Therefore, netizens who haven't read the original work are curious about the identity of Donghua the Great. Even he himself only said that he jumped out of a stone. Netizens have different opinions about what Donghua the Great is. Some people say that Donghua jumped out of a stone, of course, it is a monkey like the Monkey King, but it is unreasonable that Donghua, which is cold and dark, is a monkey.
Some people say that he is a nine-shadow candle and an epoch-making god in Shanhaijing. The book says that he is "a snake with a dragon head, which hisses as wind and rain, whirs as lightning, and regards it as darkness", which means that the dragon head is a snake, whirs as wind and rain, whirs as lightning, closes its eyes for the night and opens its eyes for the day, but it is epoch-making in Qi Tang's Sansheng III series. Obviously impossible.
The last one, which is also the most widely circulated one, talks about the real body of Donghua the Great, which originally existed at the beginning of heaven and earth and absorbed the aura of heaven and earth to produce the "amethyst" of spiritual wisdom. Therefore, Emperor Donghua showed people in purple clothes for a reason. According to legend, in ancient times, in the eastern wasteland, a lingshi incarnation was born after absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, and it was named Donghua after its birthplace.