It is said that Jiang Ziya practiced at Yuanshi Tianzun for 40 years. He was ordered by his master to go down the mountain to destroy Shang Tang and revive Zhou Dynasty, and presided over the major event of conferring gods. When he came down from the mountain, he went to his sworn brother Song Yiren. Song Yiren was a wealthy man in Chaoge. His family had numerous houses and the gardens in front of and behind the houses were beautiful. One day, Song Yiren and Jiang Ziya came to the back garden to relax. Ziya had never been here before and took a look. Back.
Ziya said to Song Yiren that the feng shui of this place was so good that they should build a building. Song Yiren sighed and said to Jiang Ziya, "Don't mention it. It has been built seven or eight times. Every time it is built, it is burned down." , and then gave up." Jiang Ziya patted his chest and said, "Brother, don't worry about building the building. It will be fine as long as I am here."
Song Yiren immediately broke ground as Jiang Ziya said, and within a few days the new house was built. A strong wind blew up, flying rocks and sand, sowing dust, and some demons were seen in the light and shadow of the fire. Their faces were divided into five colors and looked ferocious. weird. The original text of "The Romance of the Gods" says, "In evil time, all things will collapse; the earth will turn dark and the sky will turn yellow, and thousands of houses will fall down in a short while.
It is the demon atmosphere and fire that rushes into the sky, and the light shows the ferocity of the monsters in Longgang." To put it simply, he saw a ghost and came to burn Song Yi's new house again. Jiang Ziya hurriedly spread his hair and sword, pointed with his hand, waved the sword, and shouted: "The evil beast will not fall, how can we wait for more!" As soon as he put his hand down, thunder rumbled in the air, and the five monsters hurriedly knelt down, saying: "The Immortal! The little beasts don't know that the Immortal is coming." They fell on the ground and begged bitterly.
After Jiang Ziya subdued the five little ghosts, he sent them to Xiqi Mountain to build the God-conferring Platform. Later, during the ceremony, the five little ghosts were actually able to become gods for their merits in building the platform. Nezha, Yang Jian, Huang Feihu and other generals were on the battlefield. It took many lives and deaths to get a name on the list of gods. It can be seen that those who have been engaged in construction since ancient times have made huge profits.
Since "The Romance of the Gods" has an impact on every household, why is it not one of the four classics? The first reason is that the author is unknown. The authors of the "Fengshen Yanyi" published now are all Xu Zhonglin.
In fact, the only thing that can prove the relationship between Xu Zhonglin and "Fengshen Yanyi" is: Ming Dynasty Shu Zaiyang published "Fengshen Yanyi" whose The sixth chapter is signed before "Edited by Zhongshan Yisou Xu Zhonglin" and "Jin Hao Zai Yang Shu Wenyuan Zi Xing".
However, this is a solitary evidence, and Xu’s life story is unknown. It is difficult to say whether he is the author or not. Therefore, more people think that this is an adaptation based on books such as "The Pinghua of King Wu's Conquest of Zhou", "The Secret History of the Zhou Dynasty", "The Romance of Xia and Shang", etc. In today's terms, it is pseudo-original and unoriginal.