Is “Zheng Lun, the grain transport officer of Jizhou, could emit a white light from his nose with a snort to capture souls, and after death was appointed as one of the Heng and Ha Er Jiang.” true?

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In the novel, Zheng Lun and Chen Qi respectively master the soul-capturing arts of 'Heng' and 'Ha', and ultimately are jointly appointed as the 'Heng and Ha Er Jiang' guarding the mountain gate and protecting treasures. The prototype of this divine pair is actually the two Vajra guardians commonly seen in the mountain gate halls of Buddhist temples. The author of the Ming dynasty novel, with astonishing imagination, thoroughly localized and secularized these two Buddhist guardian deities, endowing them with the identities of Shang and Zhou dynasty military officers (such as setting Zheng Lun as a subordinate of Su Hu) and Daoist magic. In historical records of the Shang and Zhou dynasties such as the Records of the Grand Historian, there is absolutely no record of such divine generals who defeat enemies by sound waves.

Zheng Lun

The Formation of Heng and Ha Er Jiang and the Investiture of the Gods

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