page_title: Guangchengzi
section_title: Guangchengzi's student
hierarchical_section_title: Guangchengzi / From Fengshen Yanyi's idea / Guangchengzi's student
caption_attribution_description: English: Xuan Yuan Inquires of the Dao, scroll, color on silk, 32 x 152 cm. Located at the National Palace Museum, Taibei. Xuan Yuan is the given name of the Yellow Emperor. This painting is based on the story that the Yellow Emperor went out to the Kongtong Mountains to meet with the famous Daoist sage Guangchengzi 中文: 軒轅問道圖 - 卷 - 絹本設色 纵32厘米 横152厘米 國立故宮博物院. 黃帝 在崆峒山問廣成子.
context_page_description: Guangchengzi is a character in the classic Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi.
context_section_description: He had sacrificed many years of solitude and had emerged as an immortal. Originally, this superior man had been within the Peach Stream Cave of Mount Nine Elves. After he, along with his fellow immortal by the name of Chijingzi had been passing by King Zhou's capital, Zhaoge, two very large beams of red light from heaven had impeded Guangchengzi's path. After Guangchengzi personally saw beneath him the unfortunate events taking place - the near execution of both the crown princes Yin Jiao and Yin Hong- Guangchengzi would say that it would be best to create a very large tornado over the capital and use the confusion to steal both of the princes – as to ensure the creation of the new dynasty. Guangchengzi took Yin Jiao as his student, and Chijingzi took Yin Hong as student.
  After several decades of studying, Yin Hong was strong enough to do some contributions to the world, thus Guangchengzi gave him the Fantian Yin along with some other weapons and asked Yin Jiao to help Jiang Ziya and King Wu of Zhou. However, on Yin Jiao's way to the camp of King Wu's army, he met a bad person called Shen Gong Bao, who persuaded Yin Jiao to help his father King Zhou to fight against King Wu, and protect the country of Shang. As a youth who had little social experience, Yin Jiao accepted Shen Gong Bao's suggestion and fought against King Wu's army, contrary to his teacher Guangchengzi. Eventually, Guangchengzi killed Yin Jiao.
caption: Shi Rui, Xuan Yuan Inquires of the Dao, National Palace Museum, Taibei
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