People who have seen the "List of Fengshen Gods" will not be unfamiliar with the names of Xiqi and Chaoge. In ancient history, Yin Shang perished due to the "Chao Song" of the Twilight Song and Dance, and the Zhou Dynasty was revived by the rare Phoenix Laiyi of "Xiqi". Which two historically significant place names are the two centers of the present day?
Archaeological experts have proved that the location of the "Chaoge" where Yin Shang fell is the location of Qi County in Hebi City, Henan Province, and the location of "Xiqi" where Zhou Tianzi is located is in qishan County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province.
First, the popularity of place names
"Fengshen List" has seriously activated the two place names of "Chaoge" and "Xiqi", which belong to the two astronomical positions that are driven by film and television dramas. In everyone's minds, although the "Chaoge" was the orthodox Jiangshan of the dynasty at that time, it was abused by the King of Shang, absurd, perverse, and destroyed Zhongliang, causing natural and man-made disasters, the people complaining, and the lives were ruined.
It represents the corrupt and incompetent political center of the imperial court, and also represents the last year of the Shang Dynasty, which is about to run out of gas. Although "Xiqi" belonged to the princely states of the "Chaoge" Yin Shang at that time, it was the representative of the reborn generation, representing the righteous strength of worrying about the country and the people, saving the people from water and fire, and representing the new dynasty of the Zhou Dynasty Tianzi reviving the world. "Fengshen List" also uses the power contest between "Asaka" and "Xiqi", which is a contest of strength between good and evil, to unfold the storyline.
2. The birthplace of "Xiqi"
What was the reason why the Zhou Dynasty made the political center of its birthplace the "Xiqi"? In fact, it was because there was a mountain called "Qishan" in the Xiqi area at that time, and when King Wu of Zhou lived here, he once saw the phoenix resting on the peak. As we all know, the phoenix is constantly called treasureless, and the place where the phoenix falls must be a treasure of feng shui.
Therefore, Xiqi has the image of "Fengming Qishan". King Wen of Zhou was good at Zhou Yi Bagua, divination and fortune-telling metaphysics, he thought that Xiqi was the spiritual mountain of "hundreds of birds and phoenixes", there must be saints, and the region was named after the lingshan mountain, so it was called "Xiqi". In the poetry of the late Western Zhou Dynasty, the depiction of The Phoenix Qishan was also stopped.
Nowadays, some people think that it was just a coincidence, or that there were just birds that just happened to have phoenix-like birds, but for King Wen of Zhou, this is the best thing that can incite people's hearts, a reason to do great righteousness, and a slogan that can justifiably replace the Heavenly Path and destroy the Merchants in Zhou.
How to say it, after all, under the traditional culture of the ancient feudal system, the phoenix represents the ominous bird, and it is also the king of the birds, and the dragon is the meaning of the rights and interests of the emperor. There is a phoenix to come to Yi, which represents an ominous omen, representing the general prosperity of the Zhou Dynasty, the general king of the Shang Dynasty, the change of dynasties, and the omen of the change of dynasties.
At that time, the King of Shang was faint and absurd, and the imperial court was in chaos, which just gave King Wen of Zhou a successful plan to revive zhou and destroy the shang. In the later Western Zhou culture, many vessels of the Western Zhou Dynasty were engraved with phoenix bird patterns, which shows the importance of the phoenix to the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty at that time.
2. The place of origin of the "Pilgrimage"
Why did the political center of the Shang Dynasty's imperial court be named "Chaoge"? This has a lot to do with the situation of the Shang Dynasty at that time, when the King of Shang favored The King of Shang, the Night Song, the Wine Pond Meat Forest, the Listening to the Traitors, and the Destruction of Zhongliang, which is very similar to the place name of the "Chao Song", giving people a sense of immediate vision of the morning twilight and the night and night singing and dancing.
And the historical song does have such a meaning in it. The court of the original Shang Dynasty was not in the song, but in "Yin", and only then did it have the name of "Yin Shang". It was only in the period of Emperor Xin of The Gong Dynasty that he was very wise and divine at the beginning, and he won many battle achievements and won the will of the people.
Unfortunately, in the later period, self-contraction, arrogance, and initially lust for wine and women, and also decided to expand the imperial capital for better hardship, only then did the imperial capital continue to expand from "Yin" to Moyi and become "Chaoge". During the prosperous period of Chaoge's year, the original words recorded in history were "Fifty miles of the night string of Chaoge, eight hundred princes chaoling mountain".
The detailed location of Chaoge is recorded in history about the middle of the Yellow River and Qishui, and after experts pondered it, it must be Qi County, Hebi City, Henan Province, but later there are also labels that it is a new district of Hebi City.
summary
Although today, the two place names "Xiqi" and "Chaoge" were once impossible to find on the map, but they must have existed in history and left deep significance for Chinese history.
So that these two place names still give people unlimited remote imagination space, especially in the ancient mythological stories in the "List of Fengshen Gods", the meaning is more and more long-lasting.