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Who are the four emperors of heaven? How did it come from?

Emperor Wei Zi in the Arctic, the immortal emperor in the Antarctic, Emperor Gou Chen in the Palace and Emperor Chengtian all imitated the local emperors.

The belief of Arctic Emperor Wei Zi originated from the worship of stars in ancient China. The North Pole is the abbreviation of Polaris, also known as "Beichen" and "Shu Tian", and lives on the purple emblem wall.

According to the Taoist scriptures "Lei Yuyu Sutra of Great Brahma, Purple and Micro", Yuan Wang said that "the nine sons were the great emperor Wang Changsheng, who was in power for 36 days and was immortal for 36 days". At the same time, there was also a record of the priest's career of the Antarctic immortal emperor in Volume I of the Great Master Lei Yuqing's Book of the True Prince, which recorded that the Antarctic immortal emperor was appointed as the king of the high master Xiao Yuqing.

Gouchen the Great originated from the worship of stars in ancient China, just like Wei Zi the Great Emperor in the Arctic. The book "On the Poké mon Dafa" calls the emperor the Great: "It is the left of the Arctic throne and has four stars. Its shape is connected with a slight curve, which is called Gouchen, and its next big star is among them, which is also the emperor.

Empress who inherits heaven and imitates the earth is the fourth god among the "Four Emperors" of Taoism, referred to as "Empress of the Earth" for short. Paired with the jade emperor who presided over the heaven, she is the goddess who dominates the mountains and rivers of the earth.

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Under the most revered Sanqing God in Taoism, there are also "Four Emperors". "Yu" is a respectful name for the emperor, and it also means to manage things. The Four Emperors are the four gods who live under the Sanqing, are above all gods and dominate the universe.

The Four Emperors were the gods who assisted the Sanqing Movement. In the past, they were called six emperors. In order to conform to the classification of the four auxiliary Taoist scriptures (Taiqing, Taiping, Taixuan and Zhengyi), the Jade Emperor and Tsinghua Emperor were removed to become the four emperors today. Namely: Zhongtian Arctic Emperor Tai, Antarctic Immortal Emperor, Gouchen Shanggong Emperor and Houtu Emperor. The emblems of the four emperors were all added by Song Zhenzong and Hui Zong.

In addition to the four emperors, there are the Jade Emperor, the Tai Chi Emperor in the West, the Wei Zi North Pole Emperor in Zhongtian, the Tsinghua Emperor in the East Pole, the immortal emperor in the South Pole and the post-local emperor. This is based on the concept of "Liuhe" in ancient China. The so-called Liuhe, that is, up, down, east, west, south and north, represents the huge space of the whole universe.

There is another different interpretation of the Four Emperors, which is called "Four Emperors". In the north, the Arctic emperor Wei Zi always ruled all kinds of stars, in the south, the Antarctic emperor immortals always ruled all kinds of things, in the west, the Taiji emperor always ruled all the gods, while in the east, the East, Tsinghua emperor always ruled all the gods.

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