There has always been a great controversy about the author of The Romance of Gods. The most common saying is Xu, because Xu's signature appeared in a version of the Ming Dynasty's Romance of the Gods. About its author, besides Xu, there are Lu Changgeng, Lu Xixing and Wang Shizhen. So far, there is no conclusion.
Xu (about 1560—— about 1630) was born in Tianfu (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) and was a novelist in the Ming Dynasty. He lived in the last years of Jiajing and his life story is unknown. It is said that he compiled The Romance of Gods.
Artistic Features of The List of Gods
The important feature of the conception of Romance of the Gods is its strong story. Yin Jun attacked Xiqiao, Zhou Bing attacked Chao Ge, and the enemy will block, and there are means to resist. One suspense causes another suspense, and one climax indicates the next. Every general has a magic weapon, the same stunts, the same tactics, and every story brings new scenes.
Hundreds of novels often have relatively independent biographies. Some people call the Romance of the Gods "quasi-epic", which is a long narrative way imagined in the historical framework. The Romance of the Gods has a certain epic style, but it mainly wins with a strange and magnificent imagination.