Golden Peng

Golden Peng (金鹏 jinpeng), or Golden Winged Kunpeng (金翅大鹏 jinchi dapeng), is a type of Kunpeng with golden wings.
== Characters ==
== Trivia ==
*The Golden Winged Peng, or Dapeng Jinchi Mingwang (大鹏金翅明王 Golden-Winged King of Illumination), is a guardian deity. He is an uncle of Buddha and helped guard Mount Sumeru from Asuras.
*The creature is related to the god Garuda (迦楼罗), a brother of the yakshas
*The Golden Winged Peng features in the literary works Journey to the West (Ming dynasty) and General Yue Fei (Qing dynasty).
**The Song general Yue Fei is said to be an incarnation of the Golden Peng. Yue Fei was a general who participated in the Song-Jin wars. Even though the Qing dynasty (Later Jin) was a successor of the Jin dynasty, the story of Yue Fei was still published during this era. This is the same Yue as in Yue Zifeng. The Yuan dynasty unified both the Song and Jin dynasties.
**Yue Fei was killed by the Song emperor Zhao Gou, who is considered a traitor and one of the most corrupt and wicked emperors in history.
**The poem Manjianghong (满江红 Full River Red) has been attributed to Yue Fei. However, some scholars argue that it may have been written by someone else. For example, professor James Liu Zichen (刘子健) of Princeton University suggests that the poem may have been engraved by Zhao Kuan on Yue Fei's tomb in 1502 during the Ming dynasty. This was done in order to serve the interests of the Ming elites in their campaigns against the kingdoms in north and west China that the Ming failed to unify. Scholars point out anachronisms such as the Xiongnu (匈奴) being mentioned in the poem as well as the Helan mountains (贺兰山), which are located closer to the Western Xia than the Jin dynasty.
*According to legend the Golden Peng descends from the phoenix (凤凰)
*The yaksha named Xiao (Alatus) from Genshin Impact can supposedly also take the form of the Golden Wing Great Peng, and his design is related to it
*The pokemon Magmar, Magmortar, and Magby are supposedly based on the golden peng in design
==References==
Category:Kunpeng