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Chapter 535 Who Is Li Jing
"Growing up reading Guan Yu's stories?" These words sounded very normal to others, but it made the expression of Liu Xu, who was originally smiling, become a little weird.

So, Liu Xu asked in the next second, "Li Tianwang, may I ask what your layman's name is?"

"Your Majesty, Li Jing, I should have told the Immortal Venerable just now!" Heavenly King Tota Li replied a little puzzled.

"Of course I know that your name is Li Jing, the king of heaven. I just want to know, are you Li Jing from Chentangguan, or Li Jing, Duke of Wei!" Liu Xu asked.

"Don't dare to be the Duke of Dai. I am a pharmacist with a small character. I am a native of Sanyuan County, Yongzhou. My ancestral home is Didao in Longxi. It has nothing to do with Chentangguan!" Li Jing said, "At the same time, I dare to ask the immortals. I read military books and know the geography of China, but I really don't know where the pass is called Chentang Pass, maybe there is a place that I don't know about, I hope the celestial venerable can enlighten me!"

"Hehe, Chentangguan was the name of the place in the Shang Dynasty. It is no longer called by this name now. It is understandable that the king of heaven didn't know about it!" Liu Xu laughed, Li Jing nodded, and stopped talking.

"It seems that my previous guess was wrong. It seems that Journey to the West has not been connected with the Romance of the Gods!" Liu Xu muttered in his heart.

Through the clairvoyant chat and hearing the title of saint before, Liu Xu took it for granted that the world of Journey to the West and the world of Feng Shen Yan Yi were connected together, thus forming the prototype of a prehistoric worldview.

But now after communicating with Li Jing, Liu Xu was surprised to find that this should still be a pure world view of Journey to the West.

In the eyes of many people now, the human identity of King Li Tian of Tota is that Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of Chentangguan, gave birth to Nezha, and after a lot of tossing around, he became a general of the Western Zhou Dynasty, a hero in the battle to destroy the Shang, and even more. In the subsequent conferment of Jiang Ziya to the gods, he was named the King of Tota Li, and has since become the commander-in-chief of the three armies of the Heavenly Court.

This is a story that all Chinese people know. Although King Tota Li’s reputation is far less famous than that of his son Nezha, there must be King Tota Li wherever Nezha appears. Thanks to his son, Tota Li Tianwang is also a household name.

But it is worth mentioning that this kind of cognition was actually formed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and it was a consensus only after the novel Fengshen Yanyi became popular. Before that, there was never such a thing as Chen Tangguan.

Liu Xu has read many relevant historical materials, so the concept of the god Tota Li Tianwang has been reflected as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but it is Journey to the West itself that really resounds the title of Tota Li Tianwang .

So if you want to determine the identity of King Tota Li in Journey to the West, you still have to combine the character context of King Tota Li, when Journey to the West was written, and the various cultural cognitions that Wu Chengen came into contact with, and finally create the character of King Tota Li. The character of the king of heaven.

In fact, the original image of the Tota Lee Heavenly King was a Buddhist heavenly king named Bishamon Heavenly King.

Why do you say that this guy with a strange name belongs to the same person as King Tota Li, because in the Buddhist scriptures, this King Bishamon has a famous son named Nezha, you see, this is right.

This is also why Li Jing, a standard Chinese name, named his son Nezha so weirdly, because this is just an ancient Indian accent.

I won’t go into details about the evolution of Buddhism, and I believe that no one is interested. It’s just that when it came to the Song Dynasty, because Li Jing, the God of War of the Tang Dynasty, once swept the entire Western Regions, people in the Song Dynasty began to drill down and write. There are many stories about Li Jing cultivating immortals, and most of these stories happened in the Western Regions, Li Jing gradually became a fairy.

At the same time, the Song Dynasty admired Li Jing very much, so he named Li Jing the king, so Li Jing had the title of Heavenly King.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Zaju became popular, and then, based on "The Great Tang Western Regions" written by the monk Xuanzang, a large number of plays with the theme of Journey to the West were adapted.Later, in order to attract the attention of more audiences, a lot of stories about gods, monsters, and Buddhas were added to this theme.

And according to the timeline, when Monk Xuanzang started to travel west, Li Jing had already swept the Western Regions, and had great prestige in the Western Regions. Many countries in the Western Regions called Li Jing the king of heaven, and at this time Li Jing had already become immortal.

So gradually, Li Tianwang Li Jing became the main fairy character who would definitely appear in the dramas related to Journey to the West during the Yuan Zaju period.

And in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Chengen synthesized all the repertoires related to Journey to the West in the Yuan Dynasty, and created the pinnacle of classical mythological novels, "Journey to the West: The Legend of Shi'e". It was naturally absorbed into the Journey to the West Shi'e Biography, and became the commander-in-chief of the three armies in the heavenly court in the novel.

And Li Jing's military exploits and achievements in the human world are enough to support his seat in the Heavenly Court and convince everyone.

Therefore, Liu Xu can say without a doubt that the Tota Li Tianwang in Journey to the West refers to Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, and has nothing to do with anyone else.

At that time, all Chinese people did not know that there was another place called Chentangguan in the Shang Dynasty.

However, there is still a BUG in Journey to the West, that is, King Tota Li appeared on the stage 500 years before the start of Journey to the West, that is, when Monkey King made a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace. Li Jing was not born at that time, and the time did not match. .

This is also the reason why a Shang Dynasty Li Jing will be further developed in the follow-up Fengshen Yanyi, the purpose is to match the concept of Tota Li Tianwang in terms of time.

But when it comes to the concept of time, there are actually a lot of bugs in Journey to the West, two of the four great celestial masters are not compatible in time, and a lot of gods and Buddhas in Mantian were born in the middle of these 500 years .

But this is also normal. After all, which author will not be found by readers to find a lot of logical problems when writing a novel, and then yell at him as poisonous?

It is worth mentioning that Guan Yu is indeed mentioned in Journey to the West.

When I wrote the plot of Guanyin Temple, there was such a paragraph

[The good walker jumps into the Nantian Gate with a somersault, scaring Pang, Liu, Gou, and Bi to bow.Ma, Zhao, Wen, and Guan Kuangbei all said: "It's not good! It's not good! The master who troubled the Heavenly Palace is here again!" Walker shook his hands and said, "Don't be alarmed, everyone. I'm here to find Guang It belongs to the king of heaven."]

The Ma, Zhao, Wen, and Guan refer to the four marshals under the Zhenwu Heavenly King, and Guan is Guan Yu.

By the way, the Zhao in it refers to Zhao Gongming.

So you see, Zhao Gongming, who was originally just a marshal in Journey to the West, became a great immortal in Fengshen Yanyi, and was later named the God of Wealth.

But then again, since then, the folks have also said that Guan Yu, the god of wealth and wealth, and Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth and wealth.

This is also the reason why Li Jing recognized Guan Yu immediately, because in the world of Journey to the West, the two are indeed colleagues.

It's a bit far-fetched. Through Li Jing's identity recognition, Liu Xu can further infer that the worldview of Journey to the West has nothing to do with the later worldview of Fengshen, but why does the concept of saint appear here?
Liu Xu felt a headache for a while.

(End of this chapter)