Skynet, Chinese vocabulary, pinyin tiānáng. 1. In Spring and Autumn Annals, Zhou was honored as the "King of Heaven". Later, I used to call the son of heaven. 2. Myths refer to some gods. 3. The title of Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1. At the beginning of Spring and Autumn Annals (hidden AD), it was written that "the heavenly king is in the first month" and "in autumn and July, the heavenly king is the ambassador".
2. "Spring and Autumn Three Years Hidden Gong": "In March, the King of Heaven collapsed". Refers to the death of Zhou Pingwang.
3. Twenty-six years of Zhao Gong in the Spring and Autumn Period: "The heavenly king entered the week."
The relationship between the heavenly king and the vassal: After the demise of Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wuwang claimed to be the heavenly king, made his great-grandfather king, his grandfather calendar king and his father Xibochang king, and enfeoffed heroes with the same surname to various places, thus creating the Zhou Dynasty.
After the Second Expedition to the East, Zhou Wencm sealed and immigrated a group of princes and established a strict feudal patriarchal system. At that time, vassal states called their monarchs Hou, Bo or Gong, but they were called Tianzi or Tianwang.
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Most of the four statues of heavenly kings preserved in temples are works after the Ming Dynasty. These images add more China customs than the early statues of the King of Heaven. The southern growth king holds a sword, symbolizing the wind; The king of the East holds the pipa, symbolizing the tune; In the north, the heavenly king holds an umbrella, symbolizing rain; The wide-eyed king in the west holds a snake in his hand, which symbolizes shun.
This kind of heavenly king symbolizing good luck is more easily accepted by ordinary people in China than the Indian heavenly king symbolizing the four heavenly kings (earth, fire and wind). So there are many legends about the king of heaven, but they are often confused with King Kong.
Among the four heavenly kings, the most familiar one is probably the King of the North, the King of Vishamen in Tota's hands. Since the late Tang Dynasty, the position of the King of Heaven of Pishamen has gradually improved, becoming one of the main images of tantric offerings.