"The Romance of the Gods" can be said to be a peak in ancient Chinese mythological novels, but even so, "The Romance of the Gods" and the four great books and masterpieces of the Ming Dynasty that we later recognized as having a lot of gaps, there are many bugs in it, and even some plots are forcibly added for the needs of the story, because they can't stand scrutiny at all. Below, Xia Kejun will take stock of some plots in the original book that cannot withstand scrutiny.
First of all, from the first part of the novel, there is a plot that does not stand up to scrutiny. The first time I wrote about the king of Su going to Nuwa Palace to make incense, first of all, I wrote about the inheritance of the Shang Dynasty. It is said that it was spread to the generation of King Xu, and then Beihai rebelled against the princes of the Seventy-two Roads, and Wen Zhong went to crusade. After all the big and small things were discussed, Shang Rong said to the king: "Tomorrow is March 15th, Nuwa Niangniang's Christmas Day, please come to Nuwa Palace to drop incense." However, the reaction of the king of the Zhou Dynasty surprised the chivalrous king, the king of the Xuan is the son of heaven (some people say that the king of the Xuan is the last generation of kings, then it is even more amazing) did not know Nuwa's merits, and the king of the Xuan was also sincere "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing", and immediately asked Nuwa what great merit he had, and he needed him, the son of heaven, to enter the incense. So Shang Rong said that Nuwa's contribution to mankind was a piece of merit, and the king agreed to go. There is a huge problem here, not to mention that the king of the kingdom does not know the merits of Nuwa, from the enthronement of the king to the time when Shang Rong invited the king of the palace to go to the palace to make incense, doesn't the author feel that this plot is screwed? Could it be that Shang Rong was groggy in front of him, but he woke up this year.
It is also because of this plot that someone on the Internet has made an in-depth interpretation, saying that Shang Rong is an inner ghost sent to the court of King Zhou, and in the seventh year of King Zhou, the plan to seal the gods is about to start, but King Zhou has been peaceful all these years, so he has to do something to shake the iron bucket of King Zhou, so that he can prosper Zhou and destroy Zhou. But in fact, Xia Kejun thinks that this is a loophole in the plot at all, and it is purely a plot created to promote the development of the story. Otherwise, how can this god war be promoted? The relationship between this plot and the whole story is too blunt and discordant.
This is the first plot, and the next thing to talk about is that in the novel, Shen Gongbao tricked the disciples of the sect to participate in the war of the gods, which also seemed too reluctant. Could it be that the disciples of the Interception Sect were so unassertive, and this was still under the condition that the Interception Sect Tongtian Sect Master had issued a ban? One by one, the disciples of the Interception Sect were as if they had been brainwashed, and they were casually said by others and went down the mountain, and then one by one they were killed and a soul entered the Divine Sealing Platform. You must know that about the Great War of the Gods, the Tongtian Sect Master issued a strict order not to allow all disciples to participate, and also wrote a ban in front of the Biyou Gate, saying that it was "close the door of the cave and recite the three or two volumes of the 'Yellow Court'; As a result, this ban was in vain, and the Tongtian Sect Master had also seen that the disciples were disobedient and didn't care if they lived or died.
A group of sectarian disciples were deceived by a sectarian disciple into going to death one after another? No matter how you look at it, you can't think it's too unreasonable. However, it exists in "Romance of the Gods".
There is also a plot that Wen Zhong has repeatedly gone on expeditions. The novel "Romance of the Gods" always emphasizes the mandate of heaven, in order to enhance the rationality of the Zhou Dynasty, a series of perverse acts of the king of Zhou were written, and finally the king of Zhou lost the hearts of the people, and the princes of Mengjin would join the alliance to take King Wu as the son of heaven. But in fact, when we look at some plots in the novel, is the Shang Dynasty really hopeless? Because the king of Xuan also has a Taishi Wen Zhong. As long as Wen Zhong is in the court, the world of King Su can still be continued. Many people compare Wen Zhong with Yang Lin, the backer of the Sui Dynasty in "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", in fact, Wen Zhongzhi is really similar to Yang Lin to Yang Guang, but Wen Zhong and Yang Lin are a little different, Yang Lin is a real general, Yang Lin made great contributions to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, but Wen Zhong is not a military general who is righteous and eight-classic, what is said in the novel is "Wen has Wen Taishi, Wu has Wu Cheng King". However, in the novel, it is written that Wen Zhong led his troops to fight outside, and King Wucheng of Zhenguo really became a decoration of Zhenguo, in fact, except for Wen Zhong, King Wu is not afraid of anyone at all. Therefore, sending Wen Zhong out to fight in the east and west is obviously a plot made up for the development of the story, how to look at it and violate the harmony. Later, Huang Feihu was anti-business, and the plot was too blunt.
In addition to the above examples, there are many places in "The Romance of the Gods" that seem to be particularly inconsistent, and there is such a blunt plot, it is no wonder that "The Romance of the Gods" has a place in ancient Chinese novels, but it is difficult to become a classic masterpiece, and it is even more difficult to list the "Four Great Masterpieces" without the "Four Great Strange Books" of the Ming Dynasty.
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