{"id":8844,"date":"2019-11-11T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/fengshen-yanyi-feng-shen-yan-yi-the-investiture-of-the-gods\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:20:16","slug":"fengshen-yanyi-feng-shen-yan-yi-the-investiture-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/fengshen-yanyi-feng-shen-yan-yi-the-investiture-of-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Fengshen yanyi \u5c01\u795e\u6f14\u4e49 The Investiture of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Attributed to Xu Zho<em><\/em>nglin \u8bb8\u4ef2\u7433 (d. 1566) or to Lu Xixing \u9646\u897f\u661f (d. 1601), this novel also called Fengshenbang \u5c01\u795e\u699c of the type of a historical romance is a great fantasy a<em><\/em>bout the overthrow of the bad, depraved ruler Zhou \u7ea3 of the Shang Dynasty \u5546 by King Wu of Zhou \u5468\u6b66\u738b. The sources for this novel include oral and written material a<em><\/em>bout Daoist heroes and gods, mo<em><\/em>nsters and spirits that assist King Wu in subduing the bad ruler or help bad King Zhou to resist the heaven appointed rebel. Inspired by his fox-ghost co<em><\/em>ncubine Daji \u59b2\u5df1 (not Danji!), king Zhou murders his loyal ministers and even his own son. After the downfall of Shang, the suicide of king Zhou and the exorcism of Daji by Jiang Ziya \u59dc\u5b50\u7259, King Wu enfeoffs all his followers with a part of the kingdom, creating the Zhou feudal system. The deceased and killed heroes (the &quot;gods&quot; of the title), even the enemies, are invested with a heavenly constellation.<br \/>  The novel is well-composed and organized in an endless sequence of battles between the heroes that are not o<em><\/em>nly fighting with weapons but also with words, trying to persuade the oppo<em><\/em>nent to follow the justified side. The mo<em><\/em>notony of the endless battles makes the book a quite boring lecture, even if the author tries to introduce unexpected elements like suddenly joining Daoist magicians or even Buddhist deities.<br \/>  &nbsp;<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1461022231\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attributed to Xu Zhonglin \u8bb8\u4ef2\u7433 (d. 1566) or to Lu Xixing \u9646\u897f\u661f (d. 1601), this novel also called Fengshenbang \u5c01\u795e\u699c<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading"],"views":277,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}