What does Luo Shen mean?

Fu Fei is the water god in charge of Luohe in pre-Qin mythology of China. In the Middle Ages, the image of Luo Shen was enriched and developed, and gradually became a secular beauty, which became the object of emotional sustenance of male literati. In Cao Zhi's masterpiece Ode to Luoshen, Luoshen is regarded as the embodiment of the ideal beauty god. Luo Shenfu also laid the foundation of traditional oriental aesthetics.

It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Luo Shen was Fuxi's daughter. At the same time, the rise of Zhen Chen Theory has split the original features of ancient myths.

Pre-Qin spouse god

The original name of Luoshen was "Fu Fei", and this name originated from Qu Yuan's Tian Wen: "The emperor changed things, and the people were evil in the summer. Hu ambushed Hebo, and his wife, Heluo, "Italy" descended from heaven to change the disaster. Why did you shoot Hebo and marry Princess Luochuan? " .

The story is about Fu Fei swimming in Luoshui, and his beauty was discovered by Hebo. Hebo planned to drown Fu Fei in waterinfo, so he occupied Fu Fei. In the Xia Dynasty, the king of a poor country, Hou Yi (who married Chang 'e in righteousness, but not the same person), admired Fu Fei, but Hebo knew that Hebo made trouble in Luoshui, causing floods and hurting one side. Hou Yi was furious and shot and wounded Hebo.

At the beginning of Fu Fei's myth, its image was a spouse god who incarnated beauty, love and sex. Some scholars have studied it, and the story deduction of Luo Shen is very consistent with the story of Aphrodite (Venus), the god of love and beauty in western ancient Greek mythology. Earlier records in the West can be traced back to the 5th and 6th centuries BC, and traces of Shan Hai Jing are also faintly visible. Fairy tales originated in ancient times or existed in prehistoric civilization.