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Wangye literally means Prince; however, it is a not uncommon honorific used for deities within Fukienese and Chaozhou communities - often for protective deities.
15 One has to bear in mind that the term Jiangjun, normally translated as general, used to be used to indicate a commander of an independent or subordinate force, often consisting of no more than one hundred men.
16 According to some Li Fu Wangye was the spirit of a local sugar worker, Li Chaosheng who had returned to Earth to assist his former neighbours and had advised them of his euhemerisation in a dream.
17. This is not confirmed in biographies.
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Wangye literally means Prince; however, it is a not uncommon honorific used for deities within Fukienese and Chaozhou communities - often for protective deities.
15 One has to bear in mind that the term Jiangjun, normally translated as general, used to be used to indicate a commander of an independent or subordinate force, often consisting of no more than one hundred men.
16 According to some Li Fu Wangye was the spirit of a local sugar worker, Li Chaosheng who had returned to Earth to assist his former neighbours
and had advised them of his euhemerisation in a dream.
17. This is not confirmed in biographies.
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