Chapter 11 Basic Overview of the Shang Dynasty
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The commander of the division of the commander of the military attaché, the chariot of the king, the service of the king of Shang (also known as the servant, the emperor), the guard military attache Ya, the guard Ya brigade,
The third is "zonggong". Refers to officials in charge of royal rituals and certain specific matters.
The ruler of the ruler and the retainers of his cronies. The ministers manage the specific affairs of the royal family, including divination, praying to ghosts and gods, recording and keeping the books of classics (also known as the history of guarding Tibet, internal history), the chief of the hundred workers, the Si of the grain collection, the animal husbandry of animal husbandry, the beast of hunting, the wine of wine, the elder of the country who educates the children of the nobility, and the master and young master of the music work.
The fourth is "the king of the people". Refers to the officials who administer the local tribes and ordinary people.
In charge of the field of foreign origin of the "畋 (pronounced 'field' / dian) old".
The waifu is the area under the jurisdiction of Bomber, and the corresponding officials are the waifu officers. These foreign service officials include the marquis and uncle of the head of the Fang State, the dian (tian) officials who manage the fields, the male officials who serve the dynasty, called "Ren" in the divination, and the famous ones are Erren, Ge Ren, Mingren, Lu Ren, etc., and there are guard officials who guard the border, as a kind of military position, in the divination they are mostly called "Duo Shooting Guard", "Duo Ma Wei", "Duo Dog Guard", etc., and there are also those who are simply called "Wei". Many of these foreign officials were most likely tribal leaders of the Fang Kingdom and belonged to merchants.
The oracle bone inscription indicates that there are large squares of ripe fields in the fields of Quang Binh that are neatly and regularly organized. The word "Xinjiang" in the oracle bone inscription "Jiangli" symbolizes the field that measures and demarcates the boundary, and the word "domain" in "Tian Chou" is like a field ploughing back and forth according to rows of ridges, and such a field will certainly not be cultivated very extensively. These square fields, which were well cultivated and had irrigation ditches after being regulated by the territory, were later well fields.
These fields were mainly distributed in the vicinity of the capital, and were directly occupied by the Shang kings and princes, but also distributed to close relatives and nobles. Other nobles also managed such fields in the fiefdoms, albeit on a smaller scale. Outside the national capital, Shang kings often sent their subjects to more remote places to cultivate land.
The agricultural tools used in the Shang Dynasty are generally believed to be mainly made of stone, bone and mussel shovels, axes, sickles, knives, etc., and occasionally some bronze tools such as copper shovels and copper shovels are also found, but they are not necessarily used for agricultural production.
The Shang Dynasty's economy was more developed than that of the Xia Dynasty: the scale of agricultural production was quite large, animal husbandry was developed, six animals were raised, there were elephant training (there were elephants in the north at that time), and the castration technique of pigs was mastered, and freshwater fish were raised artificially. Sacrifice with hundreds, if not thousands, of domestic animals.
The development of handicraft production in the Shang Dynasty was more prominent than agriculture. The handicraft industry is all managed by the government, the division of labor is fine, the scale is huge, the output is large, the variety is many, the level of craftsmanship is high, there are generations of craftsmen who are engaged in production and are good at specialized skills, and the scale of production and the high level of skills are rare in the world at that time. Handicrafts such as bronze smelting and casting, jade making, and sake brewing were well developed.
Among them, especially the high development of bronze smelting technology and bronze manufacturing technology, it has become a symbol of Shang Dynasty civilization. In the ruins of Yinxu and Zhengzhou Mall, bronze casting workshops dedicated to the royal family were found.
The Shang Dynasty had already invented primitive porcelain, which was the first time porcelain appeared in the world. The white and delicate white pottery is quite horizontal, and the shape is realistic.
The finely carved jade tools show the superb skills of the jade craftsmen of the Shang Dynasty. Silk fabrics have plain weave silk, hank weave leno, thousand-grain crepe yarn, and have mastered jacquard technology.
On the basis of the development of agricultural and handicraft production, and the increasingly consolidated and complex division of labor within various production sectors, commerce in the Shang Dynasty also developed to a certain extent, and many merchants engaged in long-distance trafficking with oxen carts and boats. In the late Shang Dynasty, there were traders specializing in various trades in the capital, and Lü Shang used to slaughter cattle in Chaoge and sell rice in Mengjin. Transactions are made with seashells, bone shells, jade shells and copper shells.
Since the Shang Dynasty, Chinese music has entered the era of letter history. Folk music and court music have made great progress. Due to the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts, bronze smelting and casting reached a very high level, so that the production level of musical instruments leaped forward, and a large number of exquisite and luxurious musical instruments appeared. Music and dance were the main forms of court music, and the verifiable ones include "Mulberry Forest" and "Great Protection", which were composed by Yi Yin, a minister during the Shang Tang period. There are three main types of music professionals: "witch", "music slave" and "blind". There is very little material about the folk music of the Shang Dynasty, and "Zhou Yi Gui Mei Shangliu" and "Yi Tun Liuer" are the folk songs of the Shang Dynasty.
The Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription had a variety of word-making methods such as pictograms, epigrams, morphophonics, pretenses, and signifiers, and was already a mature script. A total of 4,672 characters were found in the unearthed oracle bones, and 1,072 characters have been known to scholars. The oracle bone inscription is square because of the hard material of the inscription. At the same time, the gold text is cast because it is cast, so the font is round.
The Shang Dynasty calendar already had a division of large and small months, stipulating a cycle of 366 days, and using the year-end boudoir to adjust the length of the synodic month and the return year. Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions have records of multiple solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and novas.
Roughly 30,000 numbers were found in Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions, with clear concepts of decimal system, odd numbers, even numbers, and multiples, which produced preliminary computing power.
The slightly convex mirror unearthed in the Shang Dynasty can reflect the entire human face on a smaller mirror surface.
In the seventy-fifth year of Taiwu (BC1520), he died, and was called Sanshi (that is, three monarchs who had contribution) together with Taijia and Zuyi. After Taiwu died, he was buried in Xiang (Neihuang County, Anyang, Henan), and was called Shang Zhongzong.
It is recorded in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" that Taiwu may not have died, but met the auspicious mulberry tree on the way to the tour, practiced in the mulberry cave, tried to become an immortal, and left the throne to his son. After three years of Taiwu practice, the tribes and countries in the distant country were grateful for the Qingming of Taiwu's rule, and there were seventy-six forces who came from afar to pay tribute. The Shang Dynasty was revived from then on, and the temple name was Shang Zhongzong.
Taiwu Mausoleum is located on the east side of Liu Cifan Village, Bocheng Township, Neihuang County, Anyang, Henan Province. The mausoleum is located on an ancient cultural site, also known as "Liu Cifan site", which is the only Shang Dynasty royal tomb in China today. In 1986, it was announced as a cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province. The mausoleum was built in the Han Dynasty, continued to be repaired in the Tang Dynasty, rebuilt in the seventh year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (974), and repaired and added many times in the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to the records of Neihuang County, Taiwu Mausoleum is in Liu Cifan Village, twenty-five miles southwest of Neihuang County. Taiwu Mausoleum is more than one zhang and five feet high, and surrounds dozens of zhang. Its temple is behind the mausoleum, the main hall is five, there is a stele pavilion next to it, the temple door is double, there is a monument in front.