What is the identity of "Luo Shen" in ancient mythology and does it really exist in history?

"Luoshen" is a figure in ancient China mythology, known as the goddess of Luoshui. In ancient mythology, Luo Shen was the daughter of ancient Fuxi. She is also the spouse of Hebo, the god of the Yellow River who is in charge of the goddess of Luohe. Many people must know the myths and legends about Luo Shen.

I didn't expect such a goddess who brought beauty to future generations, but she had a lover-Hou Yi. Because of this, the goddess waterinfo was regarded as a dissolute goddess by early people. There is no real Luo Shen in history.

With the continuous progress of culture, from the Xia Dynasty to the Chu State in the Warring States Period, Luo Shen became a goddess with distinctive personality in Qu Yuan's works. Finally, it was rejected by the author as "beautiful and rude". After that, China's culture began to develop on the basis of Qu Yuan, and later literati also regarded Luo Shen as a beautiful image. With the efforts of the literati in the Han Dynasty, the image of Luo Shen was full and vivid, and gradually showed a strong secularization tendency. In Sima Xiangru's works, Fu Fei is a beauty with outstanding color and art in reality, while in Zhang Heng's works, Fu Fei has become the embodiment of lust to test the author's moral cultivation.

Among many poems describing Fu Fei in past dynasties, only Cao Zhi's Ode to Luoshen stands out. In this poem, it describes how difficult it is for people and immortals to fall in love, and describes the great efforts made by the world in pursuit of the needs they love. Some people may think that Luo Shen should be Zhen Shi, but this is not the case. After the spread of Notes on Selected Works of Shan Li, the meaning of "Luo Shen Fu" changed in the Tang Dynasty. So the content of this story has been circulating since ancient times.