Ao Guang’s Family Tree

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Family

• Ao Bing(child)

  Ao Bing, third son of Ao Guang, was sent to investigate the disturbance at Chentangguan and was slain by the child-god Nezha, who stripped his sinews to make a belt for his father Li Jing.

Member of

• Dragon Kings

  Ao Guang of the Eastern Sea, Ao Qin of the Southern Sea, Ao Run of the Western Sea, and Ao Shun of the Northern Sea hold court in crystal palaces beneath the waves, each commanding the rains and tides of his quarter of the world.

Equivalent to

• Ryujin(Japanese),Yongwang(Korean)

  Ryujin, Ao Guang, and Yongwang are East Asian dragon kings of the sea — the Japanese and Korean traditions each adapted the Chinese Lóng Wáng through Buddhist and Sinitic cultural transmission, producing a single sovereign of the undersea palace ruling tides and weather.

Associated with

• Sun Wukong

  Sun Wukong descended to Dragon King Ao Guang's Crystal Palace demanding a weapon, and when Ao Guang could offer nothing worthy, the Monkey King seized the iron pillar from the sea floor that no one else could lift.