the Tang Dynasty.
Having said all this, do you have a completely new understanding of Li Jing? Next time, I will laugh and talk to you about his son.