What is the relationship between the Five Heavenly Emperors and the Jade Emperor?

Fundamentally speaking, they are all immortals constructed by the ancient people's thinking about some inexplicable things in the world, and the Emperor of the Five Directions.

and the Jade Emperor are both the leaders of our country's pantheistic system, but the Five Directions Heavenly Emperor and the Jade Emperor are largely incomparable with each other.

Because the Emperor of the Five Directions is an ancient myth.

In the system, from the Shang and Zhou periods.

There is a legend of sacrifice, and the Emperor of the Five Directions is also related to many things with the word "five" in our country, from the five directions in the southeast, northwest and northwest, to the five tones of the Shang Yu of the Jiaozheng Palace, or the five elements, the five qi, the five organs, etc., he represents the operation system of the entire world, so the Emperor of the Five Directions represents the world.

And the Jade Emperor is Taoist.

In the system, thirty-six days and seventy-two earths, all the things in the world of immortals, Buddhas and saints are under his control, he is the god of the gods, the lord of all things, so in the immortal system, he represents more of the existence of the emperor of the world, although he has no fixed jurisdiction, but nominally, heaven and earth are under his control.

Therefore, in fact, they do not have a direct relationship between superiors and subordinates, but if they really want to come according to Taoism, then the Wufang Heavenly Emperor should be equivalent to the vassal king, or an important cadre in the court, similar to the Taoist Wufang Heavenly Elder, subject to the Jade Emperor, because the Jade Emperor is the god of gods, and there is no higher than him.

These six gods are not in the same belief system, and if they are to be related, they can only be said to be like the relationship between the king and the emperor.

Let's talk about the Jade Emperor first, the scientific name of the Jade Emperor is Haotian Jade Emperor, and the full name will not be written, which is quite troublesome. It is said that Haotian Jade Emperor's original name was Zhang Bairen, originally a prince of a kingdom, and later began to practice under the ignition of Sanqing, it is said that Haotian Jade Emperor, cultivated 3,000 eons to become an immortal, and then cultivated 30 million eons to become the lord of the gods, and then cultivated for hundreds of millions of eons before finally cultivating to become the Jade Emperor. And the Jade Emperor's accusation is to manage the gods instead of Sanqing, and Sanqing is the supreme god of Taoism.

Let's talk about the Five Heavenly Emperors, the Five Heavenly Emperors are: Fuxi, Yellow Emperor, Yan Emperor, Shennong, etc., the life and deeds of these Heavenly Emperors are estimated to be known to everyone. These five emperors are from the Honghuang god system, belonging to the ancestral belief class, and the Jade Emperor is from the Taoist system, although the Taoist system is also from the Honghuang system, but the supreme god of Taoism is the Sanqing, and the supreme god of the Honghuang system is Pangu, and many of the gods in the Honghuang system are not included in Taoism, such as the Twelve Ancestors.

So it can't be mixed up. Although Taoism incorporated the Wufang Heavenly Emperor into the Taoist system, the Wufang Heavenly Emperor was only a subordinate of the Jade Emperor and belonged to the feudal king.

It doesn't matter. The Yellow Emperor was the first great chieftain, and it did exist. The other two are fictional myths, and they are also a kind of faith adoption.

It doesn't matter, the Yellow Emperor is a legendary figure, and both the Heavenly Emperor and the Jade Emperor are fictional.

It does not matter.

The Yellow Emperor was the leader of the tribal alliance in ancient China and the co-leader of the Chinese nation in ancient China. The head of the Five Emperors. It is revered as the "first ancestor of humanity" in China.

It is said that he is the son of Shaodian and Fubao, his surname is Gongsun, and he later changed his surname to Ji, so he is called Ji Xuanyuan. Living in Xuanyuan Hill, called Xuanyuan. According to a large number of historical records and cultural relics, the Yellow Emperor unified the world, laid the foundation of China, created civilization, cherished things and loved the people, and was respected by future generations as the ancestor of Chinese humanities.

Therefore, the Chinese nation is known as the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, or the descendants of Yan and Huang.

Heavenly Emperor: The main god of heaven in Chinese mythology, referring to the emperor Jun or the Five Heavenly Emperors in ancient times.

Guo Moruo said in the article "Ancient Society in Divination": In myths and legends, one person becomes more than two people, and one thing becomes more than two things, which is a common thing in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Jade Emperor: He is the emperor of heaven in Taoism and folklore, the supreme god of heaven, who rules the three worlds of heaven, earth and ghosts. In the general public's opinion, the Emperor of Heaven is the Jade Emperor, that is, the Jade Emperor.