Lady Yin
Lady Yin (Chinese: 殷氏; pinyin: Yīn Shì) is a character featured within the famed classic Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi. She is the wife of Li Jing and they have three sons, Jinzha, Muzha, and Nezha. She played a prominent role in the nurture of Nezha. In Xinchu Erlang Pishan Jiumu Quanduan (新出二郎劈山救母全段), a Qing dynasty folk storytelling manuscript,she is said to be the second daughter of the Jade Emperor.[1] However, in the Fengshen Yanyi novel and subsequent adaptations, she is just a normal human woman.
Her full name is not given in the Fengshen Yanyi, only her surname, Yin. She is called Lady Suzhi (素知夫人) in the Ming dynasty religious book The Collection of Gods in Three Religions.
In Fenshen Yanyi
[edit]Throughout the Nezha birth arc in Fengshen Yanyi, Lady Yin was pregnant again after three years and six months without giving birth. One day when she was sleeping, she dreamed that a deity Taiyi Zhenren put something into her arms; she woke up with pain in her abdomen and gave birth to a meat ball in the incense chamber. With a round like a wheel, Li Jing slashed at the meat ball with a sharp sword, and jumped out a child.[2][3]
She would always be known to reflect many acts of kindness to her third son—no matter what he truly did. Thus, Lady Yin would be seen protecting Nezha at many times throughout the novel, even when he performed horrendous actions such as the killing of Ao Guang's third son, Ao Bing. After Nezha had given his own body as a sacrifice to Ao Guang in order to protect his family, Lady Yin would end up erecting a temple atop the Green Screen Hill as a stationing area for Nezha's spirit (this was because Nezha continuously pleaded to her in her sleep). Lady Yin would be scolded by Li Jing profusely following this point.
In popular culture
[edit]- The character increased in popularity in 2019 with the stereoscopic, computer-animated feature film, Ne Zha, was more successful, setting numerous all-time records for box-office grosses, including third-highest-grossing of all films in China and highest-grossing animated film from outside the United States.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ 杜聯齊/杜穎陶（1908年3月22日－1963年5月2日）, 《董永沉香合集》 (PDF), retrieved 2024-10-08
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ 古书情节辞典 [Dictionary of Ancient Book Plots] (in Chinese). 江西敎育出版社. 1990. ISBN 978-7-5392-0535-9.
- ^ 新亞學報 Journal of New Asia: Volume 3} (in Chinese). 新亞硏究所. 1957.
- ^ Amidi, Amid (August 16, 2019). "American Audiences Don't Have To Wait Long To See The Chinese Blockbuster Ne Zha In Theaters". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
Some of the records it has already set: the highest-grossing Chinese animated feature of all-time, the highest-grossing non-U.S. animated feature of all-time, the third-highest grossing Chinese film of all-time, the highest-grossing animated IMAX feature in China, and the second highest-grossing local language IMAX feature in China.
- Investiture of the Gods chapter 13-14
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