The book "Romance of the Gods" is a hundred copies, and it tells the story of attacking Zhou. The first 30 chapters focus on Zhou Wang's tyranny, Jiang Ziya's seclusion, his trip to Xi 'an and Jiang Ziya's assistance. The prince of Wu completed the great crusade against Zhou Wang.
The last 70 chapters are dominated by Shang and Zhou wars, mixed with religious struggles. They explain how to teach and help Zhou, stop teaching and help Shang, show their own teachings and kill each other. As a result, the interception failed, Zhou Wang set himself on fire, King Wu seized the world, enfeoffed other countries, and Jiang Ziya returned to China to offer sacrifices to the gods, so that the people and ghosts who made meritorious service to the country returned to their homes.
The novel takes the historical concept and political concept as the ideological framework to support the book, mixed with a lot of grand imagination, which shows the author's support and praise for benevolent monarchs and saints, as well as his dissatisfaction and resistance to ruthless and ignorant monarchs.
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Liang Zhangju quoted Lin Yueting in the seventh volume of Notes on Returning to the Field: Once upon a time, there was a scholar whose eldest daughter spent all his possessions when she got married, and her second daughter was very dissatisfied with it. The scholar comforted her not to worry. Later, according to the words in the history books that "only God is unique and can be given to her", she perfumed a book "Legend of the Gods" as the companion of her second daughter.
After the second son-in-law published and sold the manuscript, she gained a lot of wealth. However, Liang Zhangju's statement in his Biography of Six Heroes is very bad. He still used Lin Yueting's words to say that The Romance of the Gods was written by a well-read Confucian scholar in the Ming Dynasty, which was originally the third largest among The Journey to the West and The Water Margin.
There are two views, one is that the author is for profit, and the other is that the author signs. It is generally certain that the author is a more talented scholar. The earliest known version of "Romance of the Gods" is a publication published in Jin Changshu during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, which was kept in the Japanese Cabinet Library. The title of the second volume of the Romance of the Gods is Xu Bian, so many scholars think that the author of the Romance of the Gods is Xu.
But this is an isolated case, and Xu Shi's life experience is unknown. It's hard to say whether he is the author or not. The Legend of Shuntian, the seventh volume of Legend Test, said: "The Legend of Shen Feng was written by Lu Changgeng, a Taoist priest in the Yuan Dynasty, which is unknown." Zhang's textual research on The Original History in 1930s was a misunderstanding.
According to Volume 8 of Records of Xianfeng Rebuilding Xinghua County, Lu Xixing, who was born in Xinghua, Jiangsu Province, was brilliant. He is well-read, skilled in writing and calligraphy, and can understand profound truths such as the heaven of life.
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