Jiang Ziya is responsible for deifying his wife as a "jinx". Why did Jiang Ziya do this?

Jiang Ziya called his wife a jinx, because when Jiang Ziya and his wife Ma Shi were together, everything went wrong. When he was down and out, Ma Shi didn't want to share joys and sorrows with him and insisted on parting ways with him. Jiang Ziya thought Ma Shi was an unlucky woman, so she was named jinxing.

Jinx is what we call a comet today. The main components of comets are gravel, dust, ammonia and methane. Some comets orbit the sun in a long, flat elliptical orbit. When it moves away from the sun, methane and ammonia will solidify into hard ice. When it gets closer to the sun, the hard ice will melt into water vapor and be blown into the shape of a big broom by the solar wind. With the continuous loss of comet material, some comets will disintegrate, and comet fragments will be thrown out of the solar orbit, enter the earth's atmosphere, and burn with the atmosphere to form the meteor shower we see.

The ancients didn't understand these truths. They related them according to the astronomical phenomena they saw. They think that the broom that streaks in the night sky looks like a man with long hair, so they think that the broom is unlucky. After word of mouth, people formed a fixed concept. They think that when they meet a broom, people will have bad luck, and the broom has become synonymous with bad luck.

Xu, the author of the Romance of Gods, was from the Ming Dynasty. Under the status of women in the Ming Dynasty, some men did not have a good career in the outside world. They can't find the reason from the objective situation and their own problems, so they vent their evil spirits on their wives, thinking that their wives are jinxes and unlucky everywhere. In addition, some women are too poor to share joys and sorrows with their husbands and betray their families when their husbands are down and out. These women are called jinxes. The author of the novel is named Shen Feng. When he was writing the novel, he attached this social phenomenon to the novel, and there was a plot in which Jiang Ziya named his wife as a jinx.

In the novel, Jiang Ziya went down the mountain to study Taoism in Kunlun Mountain for 32 years, went to Yi Song, a sworn brother living in Chao Ge, and married Ma Shi, a 68-year-old woman. After marriage, he did business four times and all ended in failure. Every time a business fails, it will cause a quarrel between husband and wife. Later, Jiang Ziya heard that Zhou Wenwang of Xiqiao wanted to recruit talents and wanted to go to Xiqiao. Ma Shi disagreed, broke off relations with him and married a farmer. When Jiang Ziya arrived in Xiqiao, he was reused by Wang Wen and became a surname of Xiqiao. After listening to this, Ma regretted it, hanged himself, and was named a jinx by Jiang Ziya.