'Punishing Heaven', also Hsing T'ien) is a Chinese deity[1] who fights against the Supreme Divinity, not giving up even after the event of his decapitation.
Nevertheless, headless, with a shield in one hand and a battle axe in the other, he continues the fight, using his nipples as eyes and his bellybutton as a mouth.
"[2]In Luo Mi's Lushi from the Southern Song period, Xingtian[a] is described as a minister of the Yan Emperor, who composed music for farmers for plowing and harvesting.
[5] The poet Tao Qian also celebrated Xingtian's spirit in his Thirteen Poems upon Reading the Guideways through Mountains and Seas, where he made an association between Jingwei and Xingtian in their persistence to overcome tragedies but also mentions their inability to be free from it:[6] [Jingwei] bites hold of twigs, determined to fill up the deep-blue sea.
[6]Xingtian symbolizes the indomitable spirit which maintains the will to resist no matter what tribulations one may undergo or what troubles one may encounter.