postgres The Sun Star Lord is the Daoist god of the sun, named Yuyi, in charge of the sun and also called the Sun Emperor or Lord Sun. Folk belief often blends him with Mahavairocana and the Sunlight Bodhisattva, and in Fujian and Taiwan he is worshipped on the nineteenth of the third month, a date some link to remembrance of the Chongzhen emperor. /en/people/taiyang-xingjun/relation.html person_cn_q10875215 person taiyang-xingjun 太阳星君

The Sun Star Lord is the Daoist god of the sun, named Yuyi, in charge of the sun and also called the Sun Emperor or Lord Sun. Folk belief often blends him with Mahavairocana and the Sunlight Bodhisattva, and in Fujian and Taiwan he is worshipped on the nineteenth of the third month, a date some link to remembrance of the Chongzhen emperor.

published category-literature category-people category-fictional-characters tag-fictional-character tag-classics tag-four-great-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10875215 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E9%99%BD%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-29T17:20:51+08:00 user:admin 8 The Sun Star Lord is the Daoist god of the sun. The name is a divine title and not a person's name: the Chinese Wikipedia article says his name is Yuyi, a god's name in Daoism, so there is no single verifiable personal name and the heading is left as it was. Wikidata records the Chinese label as Taiyang Xingjun and classes the item as a deity. This site files the entry under Journey to the West, but the Wikipedia article is about the Sun Star Lord of Daoism and folk religion.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## Divine role and titles According to the Chinese Wikipedia article, the Sun Star Lord is named Yuyi, with a talisman character, and is the Daoist god of the sun, in charge of the sun. His full titles include the Sun Star Lord of Flaming Light of the Sun Palace and the Sun Emperor of the Sun Palace, and he is also called the Sun Emperor, the God of Great Brightness, Lord Sun, and the Sun Bodhisattva. The article says he also oversees the lords of the twenty-eight lunar mansions and the heavenly office that records stipends and lifespans, and inspects the merits and offenses of people and reports them to the Supreme Emperor, a record called the Register of the Sun Palace.[^zhwiki] ## Origins and development of the cult The article says that because the sun is a vital source of light and warmth, many peoples worship it. In China the sacrifice to the sun god is said to date from the time of Yan Di Shennong, and the ritual of sacrificing to the sun appeared by the Qin and Han at the latest, for instance in the Book of Rites, which records sacrificing to the sun in the eastern suburb. People often blend the Sun Star Lord with the Buddhist Mahavairocana, Amitabha and Sunlight Bodhisattva, or take the sun god as a manifestation of those figures. In Investiture of the Gods, the Shang loyal minister Bi Gan is enfeoffed as the Sun Star among the three hundred and sixty-five true gods. The article says old accounts give the winter solstice or the nineteenth of the eleventh month as the Sun Emperor's birthday, and the first of the second month as the day he inspects good and evil among people, but most almanacs now give the nineteenth of the third lunar month. Lian Heng's History of Taiwan holds that this date is actually tied to secret worship of the Ming Chongzhen emperor, since on the nineteenth of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (25 April 1644) Li Zicheng entered Yan, and the emperor hanged himself on Coal Hill.[^zhwiki] ## Images and worship The article describes the images as normally human, with a red face and red beard, holding a token of the sun. Some images show a figure with loose hair, a long staff in one hand and a Qiankun ring in the other, standing barefoot on a small hill, said to allude to how the Chongzhen emperor looked when he hanged himself. In Taiwan, the article says, several temples hold rites on the nineteenth of the third month, and in Tainan people used to set out incense tables and cakes called nine pigs and sixteen sheep. Three temples in Kaohsiung also take turns in worshipping Lord Sun. The article also lists temples in Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore that honor the Sun Star Lord.[^zhwiki] ## The True Scripture of the Sun Star Lord The article says the True Scripture of the Sun Star Lord, also called the Sunlight Scripture, is a folk-religion text for worshipping the sun, of unknown authorship. According to elders in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, it was compiled by the third daughter of the Chongzhen emperor while living as a nun after the fall of the Ming, and some scholars think it may come from the Heaven and Earth Society, which sought to restore the Ming. Researchers point out that words in the scripture such as the repeated "ming" and "Pearl Light Buddha" hide a longing for the Ming, and Lin Hualing's study at the National University of Tainan holds that the scripture originally said the sun lord was born on the nineteenth of the eleventh month, and that elements of the Chongzhen emperor were added later until the date shifted to the nineteenth of the third.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Divine title: Sun Star Lord, named Yuyi[^zhwiki] - Other names: Sun Emperor, Lord Sun, God of Great Brightness and others[^zhwiki] - Category: deity (Wikidata)[^wikidata] - Birthday: most often given as the nineteenth of the third lunar month[^zhwiki] - Related on this site: [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]] /people/taiyang-xingjun.html en zh en Character in Journey to the West true mythological figure relation_cnworks_depicts_q70784_q10875215 work_cn_q70784 depicts person_cn_q10875215 work_cn_q70784 zhwiki-characters Related works work_cn_q70784 Journey to the West /en/works/journey-to-west.html true depicts Related works relation_cnworks_depicts_q70784_q10875215 work_cn_q70784 depicts person_cn_q10875215 work_cn_q70784 zhwiki-characters Related works work_cn_q70784 Journey to the West /en/works/journey-to-west.html true en zh en is_fictional Fictional yes person_category Person category mythological figure disambiguation Disambiguation Character in Journey to the West 1 50 1 1 1