Why can Zhou Wang become a god after his death, but Zhou Wenwang is not?

In the mythical masterpiece Romance of the Gods, Jiang Ziya was ordered by his master to worship 365 gods of justice in eight places in heaven.

Careful readers find that even Shang Zhouwang, the biggest negative image in The Condor Heroes, has been named Tian. Zhou Wenwang, a master of virtue in the Western Zhou Dynasty, was not deified.

Why? Combining the Romance of Gods with folk myths and legends, today's Yuan Yi Yuan will talk about this topic. For everyone to exchange and discuss.

1. Wen Wang was sentenced to seven years in prison.

What Wang Wenneng expects is that he will go to Chao Ge to spend seven years in prison, and then he and Xiqiao people will have a bright future.

The seven-year term is about to expire. When Boycott, the eldest son, also appeared in Chao Ge and made a heroic act of giving his life to save his father, a generation of wise kings did not expect it.

What happened next, menacing, is difficult to control.

After he came to Chao Ge, he faced the charming temptation of da ji for the first time. Bo Yi Kao was born in the door of Wang Wen's sage, ten generations of loyal ministers and gentlemen, and successfully escaped the "Beauty Pass".

However, a bigger robbery, at the same time, waved to the Boyi exam: Come on, come on! For all the people in the world, come to Zhou Wang, the heartless bad king, and give some advice.

Obeying fate, I died in the art test. Open seven feet tall, standing in front of Zhou Wang and civil officials, face-deadpan, righteously.

"I heard that Beijing can get a good guqin, a Chinese Odyssey, unique! Why doesn't your majesty ask him to play a song? "

It was Su Daji who suggested Zhou Wang. Da ji's words are gentle and sweet, but things are cruel and vicious.

In the original "Romance of the Gods", Boyikao knew that there were tigers in the mountains, and he preferred to go to Tiger Mountain. I know in my heart that da ji has ulterior motives, but I feel at ease.

Second, the Boyi test is very simple.

Gao Boyi is loyal to his country and hopes that Zhou Wang will wake up and put the country first. But da ji was in the way at the scene.

Da ji told Zhou Wang: Boyi's conscience was greatly broken, and there was something slandering the king in the piano. Then, with a finger of her jade hand, she rebuked Boyi: ordinary people are bold, dare to slander the saints, insult the monarch and scold the Lord, and deserve it.

After reading this, many people think that what Boyi said later in the exam is obviously a fearless move, which is hard for ordinary people to imagine. But I did the art exam and said it.

Zhou Wang, who is deeply involved in debauchery, will not understand whether the Boyi exam is for his own good or for the country's good. At da ji's instigation, Bo Yigao's body was nailed to a pillar in the temple, ready to be chopped into meat paste and fed to snakes and scorpions.

However, da ji, who has been possessed by the fox demon for thousands of years, thinks that this is not cruel enough, and it is too cheap for the art examination, so he has a worse "bad idea" for Zhou Wang.

Everyone in the world doesn't call Xibo Hou Jichang a saint, and everyone knows that Brother Wen can pinch and calculate. Make his son's meat into cakes to see if he can eat it.

Eating it means that Zhou Wenwang's reputation is ruined. If you don't eat, don't leave future trouble. Kill it quickly.

Third, eat something you shouldn't eat.

King Wen was imprisoned for seven years.

In the past seven years, Zhou Wenwang worked hard in anger and seriously translated innate gossip, a sage of Fuxi, into 8864 hexagrams. The 384 hexagrams implied the opportunity of yin and yang in heaven and earth, and were later called Zhouyi.

When holding the meat pie sent by Zhou Wang, King Wen felt mixed feelings, like a knife.

People say: Although Zhou Wang put you in prison, he still thinks of you often. This is Zhou Wang's ninth five-year plan. When he came back from hunting, he made deer roe into patties for you to eat!

King Wen opened the imperial box, kowtowed and thanked him, took the meat pie and ate three in a row.

Now Zhou Wang and da ji are relieved: they don't even know when to eat their children's meat. Others say that Ji can know the innate number of gods and is good at knowing good and bad luck, which is all a lie!

Later, in the list of gods, Boyi was both loyal and filial, and was awarded the title of "Wei Zidi of Zhongtian Arctic". In folk myths and legends, the position of Emperor Wei Zi is the four emperors of Taoism, and his god is noble, second only to the Jade Emperor who manages the three realms.

King Wen received an amnesty, praised the Tianguan in the city for five days, and fled back to Xiqiao safely. On the bank of Wei River, he met fishermen and raised the anti-Zhou flag.

Finally, Zhou Wenwang's son, Ji Fa, succeeded to the throne and established the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty for more than 800 years. Some readers found that King Wen, who endured humiliation, did not appear on the list of gods after his death.

Zhou Wenwang is diligent in politics, courteous to corporal, and loves the people like a son. Deeply supported and loved by people all over the world, he was awarded the position of 365 righteous god in Eight Divisions of Heaven.

However, in the end, King Wen did not achieve positive results. Why is there such an ending? "Yuan Yi Yuan" thinks that one of the biggest reasons may be that he ate the patties of his son Bo Yikao.

King Wen chose to give up the section, but he took care of the big plan of the whole world, because of the righteousness. However, this move, after all, became his lifelong regret, so he missed the opportunity to seal the gods.

Fortunately, King Wen made a great contribution to Zhouyi and achieved a lot. Together with Fuxi, Confucius and other saints, he was honored as the "Three Saints of the Book of Changes" by later generations, and his name stayed in history.

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China folk myths and legends, ancient stories of China, fairy tales, etc.