Red Boy
Chinese · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
A child demon who cannot be beaten by force and is taken instead — bound with golden rings and made an attendant of the bodhisattva. The registry held Guanyin, who took him; it did not hold him, his father or his mother, which meant the Flaming Mountains sequence, one of the most famous in Chinese literature, had no participants in the corpus at all.
Parentage
- parent: Bull Demon King
- parent: Princess Iron Fan
Domains
- fire
Relations
- subordinate to: GuanyinWhich is why his parents hold a grudge: from their side, the pilgrims took their child.Reference treatment of Red Boy's defeat and his passing into Guanyin's service. (secondary)
Sources
- Red Boy is the son of the Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan in the Journey to the West, defeated by the pilgrims and taken into Guanyin's service.: Reference treatments of Red Boy and of the Journey to the West. (secondary)