For this week’s #FourGodsFridays, I wanted to do a simple map the quadrants of China that the Four Gods rule over. Please note that this is using a modern map of China and not the correct borders of the historical Han or Three Kingdoms. The gold are Chonglin’s territories, the black are Gen’s, the light blue are Longwei’s, and the red are Fengge’s. Also note that Fengge has reign over the islands of the South China sea as well. Some of the territories are shared through overlap, and their directions also correlate to which constellations and celestial bodies they control.
In Book 1, Gen mentions having expeditions in the Ordos among nomadic tribes there, which runs through the present-day provinces of Shaanxi, Ninxia, and Inner Mongolia. These were the most northern borders of China at the time the story takes place. Chonglin’s borders would have overlapped more with Fengge’s as China’s most western border during this period would be Sichuan and up to western Xinjiang. Longwei’s territories would have extended east into what is now North Korea, and Fengge’s would go even further south into what is now Vietnam.
AUTHOR | HISTORIAN | ARTIST 