When it comes to the four famous works, many people are familiar with them, they are "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Dream of the Red Chamber", which express the spiritual world of Chinese from different angles.
In that repressive era, Journey to the West was like a light that once illuminated the hearts of countless people, including modern times, and many children still like Sun Wukong's unfettered romantic spirit.
But what is puzzling is that as a divine and demonic novel, why is there no "Fengshen Yanyi", even if it is said that the six famous works that have been popular for a longer time, there is also no Fengshen Yanyi, why has the Fengshen Yanyi failed to enter the ranks of the four famous works and the six famous works?
Many people look at the list of gods, feel that the writing is not bad, and it is about the western Zhou Dynasty, there are ancient gods in it, and it is very enjoyable to watch.
But it should be noted that the book Ofe dei Fengshen was written later than Journey to the West, and it is clear that there are traces of imitation of Journey to the West, which says why the novel broke out in the Ming Dynasty.
The developed industrial and commercial economy of the Ming Dynasty gave birth to a large number of citizen classes, and when there was money and leisure, reading became a just need, coupled with the development of the printing industry at that time, a large number of novels were printed, which became a very profitable business.
Therefore, many novels are essentially spawned, and a large number of novels for the entertainment of the public appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and the representative work is three words and two beats, and the fundamental driving force of three words and two beats is that booksellers are behind the promotion, because they can make money.
The list of fengshen was essentially produced in this way, at that time, journey to the west was already very popular, so it was also spawned, and novels such as the Journey to the East and the South and the North, the Fengshen Yanyi was also born under this trend.
Fengshen Yanyi did as a cover over the head of the Journey to the West, the setting of the story was made in the Western Zhou, which looked more mysterious and unpredictable, and also designed a very complex mythological system, creating several gate sects, all kinds of gods, all added to it, it looks very gorgeous.
But it is precisely because there are too many characters in it, the author actually did not have a good coordination, it seems more chaotic, especially when writing about the magic weapon, it feels that the contrivance is completely casual writing, there are many inconsistencies and even contradictions, and scenes such as the use of the magic weapon also feel very abrupt, and the characters have no coherence.
It seems to be very lively, in fact, this book has many places, and there is no exquisite writing of Journey to the West, and in the case of many characters, it is difficult for readers to have a feeling projected on it, there is no immersive feeling, too exaggerated description, and even beyond people's imagination.
The reason why Journey to the West is popular is because he can have a lot of space for elaboration and interpretation, as a team has gone through all kinds of difficulties to obtain the true scriptures, different people can see different aspects, with the characteristics of the original story.
And because the protagonist of Journey to the West has distinct characteristics, it can also become a talking point for people after tea and dinner, especially the classic image of Sun Wukong, which has become a classic image that people have been discussing for hundreds of years.
In contrast, the characters in the Fengshen Yanyi do not have such distinctive characteristics, the only one with characteristics is Nezha, and the Fengshen Yanyi modifies Nezha's origin, which is different from what is said in the Journey to the West, but the Nezha we are familiar with now is actually more from the Fengshen Yanyi.
But obviously, so people feel that Nezha can't beat Sun Wukong, and in terms of rebellious spirit, they have overlapping parts, and Sun Wukong is more obvious and prominent.
The novels that can become the four masterpieces have all been tempered and have become part of our cultural genes, of course, there are certainly many good novels, but no matter from which aspect, they cannot compete with the four masterpieces.
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