CIVILIZATION DOSSIER
Mao Ri Xing Guan昴日星官
A celestial official in Heaven, a rooster with double combs, who subdued the Scorpion Spirit.
- DIRECT FIGURES
- 4
- RELATION RECORDS
- 5
- SOURCE WORKS
- 1
RELATIONSHIP COMPASS
Mao Ri Xing Guan, and the people around them.
Open one chapter at a time. Each chapter gives the relationship first, then the source text behind it.
01KINSHIPKinship
Blood, marriage and sworn bonds
1 figure · 1 record＋
Kinship
Blood, marriage and sworn bonds
Pilanpo—Mao Ri Xing Guanmother-son
02CONFLICTConflict
Battles, captures and defeat
1 figure · 1 record＋
Conflict
Battles, captures and defeat
Mao Ri Xing Guan→Scorpion Spiritsubdue
03THE UNSEENMythic acts
Transformation, aid and divine punishment
2 figures · 3 records＋
Mythic acts
Transformation, aid and divine punishment
Mao Ri Xing Guan→Sun Wukong (Monkey King)heal
Source record
Mao Ri Xing Guan→Zhu Bajie (Pigsy)heal
4 key relationships are shown here. The complete record remains below.
In fiction · Journey to the West
Mao Ri Xing Guan is a celestial official in Heaven, whose true form is a rooster with double combs. When Tang Sanzang and his disciples were trapped by the Scorpion Spirit, Mao Ri Xing Guan was invited to subdue the demon. He revealed his true form and crowed once at the Scorpion Spirit, causing it to revert to its original form and die on the slope. His mother is Pilanpo, and the embroidery needle refined from Mao Ri Xing Guan's eyes can break the golden light of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord.
History vs. fiction
The true form of the Pleiades Star Officer is utilized to the extreme in the novel.
- based on factThe novel specifically depicts the Pleiades constellation as a rooster that subdues demons.
In Daoism, there is the theory of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, but in Chapter 055 of 'Journey to the West', the Star Officer of the Pleiades (Mao Ri Xing Guan) is explicitly depicted as having a true form of a large rooster with double combs, whose crow can directly counteract the Scorpion Spirit, which is a novelized version of star worship. Original text: "现出本相，原来是一只双冠子大公鸡，昂起头来，约有六七尺高，对著妖怪叫了一声。" (Journey to the West, Chapter 055.txt)
Relationship network
Original text (1)
行者道：“专来拜烦救师父一难。”
Original text (1)
那星官用手把嘴唇上摸了一摸，吹一口气，就不疼了。
Original text (1)
对著妖怪叫了一声。那怪即时就现了本相
Original text (1)
小儿乃昴日星官