Recently, there is a saying on the Internet, "After the king, there is no king in the world." What is the basis? In order to destroy the merchants, King Wu of Zhou surrendered himself to the Jade Emperor of the Celestial Realm, called himself the "Son of Heaven", pandered to and pleased a group of immortals, and defeated the last king, the King of Sui, with their help. From then on, there is no king in the human world, only the "Son of Heaven", the heavens and men are no longer equal to each other, the emperor of the world must call the emperor of heaven, and the gods and immortals are from now on. Therefore, some people say that although King Wu got Jiangshan, he betrayed the terran race and was even more hateful than King Huan.
So, is this statement correct? In fact, its real background is the Great War of the Gods. Because in the Great War of the Gods, King Wu worshipped Jiang Ziya as "Shang Father", and under the similar coercion of a group of immortals, he called himself "Heavenly Son", thus enveloping the Immortals and winning the victory. On the other hand, the camp of the King of Qi, from beginning to end, only dealt with the Immortals as the Human King, and it was only a courtesy, and the temperament of the Human King was pinched to death.
Therefore, from the perspective of the status of the human race, the King of Lu behaved with great dignity when facing the immortals. When King Wen was alive, he could barely sit on an equal footing with the gods and immortals; after the turn of king Wu, he directly became a "second dog", a slave face, and the noble status of the human race was lost.
This is the origin of the saying that "after the king of The Dragon, there is no one in the world.".
But in fact, this claim is very untenable. In the "First Time the Princess of The Fengshen Dynasty", the quotation about the King of Sui has such a passage: "Later Emperor Yi collapsed after reigning for thirty years, and Tuo Gu and Taishi Wenzhong followed King Lishou as the Son of Heaven, known as the King of Sui, and all sang." "So you see, in the "Fengshen Yanyi", the title of king of Lu is also "Tianzi". Therefore, the King of Qiu was also the "Son of Heaven" at that time, not the last human king.
If it is said that since King Wu, the emperor of the human world can no longer sit on an equal footing with the Heavenly Emperor, and he cannot withstand scrutiny. In the Tang Dynasty, a figure of gods and ghosts was popular- Tianshi Zhong Kui. It is said that Zhong Kui was unsuccessful because of his leopard head and ring eyes, iron-faced sideburns, and ugly appearance. Zhong Kui was furious and slammed his head against the temple pillar and died. After that, Emperor Tang Ming saw the little ghost in his sleep, but a big ghost caught the little ghost and suppressed the evil thing. After asking, I learned that this big ghost was Zhong Kui. As a result, Zhong Kui's deeds of catching ghosts were passed down, and Emperor Dezong named him a "great god of exorcism" and spread all over the world to "kill demons and drive away evil spirits". In some novel anecdotes, it is mentioned that because the human emperor sealed Zhong Kui in front, the Heavenly Emperor had to seal the corresponding immortal throne later, so that he could tour the human world and eliminate the charms and rays. Therefore, from this point of view, the status and right to speak of the human king are still very much valued by the Celestial Realm. Similar examples are not uncommon, for example, the continuous sealing of Wusheng Guan Yu by successive kings has led to his status rising in the Immortal Realm, until he is called "Guan Sheng Emperor".
So, where does the phrase "human king" or "human emperor" come from? It is handed down from the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" in history. In the "Fengshen Yanyi", the "Three Emperors" are the three saints of the Huoyun Cave, namely Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, whose status is comparable to that of the Taoist Sanqing, Nuwa, and others, and is obviously higher than the Jade Emperor. Among the "Five Emperors", there are more recognized Yellow Emperors, Emperor Huan, Emperor Zhao, Yao, and Shun, but there is no Dayu. Yu was not one of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and Yu's son Qi, after ending the Zen concession system, opened the "family world". Therefore, starting from Yu, the kings of the past can no longer be called "emperor" and "emperor", and their status has dropped significantly. Therefore, from this point of view, the statement that "the king of Lu is the last human king" is also untenable.
In addition, there is also a saying: since the Shang Zhou Fengshen War, the two worlds of man and god have completely cut off contact. However, you should pay attention to the fact that in the more than a hundred years around the 6th century BC, all the saints, including Shakyamuni Buddha, Kong Sheng, Lao Tzu, almost 2500 years of civilization and sects were initiated from that time. Since then, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, and Confucianism have each been passed down to the present day, leaving behind the vein of human and divine induction and Intercourse.
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