Chapter 421: The Empress is a Good Woman

Marrying an unfamiliar cultural field to promote traditional Chinese culture is a very difficult thing in itself, and humanities scholars divide Eastern civilization and Western civilization, river civilization and maritime civilization. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There are fundamental differences between the two civilizations of rivers and oceans, from genes to values, and social forms, although with the development of science and technology in modern times, this gap is weakening indefinitely, but there is still a huge cultural conflict.

Therefore, if you want to gain a firm foothold in the Hollywood market and export Chinese culture and values, in addition to the technical selling points, you must cultivate your own fan base.

Wang Yao used the microeconomic concepts in economics to conduct surveys and statistics on the Western market, and found that developed countries care about what they care about, in addition to interest and fun, they also care about human rights.

Moreover, consumer groups that are often concerned about human rights issues have large spending power, a high level of education, and are easily receptive to new culture.

Just before returning from Yale University last time, he listened to several speeches and activities on women's rights by Ms. Judith, and felt that this group could be used as a breakthrough for him to break into Western culture.

And Hollywood did use this feminist gimmick in 1998 to try to enter the animated film market in Dragon Kingdom.

In 1998, Disney released a "Mulan", with the ancient Chinese heroine Mulan as the protagonist, and interpreted the image of loyal and filial women in Western culture.

It's a pity that the Dragon Kingdom film market at that time didn't buy it, the mainland box office was only more than 10 million dragon coins, but the global box office reached 300 million US dollars, and the main sources were the Western market, which shows how much market space there is for this kind of theme with mysterious Chinese culture and movies with female protagonists.

From the beginning of the era of matrilineal society and the rule of fertility, until the surplus of labor, the patriarchal society violently seized the right to rule for tens of thousands of years, the status of women has been in a low position, and even once reduced to the vassal of men, the tool of fertility.

This phenomenon is common to all human civilizations.

Although the origin of Chinese civilization used the theory of yin and yang to define men as heaven, that is, yang, and women as earth, it is yin, yin and yang combined, and the combination of rigidity and softness can conform to the way of heaven and reproduce, but it still has not won anything for the equal status of women.

However, compared with the West, Chinese women have been treated better since ancient times.

Although often used as a tool for marriage, since the period of the Yellow Emperor, the three thousand harems are basically the marriage princesses of various tribes.

However, in the long history of China, there is no doubt that there are many outstanding women who have made great contributions in literature, philosophy, art, technology, politics and military.

The most well-known is the female emperor Wu Zetian, who else said that women are inferior to men's Mulan, and the Empress Dowager Cixi, who has been discussed the most in recent years.

But in addition to these well-known women, there are many more great women.

For example, the wife of the Yellow Emperor mentioned in the previous study of Chinese textile and embroidery, the ancestor of silkworm raising, she invented and spread silkworm raising and spinning, which not only allowed the Chinese people to have warm clothes, but also extended the glorious silk culture.

Chinese women have always been an important part of the contribution of Chinese civilization, and Wang Yaoxuan's first movie theme is the first female military strategist recorded in the history books, and the first female general, who made important contributions to the garrison of Chinese territory.

In 1976, the tomb of the woman was found in Yinxu, and a large number of well-preserved Shang Dynasty cultural relics were unearthed, as well as some important oracle bone inscriptions and ritual vessels, including a stepmother Xin Fangding, and another stepmother Wuding is the highest national treasure bronze.

Among the more than 10,000 oracle bone inscriptions unearthed, her name appears more than 200 times, which shows her political status during the Wuding period of the Shang Dynasty at that time.

The name or surname of the woman should be 'good', and the woman is a title that indicates the status of women in ancient times, because most women in ancient times did not have a natal name, and once they had a political status, they would use a general name.

If it weren't for these unearthed oracle bone documents, this great female military strategist who had the merit of 'conquering all nations' might have become a major regret in Chinese history.

After all, in the previous historical records, there was no mention of this good emperor, whether it is the "Book of Songs" or the Confucian classics, the reason may be related to the social atmosphere at that time and the status of women, after all, after Confucianism, there are a lot more requirements and norms for women.

In the tomb of the woman, in addition to some exquisite bone carving knives, bronze mirrors, bone flutes, agate beads and many other women-specific ornaments, as well as large stone cicadas, small stone pots, stone bases, stone pots and other "tools" for play, which shows that she has a delicate side of women. What is amazing is that in addition to these gadgets, there are also a large number of weapons in the burial goods. Two bronze pieces were unearthed from the tomb of Nuhao, one of which was 39.5 cm long, 37.5 cm wide and weighed 9 kg.

This is the oldest complete bronze Yue unearthed so far.

In addition to being a war item, this weapon is the most important ceremonial weapon in ancient times.

Among them, Yu is a symbol of the emperor, an important weapon of war in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the "Historical Records" records that "Tang Zi put Yue to cut down Kunwu".

Moreover, Yue is mostly a burial vessel for adult men in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it is indeed a little abrupt to appear in the tomb of a woman, and later scholars found that the emperor's amazing talent was discovered.

The unearthed Yue is decorated with a double tiger pounce on the human head, and there is an inscription on the word "good woman". Some people say that the woman is holding two big axes and charging into battle, and it is inferred that "the woman's arm strength is amazing".

In fact, this kind of ceremonial instrument as a symbol of power is the same as the banner used by the army, which must be held by a special person and stand on the chariot. ”

This is to say that Shang Tang cut down the big box, Tang himself clinged to the banner on the chariot, and the courtiers had a pious attachment to the big Yue, in order to show that he was conscripted by the mandate of heaven.

"Historical Records of Zhou Benji" said that "King Wu left Huang Yue, right Bing Bai Xuan", Huang Yue and Bai Ming are both symbolic of power and prestige, used to command the three armies, rather than holding these two things to charge into battle.

Yue should be a command tool in ancient times, so the identity of the woman must be a general.

Moreover, in ancient times, bronze was actually yellow, and in ancient times it was called 'gold' because it turned blue-black after a long time.

According to the unearthed oracle bone inscriptions, scholars have also verified that the oracle bone inscriptions record that the woman is the commander of the whole army, while Wu Ding is the leader of the middle division, and the Shang Dynasty army is divided into three divisions: left, middle and right, that is, when fighting, Wu Ding is to listen to the "command" of the woman.

The Shang Dynasty was one of the most frequent wars, mainly due to the fact that the ancient Indo-Europeans who relied on hunting for a living migrated southward due to a global cooling climate change, and they were the Aryans who were later recorded in India, and the 'Dayue people', which are often recorded in Chinese history.

This migration of the ancient Indo-Europeans caused cultural turmoil throughout Eurasia, almost the entire Indian region, as well as the Indian civilization, fell, and the ancient Indo-Europeans who wanted to enter the territory of China were completely defeated by the Shang tribes led by the woman.

In addition to her outstanding military talents, she also served as a divination and sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, divination and sacrifice were extremely important, and there were more than 200 kinds of sacrifices recorded, among which it was recorded that the woman may have sacrificed more than 13,000 captives at one time before a certain expedition, of course, this custom of human sacrifice was very common in ancient times, because during the period of slavery, slaves did not belong to the category of 'people'.

But it also shows the status of women's rights.