What is the relationship between Emperor Haotian and Jade Emperor?

Emperor Haotian, the Jade Emperor, is the same person, but Taoism in the Song Dynasty called Haotian God the Jade Emperor God, which is the apotheosis of Taoism's basic belief and the highest belief "Tao" and is regarded as the ontology of Tao.

Jade Emperor God, also known as "God of Heaven and Mystery", is called "God of Heaven, Heaven and Golden Que", referred to as Jade Emperor, Jade Emperor and Jade Emperor God for short, commonly known as Jade Emperor and God.

In Song Zhenzong, the holy name of the Jade Emperor said, "Emperor Tian Kai's imperial calendar contains the jade emperor and the great emperor", and Emperor Daojun added the word "Haotian" as "Emperor Tian Kai's imperial calendar contains the jade emperor and the god", so it is referred to as "Haotian Jade Emperor and God" for short.

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The Jade Emperor is one of the four gods in the first Taoist group, ranking first among the four emperors. But in the folk fairy world, the Jade Emperor is the king of the gods and the master of heaven opposite to the dead emperor. As Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio said, "There is a jade emperor in the sky and an emperor underground." The master of the world is the emperor, and the master of the kingdom of heaven is the jade emperor.

Not only that, the emperors of the world and the underworld are also led by the Jade Emperor. Therefore, the Jade Emperor is the master of the world in the eyes of ordinary people.

In The Journey to the West, which evolved from folk myths and legends, what we see is just such a scene: entering Tianmen, Nantianmen, and the thoroughfare leads directly to the splendid Lingxiao Hall, which is the yamen where the jade emperor works, equivalent to the imperial court of the emperor on the ground.

The imperial court in heaven, which is also the south of the Jade Emperor (the ancient north of China was righteous, so emperors and leaders all sat facing south, which was called "the king from the south"), was divided into the civil and military gods, and the literary gods included the old gentleman on the throne, the Taibai Venus, Wenquxing, Qiu Zhenren and Xu Zhenren.

Wu Shen has King Tota, Prince Nezha, Giant Spirit God, Four Kings, Twenty-eight Hostels, Nine Obsidian Star Officials and Fifty Thousand Jiedi. Here, the highest gods of Taoism and Buddhism, Sanqing and Xitian Buddha, are also under the jurisdiction of the Jade Emperor.

In fact, the Jade Emperor was purely fabricated by Taoism. According to the Jade Emperor's Classic, the Jade Emperor was named Zhang and James Zhang, and was born on the ninth day of the first month. It is said that a long time ago, there was a country called Yan Guang Miaole. King Jingde and Queen Bao were old and childless, so they were very upset, so they invited Taoist priests to hold a grand prayer activity. Half a year has passed, and there is still no result.

One night, the queen suddenly dreamed that the old man and many immortals descended from the sky with a red baby in their arms, so she explained the reason and begged the old man to give her the baby. The old man agreed, and the queen was very happy to accept the baby. When she woke up, she felt pregnant. A year later, on the ninth day of the first month of the third year, the child was born and the house was full of lights.

This child is the later Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor was smart and kind when he was a child, but when he grew up, he was kind and compassionate, and gave all the treasures stored in the palace to the poor. After his father died, he succeeded to the throne and ruled the country.

Soon, he gave up the throne to a minister, lived in seclusion in the mountains, and devoted himself to practice. After 132,000 robberies, he became the Jade Emperor. During the Northern Song Zhenzong period, Zhao Heng and Song Zhenzong faked the dream of the gods, and named the Jade Emperor "Li Yuhan, the home of Tai Shang Huang Tian Kai", which was referred to as Jade Emperor, Jade Emperor, Jade Emperor and so on.

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