Journey to the West 111 What is the relationship between Rulai and Tota Li Heavenly King?

The so-called Tota Li Heavenly King in "Journey to the West", the Li Jing in "Fengshen Bang", is the Duowen Heavenly King among the Four Heavenly Kings, and he is the Heavenly King of Bishamen. According to Nezha's Sanskrit, it is called, read as Nezha Juvara, referred to as Nezha. A good Duowen Heavenly King = Bishamentian, with a son Nezha Juvara, originally belonged to the Hindu gods.

"Journey to the West" has four heavenly kings: holding the country, growing, hearing more, and wide-eyed.

In "Journey to the West", in order to balance the relationship between the Duowen Heavenly King and the other three Heavenly Kings, he finally founded the Tota Li Heavenly King, integrated part of the role of the Bishamen Heavenly King into Li Tianwang, and then made Duowen Heavenly King, like the other three Heavenly Kings, become ordinary Heavenly Kings. As a result, the so-called Five Heavenly Kings were formed.

Li Jing, the king of Tota, was Li Jing, the commander of the army at Chentangguan during the reign of King Shang, not Li Jing, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty. The Four Heavenly Kings are the Growth Heavenly King, the Wide-Eyed Heavenly King, etc., and they are responsible for guarding the four heavenly gates of the southeast, northwest, and northwest. It's just the four major generals of the Jade Emperor, and Li Jing is in charge of the heavenly soldiers and generals, and he is the main battle.

In Journey to the West, Tota Li Tianwang is a very powerful character, but in Journey to the West, not only Tota Li Tianwang is very powerful, there are four heavenly kings introduced in the book: Holding the country, growing Tianwang, Guangmu Tianwang and Duowen Tianwang. The strength of each Heavenly King is very strong, but they interact with each other and cooperate with each other, and fight against Sun Wukong together, so Tota Li Heavenly King may not be able to fully show his strength, so it seems that he has not tried his best.

Because King Tota Li knew that this was an ordeal that the four masters and apprentices had to go through on the road to learning scriptures in the Western Heavens, he couldn't help them too much, so he didn't do his best.

Because he was afraid to expose his strength. will be seen by others as flawed. If he tries his best, there is a good chance that someone else will catch him.

Because the Totari Heavenly King is also very good to Sun Wukong, I hope that Sun Wukong can have a good development.

Because in Journey to the West, King Tota Li is the main force of Heaven and is the main force of Heavenly Court, so the Jade Emperor relies on King Tota Li very much.

Because King Tota Li has a very good reputation and a particularly strong mana, the Jade Emperor relies on him very much.

In "Journey to the West", there are immortals with heads and faces in heaven, and we don't know how much. Tota Li Heavenly King is one of the important beings. The Jade Emperor relied heavily on King Tota Li because King Tota Li was very loyal and had a high level of martial arts.

Because the strength of the Tota Heavenly King is very high, he is the strongest among all the generals.

Clause. 1. Li Tianwang has always stepped on a few boats and made a few preparations. His eldest son, Jin Zha, worked as a secretary by Rulai's side, and his second son, Muzha, worked as a secretary by Guanyin's side.

Clause. Second, when Nezha was just born, he hacked to death the third prince of the Dragon King, causing a big disaster, Li Tianwang blamed him for a few words, and he committed suicide on the spot, but a wisp of life ran to the Buddha. If he used lotus to recreate Nezha's body, Nezha ran back to his father to take revenge.

Li Tianwang was chased so much that he had no choice but to run to Rulai for help, and Rulai gave him a Linglong Tower, and Nezha burned him if he was disobedient. In this way, Rulai is kind to Nezha's father and son, and Rulai's orders are not good to listen to.

Clause. 3. It is said that Li Tianwang was originally a person from the Rulai side, and his original name was Duowen Tianwang, and later when the Buddha cooperated, he went to heaven. Since he was originally a person from Rulai, when Rulai called him, of course he didn't dare to disobey orders.

It turned out that after talking for a long time, Li Tianwang turned out to be Rulai's undercover agent in the heavenly court, no wonder he obeyed Rulai's orders.

Even the Jade Emperor had to give the Buddha three points, so it was normal for King Li to obey the Buddha's arrangement, and the Buddha was equivalent to the boss of King Li's boss, so it was easy to understand.

Wen has a hairy monk.

In "Journey to the West", each of the four heavenly gates of the heavenly court has a heavenly king, commonly known as the four heavenly kings. However, they are not fixed at one heavenly gate, but rotate through four heavenly gates. At the same time, the Heavenly Court also has a Tota Li Heavenly King, who is in charge of military affairs.

King Tota Li once led his troops to conquer Huaguo Mountain, but was defeated.

When the Jade Emperor sent 100,000 heavenly soldiers, he was led by the five heavenly kings, and Tota Li Heavenly King was only one of the five heavenly kings. The question is, it is the Four Heavenly Kings who are said to be good, why did Heavenly Court come up with the Five Heavenly Kings? There is an explanation that each king represents a direction, and the five kings symbolize the east, west, north, south, and middle.

Obviously, this statement is not reliable, in "Journey to the West", the division of labor between the Four Heavenly Kings and the Tota Li Heavenly King is very different. If you want to understand the secrets of the Five Heavenly Kings, you must first find out the secrets of the Tota Li Heavenly King. In fact, Tota Li Tianwang was added by some authors of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Song and Yuan dynasties, in various versions of Journey to the West, there was no role of Tota Li Tianwang. In his place was King Bishamon. In the Song Dynasty engraving book "The Poetry of the Tang Dynasty Sanzang Master", King Bishamen organized a scripture study project and gave the Tang monks and apprentices two important magic weapons, a tin staff and a bowl.

The bowl is similar to a sensor, as long as you pick up the bowl and shout at the king, the king of Bishamen will save them.

In the Yuan Dynasty "Journey to the West" miscellaneous drama, King Bishamen is even more powerful. After Sun Wukong went to heaven to steal the queen mother's peach and fairy clothes, it was the king of Bishamen who captured him in the lower realm. At this time, Sun Wukong was not powerful, and he was caught by Nezha.

At the same time, in this version, Nezha and Erlang are both sons of the Heavenly King of Bishamen.

So where did this king of Bishamen end up? In fact, the Heavenly King of Bishamen is the Northern Duowen Heavenly King among the four heavenly kings. Because the role played by King Bishamen in the Journey to the West story of the Yuan Dynasty was more important, this role was stripped away.

Some were incorporated into Guanyin Bodhisattva, and some were incorporated into the Jade Emperor.

In order to balance the relationship between the Duowen Heavenly King and the other three Heavenly Kings, he finally founded the Tota Li Heavenly King, integrated a part of the role of the Bishamen Heavenly King into Li Tianwang, and then made the Duowen Heavenly King, like the other three Heavenly Kings, become ordinary Heavenly Kings. As a result, the so-called Five Heavenly Kings were formed.

The reason for this situation is the result of the conflict between Buddhism and Taoism and the integration of Buddhism and Taoism in the Ming Dynasty. Many Buddhist gods have entered Taoism, and many Taoist gods have also entered Buddhism. Many people can't tell the relationship between them, so they confuse them.

In particular, the stories of Journey to the West are all stories that are circulated in the market, scattered among folk storytellers and drama actors, and it is even more difficult to distinguish them.

The author of "Journey to the West" has changed many people before and after, so when screening the stories in it, more of the story-based bridges are retained, and the story-less bridges are deleted, which eventually leads to the problem of unclear sectarianism. However, for contemporary people, judging the story of "Journey to the West" as an officialdom and a workplace story, the confusion of these Buddhist ways does not affect our understanding of the essence of the story.