To talk about the God of plague, we should start with Jiang Ziya’s divination. It is said that King Wu conquered Zhou and the disciples stopped him along the way. Although Jiang Ziya led the immortals to attack the city and pull out the stronghold all the way, they also suffered many setbacks. When I arrived at Chuanyun pass, I met a sect poison immortal. He is the first person in the world to use poison, lvyue, who is known as the “deadly poison master”. It took a lot of time for Jiang Ziya to overcome this hurdle. The appearance of LV Yue in the romance of gods had quite a dramatic effect. It can be said that LV Yue came out after a long wait. First, five disciples of his sect took turns to play up LV Yue’s power. The following China story net Xiaobian will bring you a detailed introduction. Let’s have a look!
After LV Yue appeared on the stage, Nezha, Huang Tianhua and Yang Jian fought together and were temporarily defeated by Jiang Ziya. In fact, Lu Yue couldn’t teach the public with his hard work, because he didn’t show his unique skill: spreading plague and poison. Lu Yue took out his pestilence gourd and spread pestilence pills in the well water of Xiqi city. At that time, all the people of Xiqi were infected with pestilence. Finally, thanks to Yang Jian’s moving out of Huanglong immortal, the crisis was solved.
After the overthrow of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Jiang Ziya returned to the country and became a God, and LV Yue was named “the great emperor of the plague”. His five disciples were the messengers of the five plagues, so LV Yue was also regarded as the ancestor of the God of plague.
The romance of gods is a novel of gods and demons, which can not be used as a complete basis. However, the book is also a collection based on various folk legends. The author compiles a myth system with his own logic, making “Jiang Ziya’s worship of gods” a reference for the gods in the myth. Chinese mythology lacks a complete system. Kuang Wenshen and other immortals and gods are the fragmented accumulation of folk tales and legends. Therefore, let us talk and listen.
The theory of the God of plague was first seen in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. According to the Encyclopedia of the origins of the three religions, in June of the 11th year of Emperor Wen’s reign, five powerful men appeared in the air, about three to five feet from the ground, wearing robes of five colors and holding one thing in each hand. One of them holds a ladle and jar, a leather bag and sword, a fan, a hammer and a fire pot. This should be the earliest image of plague.
The God of plague in folklore is generally recognized as the “messenger of five plagues”, namely, spring plague zhangyuanbo, summer plague liuyuanda, autumn plague zhaogongming and winter plague zhongrengui, who are in charge of the history and literature of Chinese plague. The other four are not well-known, but zhaogongming, the autumn plague, is the God of wealth worshipped by every family. This one is quite unexpected.
There are different folk opinions about why zhaogongming “transferred to another post”. In fact, zhaogongming was the God of plague at the beginning. This is indeed recorded in Soushenji, a treasure of the Jin Dynasty: the Jade Emperor ordered zhaogongming and Zhong Shiji to spread plague on the earth with little ghosts to take their names – Zhong Shiji was the bell club that killed Shu together with Deng AI during the Three Kingdoms period. It can be seen that the God of wealth started from the God of plague. Later, it was probably because Zhao Gongming was too kind-hearted to poison people. The God of plague was not too cruel. Therefore, he could not do this business. He simply became the God of wealth who brought happiness to people.
The ancients lacked scientific knowledge. When they encountered things that could not be explained beyond cognition, they would place their trust in the destiny and the blessing of gods. The ancients respected and feared the plague God. In the final analysis, fear was greater than respect. The outbreak of plague in ancient times was a matter of no solution, and most of them could not be cured except for isolation. With the rapid development of medicine, human beings have been constantly fighting against the plague, and more previously incurable diseases have been conquered one by one. The so-called plague God is no longer a God who makes people look up to and fear. Human beings can defy it and declare war against it! Disclaimer: the above content originates from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. Please inform us if your original copyright is infringed, and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.