Title: Wen Chang Di Jun
Description: "Lords for Study"
Description: "Lords for Study"
javewu - May 1, 2006 04:40 AM (GMT)
These are the Five Lords of Study ~ Wu Wen Chang
javewu - November 3, 2006 05:17 AM (GMT)
文昌帝君
文昌本是星名，亦稱文曲星或文星，古時被認為是主持文運功名的星宿，漢代則專指天上文昌宮的第四星--司命星。其成為道教與民間所信奉的文昌帝君，乃與蜀中的梓潼神張亞子（又作張惡子或張堊子）有關。安史之亂時，唐玄宗避亂入蜀，曾夢見張亞子顯靈，並追封他為左丞相；唐末，唐僖宗為避黃巢之亂入蜀，又親祀梓潼神，追封張亞子為濟順王。經唐朝皇帝的崇拜，梓潼神張亞子遂由地方神成為天下通祀的大神。宋代，梓潼神又多次得皇帝加封，並因預卜科舉功名甚驗而甚得讀書人信向。元延祐三年（1316年），元仁宗敕封張亞子為「輔元開化文昌司祿宏仁帝君」，並欽定為忠國、孝家、益民、正直之神，至此梓潼神與文昌星神遂合二為一，稱文昌帝君。元明以後，各地多建有文昌宮、文昌祠等，人們多於二月初三文昌帝君誕辰日舉行「文昌會」。
Lord Wen Cheng
Wen Cheng, a name of one of the star in the Northern Hemisphere.
Wen Chang was allocated a task of “Overall-In-Charge of Academic” of all Mortals.
In Han Dynasty, Wen Chang was believed to be the 4th Star in the Heavenly Court of Wen Chang (Wen Chang Gong).
In history, Lord Wen Chang was believed to be Zhang Ya Zi (張亞子) of Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD317-420).
Assistants of Lord Wen Chang were known as Tian Long (Heavenly Deaf) & Di Ya (Earthly Mute).
There’s a myth of these 2 assistants:
Tian Long – deaf because of, not allowing him to listen to what people had asked him about the future/result of Mortals’ Academic
Di Ya – mute because of, not allowing him to communicate with the Mortals about their future/result in their Academic