Chapter 38 The Establishment of the State of Chu
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In winter, Luoyi was fully completed.
In the first month of the eighteenth year of King Cheng of Zhou, King Cheng of Zhou went to Luoyi and placed Jiuding in a suitable position in Luoyi, symbolizing Zhou's rule over the world.
After King Cheng of Zhou built Cheng Zhou, whether he moved the capital or not has already caused controversy as early as the Qin and Han dynasties. Before the Han Dynasty, people all thought that "Zhou Va, Juluoyi", until Sima Qian, put forward the view that "King Wu Yingzhi, Cheng Wang made Zhao Gong Buju, Ju Jiudingyan, and Zhou Fu Dufeng and Ho", which opened the millennium of "relocation of the house".
With the archaeological excavations unearthed more and more inscriptions in the Western Zhou Dynasty in recent years, especially the discovery of "He Zun inscription", there is a clear record of King Cheng's move to the house, and its "moving to the house in Chengzhou" and "Zhaizi China, from the people" language, the words are chiseled, recording the history of King Cheng's move to the house in Chengzhou (Luoyi). It proves that the theory of "Zhaizi China" in the fifth year of King Cheng has been confirmed in literature and archaeology. Although there are still different views in the academic circles, the advent of He Zun provides important empirical evidence for solving this problem.
In the 60s of the 20th century, the "He Zun inscription" unearthed in Shaanxi Province has a clear record of King Cheng's relocation to Luoyi, and its "moving to Chengzhou" and "Zhaizi China, since the people" language, recorded the history of King Cheng's relocation to Chengzhou (Luoyi). The ancients called Luoyang China, which means the middle of the world, which is the earliest meaning in China, and later gradually referred to Huaxia, where the Zhou Dynasty established a new capital, which was conducive to the rule of the people.
There is also a view that King Cheng of Zhou only moved the political and military center of the dynasty to Cheng Zhou, and Feng Ho temporarily retained the sacrificial center. After "Chengkang" (King Cheng, King Kang), in the inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty unearthed, a large number of temple sacrifice systems appeared in Chengzhou, such as the Beijing Palace of the first king, the Kang Palace, the Zhao Palace and the Mu Palace of the former king, etc., at this time Chengzhou became the center of sacrifice.
year, the nineteenth year of King Zhou Cheng, King Zhou Cheng patrolled Hou, Dian, and Fang Yue, and summoned Uncle Wei Kang to accompany him
King Cheng of Zhou returned to Zong Zhou (Feng Ho), appointed a hundred officials, and deposed the Marquis of Feng.
Xiong Yi actively moved closer to the Zhou Dynasty after the return of the Zhou Dynasty and helped fight against the Three Prisons Rebellion. The Duke of Zhou once recounted his merits to King Cheng of Zhou, because of the merits of his ancestor Xiong Xiong and the good impression of Duke Zhou towards Xiong Yi, King Cheng of Zhou in the nineteenth year, named Xiong Yi as the Marquis of Chu, and gave him the title of viscount with only fifty miles of land, and his capital was Danyang (Zigui).
The Chu people regard Emperor Gaoyang as the ancestor, Lao Tong, Zhu Rong, and Ji Lian as the distant ancestors, and Mane Xiong as the ancestor.
Chu is relatively maternal, of course, the surname Mi is the mother's surname, and the name of "Chu" is to commemorate women (the unearthed Chu Jian "Chu Ju" said), Chu Xian Xiong, is one of the earliest known Taoist figures, Taoism advocates maternal diversity, to overcome the rigid with softness, Yin and Yang harmony, more than loss, make up for the shortcomings, coordination and balance, is the only remaining matriarchal social thought legacy of human beings. It is considered by the academic community to be one of the origins of the old Taoism of Chu Dihuang.
The Chu royal family came from Huaxia and has always pursued the practice of "Xia Jun Yimin", that is, the royal family is the Huaxia family, and the people are Yimin. The main body of the Chu people is the Jilian tribe surnamed Mi, and the royal family and the Gong family of Chu are mainly descendants of the Jilian tribe surnamed Mi, among which the bear family is the core.
The Chu people lived together with primitive peoples such as Jingman, Pu and Miaoman in the upper and lower reaches of the Han River and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The Jilian family was vulgar, so the later Chinese people regarded it as "Chu Man" and "Barbarian Jing".
The state of Chu developed strong in the Jianghan region, and the local Jingman inhabitants were gradually conquered by the Chu people and became part of the Chu people, but most of them were Shu.
During Xiong Yi's reign (year), he developed production, expanded his territory, took firewood carts, wore rags to open up Jingshan, and trekked mountains and rivers to pay tribute to Zhou Tianzi.
Although Xiong Yi was located in the remote area of Jingshan (in the area of present-day Nanzhang and Baokang, Hubei), he still rode a firewood cart and wore rags to open up overgrown weeds, and trekked through mountains and rivers to serve Zhou Tianzi, and could only use peach wood bows and jujube wood arrows as tribute, reflecting his loyalty to the Zhou royal family.
Through the efforts of several generations of monarchs from Xiong Yi to Xiongqu, the territory of Chu has been continuously expanded, and its national strength has been continuously enhanced, from a small country with a radius of only 50 miles to a large country.
The territory of Chu was originally mainly in the mountainous areas of present-day western Hubei and the Jianghan Plain, and then gradually extended westward to the eastern end of present-day Sichuan, northward to the Hanshui River to the Nanyang Basin and Danjiang River basin in the southwest of present-day Henan, southward to the Dongting Lake Plain in the northwestern part of present-day Hunan, and eastward along the Huaishui and Jiangshui to the southeastern part of present-day Henan, northern Anhui, northern Jiangxi, southern Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. The Chu people lived together with primitive peoples such as Jingman, Pu and Miaoman in the upper and lower reaches of the Han River and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and these ethnic groups were gradually conquered by the Chu people after the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
In the twenty-first year of King Zhou Cheng, because of many years, there was no disturbance to the people, King Zhou Cheng dismantled the Xiang Wei (also called Que or Guan) who hung the decree, indicating that the world was peaceful, and there was no need to explain who committed what crime. This is the beginning of the forty-third year of the reign of Chengkang.
After Zhou Gong came to power, he has been in Fengyi for the elderly and became seriously ill.
In the year, Zhou Gong died of illness in Fengyi.
Jia Yi, a great thinker in the early Han Dynasty, commented on Zhou Gong and said: "King Wen has great virtue but has not achieved success, King Wu has great merit but has not succeeded, and Zhou Gong has great virtue and great merit and great governance." Before Confucius, after the Yellow Emperor, there was only one person who had a big relationship with China, the Duke of Zhou. ”
At that time, Zhou Gong was not only an outstanding politician and military strategist, but also a versatile poet and scholar.
The exploits of Zhou Gong's life are summarized in the "Shangshu Great Biography" as: "One year to save the chaos, two years to conquer Yin, three years to practice the dying, four years to build the Hou Wei (army), five years to camp into the Zhou, six years to make the system of rites and music, seven years to become the king." ”
The Duke of Zhou successively assisted King Wu of Zhou to destroy Shang and King Cheng of Zhou to govern the country. After the death of King Wu, King Cheng was young, and he was the regent of the country. After the pacification of the rebellion of the three eunuchs, the feudal system was established, the Zhou (Luoyi) was built, the ceremonies were made for music, and the government became the king, which played a key role in consolidating and developing the rule of the Zhou Dynasty and had a profound impact on the development of Chinese history.
The achievements of the Duke of Zhou from the historical documents handed down, mainly for the military, the Duke of Zhou in the Zhou Dynasty unstable foothold, the second Keyin, unified the East, the establishment of the Zhou as the center of the military center.
The Duke of Zhou formulated and implemented a set of rules and regulations to maintain the patriarchal law of the monarch and the upper and lower ranks, and improved the patriarchal system, the feudal system, the primogeniture inheritance law and the Jingtian system.
The primogeniture system stipulates that the throne of Zhou Tianzi is inherited by the eldest son. At the same time, the other concubines were divided into princes and doctors. Their relationship with the Son of Heaven is that of the local and the central, and between the small and large sects.