What is the main content of Romance of Gods?

"Romance of the Gods" mainly 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.

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Creation background

Jiang Ziya's theory of beheading a general has long been told by poets, and the story of beheading a general took shape with the publication of Wu Wang's beheading Pinghua in Yuan Dynasty. There is an intermediate link from Wu Wang's Pinghua to the Romance of the Gods, that is, Biography of Guo compiled by Yu in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, which uses a lot of folklore to further deduce and expand the story.

Wu Wang's Pinghua and Biography of Legendary Kingdom provide a general plot framework, some characters and plot units for the Romance of the Gods. On the basis of predecessors' creation and folklore, Xu et al. wrote The Romance of Ghosts and Ghosts.

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. Xu's life story is unknown, except that he lived in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and was a native of Yingtianfu (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), nicknamed "Zhongshan Yishou".

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