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In Water Margin, there was a Ne Zha, why did he get this title?

This person is Xiang Chong, whose title is "Eight-Armed Nezha" Isn't he more powerful than Nezha? You may not be familiar with this name because he doesn't appear much in TV dramas and movies. So why did this man get the title "Ne Zha"? It's mainly because Xiang Chong's weapon and his usual costume are very much like Ne Zha, so he got this nickname.

As we all know, Nezha is the son of Li Jing, the king of the heavenly pagoda, and has three heads, six arms, and a large number of magic weapons, including a pointed spear, a qiankun circle, a wind and fire wheel, and a mixed sky damask. And Xiang Chong also had very magnificent equipment, he had a javelin in his right hand and a shield in his left hand with twenty-four flying daggers inserted into it, which were said to be able to hit a target within a hundred paces. The reason why he got this title is because of the similarity between him and Nezha in appearance. In the ancient texts, the words "bronze ring half covering the cheek" and "feet like wind and fire" describe Xiang Chong, which is quite similar to Nezha's Qiankun circle and feet on the wind and fire wheels, as well as his flailing and clawing aura. It seems that he is not inferior to Ne Zha.

Xiang Chong was a native of Pei County, Jiangsu Province (part of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province), and he and Li Gun were good brothers, they had an eight-worship friendship, and they both followed Fan Rui, who was his right-hand man. Let's take a look at Fan Rui is what character, he is nicknamed "mixed world demon king" (sounds like not too high-end look), weapons meteor hammer, and do not know where to learn a full of demonic magic. The three of them gathered a group of people to occupy the Mangdang Mountain, think they are very powerful and said that they want to swallow the Liangshan. How can this call Liangshan good man to endure?

So they started a fierce battle, the beginning of the strength is very strong to the Liangshan handsome Shi Jin to run away, Song Jiang see can't, the other side has a couple of times, so they took the master "into the flying dragon" Gongsun Sheng came to declare war. Even the "Demon King" Fan Rui all kung fu look and finally lost to the other side, and finally Xiang Chong and Li Gun was captured alive.