What is the person who beheaded the Dragon King of Jinglong River in a dream morning

Wei Zheng beheaded the Dragon King in a dream.

When Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, there was a fortune-teller named Yuan Shoucheng in Chang'an City, who could tell the future and past events, and was good at determining the fortune and misfortune of ghosts and gods. The King of the Jing River Dragon was not convinced, so he and Yuan Shoucheng bet on the hour and number of rain. When the Dragon King went back to the Water Mansion, he received a decree from the Jade Emperor that the hour and number of rains were exactly the same as Yuan Shoucheng's judgment. In order to win the bet, the Dragon King used his authority to deliberately delay the rain by one hour, which resulted in the Dragon King violating the Heavenly Laws and facing the fear of his life. In desperation, according to Yuan Shoucheng's instructions, the Dragon King sent a dream to King Li Shimin of Tang to ask for help: the one who would be responsible for the execution at that time was no other than Wei Zheng, the minister of the Tang King.

Tang Taizong promised the Dragon King that he would stop Wei Zheng from being executed by playing chess. However, Wei Zheng dozed off in the middle of the game and beheaded the King of the Jing River Dragon in his dream. Later, when the Dragon King asked for his life, Emperor Taizong could not bear to be disturbed, so he sent two generals, Qin Shubao and Yuchi Jingde, to guard the gate, and only then was he able to rest in peace. See the two generals stand guard too hard, Taizong called to the two will be a portrait of the artist, it will be posted on the door to protect the peace, from then on, posting the door god, to protect the peace, it is also passed on as a folk custom, popular to this day and not failing.

As such, the origin of the custom of sticking the door god, or Wei Zheng beheading the dragon king triggered it. As for the story of the Dragon King to take advantage of the power of coercion, or in order to win the bet at the expense of violating the "dishonesty" of the sky (by the way, the story of the fortune-teller that is named "Shoucheng," can be said to be the story of the eye-catching strokes), which paid the price of life! The price, the lesson, today's people should also be remembered.