The Romance of the Gods (classical Library)
by Xu Zhonglin
About This Novel
This book is a famous novel about gods and demons in ancient China. The novel tells the historical story of the political chaos at the end of the Shang Dynasty and King Wu's conquest of the Shang Dynasty. The author transforms historical events into gods and demons, and attaches them to folk religions and myths and legends. Therefore, most of them are descriptions of stories about immortals and Buddhas fighting each other. The novel ends with Jiang Ziya conferring the title of god and King Wu of Zhou enfeoffing the princes. As Mr. Lu Xun said: "Sealing a country is to repay the meritorious officials, and conferring gods to reward the ghosts, while the death of humans and gods is entrusted to misfortune... It is based on the views of alchemists." ("A Brief History of Chinese Novels")
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