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Wen Chung Tai-Shih, the Great Teacher Wen Chung, was a minister of the tyrant King Chou (1154–1122 B.C.), and fought against the armies of the Chou Dynasty. Being defeated, he fled to the mountains of Yen, Yen Shan, where he met Chih Ching-Tzu, one of the alleged discoverers of fire, and joined battle with him. The latter, however, flashed his Yin-Yang mirror at the unicorn, and put it out of action. Lei Chen-Tzu, one of Wu Wang’s marshals, then struck the animal with his staff, and severed it in two.
Wen Chung escaped in the direction of the mountains of Chueh-Lung Ling, where another marshal, Yun Chung-Tzu, barred his way. Yun’s hands had the power of producing lightning, and eight columns of mysterious fire suddenly came out of the earth, completely enveloping Wen Chung. They were thirty feet high and ten feet in circumference. Ninety fiery dragons came out of each and flew away up into the air. The sky was like a furnace, and the earth shook with the awful claps of thunder. In this fiery prison Wen Chung died.
When the new dynasty finally proved victorious, Chiang Tzu-Ya, by order of Yuan-Shih Tien-Tsun, conferred on Wen Chung the supreme direction of the Ministry of Thunder, appointing him Celestial Prince and omnipotent defender of the laws governing the distribution of clouds and rain. His full title was Celestial and Highly-Honoured Head of the Nine Orbits of the Heavens, Voice of the Thunder, and Regulator of the Universe. His birthday is celebrated on the twenty-fourth day of the Sixth Moon of the Lunar Calendar.
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