The Relationship between Characters in The Journey to the West

Sanqing is the collective name of Taoism for the three highest gods it worships. These three supreme gods mean: "There was a tiny sky in the early Qing Dynasty, a spiritual treasure in Yu Yu in the upper Qing Dynasty, and a great day in Taiqing." .

Among them, the so-called Jade Qing realm, Qing Qing realm and Tai Qing realm are the differences in the fairyland where they live. Wei Qing sky, fish and rainy day and big red sky are the divisions of the celestial world, while the Buddha means that the respect for Tao is supreme, so it is named Buddha.

It was only in the Jin Dynasty that the Covenant of the Buddha at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty appeared among the Taoist gods. It is said that it is produced by green gasification of red mixed hole. Every time the doomsday ends and the world opens, they come out to teach secret passages and rob people. ?

Lingbao Tianzun appeared among Taoist gods, but it appeared later than Yuanshi Tianzun in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that it is the product of the mixed spirit of Taiwuyuan and Huangxuan, also known as Taishang Daojun, and it was also transported away with the robbery.

The moral heaven is Laozi, also known as Taishang Laojun. In order to form the hierarchical sequence of respecting gods in Sanqing, it is said that it was born from the mysterious gasification.

In fact, Taoism respected Laozi as the leader from the time of its establishment, and further said that he was the ancestor of the God King in the Five Mountains. I am the Lord of flying immortals, I have become the supreme god, and I am often in two places, without the world. However, in the Sanqing, its position is the lowest, which obviously does not conform to all Taoist beliefs, so it was later that Laozi's theory of "one gasification and three cleanings" came into being.

It is enough to see from the emergence and evolution of Taoism's respect for gods, that god did not create man, but man-made god. It is an indisputable truth that God began with human beings.

Four emperors?

The Four Emperors are the collective names of the four heavenly kings worshipped by Taoism, second only to Sanqing. ?

The first one is the Jade Emperor, whose full name is Tianjinque, which is supreme and natural. Miracles belong to the Jade Emperor, and he is regarded as a god who holds heaven forever. ?

The second is Tai Shang Huang in north-central China, who is regarded as a god who helps the Jade Emperor to manage the latitude of celestial bodies, the sun, the moon and the stars and control the stars and the four seasons.

The third is the Shanggong emperor Gou Chen, who is regarded as the god who assisted the Jade Emperor in charge of the North and South Peace and the Three Talents of Heaven and Earth, and dominated the military revolution in the world.

The fourth is the queen of the earth, who is regarded as the goddess in charge of the fertility of yin and yang, the beauty of all things and the beauty of the earth.

As for the four emperors, there are four great emperors, namely, Emperor Wei Zi in the Arctic, the immortal emperor in the Antarctic, the Taiji emperor in the West and the Tsinghua emperor in the East.

Tathagata is Sakyamuni, a Buddhist.

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The Journey to the West is one of the four classical novels of China, written by Wu Cheng'en.

There is a naughty monkey on Guo Hua Mountain in Olego, Dongsheng Shenzhou. After learning seventy-two, he became a teacher, became a mountain king, and claimed to be a great sage. The Jade Emperor sent Grand Priest to appease the Great Sage. Unexpectedly, the monkey didn't want to be bound, which led to chaos in the heavenly palace. He was imprisoned in an alchemy furnace for 49 days, kicked the alchemy furnace out of control, and was suppressed by the Tathagata at the foot of Wuzhishan.

Five hundred years later, a monk from the Tang Dynasty came to the east, who turned out to be the reincarnation of the golden cicada. Guanyin chose him to go to the Western Heaven to learn from all sentient beings, rescue the Great Sage through Wuzhishan, collect Bajie, Friar Sand, and master and apprentice along the way, and embark on a long journey of learning Buddhism. Finally, through the eighty-one difficulties, I got the true sutra and made a positive result.

1986, Journey to the West was remake into a TV series, which has been broadcast every year.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Journey to the West