Chapter 10 Perpetual Calendar
readx;? In the fifth year of the river (1556 BC), the people of Ji made friends with the class. www.biquge.info He Jiajia then ordered Peng Bo and Weber to lead an army to conquer Banfang, and Banfang surrendered. In this way, the Ji people were isolated, so they also returned to the Shang Dynasty and paid tribute.
In the ninth year of the reign of Hejia (BC 1552), he died in the war against Lanyi, and was succeeded by his son Zu Yi after his death.
During his reign, he contributed to the stability of the Shang Dynasty and laid the foundation for the revival of Zuyi.
Zu Yi, reigned 1551-1473 BC.
In 1551, Hejia's son Zu Yi succeeded to the throne of the Shang Dynasty.
Zu Yi, also known as and B, the surname of the son, the name Teng (Yi Zuo Sheng), the son of the Shang King Hejia, the thirteenth monarch of the Shang Dynasty.
Grandfather: Shang Wang Taiwu
Father: Shang Wang He Jiajia
Uncle: Shang Wang Zhongding, Shang Wang Wairen
Younger brother: Zu Bing (Geng Guoshi Fengjun, Geng surname ancestor)
Queen: Why
Sons: Shang King Zu Xin, Shang King Wo Jia
Grandsons: Shang King Zuding (son of Zu Xin), Shang King Nangeng (son of Wojia)
In the first year of Zu Yi (BC 1551), the capital of the Shang Dynasty was located in Xiang (now Huang County, Henan Province), because Xiang was located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the river water rose sharply from time to time, the river rose and flooded, not only a large number of manors were washed away, the people of Li were rarely settled, life and property were in danger of drowning, even the imperial capital was not in danger, Zu Yi locked his eyebrows all day long, restless food and sleep, the virtuous minister Wu Xian (the son of Wu Xian) around him had already estimated Zu Yi's thoughts, so he bluntly said to him: " The monarch's concern and humility have long been perceived, and it is nothing more than the change of the capital!" King Zu Yi said happily after hearing this: "Since the virtuous minister understands, he should make a decision for the lonely one. Wu Xian said calmly: "I heard that there is Geng Land in the west, located in Fenyin, where one is the land of Fu and the people, and the other is not the land divided by the princes and soldiers, why not move Geng to build the capital." After hearing this, Zu Yi thought for a long time, and soon issued a general order to move the capital from Xiangxiang to Geng (now Hejin City, Shanxi Province) in one fell swoop.
In the second year of Zu Yi (BC 1550), due to the river flood, Geng Du was washed away, which shows that Wu Xian offered a bad idea. During the reign of Zu Yi, in order to lead the merchants to find a better livable city, he sent people to the north to find a place where their ancestors lived, looking for a place to live. In a place called Xing, a arowana was found. The ministers reported to Zu Yi, believing that it would become the land of dragons. Zu Yi then moved the capital to Xing, and sent a special person to raise arowana and worship it day and night.
When Zu Yi moved to Xing, some of the princes of the Shang Dynasty did not follow him to move south, but still stayed in Gengdi, and Zu Yi sealed his younger brother Zu Bing in Gengdi, established Geng State, and established Zu Bing as the monarch of Geng State.
Zu Yi built the capital city in the place of punishment, built a temple, built a shrine, and built a barracks. Zu Yi took advantage of Xing's favorable conditions to develop agriculture and animal husbandry, so that the economy of the Shang Dynasty was restored and developed, and the Shang Dynasty flourished again. The celestial official (yin and yang family) in charge of feng shui said: If the dragon is there, it will prosper, and if the dragon dies, it will be flooded. As a result, after the Arowana died, Xing was hit by floods.
Zu Yi then had to move the capital to Yubi again (in the area of present-day North Xiaogudui, Yuncheng County, Shandong Province). Pidu was close to the Great Peng Kingdom, and Peng Bo was loyal to the Shang Dynasty and was a good barrier for the Shang Dynasty. At the same time, the natural conditions of the shelter are superior and the products are abundant, which is conducive to the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.
During the reign of Zu Yi, with the help of the Great Peng State, he sent troops several times to pacify Lanyi, Banfang and other countries, and relieved the threat of the Yi people in the southeast to the Shang Dynasty. The social economy of the Shang Dynasty was restored and developed, and the Shang Dynasty flourished again.
During the reign of Zu Yi, there was a famous woodcutter called Wan Nian, one day he went up the mountain to cut wood, and after cutting, he sat under the tree to rest. He looked at the shadows of the trees, but all he thought about was how to set the seasons. Before he knew it, more than half an hour had passed, and he noticed that the shadows of the trees on the ground had quietly moved their bearings. Wan Nian had an idea, and thought, why not use the length of the sun shadow to calculate the time? After returning home, Wan Nian designed a "sundial". However, on a rainy day, the sundial loses its effectiveness.
One day, Wan Nian was drinking water by the spring, and saw the water on the cliff dripping down rhythmically, and the regular dripping sound inspired him. After returning home, Wan Nian made a five-layer leaky pot and used the leakage method to time. In this way, no matter whether the weather is cloudy or sunny, you can control the time correctly.
With the tool of timekeeping, Wannian observes the changes of the seasons more carefully. After a long period of induction, he found that every 360 days, the length of the day would be repeated. As long as you understand the laws of the sun and the moon, you don't have to worry about the inaccurate seasons.
Wan Nian brought a self-made sundial and a water leak pot to meet the Shang king Zuyi, explaining that the festival was not allowed to have nothing to do with the gods. Zu Yi felt that what Wannian said was very reasonable, so he left Wannian behind, built a sundial platform and a leaky pot pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, and sent twelve boys for Wannian to send. Since then, Mannian has been able to concentrate on studying the season.
After a while, Zu Yi sent Tianguan (Yin and Yang Family) Ah Heng to learn about the situation of the 10,000-year calendar. Wan Nian took out the preliminary results he had calculated and said: The sunrise and sunset are three hundred and six, and the cycle starts from the beginning. When the grass and trees flourish and wither, there are twelve rounds in a year. After hearing this, Ah Heng was ashamed and very uneasy, he was worried that making an accurate calendar in ten thousand years and being reused by Zu Yi would directly threaten his status. So Ah Heng bribed an assassin with a lot of money and prepared to assassinate him for 10,000 years.
Helpless, he devoted himself to studying the seasons for ten thousand years, and almost never left the Sun Moon Pavilion where he lived. The Assassin had no choice but to take advantage of the dead of night to pick up an arrow and shoot it for ten thousand years. I only heard a whoosh, and an arrow hit Wan Nian's arm, and Wan Nian fell down in response. The boys shouted for the Assassin, and the guards grabbed the Assassin in time and sent him to Zuyi.
Zu Yi asked if it was Ah Heng's trick, so he ordered Ah Heng to be taken into custody and personally came to the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit Wan Nian. Wannian reported his latest research results to Zu Yi: Now Shen Xing has caught up with the hundred stars and silkworms and hundreds of stars, the stars have been restored, the time is night, the old year is over, and the time is spring, I hope Zu Yi will set a festival name! Zu Yi said that spring is the year, so he named it the Spring Festival.
At that time, Zu Yi saw that Wan Nian was tired day and night and was injured by arrows in order to make a calendar, and he couldn't bear it, so he invited him to enter the palace to recuperate his body, and Wan Nian replied: "Thank you for the love of the Son of Heaven, but the current solar calendar is still a grass calendar, which is not accurate enough, and you have to leap into it at the end of the year." Otherwise, over time, it will cause seasonal abnormalities. In order to live up to expectations, I had to stay and continue to set the solar calendar. After dozens of cold and summer, the solar calendar that had been carefully formulated for 10,000 years was finally completed. When he presented the solar calendar to Zu Yi, he was already a gray-haired old man. Zu Yi was deeply moved, so he named the solar calendar as the perpetual calendar, and named the sun and moon as the birthday star.
In this legend, the earliest documentary record of the sundial is found in the Book of Sui and the Astronomical Chronicles, which mentions that Yuan Chong invented the short-shadow flat instrument (i.e., the earth-level sundial) in the fourteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty (595). The use of the leaky pot was recorded in the Xia Dynasty according to the "Zhou Li".
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