"The Romance of the Gods" is a myth of the Ming Dynasty**, and the same period "Journey to the West" occupies an important place in Chinese mythology**, from the "Romance" in its name, this Fengshen event is based on historical facts.
We know that the history of Chinese civilization is known as 5,000 years, but the history before the Zhou Dynasty is incomplete, why is this so?The history of this human civilization can be divided into two parts, the beginning is the period when demigods live together, that is, the period before the Zhou Dynasty, and the story in "The Romance of the Gods" takes place at the end of the Shang Dynasty. Later, the development of mankind will move towards the Western model of empirical science, and the entire human society will have to be fascinated by the so-called science in order to arrange the following things, and that period of history will not be allowed to be clearly recorded.
At that time, although there were not many giants, they still existed. The lifeforms of the Shura realm can enter and leave the human world freely, and the entrances and exits of the two different spaces are not completely closed, so demons and monsters are very common. The interaction between the fairy world and the human world is also very close, and the special functions of many people have not completely disappeared, and immortals, dragons and phoenixes, unicorns, etc. can also be observed from time to time. Of course, the level of gods who can directly contact human beings is not too high, and they are all the beings of the high-level space within the Three Realms.
During this period, the West was also a period of demigods, and many of the Greek myths were actually real histories, passed down by word of mouth. There is no complete historical record in the East, but fortunately, the hearsay in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" still retains a scale and a half claw.
"The Romance of the Gods" tells the story of the Shang Dynasty, the son of heaven, who was very lustful, and went to the Nuwa Palace one day to make incense, and saw that the holy image of Nuwa was beautiful, and the inscription poem was blasphemous, which angered Nuwa.
Nuwa then sent three goblins in Xuanyuan's tomb to transform into human forms and enter the palace to confuse the king, one of whom was a fox demon. The demon fox killed the beautiful Daji who was selected to be sent to the palace, and possessed her body, entered the palace to confuse the court, and the Shang Dynasty never had peace.
The king indulged in wine, and the government was not in trouble, and at the instigation of Daji, he set up cannons to torture, make pots, arbitrarily kill ministers, and mutilate palace people. Queen Jiang Niangniang was deposed and was gouged out. Prince Yin Jiao and his younger brother Yin Hong escaped from Chaoge;Prime Minister Shang Rong forced the Day of the Dead;Dong Bohou and Nan Bohou were innocently killed. Xibohou Jichang was imprisoned for seven years, and his son Boyi Kao was killed by Daji. Daji also slandered Wang Shuyabigan, causing him to be stripped of his heart and died.
After Ji Chang fled back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, he visited Jiang Ziya, who was ordered by Yuan Shi Tianzun to go down the mountain to help Zhou destroy Shang and live in seclusion in the grassland, worship as prime minister, and train soldiers and horses. And Jiang Ziya's younger brother Shen Gongbao was jealous that Jiang Ziya had been given the task of becoming a god, and took refuge in King Xuan to oppose Jiang Ziya everywhere.
The king ordered the Taishi to hear Zhonghua Zhou. Wen Zhong successively sent several generals to the expedition, and there were people from all sects of the sect to help, and ten battles were arranged, etc., which were broken by the sect leader Lao Tzu Yuan Shi Tianzun and all the sects. The generals and Wen Zhong were killed. The king sent Deng Jiugong and others to the expedition, but they were all defeated.
King Wu worships Ziya as a division to raise troops and cut merchants. All the way, it was like a bamboo, and it broke the "Zhuxian Array", "Ten Thousand Immortal Array", "Plague Array" and so on placed by the leader of the Tongtian Sect. Gathered 800 princes to march to the court, the king of Xuan was in the Star Tower**, and the three demons such as Daji were captured. King Wu is the Son of Heaven, Jiang Ziya led the Yuan Shi Tianzun edict, and sealed the gods on the Fengshen platform. These include the well-known 28 constellations, 36 Tiangang, 72 Earth Demons (36 Tiangang and 72 Earth Demons were 100 Shan and 8 Generals of Liangshan in the Song Dynasty), 6 plague messengers, four heavenly kings, and so on.
In order to prevent being polluted by the earthly world, the gods rotate every ten years according to the heavenly stem, and the earth rotates every twelve years according to the earthly branch, and their rotation will also have an impact on the world, so the future situation can be estimated through various ancient ** studies such as the four pillars.
In addition to rewarding the warriors who have made meritorious contributions to the war, the list of gods also includes many enemy generals on the side of the king, which is incomprehensible.
We can't look at this matter with human thinking, stand on a higher level and look at it, the development of the entire human history is just going according to the changes of the heavens, when something should happen, the change of dynasty or something, all of them are arranged in advance, the script has been there for a long time, and everyone is just interpreting it.
Just like making a movie, there must be positive characters and villains in the script, so that it is interesting and everyone is willing to watch it. After the movie was filmed, whether it was playing the good guy or the bad guy, they all put in the effort, so they all had credit.
The major events in the world must be brought about by someone to act, these key figures are all performed by advanced beings in the next life, of course, they have to wash away their memories when they come here, his life is going according to the established arrangement, and the people are the followers and the driven. After the event, they will return to their original positions, and if they perform well, they will be promoted.
Here we want to focus on two of these characters, Daji and Shen Gongbao.
Daji was originally Su Hu's daughter, beautiful, kind, and versatile. When Nuwa saw the obscene poems written by the king, she was very angry and wanted to destroy his kingdom. Who is Nuwa?The God who created man is of a very high level. Her idea is that heaven will form celestial phenomena.
A single thought of a senior life can promote changes in the social situation in the world and achieve the results he needs. As for the twists and turns in the intermediate process, they are arranged in order to conform to the principles of the human world, and it is impossible for the human world to change for no reason.
Nuwa summoned three monsters, one of which was a thousand-year-old fox spirit attached to Daji, and told them to confuse the king of Xu, Nuwa said this:
Cheng Tang is gloomy, and he should lose the world;Fengming Qishan, the Western Zhou Dynasty has given birth to the Holy Lord. Providence has been decided, and the number of qi dictates. Your three demons can hide their demon forms, support their palaces, and confuse their hearts. King Wu will fight to help succeed, and not to harm sentient beings. After the deed is done, it will make you and others achieve positive results. “
Nuwa wanted the thousand-year-old fox spirit to confuse the chaotic palace to help King Wu cut down, and after success, he could also be a god, but he was not allowed to mutilate sentient beings, but after the fox spirit attached to Daji, he forgot Nuwa's order, indulged in glory and wealth, wine pond and meat forest, and killed many loyal ministers and good generals.
Later, the king was defeated, the thousand-year-old fox was killed, and its name was not on the list of gods.
The human world really fascinates all the beings who come here, and those who have a mission act according to the will of Heaven and have no problem in seeking their own government, but in the process, they have to bear the bad things they do for their own personal interests. There are also people who simply forget why they came here, and they have not completed their mission, and this kind of person cannot return to Heaven.
There is also a kind of person who is used by higher beings to do things. He is very bad, as soon as the destiny of heaven arrives, he is destined to be destroyed, and the advanced beings will use them to do bad things, this kind of thing cannot be done by good people, it has to be done by such bad people, and it is a pity to destroy them when they are done.
Let's talk about Shen Gongbao, he is Jiang Ziya's junior brother, ** sent Jiang Ziya to be a god, he didn't choose him, he felt that his skills were greater than Jiang Ziya, and his jealousy was troublesome, and he was angry, and he took refuge in the king to help him. A cultivator is most afraid of jealousy, and if he can't see that others are better than him, it will destroy all the cultivated minds, and with this kind of mind, he will definitely not achieve positive results.
There are too many different spaces in the universe, there are countless lives in each layer, and the life level of the upper layer is higher than that of the next layer, and the life of each level can only see the space and life lower than themselves, because they are afraid that the life below will have this kind of heart, if they can't see others surpassing themselves, then the universe will be chaotic.
Shen Gongbao's magical powers are also very great, and he should have achieved a high level, but in the end he was named the general of the East China Sea, saying that he is a general, but in fact, he is a drudgery to watch the sluice. The reason why he didn't let his form and god disappear was because although he had no merit, but he had work, in order to defeat his senior brother Jiang Ziya, he ran around lobbying others, instigated many people to participate in this matter, and inadvertently completed the great cause of becoming a god.
For eternity, a few people are not confused. "The Romance of the Gods" ** 700,000 words, its core content can actually be summed up in one sentence: history is a big drama.
The history of 5,000 years of civilization is left for future generations to refer to, and today it has finally come to an end. The complicated world seems to be chaotic, but in fact it is orderly, and it all depends on the mind to be a person, a god, a ghost, or a demon.