Before the Jade Emperor ascended to the throne, what position did he hold?Prelude to the throne, the past comes one by one
In the past, we could see the figure of the Jade Emperor in many fantasy Xianxia film and television dramas. Although the supreme ruler of the world is the emperor, and the supreme power of hell is Hades, it is the Jade Emperor who has absolute power in the heavens.
The Jade Emperor not only holds the power of life and death of the various immortals, but also entrusts them with the management of fertility, life, and feng shui issues for the people.
The Jade Emperor even rules over hell, where souls are reincarnated after death. Hearing this, the Jade Emperor is really powerful.
Do you know how the Jade Emperor ascended to the throne of the Heavenly Emperor?What did the Jade Emperor do before that?
The Transformation of the Jade Emperor.
According to folk tradition, if ordinary people want to become immortals, they must first cross the catastrophe before they can **.
The Jade Emperor was able to sit on the throne, which was inseparable from the Heavenly Tribulation. Legend has it that in order for a person to become the supreme ruler of the kingdom of heaven, he must gather the five great calamities of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only in this way can a person be capable, qualified, and virtuous, and worthy"The Jade Emperor"The title.
Of course, someone will ask:"Why can you become the Jade Emperor after collecting all the five tribulations of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, heaven and earth?Because it is not easy to pass the five great tribulations of heaven and earth, which is both happiness and metaphysics.
The golden cicada shelling is the first way to ascend to immortals, and it is also the easiest one, and you must not have the heart of being hacked to death by an axe and then re-entering reincarnation. However, since it is reincarnation, the consciousness must be involuntary, so it is not considered to be hacked to death with an axe.
The first stage of reincarnation, the wooden axe, is death, that is, being smashed to pieces by a collapsed house. The principle is the same as above, but if the house was deliberately demolished, it doesn't count. A water catastrophe is obvious, that is, being drowned in a flood, and as the name suggests, it is also an accident under a natural disaster.
When incredibly violent floods occur, people are drowned alive, either by jumping into the water themselves or by drowning while swimming.
Fire, or ground disaster, means sudden death and is the final stage of a major disaster, which is relatively serious. To survive this catastrophe, people must be buried alive.
In fact, the chances of being buried alive are so slim that some immortals have not been able to escape this catastrophe after thousands of reincarnations. In Taoist cultural classics, the Jade Emperor first went through thousands of eons and became an immortal in the sky.
In the process of continuous ascension, the Jade Emperor first collected the five great calamities of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.
He hadn't collected the rest of the immortals yet. Although the immortals were not convinced, they had no choice but to retreat. Finally, the Heavenly Palace organized a grand succession ceremony to invite the Jade Emperor to ascend the throne.
The identity of the Jade Emperor.
What did the Jade Emperor do before?In Chinese mythology, there are two theories about the origin of the Jade Emperor. The first theory is that the Jade Emperor was actually the reincarnation of the son of heaven and earth when he was among the people.
He goes by the pseudonym Zhang Youren and rules a walled village of only a few hundred people. Zhang Youren governed the village and lived in harmony, and was deeply respected and loved by the people.
At the same time, a war broke out between the gods as the Heavenly Palace needed a true ruler. Since the dragons had no leader, they all wanted to sit in that high position, so the immortals began a long struggle.
The world of the Three Kingdoms is in turmoil, and the people are miserable. In order to stop the struggle between the immortals, the Great White Star King came to the human world to find someone who could sit on the throne of the Jade Emperor.
This person must not only be strong in martial arts, but also wise and persuasive. So, Da Bai Xingjun came to Zhang Youren's castle. He saw that Zhang Youren arranged everything in an orderly manner.
So Tai Bai Xing began to observe this person again, and saw that Zhang Youren not only had the spirit of a divine soldier, but also was kind, always thinking about others, and had the style of a gentleman. So, Tai Bai Xing took Zhang Youren to the sky and became the Jade Emperor.
The heavenly realm has a master, and the gods no longer fight. Peace and tranquility have been restored to the Three Realms.
There is also a legend that the Jade Emperor was a poor beggar during his lifetime. At this time, the hero of the Heavenly Kingdom was rewarded, and Jiang Ziya was the one who presided over this grand event.
Jiang Ziya assigned various official positions according to the personalities of various immortals, until the gods had suitable official positions, but the Jade Emperor had no candidates.
The immortals asked:"Why is no one the Jade Emperor?Jiang Ziya replied"Of course there are people"。
On the throne of the Jade Emperor sat a beggar named Zhang Youren. Jiang Ziya wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he only said it"a", and the beggar's name"Tomohito"It's a consonant. All the immortals misunderstood what he meant and began to kneel.
Therefore, Jiang Ziya must have made a mistake and made Zhang Youren the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor and other gods and goddesses are fantasy stories created by humans, and they have been passed down to this day because they are integrated into Chinese culture.