"Fengshen Yanyi" is based on the famous historical story of the Shang Dynasty, the King of Wu as the background, the King of Lu was originally a good monarch who loved the country and the people, but after he took the throne, his temper changed greatly, he loved beauty, killed and abused the people only for his own pleasure, Jiang Ziya exhorted the King of Lu from the bottom of his heart, but the King of Lu did not think so, only believed in his own words, and said what was what he said.
However, the King of Lu recorded in the story "Fengshen Yanyi" began by flirting with Nuwa. On the day of Nüwa's birthday, the king came to Nüwa Palace to worship, because of the craftsman's skill transmission, he carved Nüwa into a stunning beauty, which is absolutely impossible to see in the world, so he revealed his beautiful face and wrote an obscene poem, laying the groundwork for his own downfall.
As a righteous god, why was Nuwa able to be so teased by the king? In fact, this is related to the background of the book "Fengshen Yanyi", although the background of the story is in the Shang Dynasty, but it was already published in the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the royal power had developed for thousands of years, and the idea of male superiority and female inferiority in the patriarchal society had undergone the baptism of Cheng Zhu Lixue and began to solidify, and the status of Nüwa in the early era of the ancestors was naturally reduced.
That is to say, because the King of Lu was so light and thin, the Nuwa in the "Fengshen Yanyi" angrily sent Dai Ji to the side of the King of Lu, the purpose was to take advantage of the weakness of the King of Lu's love of beauty, so that the country and mountains changed hands. However, as a heavenly immortal, Nuwa was worshipped by people, so why couldn't she easily let the king's country collapse, and it took so much effort?
First, providence is so, the Shang Dynasty, whose luck is undecided, has twenty-eight years of life left
Nuwa no longer has the divine power in the ancient mythology in the story of "Fengshen Yanyi", nor is she the god of creation of mankind and the world almighty, but only helps the people to repair the heavens when the heavens fall into great calamity, so she is kind to the people. In this way, in fact, the divine power has decreased, and it can be seen that it is impossible to kill the king on its own initiative. Anger is indeed difficult to dissipate, but according to Fuxi, Emperor Yan, and the Three Saints of Xuanyuan, the current Shang Dynasty has a history of six hundred years, and in fact, it is almost the end of the time.
Therefore, Nuwa came to Chaoge in a menacing manner, wanting to give the king a severe punishment. When she was just about to take the life of King Huan, the two sons of King Huan arrived in time, and the two golden rays of light laid down by Yin Jiao and Yin Hong were blocked. The two children were given the priesthood by Jiang Ziya, and their position was used to protect the monarch who had not yet been put in place. Yin Jiao is the "god of the age of the king", and Yin Hong is the "Doubu Wugu Star Jun", to put it bluntly, these two positions are the protector gods. Nuwa also knew that the Shang Dynasty at this time still had 28 years to live, and therefore failed to kill the King of Sui.
Second, under the Three Saints, the status of Nuwa was weakened and she could not easily kill the monarch
In the novel, the King of Lu was born in response to the Mandate of Heaven, so he was destined to be the King, which means that the status of the King of Lu is higher than that of Nuwa, but that the King of Lu is the last emperor of the Shang Dynasty in the human world that Xuanyuan said, and the chosen person is not chosen by Xuanyuan, so looking at Xuanyuan's face, Nuwa cannot directly kill the emperor of the human world. Of course, this is the worldview constructed by the novel, in the Shang Dynasty, the idea of divine right of kings did not occupy the mainstream, the leader of the tribe was elected by the ancestors, and the son of heaven was hereditary, so in the logic of the novel, it can be said that Nuwa could not kill the king.
After the novel's Nuwa and Sansheng returned to the palace, they saw the inscription on the wall, and immediately scolded the King of Lu for being faint and unscrupulous, neither cultivating himself nor respecting the heavens, Fuxi, Xuanyuan and Emperor Yan naturally also scorned this kind of following behavior, so they helped Nuwa to gather the thousand-year-old fox essence, the nine-headed chick essence and the jade pipa essence to weaken the ability of the king to weaken the ability of the king.
Third, the era of the "Fengshen Yanyi" was written, and the idea of letting the monarch perish at will was not allowed
"Fengshen Yanyi" is a novel based on mythological stories, which was published in the Ming Dynasty and was already written for many years after the book was successively written, and confucianism at that time was already very perfect, and the study of Confucian classics was the way for orthodox scholars to become famous, so folk novels could be circulated as long as they did not violate orthodox Confucianism and monarchical rule.
The same is true of this novel, the social status of women at that time was very low, and the ideological imprisonment of female virtue and women's morality made it impossible for women to imagine overthrowing the monarch's rule, so the scene of Nuwa directly killing the king of Lu could not appear in the political and ideological environment at that time.