The axle of the truck scale is inlaid with gold leather, and the eight bells are sonorous. When I came to worship my ancestors at the temple, I was mandated by heaven to be immense. Ping An Kangning descended from the sky, and the harvest was full of grain. The spirit of the ancestors, please feast, give me great blessings. The extravagance of the chariot and horse on which the priest sits is written to bring out the dignity of the chief priest shows the grandeur of the sacrificial scene of praying for blessings.

Praise the great ancestors, good luck and great blessings. The reward is endless, and the grace is still abundant to this day. Ancestor sake glass injected, bless my career success.

Then prepare the meat soup well, and the five flavors are peaceful and the most moderate. The people prayed silently, and there was no disputing and it was solemn. Give me peace and longevity, and longevity and health without end.

The axle of the truck scale is inlaid with gold leather, and the eight bells are sonorous. When I came to worship my ancestors at the temple, I was mandated by heaven to be immense.

Ping An Kangning descended from the sky, and the harvest was full of grain. The spirit of the ancestors, please feast, give me great blessings. Both festivals in autumn and winter are staged, and the descendants of Chengtang will be sacrificed and enjoyed forever.

"Xuanniao": Wu Ding Weiye

Wu Ding was the 23rd monarch of the Shang Dynasty, reigning from roughly 1250 to 1192 BC. According to legend, Wu Ding obeyed his father's orders when he was a teenager, served in the field, and worked with ordinary people, so as to understand the suffering of the people and the difficulties of the crops. In 1251 BC, Shang King Xiaoyi died, and after Wu Ding ascended the throne, Fu Shuo was appointed as the prime minister to assist the government, and Fu Shuo tried his best to assist Wu Ding and govern the Shang Dynasty well.

Once, Wu Ding sacrificed to the ancestor Shang Tang, and the next day, a pheasant flew to the top and chirped in his ears, and Wu Ding felt very frightened when he saw this situation. The minister Zuji said: Don't worry, the king, the top priority is to get the political affairs done well. Zu Ji enlightened Wu Ding and said: God supervises the people, and takes the morality between the people as the standard, and the life span given by God to the people is long and short, not that the life of the angel dies young, but that the people themselves cut themselves off; Some people violate morality and do not admit their sins, and Heaven sends a decree to correct their behavior, and then he will say what to do; As a king, as long as he does things for the people, he is inheriting the will of heaven; Sacrifices are routine, don't believe in methods that should be discarded.

The pheasant climbed on the top of the Ding and chirped in his ears, known as "the difference between the pheasant (雊) (gòu) pheasant", and since then, Wu Ding began to cultivate political affairs and implement moral politics, so that the people of the world are happy and happy, and the Shang Dynasty has flourished again.

Today's hymn is an ode to the sacrifice of Yin Gaozong Wuding. The Shang people are a people with birds as their totems, and the legend of "the Xuanniao of Heaven's Destiny descends to give birth to Shang" is the most precious early literature about the origin of the Shang people. The difference between the pheasant is actually a myth created to show the revival of Gaozong Wuding, which is based on the Shang people's belief in the Xuanniao totem. When the Shang Dynasty spread to Pangeng, the Shang people moved to Yindi, and the Shang state at this time developed prosperously and the political situation was stable. After the death of Pan Geng, Xiao Xin and Xiao Yi ascended the throne respectively, and Yin Shang gradually declined during this period.

After Xiaoyi's son Wu Ding ascended the throne, he took Fu Shuo as the prime minister, conquered the surrounding Fang State, cultivated politics and established morality, and made the Shang State prosperous. After the Central Plains tribes established an alliance, the unification was marked by the dragon, and after the Shang people rose in the northeast, they went south to the Yellow River Valley, and then controlled the Central Plains countries. During the time of Gaozong Wuding, various tribes in the Central Plains used carts to carry rice to pay tribute. Not only the tribes of the Central Plains, but also the ethnic minorities on the four sides have come to pay tribute. The prosperity of Wuding's exploits can be seen from here.

The purpose of writing about the birth of the sacred ancestors and the founding of the great Shang Tang is to set off the great cause of Wuding Zhongxing, and compared with the immortal deeds of the first king and the Zhongxing cause of Wuding, it shows the grandeur of Wuding's Zhongxing career. Living in Yindi is wide and wide, this is empty after all, and it is not as vast as the land of thousands of miles. The conquest of the four sides of the world was only the beginning of Shang Tang's conquest of the Quartet, but when Wu Ding was the return of the four provinces, the territory was extensive.

The Emperor of Heaven issued an order to Shenyan, and the deed of building a merchant descended to the world, and lived in the Yin land wide and wide. At that time, the Emperor of Heaven ordered Cheng Tang to conquer the four sides of the world.

Tell the leaders of the tribe that the land merchants in Kyushu occupy it. The Shang Dynasty followed the queen one after the other, and did not slack off in bearing the mandate of heaven, and Sun Wuding was the most virtuous. Wu Ding is indeed a good descendant, and he can bear the legacy of Chengtang.

There are ten times in the car, and the contribution grain is often full. The land is really vast, the people live in peace, and the territory of the four seas is extremely far.

The four small countries came to worship, and the traffic was busy. The big rivers on the periphery of Jingshan are called good by the mandate of heaven, and all kinds of blessings are accounted for.

"Long Hair": Singing the praises of Shang Tang

This is a musical song in which the descendants of the Yin Shang kings sacrificed to Tang and his ancestors, and at the same time sacrificed to Yi Yin.

The Shang Kingdom has a long history, and Shang Qi, the son of Emperor Yu and the half-brother of Emperor Yao, was born and established by the mandate of heaven, so the Shang Kingdom has always been blessed with auspiciousness from heaven. The business contract established the country and governed the country, so that the country developed and prospered, and the grandson of the deed opened up the territory and demonstrated martial arts. Chengtang inherited and developed the achievements of his ancestors, and his virtue was shocking, so he became the lord of Kyushu by the mandate of heaven. Chengtang pursued the will of heaven, governed gently, and was moderate in rigidity and softness, and became an example among the princes, because of Bailu, who was blessed by God. Cheng Tang's powerful force could ensure the peace of the world and allow the princes to rely on, so God blessed him. Chengtang crusaded against Xia Ji, so as to pacify the world. Cheng Tang is the son of heaven, and God gave Yi Yin to assist him in his achievements.

From beginning to end, the poems run through the idea of the Mandate of Heaven of the Yin Shang ruling class, the monarch is granted by God, they are the descendants of the Emperor of Heaven, they establish the country, open up the territory, conquer foreign races, occupy Kyushu and rule the people of all ethnic groups, all of them are in accordance with the will of God, and they are blessed by God, and the ruling power of the new dynasty they established, as well as all the rights, wealth and illustrious glory, all come from God, because they are the descendants of God. This ideology of the ruling class is the theoretical basis on which they establish their rule.

The poems praise martial arts, that is, violent plunder and expansion, the ancestors fought fiercely, and the four seas obeyed and unified, and the march was like a raging flame, and no enemy dared to intercept it. The right to rule and the enjoyment of Bailu come from the wars waged by their own great forces. Advocating bravery and war, and putting on the disguise of providence for invasion, suppression, plunder, and domination, this is the essence of Yin Shang's doctrine of Mandate of Heaven.