The Jade Emperor (Chinese: ?? ; pinyin: YÃÆ'¹ HuÃÆ'¡ng or ?? , YÃÆ'¹ DÃÆ'¬ ) in Chinese culture, traditional religion and myth is one of the first divine representations ( ?? tÃÆ' i dÃÆ'¬ ). In Taoist theology he is Yuanshi Tianzun, one of the Three Pure Persons, three primordial emanations of the Tao. He also Cao? ÃÆ' i ("Highest Power") from Caodaism known as Ng? C Hoa ng Th ?? ng ??. In Buddhist cosmology he is identified with? Acra. In Korean mythology he is known as Hwanin.
The Jade Emperor is known by many names, including the Celestial Grandfather ( ?? , Ti? NG? Ng ), which originally meant "Duke of Heaven", used by ordinary people; the Jade Lord; The Highest Emperor; Great Emperor Jade ( ???? , Yu Huang Shangdi or ???? , Yu Huang Dadi ).
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Chinese Mythology
There are many stories in Chinese mythology involving the Jade Emperor.
Origin
It is said that the Emperor of Heaven was originally the crown prince of Pure Felicity and Majestic Heavenly Lights and Ornaments. At birth, it emits an amazing light that fills the whole kingdom. When he is young, he is good, intelligent and wise. He devoted his entire childhood to help the needy (the poor and the suffering, the lonely and the hungry, the hungry and the disabled). Furthermore, it shows respect and virtue for humans and beings. After his father died, he ascended the throne. He ensures that everyone in his kingdom finds peace and contentment. After that, he told his ministers that he wanted to cultivate the Tao on the Clear Cliff and Harum.
After 1,750 kalpa, every eon that lasts for 129,600 years, it reaches the Eternity of Gold. After a hundred million years of cultivation, he eventually became the Jade Emperor (using the numbers given, this period before he became the Jade Emperor lasted for a total of about 226.8 million years.)
Beating crime
One myth describes how the Jade Emperor became the king of all the gods in heaven. This is one of the few myths in which the Jade Emperor really shows his strength.
At the beginning of time, the earth is a very difficult place to live, much harder than it is now. People have to deal with horrible creatures, and they do not have many gods to protect them; in addition, many powerful demons oppose the eternity of heaven. The Jade Emperor is a regular immortal who roamed the earth helping as many people as possible. He is sad because his strength can only alleviate human suffering. He retreated to the mountain cave to process Taonya. He passed through 3,200 trials, each trial lasting about 3 million years.
On earth today, powerful and evil entities have the ambition to conquer immortals and gods in heaven and declare sovereignty over the whole universe. This evil entity also goes to retreats and meditation to expand its power, albeit slower than the Jade Emperor. He passed 3,000 experiments, each trial lasting about 3 million years. After his last trial, he was convinced that no one could beat him. It re-entered the world and recruited demonic forces with the aim of attacking heaven.
The everlasting, conscious of the threat, gather themselves and prepare for war. The gods can not stop the devil strong and defeat them all.
The Jade Emperor completed his cultivation during this war. When he transforms the land to make it more feasible for humans and to repel various monsters, he sees evil light emanating from heaven and knows something is wrong. He went up and saw that the evil entity was too strong to be stopped by the gods. He challenged him, and they fought. The mountains are shaking and the rivers and the sea are uprooted. Due to his deeper and wiser cultivation, his virtue, not his strength, the Jade Emperor won the battle. After the evil entity is defeated, its troops are spread by the gods and immortals.
Because of his noble and generous deeds, the gods, immortals and humans proclaimed the Jade Emperor as the supreme ruler of all.
Creation
The world begins with wuji ( ?? , absence) according to the creation myth of China. The Jade Emperor is the head of the ranks of the gods, but is not responsible for creation.
In other creation myths, the Jade Emperor forms the first man of clay and lets them harden in the sun. The rain damages some numbers, causing human illness and physical abnormalities. (The most common alternative Chinese creation myth stating that humans have ever been lice on Pangu's body.)
In another myth, NÃÆ'¼wa keeps the men out of the mud from the Yellow River by hand. What he made to be the rich on earth. After starting lazily, he dipped his scarf into the mud and swung it around him. The falling droplets from the scarf became a poorer man.
In Travel to the West
In the popular novel by Wu Cheng'en, the Jade Emperor is shown many times.
Cowherd and Weaver Girl
In another story, popular throughout Asia and with many different versions, the Jade Emperor had a princess named ZhinÃÆ'¼ (Simplified Chinese: traditional traditional Chinese: ?? ; pinyin: zh? N? or Chih 'NÃÆ'¼, literally: the weaver girl). He is most often represented as responsible for weaving colorful clouds in heaven. In some versions he is Goddess Weaver, the daughter of the Jade Emperor and the Celestial Mother, who wins the Silver River (known in the West as the Milky Way), which gives light to heaven and earth. In another version, he is a tailor working for the Jade Emperor.
Every day ZhinÃÆ'¡ come down to earth with the help of a magical cloak for bathing. One day, a lowly shepherd named Niu Lang (Mandarin: ?? ; pinyin: niÃÆ'º lÃÆ'¡ng ) saw ZhinÃÆ'¼ as he showered on the river. Niu Lang instantly fell in love with him and stole his magic robe he had abandoned by the river, making it unable to escape back to Heaven. When Zhinà came out of the water, Niu Lang caught him and brought him back to his house.
When the Jade Emperor heard of this, he was very angry but could not intercede, for while his daughter had fallen in love and married a cowherd. As time passed, ZhinÃÆ'¼ became homesick and began to miss his father. One day, he finds a box containing a cloak of magic hidden by her husband. He decides to visit his father back in Heaven, but once he returns, the Jade Emperor calls the river to flow across the sky (the Milky Way), which ZhinÃÆ'¼ can not cross to return to her husband. The Emperor pityed the young lovers, and once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, he allowed them to meet on the bridge over the river.
This story refers to the constellations in the night sky. ZhinÃÆ'¼ is a Vega star in the constellation Lyra east of Milky Way, and Niu Lang is an Altair star in the constellation of western Aquila from Milky Way. Below the first quarter (7th) month of the seventh lunar month (around August), the lighting conditions in the sky cause the Milky Way to appear dim, hence the story that the two lovers are no longer separated on the same day each year.
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is a holiday in China called the Qixi Festival, which is a day for young lovers like Valentine's Day in the West. In Japan, it's called Tanabata (star day). In Korea, it's called Chilseok. In Vietnam, it is called ThÃ't T? Ch and if it rains on that day, said ZhinÃÆ'¼ cry tears of happiness for reuniting with her husband.
Zodiac
There are several stories about how twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac are chosen. In one, the Jade Emperor, despite having ruled Heaven and Earth justly and wisely for many years, never had the time to actually visit the Earth personally. He became curious as to what the creature looks like. Therefore, he asked all the animals to visit him in heaven. The cat, the most handsome of all animals, asks his friend Mouse to wake him on the day they will go to Heaven so he will not oversleep. The Rat, however, worries that he will look ugly compared to the cat, so he does not wake the cat. As a result, the cat missed a meeting with the Jade Emperor and was replaced by the Pig. The Jade Emperor was happy with the animals and decided to divide the years between them. When the cat knows what's going on, he's so mad with the Rats and that, according to the story, why cats and rats are enemies to this day.
The Cat however, did have a place in the Vietnamese zodiac, replacing the Rabbit.
Four Dragons
The Jade Emperor ordered four dragons, the Yellow Dragon (representing the Yellow River), the Long Dragon (representing the Yangtze River), the Black Dragon (representing the Amur River) and the Pearl Dragon (representing the Pearl River) by not making rain because it is his own power to make rain for the harvest to save. After 10 days, he did not make it rain because of his selfishness and he broke his promise to the four dragons to make rain because people could die of hunger. After the dragons allowed themselves to oppose his orders to make rain without his permission, his men brought this dragon into his kingdom and placed them each on the mountain until they died.
The predecessor and successor
The Jade Emperor was originally an assistant to the Divine Master of the Heavenly Origin, Yuanshi Tianzun. Yuanshi Tianzun is said to be the highest beginning, the unlimited and everlasting Creator of Heaven and Earth, who chose Yu-huang, or the Jade Emperor, as his personal successor.
The Jade Emperor will eventually be replaced by the Heavenly Master from Dawn of Jade of the Golden Door ( ?????? ). The characters for both are stamped on the front of his hug.
In two popular authors' texts produced in 1925 and 1972, Guan Yu became the 18th Jade Emperor in about 1840 AD; However, some people disagree that Guan Yu has succeeded, and thus the Jade Emperor and Guan Yu are often worshiped separately. In Tienti's teaching, the ruling Jade Emperor had 55 predecessors.
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Worship and festival
Emperor's Sky ( ??? ) is said to be the ninth day of the first month of the month. Today Taoist temples hold the Emperor's ritual ( ??? , bÃÆ' i Ti NG Ng literally "a paradise of worship") where priests and civilians prostrate, burn incense and make food offerings.
In the morning of this anniversary, the Chinese, Taiwanese and Chinese Hokkien and Chinese and Chinese Tionghoa practicing Buddhism, Taoism, and other traditional Chinese religions established an altar table with three layers: one top (containing six vegetables ( offertories of six vegetables (span lang = "zh" title = "Chinese text"> ?? ), noodles, fruits, cookies, tangyuan , vegetable bowl , and the immature series, all adorned with paper lanterns) and two lower levels (containing five sacrifices and wine) in honor of the gods under the Jade Emperor.The household then knelt down three times and prostrated nine times to pay homage and hopefully long life.
In Penang, Malaysia, the focal point of the Jade Emperor's Birthday celebrations is Thni Kong Tnua, which gained worldwide fame as one of the premier locations for The Amazing Race 16. The temple, built in 1869, is located at the foot of Bukit Penang on the outskirts of Air Itam near George Town, the capital of Penang. In addition to Thni Kong Tnua, Chew Jetty in the heart of George Town is another focal point of the Jade Emperor's Birthday celebration; the celebration at this particular location was taken for the Malaysian film 2014, The Journey .
Yuk Wong Kung Tin ( ???? ) also known as Yuk Wong Po Tin ( ???? ) is a temple in A Kung Ngam, Hong Kong, dedicated to the Jade Emperor. In the mid-19th century, people from Huizhou and Chaozhou mine rocks on the hill for the development of the downtown area. They set up a temple to worship Yuk Wong. At the beginning of the 20th century, the temple was developed into a small temple and has been renovated many times. The last renovation was in 1992.
Toponym
A crater on Saturn's moon, Rhea, was discovered by the Voyager 2 rides, named after him.
See also
- Chinese mythology in popular culture
- Jade
- ? akra, Buddhist colleague of the Jade Emperor
- Hwanin, Korean partner of the Jade Emperor
- Yuanshi Tianzun, the Taoist from the Jade Emperor
- Thagyamin, the Burmese Buddhist representation of "akra, a colleague of the Jade Emperor
- Jade Emperor Pagoda
References
External links
- Media related to Jade Emperor on Wikimedia Commons
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