postgres Shui'de Xingjun, also called the Perfected Lord of Water Virtue, is the Taoist star lord of the water star. One ritual text names him Yinkong Zhaoxia, with Qixia given as a variant. /en/people/shui-de-xingjun/relation.html person_cn_q10373688 person shui-de-xingjun Shui'de Xingjun 肇呷 启呷 水德真君 水德星君

Shui'de Xingjun, also called the Perfected Lord of Water Virtue, is the Taoist star lord of the water star. One ritual text names him Yinkong Zhaoxia, with Qixia given as a variant.

published category-literature category-people category-fictional-characters tag-fictional-character tag-classics tag-four-great-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10373688 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E5%BE%B7%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-30T05:22:01+08:00 user:admin 44 In traditional Daoist belief, Shui'de Xingjun is a deity associated with natural water. Wikidata uses this title and lists the aliases Perfected Lord of Water Virtue and Great Emperor of Water, without promoting a personal name. The cited Chinese Wikipedia uses the same title, so it stays unchanged.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## Role The page says he is the star lord of the water star, a subordinate of the Great Emperor of Water, though some identify the two. He is said to govern rivers, seas and waterways. The page also reports that firefighters in Chinese communities often worship him together with the star lord of fire virtue. The page also counts him among the five star lords and gives the full title Star Lord of the Northern Water Virtue, the chronogram star who watches the chronogram star.[^zhwiki] ## Rival names The same page quotes a Daoist text that calls this star the essence of water and gives a ritual name: surname Yinkong, given name Zhaoxia, or in another reading Qixia, courtesy name Jiyuan, or in another reading Jingyuan. His consort is named Xuanhua, courtesy name Longying, and he is placed in the Palace of the Dark Dipper or the Palace of Metal Mystery. Because the given name is reported in two forms, the citations do not settle on one personal name to replace the title. The page also describes him in a star crown and red shoes, a black-mist crane robe, a jade tablet and a seven-star sword, with a white-jade ring, in charge of water creatures, dragons and fish, and of snow and hail. The Tang Daoist Du Guangting wrote an invocation to him.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Title: Shui'de Xingjun[^wikidata] - Description: Taoist deity[^wikidata] - Appears in: [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]] /people/shui-de-xingjun.html en zh ar de en es fr hi id it ja ko ms nl pt ru th tr vi zh-hant Character in Journey to the West true mythological figure relation_cnworks_depicts_q70784_q10373688 work_cn_q70784 depicts person_cn_q10373688 work_cn_q70784 wikidata Related works work_cn_q70784 Journey to the West /en/works/journey-to-west.html true depicts Related works relation_cnworks_depicts_q70784_q10373688 work_cn_q70784 depicts person_cn_q10373688 work_cn_q70784 wikidata Related works work_cn_q70784 Journey to the West /en/works/journey-to-west.html true en zh ar de en es fr hi id it ja ko ms nl pt ru th tr vi zh-hant is_fictional Fictional yes person_category Person category mythological figure disambiguation Disambiguation Character in Journey to the West 1 50 1 1 1