#zhenzi

[fishylife]

I'm still emotional about Ji Chang finding an abandoned Lei Zhenzi in the forest ;_; The moment he laid eyes on the baby Lei Zhenzi, Lei Zhenzi became his son.

Ji Chang took off his cloak and wrapped Lei Zhenzi in it, carried him in his arms and kept him warm and comforted the pitiful baby with no mother or father ;_;

He believed that all children deserve love and good education and a good environment. Nezha and Erlang Shen were about to kill the baby and Ji Chang defended him, defended his innocence ;_;

Jiang Ziya came to break up the fight and offered to have the child raised in the Kunlun Mountains under the eye of his shifu, and Ji Chang's parting gift to the baby was a name <3

And then!!!!! When Ji Chang was in a time of need, all weary and humiliated, Lei Zhenzi came to save him and take him home!! TAT Because THAT'S HIS DAD!!!! ToT

[the-monkey-ruler]

Happy Zhu Bajie (2004) 喜气洋洋猪八戒

Director: Li Kai / Qin Chao / Cai Tianfeng Screenwriter: Huang Yonghui Starring: Gao Xin / Huang Haibo / Xu Jinjiang / Xue Jianing / Han Xue / Jin Qiaoqiao / Xie Na / Chen Long / Hu Dong / Li Zonghan / Liang Chao Genre: Drama / Fantasy Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2005-05-17 (Mainland China) Number of episodes: 43 Single episode length: 45 minutes IMDb: tt14513994 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

The film tells a hilarious light comedy about Zhu Bajie (played by Gao Hongxian). The film is divided into four parts: "Pig Friends and Dog Friends Fight Thunder Duke", "Love in the Kingdom of Women", "Moving Mountain" and "Lawless Robbery". The jealous Lei Zhenzi (played by Zhao Yi) who hates evil became increasingly violent in order to conquer demons, and even killed innocent people indiscriminately, which finally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Jade Emperor (played by Huang Haibing). The unrepentant Lei Zhenzi was accidentally defeated by Zhu Bajie and Roaring Dog (played by Li Zonghan), who were originally living happily in the world, and was forced to enter the Buddhist practice. Roaring Sky Dog fell in love with Fairy Xiangsi (played by Han Xue) as early as in Montenegro, but Xiangsi aroused jealousy and was framed. The shocking love story between the two has just begun. Zhu Bajie sympathized with Fairy Xiangsi and helped the two get together. In subsequent unit episodes, there were even more jokes and surprises.

Source: https://tv-1.chinesemov.com/tv/2004/Happy-Zhu-Bajie

Link: https://www.iq.com/album/19rrj5rgft?_from=iqiyi

[ryin-silverfish]

Nezha's Power Catalog: FSYY

Well, since @journeytothewestresearch has pinged me and @ruibaozha in an ask way back when, we are doing a catalog of Nezha's powers together. I'll be taking the FSYY part.

Google Doc Version

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Disclaimer: I'm not counting powers from his treasures, such as the Wind-Fire Wheels giving him super speed and allowing him to take flight. 

I'm also excluding the invisibility talisman Taiyi drew on him in Chapter 12, since, unlike his Three-headed Eight-Armed Form, it's not a skill or permanent alteration.

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Pre-resurrection:

Advanced physical maturity - I don't know what to call “A newborn baby being able to jump and run around right after emerging from a ball of flesh”, but this is probably it. (Chapter 12)

Unusual height - 6ft tall 7 years old kid, though this might just be a result of FSYY's weird sense of scale. (Chapter 12)

Super strength - A 7 years old kid killing Li Gen the Yaksha with a Qiankun Ring to the head likely counts as super strength. In Ao Bing's case, he drags him off the steed with the Huntian Sash first before the bonking. (Chapter 12)

Still, his later beatdown of Ao Guang and being able to draw the Qiankun Bow no one else could lift? Yeah, definitely super strength. (Chapter 13)

Five Elements Travel: Earth - After Ao Guang storms off to make a complaint to JE, Nezha uses Earth Travel to go to Taiyi's abode and ask for help. It's activated by grabbing a handful of dirt and tossing it into the air. (Chapter 12)

Travel to the Celestial Realm - After Taiyi puts an invisibility talisman on him, he goes to wait for Ao Guang under the Celestial Realm's gates. (Chapter 12)

Dream Communication - Talking to Lady Yin in her dream after his suicide. (Chapter 14)

A generic ghost power, as shown by later instances of Wen Zhong and Yin Jiao's souls warning King Zhou in his dreams, before they go into the Terrace of Investiture. (Chapter 52, Chapter 66) 

Efficiency at granting prayers - After Lady Yin builds a temple for him, he is said to be able to fulfill all the wishes of his worshippers, from granting blessings to warding off disasters.  (Chapter 14)

Materialization - After Li Jing's destruction of his temple, Nezha goes to protest to Taiyi, and the narration says that “After receiving incense and worship for half a year, Nezha is able to take a form and voice himself to some extent.” (哪吒受了半年香烟，已觉有些形声)

It is implied here that ghosts can become corporeal again via people's worship, though, from the looks of it, Nezha has only become visible and audible, and doesn't have a physical body yet at the point of the temple's destruction. (Chapter 14)

Post-Resurrection:

Unusual height (Again) - He grows from 6ft to “1 Zhang 6 Chi” after his resurrection, which is about 15-18 ft. (Chapter 14)

Spear arts - Taught by Taiyi. (Chapter 14)

Samadhi Fire - When Wenshu ties him to the Flying Dragon Pillar and orders Jinzha to whip him, he is described as “blowing out Samadhi Fire from his seven orifices” (打的三昧真火七窍齐喷). This may or may not be metaphorical. (Chapter 14)

It must also be noted that FSYY's Samadhi Fire is not the Red Boy-exclusive special attack of JTTW, and multiple Daoists from both Chan and Jie Sects are able to use it.

The best example is when Nezha and his brothers, Lei Zhenzi, Huang Tianhua, and Weihu try to burn Ma Shan with the Samadhi Fire on Jiang Ziya's orders, which doesn't work because he's a lampwick spirit, who proceeds to escape through the flames. (Chapter 63)

Lotus Body: Immunity to soul-based attacks - In Chapter 37, the narration then explains that all beings of flesh and blood possess the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, and Zhang Guifang's spell works by forcefully scattering them. 

Nezha, because of his lotus body, does not have souls, thus granting him immunity to the attack. 

This will become a recurrent thing. Here's a list of all the soul-based treasures and spells that fail against Nezha:

Zhang Guifang's Unhorsing Spell (Chapter 37)

Zheng Lun's nose beams (Chapter 57)

Chijing Zi/Yin Hong's Yin-Yang Mirror (Chapter 60)

Guangcheng Zi/Yin Jiao's Soulfell Bell (Chapter 65)

Qiu Yin's Red Pearl (Chapter 74)

Fa Jie's banner (Chapter 79)

Long Anji's Paralyzing Ring (Chapter 79)

Bian Ji's Spectral White Bone Banner (Chapter 84)

And here's a collection of his sassy responses: 

“Bastard, I'm staying on these wheels and you ain't calling me off them!” (Against Zhang Guifang)

“Dude, are you sick or something, blowing your nose at me like that?” (Against Zheng Lun)

“Idiot, it's just a red orb. What's so special about it, huh?” (When Qiu Yin tells him to take a look at the pearl)

“Your ring sucks, check out mine!” (To Long Anji, right before bonking him with the Qiankun Ring and killing him)

Lotus Body: Resistance to physical attacks - Spells can't knock Nezha off his wheels, but weapons like Yang Sen's Sky-opening Pearl, Wen Zhong and Zhao Gongming's whips, and Guangcheng Zi/Yin Jiao's Heaven-turning Sealstone can. (Chapter 38, Chapter 42, Chapter 47, Chapter 63)

However, he doesn't seem to suffer any lasting injuries afterwards. The only non-magical/poisonous injury that sticks for a while is some bruises, from getting hit in the face by Deng Chanyu's Five Light Stones. (Chapter 53)

Lotus Body: Immunity to diseases - When Lv Yue puts his plague pills into Xi Qi's water supply, the entire city falls victim to the sorcerous plague, save for Nezha and Yang Jian, because of the former's lotus body and the latter's Ninefold Mystic Arts. (Chapter 58)

Later, Yu Hualong's five sons create five bushels of poisonous poxes, which are spilled all over the Zhou camp from the air, giving everyone magical, five-colored smallpox.

Once again, Nezha is immune, and Yang Jian, knowing that the Yu brothers are up to something, gets the hell out of dodge before the pox spell is unleashed. Cue Nezha complaining of them “Pulling a Lv Yue again”. (Chapter 81)

Immunity to the Soul-Killing Banner (戮魂旛) - The treasure in question belongs to Yu Hua: when raised, it unleashes/turns into multiple streams of black smoke that covers the victim and whisks them away. (Chapter 32)

Subsequently, he tries to use it against Nezha, but Nezha just grabs the smokes, seizes the treasure, and stuffs it into his Leopard Skin Sack. This may or may not fall under the umbrella of “Immunity to Soul-based Attacks”. (Chapter 33)

Counterspell: Pearl Attack - Feng Lin can blow a cloud of smoke out of his mouth, which contains a bowl-sized red pearl that functions as a projectile weapon. Nezha just points his finger at the smoke, and it fizzles out. (Chapter 36)

Supernatural endurance: Red Sand Formation - One of the Ten Formations, it contains three bushels of red sand, which can create a giant sandstorm that reduces any humans and immortals who enter the formation to powder. (Chapter 44)

Nezha and Lei Zhenzi are assigned to protect King Wu, the only person who can break the formation…because Fate Says So, but is also Fated to get trapped in there for 100 days. So naturally, Nezha and Lei Zhenzi get stuck in there alongside him. (Chapter 49) 

When Old Man of the South Pole breaks the formation, Nezha and Lei Zhenzi are fine, but King Wu is already dead and has to be resurrected via a magical pill. (Chapter 51)

I'm not putting this under Resistance to Physical Attacks because, unlike the weapons, I'm unsure as to whether the red sand is magical in nature.

Resistance to poison: Blood-melting Knife (化血神刀) - Limited, since Nezha is still severely injured and incapacitated by Yu Hua's new treasure (made by his master Yu Yuan). However, for mortals, a wound from the knife is pretty much an insta-kill. (Chapter 74)

Three-headed, Eight-Armed Form - After Nezha is injured by Yu Hua's knife, he's taken back to Taiyi's abode to recover. When he's ready to leave, Taiyi offers him three cups of wine and three “fire jujubes”, which gives him his iconic multi-headed and armed transformation.

Unlike in JTTW, FSYY's Nezha has 8 arms instead of 6. Presumably, the 2 extra ones are used to wield the Yin-Yang Swords, the pair of weapons Taiyi gives to him alongside the Nine Fire Dragon Bell Cover…which never get used afterwards.

Upon switching to the multi-headed and limbed form, his appearance also changes into a blue-faced, red-haired, fanged monstrosity, which is not too dissimilar to the fierce guardian deities of esoteric Buddhism. (Chapter 76, Chapter 79)

Also, amusing reaction to his new transformation: “Dangit master, how am I supposed to use all these arms? They are like ugly branches on a tree.” (Chapter 76)

Sagehood in Flesh (肉身成圣) - Nezha is said to attain the status post-war, alongside his brothers, Li Jing, Lei Zhenzi, Wei Hu, and Yang Jian. 

Basically, immortality and godhood, but it doesn't require you to die in Ancient China's Bloodiest Bureaucracy Recruitment Program first. (Chapter 100)

[decepti-thots]

Wait explain to me the transformers nezha thing you mean one of the most famous deities in Chinese culture???

Ahhh, Nezha is an interesting one!

Nezha: Transformers was intended to be a collaboration with the intent of making a sub-franchise that was specifically for the Chinese market. It was going to be a Cyberverse-style spinoff of some kind using those assets and possibly being in the same continuity. (Maybe? That part has never been totally clear to me, but the format and animation were gonna be the same regardless.)

The Nezha part is because it was a crossover series. "The Legend of Nezha" was a Chinese cartoon from the 00s that I gather was quite popular? (There's not a lot of information in English about it beyond the basics I could find.) So this was going to be a continuity crossover between Transformers and that series which, yes, is about the deity Nezha!

It was seemingly pretty damn far in production when a trailer came out in 2019. But then, well, COVID hit, and of course it hit China first and hard, and everything seemingly went out the window distribution wise. For all we know the series is mostly done somewhere and just... hasn't come out. The trailer below shows all sorts of clips of new animation, looking fully polished:

We know a little bit about the rest of the cast, partly from the very truncated toyline that did make it to Chinese shelves. Several new robot characters were designed: Xiaolong Nu, Lei Zhenzi, Tu Xingsun, and Shi Ji Niangniang. (So, we have more stuff from classical Chinese literature etc here. Theming!)

The toyline was very brief and infamously hard to get ahold of even in mainlaind China. Very little of it seems to have made it to shelves stock wise; the most common items seem to be the lego-style toys and the smaller scale three pack?

There was almost certainly never any intention of Nezha being marketed to any other region, and certainly no marketing material etc ever came out in English- which makes perfect sense given the crossover element, and anyway, as TF is very popular in China, it can easily support a cartoon and toyline as market size etc goes. I doubt we would have gotten even fansubs tbh. But I want to see it so bad knowing it exists! It really seems like it might have been far into production. And like. It's a CROSSOVER SERIES. That is such a wild thing to me, a full TF cartoon that is a crossover with something else. The franchise has really never. Done that for any extended piece of fiction bar Hasbro's own stuff. So...

[acoraxia]

the celestial gang of 12 but make it SWK, Nezha, Ao Lie, Iron Fan, Erlang Shen, Peng, Li Jing, Jiang Ziya, Kui Mulang, Nuwa, Su Daji (honorary) and Lei Zhenzi

[siphersaysstuff]

Now added to @tfwiki.net, pics of the "Nezha Team Pack" toys from the ill-fated Chinese-market-exclusive Nezha: Transformers toyline.

The "Protector of the Human World" Nezha himself, "Thunder Wielder" Lei Zhenzi, and "Earth Mover" Tu Xingsun. These are rrrrroughly analogous to the Cyberverse "Scout" toys (the shoddy ones that only half-transform in to vehicles) size-wise, making them a little bigger than the modern Generations "Core Class" figure.

This three-pack was supposed to come out back in 2019... probably? I don't think it was ever officially announced, but a few boxed samples appeared and then... nothing. For all we could tell, these just never happened, and the cartoon these toys were based on entered development limbo and, to this day, has not been officially canceled but sure as hell ain't going forward, dooming the toyline.

Fast forward to June 2023, and Chinese shopping site Temu suddenly has a bunch of the 3-packs, and at a very reasonable price. Warehouse find? Who knows? They didn't last long. I managed to get a set when a second batch showed up and sold out relatively fast, lord knows if more will arrive ever. But if you're keen, no harm in signing up for Temu and asking for notifications, I suppose.

These are certainly interesting pieces, but nothing mind-blowing in and of themselves. You're not missing out on anything here toy-wise without them... but I wanted them for the story. This is a weird corner of TFdom, something rare and unusual with a strange and possibly-cursed development. And that kinda stuff's been way more interesting to me than the normal TF output these last several years.

[kevinhongblog]

Xu Zhonglin-Investiture of the Gods

Ming dynasty Category: Book/Ancient Chinese Mythological Fiction

Investiture of the Gods is a fictional tale set in the Shang and Zhou periods that depicts Ji Fa's revolt of King Zhou with the assistance of Jiang Ziya and a group of generals.

The odd appearances of several immortals, such as Yang Jian's eyes, Lei Zhenzi's meaty wings, and Ne Zha's three heads and eight arms, were what drew me in to the novel the most, aside from the revenge narrative. For instance,Tu Xingsun can use the spell to walk on the ground, Yang Jian has 72 transformations, and Ne Zha can fly through the air while wearing wind and fire wheels on his feet.

Xu Zhonglin，Investiture of the Gods，Ming dynasty

[hime-yuu]

dynasty warriors stage! I really love dynasty wei cast! 😆💕 well.... of course because shiramata is there lol 😂 and I really like shiramata and matsuda chemistry 💕 I rarely like female actress, but I like her immediately! 😂

[butterbunmilk]

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[lotus-duckies]

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[the-monkey-ruler]

The Incredible Monk (2018) 济公之英雄归位

Director: Lin Zicong Starring: Chen Haomin / Lin Zicong / Zhong Jiufu / Zou Wenzheng / Chen Guokun / Ye Jinghan / King Kong / Wang Jing / Luo Jiaying / Yang Neng Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Costume Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2018-02-16 (Mainland China) Duration: 95 minutes Also known as: Jigong: Catching Demons and Conquering Demons / 济公之捉妖降魔 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

According to the legend, Jigong's magic power is boundless, and no monsters or ghosts dare to cause trouble. Only water monsters occasionally cause mischief in the Qianjiang River, injuring the people with floods. One day, the water monsters ganged up to cause mischief, turning up thousands of huge waves and crashing into people's houses, destroying all lives. The water monsters gained power and turned into a huge waterspout, vowing to swallow up the whole world. At the moment of despair, the hero came, Jigong burst out of the air and beat the water demon to pieces with a thunderous force. Thinking that the world would be peaceful from now on, he discovered that Dapeng was planning a conspiracy to conquer the three realms of humans, gods, and demons. With the help of Fat Fairy Boy, Jigong found the Jade Emperor and ordered to summon Erlang Shen, Lei Zhenzi, Nezha, Jiutian Xuannv, and Fuhu. The Arhats go to the mortal world to conquer demons and monsters together, and engage in earth-shattering battles between immortals and demons. As disasters occur one after another, the human world is in danger of being outlawed by the demon world. Is it the Tao that is higher, or the Demon that is higher?

Source: https://chinesemov.com/2018/The-Incredible-Monk

Link: https://www.nunuyy5.org/dianying/2622.html

[ryin-silverfish]

I know we shouldn't do power rankings, but I've always felt that Jade Fox was the strongest fox spirit. She had abilities like samadhi fire (the glossary of the translation of my book says it is the samadhi fire) and the ability of transformations. She fought agaisnt the gods (although it's pretty obvious that Nezha and Erlang held back quite a bit in the fight). But I don't know which would be the strongest fox spirit.

I'm not going to count the foxes in JTTW because they literally die very quickly like flies.

You are right we shouldn't do power rankings. Not even the Samadhi Fire stays consistent between novels: in JTTW it is a Red Boy exclusive special attack, while in FSYY it's like a wizard's Fireball spell——Jiang Ziya, Nezha, his brothers, Huang Tianhua, Yang Jian, Weihu, Lei Zhenzi can all use it.

The same applies to gods. I'll use an example I'm most familiar with: SWK, in JTTW novel, is hella OP. Then you get to the premodern Lotus Lantern stories, and SWK & Nezha got beaten by the Eight Immortals in one page. Or, alongside Erlang, got wrecked by the most OP Chenxiang singlehandedly.

When a god's strength depends solely on the plot and the god that particular work might be trying to promote, it's impossible to power-rank them between stories, let alone their opponents. Especially when there's like, 1000 years between the two works and one of them doesn't even have a plot.

So nah, I don't think I can give you an answer, other than "It's whichever fox you like the most."

[baublology]

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[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, do human deities exist within any of Cybertrons universal streams?

Dear Divine Diviner,

Certainly. Recently the Autobots and Decepticons met up with Nezha, Lei Zhenzi, and Tu Xingsun, as seen in Nezha: Transformers.

[lizzietehan]

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[tscoct]

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