Ao Bing
Chinese · demigod · mythic · Recorded classification
DEMIGOD IS THE COMPUTED TIER, NOT AN ASSERTION: a deity father and an unnamed co-parent average to 0.5 under the registry's own arithmetic. He is the reason Nezha's story happens, and the corpus had Nezha, Li Jing, Taiyi's pupil Jinzha and Muzha, and not the boy Nezha killed.
Parentage
- paternal: Ao Guang
Domains
- dragon princedom
- death and revival
Relations
- killed by: NezhaNon-symmetric, written from this end only; chinese_nezha is a pre-existing record and this batch mutates none. THE CORPUS HELD THE KILLER AND NOT THE KILLED — the single most retold episode of Nezha's cycle had only one of its two participants.Reference treatment of Ao Bing: a dragon prince, the third son of Ao Guang, Dragon King of the East Sea, who volunteered to deal with Nezha and was slain by him in combat; the immortal Taiyi Zhenren later revived him using tendon-relaxing vines and white pine bark. Facing his parents' wrath after the killing, Nezha went to Taiyi Zhenren for help; Nezha's official Taoist name is Marshal of the Central Altar. (secondary)
- son of: Ao GuangGenealogy carried by parentIds.Reference treatment of Ao Bing: a dragon prince, the third son of Ao Guang, Dragon King of the East Sea, who volunteered to deal with Nezha and was slain by him in combat; the immortal Taiyi Zhenren later revived him using tendon-relaxing vines and white pine bark. Facing his parents' wrath after the killing, Nezha went to Taiyi Zhenren for help; Nezha's official Taoist name is Marshal of the Central Altar. (secondary)
- revived by: Taiyi ZhenrenWritten within this batch.Reference treatment of Ao Bing: a dragon prince, the third son of Ao Guang, Dragon King of the East Sea, who volunteered to deal with Nezha and was slain by him in combat; the immortal Taiyi Zhenren later revived him using tendon-relaxing vines and white pine bark. Facing his parents' wrath after the killing, Nezha went to Taiyi Zhenren for help; Nezha's official Taoist name is Marshal of the Central Altar. (secondary)
Sources
- A dragon prince, third son of Ao Guang of the East Sea, who volunteered to deal with Nezha and was slain by him in combat, and was later revived by the immortal Taiyi Zhenren with tendon-relaxing vines and white pine bark.: Reference treatment of Ao Bing: a dragon prince, the third son of Ao Guang, Dragon King of the East Sea, who volunteered to deal with Nezha and was slain by him in combat; the immortal Taiyi Zhenren later revived him using tendon-relaxing vines and white pine bark. Facing his parents' wrath after the killing, Nezha went to Taiyi Zhenren for help; Nezha's official Taoist name is Marshal of the Central Altar. (secondary)