蒋子文 / Jiang Ziwen

蒋子文 / Jiang Ziwen is the local religious figure discussed near the end of 06.搜神记： 二十四孝这口锅，干宝不背. The episode presents him as a Nanjing-area belief figure who, after death, demands worship from Sun Quan, becomes tied to later underworld imagination, and appears in stories about divine coercion, offended ritual authority, and unexpected romantic restraint.

The source uses Jiang Ziwen to extend Local Deity Governance and Underworld Bureaucracy. He is not only a ghost-story character; he makes local cult formation, temple legitimacy, divine punishment, and afterlife office legible in personal narrative form. The closing story about Wangzi also supports Strange Tale Moral Pluralism because the deity can be coercive in one story and surprisingly non-retaliatory in another.

Connections

• [[SouShenJi|《搜神记》]] - source collection discussed by the episode.
• Local Deity Governance - Jiang Ziwen as local religious authority.
• Underworld Bureaucracy - later association with underworld rulership.
• Folk Religion Disaster Politics - disaster and coercion as routes to recognized worship.
• Strange Tale Moral Pluralism - differing moral tones across Jiang Ziwen stories.