Is Lei Zhen Zi a real historical figure in "Feng Shen Ban"?

The ancient mythological saga novel "Fengshen Bang" has many distinctive and imaginative characters, who are endowed with rich personalities and magical abilities, and can go up to the sky and down to the earth to fight in the battlefield. Many myths and legends are also derived from this, drawing on real historical events to develop imaginative depictions, enabling us to understand something different about the world.

Lei Zhenzi is one of the more representative characters in this work. The book depicts him as a "wind and thunder winged man" who can manipulate lightning, and his appearance is accompanied by lightning and rain, hence his name. So, is there really a Lei Zhenzi character in history? We can see that it does not exist.

The book says that he is the one hundredth son of King Wen of Zhou, but through the author's description of his appearance and ability, we can see that it does not exist in history. Without mentioning his appearance, his abilities alone show that there are puzzling aspects of this character. First of all, he can fly, and was born with a pair of large wings, which is completely inexplicable in physiology, such a person in the present that is not a body defective people? And his personal experience, you can see that he is a very good at fighting, so that in the novel he became a general of the Zhou army, from this point of view we can conclude that the depiction of Lei Zhenzi is actually the author of the final victory of King Wu's conquest of the Zhou Dynasty is an over-exaggerated, alluding to the Zhou army can not be won without the support of these generals, that is, such as the divine help, is the inevitable of history.

Lei Zhenzi, like other characters in this book, is a character with mythological colors derived by the author on the basis of history, which not only enriches the content of the article, but also is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients. Such a characteristic character is fictionalized is also very classic.