Chapter 22: The Death of the Ancestors

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Grandfather: Shang King Zuding

Father: Shang Wang Xiaoyi

Uncle: Shang Wang Yangjia, Shang Wang Pangeng, Shang Wang Xiaoxin

Wives and concubines: Simu Wu Nu (the first queen, Nu Wu, the second son Zu Geng), Si Mu Xin Nu Hao (the second queen, Nu Xin, the eldest son Zu Ji), Nu Ji (the third queen, the third son Zu Jia)

Sons: Shang Wang Zu Geng, Shang Wang Zu Jia

There are three queens in Wuding, namely Yan Wu (女妌), 妣 Xin (女好) and 妣癸, which are called "three matches". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info In the Zhou Festival of the Yin people, he and Wu Ding are shared.

According to the relevant records of divination and the research of scholars, the woman concubine was also written as the woman well, the daughter of Jing Fang, and the first queen of the Shang king Wuding, which is now Xingtai City. Jingfang was also a friend of Yin Shang during the Wuding period.

The concubine was good at agricultural planting, especially good at planting millet, and Yinxu divination recorded a lot of the content of her planting millet in Qiu Shang, and also engaged in a series of royal activities such as conquest, sacrifice, pilot, and tribute. She has a higher status and may be the biological mother of Gong (filial piety, ancestral self), the prince of Wuding.

According to the words of the garden village, she died before the woman's recovery. After his death, the temple number was "Wu", and it was called "Mother Wu" during the Zu Geng and Zujia periods, and it was called "Yan Wu" or "Yan Wu Yu" after Di Xin and Geng Ding. And the woman became the queen after the death of the concubine. The world-famous stepmother Wu Ding (formerly known as Simu Wu Dafang Ding) is her own son Zu Geng to worship her cast, and the inscription on the abdominal wall of the tripod "Houmu Wu" is the temple number of the woman concubine (jing).

The concubine was the only one of the three to be buried in the royal tomb, and the tomb had been stolen.

Wu Ding's wives and female generals are at least a few in addition to women. The women also participated in the conquest, but the number was very small, and only the records of her dragon felling were found in the divination.

The woman has her own fief, and the well is her fief, which shows that the situation of the woman is not without precedent.

Zu Geng, reigned 1274-1264 BC.

Zu Geng, alias and Geng, sub surname, name Yao. The second son of King Wu Ding of Shang.

Zu Geng has an eldest brother, Zu Ji, who is the son of a good woman, because both the good woman and the concubine died early, and only the woman became the queen.

Zuji is a filial son, has a filial name, and is called "filial piety". He had to get up five times a night to see if his parents were sleeping well, so he was deeply favored by Wu Ding.

Wu Ding wanted to pass the throne to his eldest son, Zuji. "Corpse sacrifices" have existed since the Xia Dynasty, and "corpses" are generally served by the eldest son or eldest grandson. The idiom "corpse vegetarian meal" evolved from "corpse sacrifice", because the "corpse" can only eat and not work except for being worshiped on the altar. Zu Ji has served as a "corpse" and is worshiped by hundreds of officials, and his qualification is actually equivalent to the status of the crown prince. When the Shang royal family sacrificed to their ancestors, the ceremony was very solemn, and the living people should act as the "corpses" of their ancestors to accept the worship of hundreds of officials, which was the so-called "corpse sacrifice".

However, due to the early death of Zuji's mother-in-law, his stepmother-in-law did not like him, and hoped that his biological son Zujia could inherit the throne, so he said a lot of bad things about him in front of Wu Ding, and Zujia was exiled to other places.

It was because of Wu Ding's experience of being exiled when he was young that he followed the example of banishing his ancestors. Wu Ding exiled Zuji, firstly, he wanted to avoid the contradiction between Zuji and his stepmother, and secondly, because he was also let go by his father Xiaoyi since he was a child, so he thought that it was not a good thing to send Zuji to other places to observe the people's feelings.

It's a pity that Zuji didn't understand his father's painstaking efforts, and he couldn't withstand this blow, and soon died of grief. "Taiping Yulan" said: "Yin Gaozong has a virtuous son filial piety, his mother died early, Gaozong confused his wife's words, let him die, the world mourned." ”

After Zu Ji's death, Zu Geng was made the crown prince in order.

Zu Geng's younger brother Zu Jia is more spiritual than Zu Geng, and when Wu Ding was dying, he wanted to abolish the prince Zu Geng and set up Zu Jia instead. Zu Jia believed that this was a violation of etiquette and could not be forcibly abolished, otherwise the situation of the "Ninth Rebellion" might be repeated, so he followed Wu Ding's actions back then, left the royal capital, and lived among the commoners. "Shangshu" recorded: "In Zujia, he was unrighteous only the king, and he was a villain in the past." This means that when he arrived in Zujia, he thought that it was an unrighteous act to replace his brother as king, so he fled to the people and became a small people.

Due to the early death of the crown prince Zuji, after the death of Wu Ding, the throne was inherited by Zu Geng.

In 1274, Wu Ding's son Zu Geng inherited the throne of the Shang Dynasty and was the twenty-third monarch of the Shang Dynasty, with Yin (Anyang, Henan) as the capital.

Zu Geng inherited the cause of "Wuding Zhongxing", actively explored, obeyed the etiquette system, and was a positive and filial monarch.

As soon as Zu Gengfu ascended to the throne, he compiled Wu Ding's political measures and precepts into a book, called "Gaozong's Training", which was left for future generations to learn from. Zu Jia's initiative to retreat made Zu Geng very moved, and after ascending the throne, he made Zu Jia the heir to the throne.

During the eleven years of his reign, the Shang Dynasty was very strong in terms of economy, culture and national power.

After Zu Geng succeeded to the throne, he cast the famous stepmother Wuding to commemorate the birth mother and concubine. The casting of the stepmother Wuding shows the bronze casting technology and strong national strength of the Shang Dynasty at its peak.

Wuding, the stepmother, is the largest and heaviest bronze ritual vessel unearthed in the world so far, and enjoys the reputation of "the treasure of the town". It is now a national first-class cultural relic, and in 2002, it was included in the list of cultural relics prohibited from going abroad (territory) for exhibition.

In March 1939, Wu Xizeng, the uncle and elder brother of Wu Peiwen of Wuguan Village, Anyang, Henan Province, was exploring treasures (tomb robbing) in the field. That night, they found seventeen or eighteen people, and began to dig at night, in order to prevent the Japanese from discovering it, and then sealed the hole with the original soil until dawn. The next night, the excavation team expanded to more than 40 villagers, and after digging for three nights, a patina was brought up by the bronze national treasure Wuding, the queen mother of the national treasure.

As early as the month, Anyang had been occupied by the Japanese invaders. After the stepmother Wu Dafang Ding was unearthed, it was secretly transported back to the village and temporarily buried in Wu Peiwen's courtyard, camouflaged with firewood and grass. But soon someone leaked the news and reported the matter to Kuroda Sakae, the captain of the Japanese garrison stationed at Anyang Airport at the time. Kuroda Rong soon came to Wu Peiwen's house, and muttered "Treasure, treasure!" while circling around the tripod, and Dading fell into the eyes of the Japanese army invading China at that time.

The Japanese are gone, Wu Peiwen and their hearts are also raised, and if they keep Ding, it is impossible to protect their lives. After some discussion, they found Xiao Yinqing, a big antique dealer in Beiping, to "look at the goods" and plan to sell them. After Xiao Yinqing came, he bid 200,000 oceans, but asked to divide Dading into several large pieces and pack them. According to records, the peasants really used hacksaws and sledgehammers to divide Dading in the dead of night. Although he was tempted by 200,000 oceans, after all, the more he smashed it, the more he felt evil, Wu Peiwen stopped everyone from smashing it again, and everyone was determined to protect Dading well.

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