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Investiture of the Gods
The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese titles Fengshen Yanyi (Chinese: 封神演義; pinyin: Fēngshén Yǎnyì; Wade–Giles: Fêng1-shên2 Yan3-yi4; Jyutping: Fung1 San4 Jin2 Ji6) and Fengshen Bang (封神榜), is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Consisting of 100 chapters, it was first published in book form between 1567 and 1619. Another source claims it was published in a finalized edition in 1605. The work combines elements of history, folklore, mythology, legends and fantasy.
The story is set in the era of the decline of the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC). It intertwines numerous elements of Chinese mythology, Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, including deities, demons, immortals and spirits. The authorship is attributed to Xu Zhonglin.
The novel is a romanticised retelling of the overthrow of King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang dynasty, by Ji Fa, who would establish the Zhou dynasty in its place. The story integrates oral and written tales of many Chinese mythological figures who are involved in the struggle as well. These figures include human heroes, immortals, and various spirits (usually represented in avatar form, such as vixens and pheasants, and occasionally as inanimate objects such as a pipa).
Bewitched by his concubine Daji, who is actually a vixen spirit disguised as a beautiful woman, King Zhou of Shang oppresses his people and persecutes those who oppose him, including those who dare to speak up to him. Ji Fa (King Wu of Zhou), assisted by his strategist Jiang Ziya, rallies an army to overthrow the tyrant and restore peace and order. Throughout the story, battles are waged between the kingdoms of Shang and Zhou, with both sides calling upon various supernatural beings – deities, immortals, demons, spirits, and humans with magical abilities – to aid them in the war. Yuanshi Tianzun ("Primeval Lord of Heaven") bestows upon Jiang Ziya the Fengshen bang, a list that empowers him to invest the gods of Heaven. The heroes of Zhou and some of their fallen enemies from Shang are eventually endowed with heavenly ranking and essentially elevated as gods, hence the title of the novel.
The world is divided into the "immortal world" and the "human world". The founder of Taoism, Hongjun Laozu has 3 disciples, Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu . Taishang Laojun founded Taoism; Taoist priests and immortals of human origin belong to the Chan Sect, practicing on Mount Kunlun with Yuanshi Tianzun as the leader; except for a few humans, many animals and plants join the Jie Sect after being trained and become spirits, and worship Tongtian Jiaozhu as the master. Although both Chan Sect and Jie Sect belong to the disciples of Hongjun Laozu, Chan Sect believes that the disciples of Jie Sect are not upright, so the 2 sects are opposed to each other. There is a saying that "1 way is passed on to 3 friends, and the 2 sects are divided into Chan and Jie". There is also a Western sect that alludes to the predecessor of Buddhism. The setting is China in the 12th century BC. At that time, the Shang Dynasty that ruled China was in decline. The last monarch, King Zhou wrote a poem to tease Nuwa. The angry Nuwa sent a millennium-old fox spirit, a jade pipa spirit, and a 9-headed pheasant spirit into the palace to seduce King Zhou and destroy the Shang Dynasty. The fox spirit transformed into Su Daji, the daughter of Jizhou Hou Su Hu and lived a life of pleasure with King Zhou, corrupting the state system. As a result, Xibo Hou Jichang, who rebelled against the Shang Dynasty, led the people to fight against the Shang Dynasty and eventually established a new dynasty: the Zhou Dynasty . On the other hand, the immortal world was facing a killing calamity that occurred once every 1500 years [the urge to kill in the immortal's heart] and had to kill to survive this calamity. Taking advantage of the chaos in the mortal world, the immortal world also started killing. For this reason, the 3 religions jointly established the "List". There were 365 names on this list, recording the people, immortals, Taoists or demons who would be canonized as gods so that those who met the conditions would be canonized as gods. The protagonist, Jiang Ziya is a Taoist priest from Mount Kunlun who was given the mission by heaven to assist King Wen and King Wu of Zhou in defeating King Zhou and carry out the deification.
At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Zhou was in power. On the birthday of Nüwa, King Zhou led all officials to Nuwa Palace to pay homage. Seeing the beautiful statue of Nuwa, he wrote a poem. After returning to the palace, Nuwa was very angry to see King Zhou's poem insulting her. She summoned the millennium-old fox spirit, the jade pipa spirit, and the 9-headed pheasant spirit from Xuanyuan Tomb, and ordered the 3 demons to confuse the king and ruin the country. The millennium-old fox spirit killed Su Daji, the daughter of Jizhou Hou Su Hu, and transformed into her to enter the palace to seduce King Zhou, making him addicted to alcohol, fornication, and the people suffered. Although the Qigong master Yun Zhongzi, Queen Jiang, and loyal ministers such as Shang Rong and Mei Bo advised King Zhou because of Daji's evil words, the 2 treacherous ministers Fei Zhong and You Hun added fuel to the fire, Mei Bo was executed by burning Huang Feihu to begin to disobey King Zhou's will, also forced the 2 princes Yin Jiao and Yin Hong to escape from the palace, and then they were taken back to the mountains by Chi Jingzi and Guang Chengzi, 2 of the 12 Immortals to be accepted as apprentices. But King Zhou did not give up. He listened to Fei Zhong's advice and tricked the 4 princes into the capital, intending to wipe out the roots. Dongbo Hou Jiang Huanchu and Nambo Hou E Chongyu died as a result while Xibo Hou Ji Chang escaped death by fortune-telling. This section also introduces Ji Chang's 100th son Lei Zhenzi who was born after the wind, thunder, adopted by Ji Chang as his adopted son, then taken away by Yun Zhongzi, and accepted as his apprentice.
Nezha is the 3rd son of Li Jing, the general of Chentangguan. He is the reincarnation of Taiyi Zhenren's magic weapon Lingzhuzi. He was born wearing magic weapons and was accepted as a disciple by Taiyi Zhenren. When Nezha was 7 years old, he played in the water at the mouth of the East China Sea and killed Li Gen, a subordinate of Dragon King Ao Guang, and Prince Ao Bing that made Li Jing very dissatisfied. Nezha did not want to implicate his parents, so he cut open his abdomen and removed his intestines to redeem himself. Yin was worried that Nezha's soul would have no place to rest so she built a palace for Nezha without telling Li Jing. When Li Jing learned about it, he burned the palace in anger, and Nezha had to go back to find his master. Taiyi Zhenren asked Nezha to be reborn with the lotus as a proof and taught him many magic weapons. Nezha then returned to Chentangguan to kill Li Jing but was subdued by Li Jing with the pagoda taught by the Taoist Master Ran Deng. After the father and son reconciled, they practiced with their respective masters and later assisted Jiang Ziya in battle.
Jiang Ziya went to the mountains to learn Taoism at the age of 32. Although he practiced Taoism for 40 years, he did not have the talent to become an immortal and could only enjoy the blessings of the world. His master Yuanshi Tianzun asked him to descend the mountain to be deified and assist the wise master. After descending the mountain, Jiang Shang took refuge with his sworn brother Song Yiren, married Ma, and started selling sieves and flour but all failed to make business. Song Yiren knew that Jiang Ziya understood Feng Shui so he asked him to open a fortune-telling shop. Jiang Ziya was as good as a god and his name made a sensation in Chaoge. He also saw through the original form of the Jade Pipa Fairy so King Zhou appointed him as the Imperial Observatory. Seeing her sister suffering, Daji made it for Jiang Ziya to build a gordifficultgeous high platform "Lutai" but in fact she wanted to kill him. After Jiang Ziya escaped by water escape, Chonghouhu took over the job. When Ma knew that her husband resigned from office, she blamed him for being useless and the 2 divorced. When Jiang Ziya left Songjiazhuang, he met people who were fleeing because they did not want to build the Lu Tower. He used earth escape to send them to Xiqi for refuge. Daji placed the pipa on the Zhaixing Tower to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon and she transformed into a beautiful noblewoman after 5 years and entered the palace to seduce King Zhou. In addition to the Lu Tower, Daji also built a scorpion pot, a wine pool and a meat forest, forcing the loyal minister Jiao Ge to commit suicide after admonishing the king, and Yang Ren had his eyes gouged out. Afterwards, Qingxu Daode Zhenjun revived Yang Ren and ordered him to assist King Zhou.
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Investiture of the Gods
The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese titles Fengshen Yanyi (Chinese: 封神演義; pinyin: Fēngshén Yǎnyì; Wade–Giles: Fêng1-shên2 Yan3-yi4; Jyutping: Fung1 San4 Jin2 Ji6) and Fengshen Bang (封神榜), is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Consisting of 100 chapters, it was first published in book form between 1567 and 1619. Another source claims it was published in a finalized edition in 1605. The work combines elements of history, folklore, mythology, legends and fantasy.
The story is set in the era of the decline of the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC). It intertwines numerous elements of Chinese mythology, Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, including deities, demons, immortals and spirits. The authorship is attributed to Xu Zhonglin.
The novel is a romanticised retelling of the overthrow of King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang dynasty, by Ji Fa, who would establish the Zhou dynasty in its place. The story integrates oral and written tales of many Chinese mythological figures who are involved in the struggle as well. These figures include human heroes, immortals, and various spirits (usually represented in avatar form, such as vixens and pheasants, and occasionally as inanimate objects such as a pipa).
Bewitched by his concubine Daji, who is actually a vixen spirit disguised as a beautiful woman, King Zhou of Shang oppresses his people and persecutes those who oppose him, including those who dare to speak up to him. Ji Fa (King Wu of Zhou), assisted by his strategist Jiang Ziya, rallies an army to overthrow the tyrant and restore peace and order. Throughout the story, battles are waged between the kingdoms of Shang and Zhou, with both sides calling upon various supernatural beings – deities, immortals, demons, spirits, and humans with magical abilities – to aid them in the war. Yuanshi Tianzun ("Primeval Lord of Heaven") bestows upon Jiang Ziya the Fengshen bang, a list that empowers him to invest the gods of Heaven. The heroes of Zhou and some of their fallen enemies from Shang are eventually endowed with heavenly ranking and essentially elevated as gods, hence the title of the novel.
The world is divided into the "immortal world" and the "human world". The founder of Taoism, Hongjun Laozu has 3 disciples, Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu . Taishang Laojun founded Taoism; Taoist priests and immortals of human origin belong to the Chan Sect, practicing on Mount Kunlun with Yuanshi Tianzun as the leader; except for a few humans, many animals and plants join the Jie Sect after being trained and become spirits, and worship Tongtian Jiaozhu as the master. Although both Chan Sect and Jie Sect belong to the disciples of Hongjun Laozu, Chan Sect believes that the disciples of Jie Sect are not upright, so the 2 sects are opposed to each other. There is a saying that "1 way is passed on to 3 friends, and the 2 sects are divided into Chan and Jie". There is also a Western sect that alludes to the predecessor of Buddhism. The setting is China in the 12th century BC. At that time, the Shang Dynasty that ruled China was in decline. The last monarch, King Zhou wrote a poem to tease Nuwa. The angry Nuwa sent a millennium-old fox spirit, a jade pipa spirit, and a 9-headed pheasant spirit into the palace to seduce King Zhou and destroy the Shang Dynasty. The fox spirit transformed into Su Daji, the daughter of Jizhou Hou Su Hu and lived a life of pleasure with King Zhou, corrupting the state system. As a result, Xibo Hou Jichang, who rebelled against the Shang Dynasty, led the people to fight against the Shang Dynasty and eventually established a new dynasty: the Zhou Dynasty . On the other hand, the immortal world was facing a killing calamity that occurred once every 1500 years [the urge to kill in the immortal's heart] and had to kill to survive this calamity. Taking advantage of the chaos in the mortal world, the immortal world also started killing. For this reason, the 3 religions jointly established the "List". There were 365 names on this list, recording the people, immortals, Taoists or demons who would be canonized as gods so that those who met the conditions would be canonized as gods. The protagonist, Jiang Ziya is a Taoist priest from Mount Kunlun who was given the mission by heaven to assist King Wen and King Wu of Zhou in defeating King Zhou and carry out the deification.
At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Zhou was in power. On the birthday of Nüwa, King Zhou led all officials to Nuwa Palace to pay homage. Seeing the beautiful statue of Nuwa, he wrote a poem. After returning to the palace, Nuwa was very angry to see King Zhou's poem insulting her. She summoned the millennium-old fox spirit, the jade pipa spirit, and the 9-headed pheasant spirit from Xuanyuan Tomb, and ordered the 3 demons to confuse the king and ruin the country. The millennium-old fox spirit killed Su Daji, the daughter of Jizhou Hou Su Hu, and transformed into her to enter the palace to seduce King Zhou, making him addicted to alcohol, fornication, and the people suffered. Although the Qigong master Yun Zhongzi, Queen Jiang, and loyal ministers such as Shang Rong and Mei Bo advised King Zhou because of Daji's evil words, the 2 treacherous ministers Fei Zhong and You Hun added fuel to the fire, Mei Bo was executed by burning Huang Feihu to begin to disobey King Zhou's will, also forced the 2 princes Yin Jiao and Yin Hong to escape from the palace, and then they were taken back to the mountains by Chi Jingzi and Guang Chengzi, 2 of the 12 Immortals to be accepted as apprentices. But King Zhou did not give up. He listened to Fei Zhong's advice and tricked the 4 princes into the capital, intending to wipe out the roots. Dongbo Hou Jiang Huanchu and Nambo Hou E Chongyu died as a result while Xibo Hou Ji Chang escaped death by fortune-telling. This section also introduces Ji Chang's 100th son Lei Zhenzi who was born after the wind, thunder, adopted by Ji Chang as his adopted son, then taken away by Yun Zhongzi, and accepted as his apprentice.
Nezha is the 3rd son of Li Jing, the general of Chentangguan. He is the reincarnation of Taiyi Zhenren's magic weapon Lingzhuzi. He was born wearing magic weapons and was accepted as a disciple by Taiyi Zhenren. When Nezha was 7 years old, he played in the water at the mouth of the East China Sea and killed Li Gen, a subordinate of Dragon King Ao Guang, and Prince Ao Bing that made Li Jing very dissatisfied. Nezha did not want to implicate his parents, so he cut open his abdomen and removed his intestines to redeem himself. Yin was worried that Nezha's soul would have no place to rest so she built a palace for Nezha without telling Li Jing. When Li Jing learned about it, he burned the palace in anger, and Nezha had to go back to find his master. Taiyi Zhenren asked Nezha to be reborn with the lotus as a proof and taught him many magic weapons. Nezha then returned to Chentangguan to kill Li Jing but was subdued by Li Jing with the pagoda taught by the Taoist Master Ran Deng. After the father and son reconciled, they practiced with their respective masters and later assisted Jiang Ziya in battle.
Jiang Ziya went to the mountains to learn Taoism at the age of 32. Although he practiced Taoism for 40 years, he did not have the talent to become an immortal and could only enjoy the blessings of the world. His master Yuanshi Tianzun asked him to descend the mountain to be deified and assist the wise master. After descending the mountain, Jiang Shang took refuge with his sworn brother Song Yiren, married Ma, and started selling sieves and flour but all failed to make business. Song Yiren knew that Jiang Ziya understood Feng Shui so he asked him to open a fortune-telling shop. Jiang Ziya was as good as a god and his name made a sensation in Chaoge. He also saw through the original form of the Jade Pipa Fairy so King Zhou appointed him as the Imperial Observatory. Seeing her sister suffering, Daji made it for Jiang Ziya to build a gordifficultgeous high platform "Lutai" but in fact she wanted to kill him. After Jiang Ziya escaped by water escape, Chonghouhu took over the job. When Ma knew that her husband resigned from office, she blamed him for being useless and the 2 divorced. When Jiang Ziya left Songjiazhuang, he met people who were fleeing because they did not want to build the Lu Tower. He used earth escape to send them to Xiqi for refuge. Daji placed the pipa on the Zhaixing Tower to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon and she transformed into a beautiful noblewoman after 5 years and entered the palace to seduce King Zhou. In addition to the Lu Tower, Daji also built a scorpion pot, a wine pool and a meat forest, forcing the loyal minister Jiao Ge to commit suicide after admonishing the king, and Yang Ren had his eyes gouged out. Afterwards, Qingxu Daode Zhenjun revived Yang Ren and ordered him to assist King Zhou.
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