As we all know, Nezha is the third son of Li Jing, the King of Pagoda. There are two brothers above, namely Jin Zha and Mu Zha. Many people are very curious about Nezha's name. According to the Chinese Five Elements theory, shouldn't Nezha's name be Shuizha? Why was he named Nezha? What are the allusions in it? Today I will tell you Come and tell everyone.
In the novel "Fengshen Yanyi", it is written that Nezha stayed in his mother's belly for three years and six months, and he was still a big meat ball after birth. Li Jing thought his wife had given birth to a monster, so he drew his sword and chopped it off. At this time, a pink and white child fell out of the meat ball, and Li Jing was overjoyed. At this time, an old Taoist asked to see him at the door. He said that he had heard that General Li was happy to have his third son, and he came here to congratulate him. Li Jing welcomed Lao Dao in and found out that this was Taiyi Zhenren from Jinguang Cave in Qianyuan Mountain.
Zhenren Taiyi said: "I have a fate with your son, can I accept him as a disciple?" When Li Jing heard that the Taoist master wanted to accept his son as a disciple, he naturally wanted to do it and immediately agreed. Master Taiyi asked Li Jing, "I wonder if the third young master has a name?" Li Jing said, "I haven't had time to get up yet, please give me a name from the Taoist priest." Master Taiyi spread out Nezha's hands, and saw that in Nezha's two palms, One wrote "Na" and the other wrote "Zha", so he was given the name "Nezha". Then he rewarded Nezha Hun Tianling and the Qiankun Circle, and left first.
Then Taiyi Zhenren gave Nezha this name, was it really because of the two characters on his hand when he was born? In fact, it is not the case. Nezha's previous life was a spiritual pearl, and he was originally a boy under Nuwa's throne. Because King Zhou of Shang Dynasty blasphemed the gods when offering incense at Nuwa Temple, Lingzhuzi was arranged to descend to earth and be reincarnated into the Li family, and later became King Wu's vanguard officer in conquering Zhou. The reason why Taiyi Zhenren gave Nezha this name was because he calculated that his fate was in conflict with water, so he came specially to help him eliminate misfortunes. But everything seemed to be destined, and Nezha ended up in big trouble because of playing in the water. He beat the third prince of the Dragon King to death, and was finally forced to cut off his bones to return to his father and his flesh to his mother.
The word "Na" in ancient Chinese refers to "Nuo", which originally meant to drive away evil spirits and idols of ghosts and gods. The word "咒" is a variant of "咤", which refers to the person who scares evil and is the nemesis of all evils. "Nezha" taken together means the god of war who drives away evil and is invincible. In addition, characters such as Nezha and Li Jing are imported from Indian Buddhism. According to the "Northern Bishamon King's Protector's Mantra" translated by the Tang Dynasty monk Daguang Zhifu Kong, in Buddhism, Li Jing is one of the four heavenly kings under the Buddha's throne, Bishamon Tawen King, and the third son of Tawen King It's called "Na Zha". After Nezha spread to China, the people felt it was unpleasant, so they renamed him "Nezha". The above is purely a personal opinion!