Text: Crossing the Jun (Reading History Columnist)
Let's first take a look at the heroine of the story "The Princes of Beacon Theatre".
Real name: 褒姒[bāosì]
Birth and death: Unknown
Birthplace: Chu Guo (present-day central Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, south of Liuba County)
Occupation: Concubine Queen
Big Event: Beacon Theatre Princes (as if specially for beacon theatre princes)
Ending: Abducted by Inuyasha and his whereabouts unknown
Regarding the praise, it is recorded in Sima Qian's "Records of History":
In the last year of the Xia Dynasty, one night, two divine dragons stopped in front of Emperor Xia and said, "We are the two ancestor kings of the Kingdom of Praise."
Xia Di Divination: Killing dragons, driving away dragons, leaving dragons behind, are not auspicious.
And the solution to divination: it is necessary to get the spit of the dragon and store it in order to be auspicious.
So after the dragon left, he left the spit, and Emperor Xia used the box to put the spit up.
When the Xia Dynasty fell, this box spread to the Shang Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty perished, and this box spread to the Zhou Dynasty.
After three dynasties, no one dared to open it.
In the last years of King Zhou Li (King Zhou You's grandfather), the wayward king had to open it to watch, and as a result, the spit flowed into the palace and could not be wiped off. So King Zhou Li ordered the women in the palace to shout naked, and the spit suddenly turned into a strange beast (black lizard) and sneaked to the harem, where there was a maid, who was just seven or eight years old, and disappeared when she touched her.
When King Xuan of Zhou (King You's father) gave birth to a girl, the maid who did not have a husband gave birth to a girl, and she was so frightened that she discarded the child.
Speaking of which, do you already feel that this story is somewhat similar to the ancient Greek mythological story "Pandora's Box"? The wisdom of the ancients in the East and the West is very admirable!
Continuing from the time of King Xuan of Zhou, suddenly a song began to sing: Bows made of mulberry wood, quivers made of miki, are to destroy the Zhou kingdom.
When King Xuan of Zhou heard this song, he was both angry and afraid, and sent soldiers everywhere to search for people who sold mulberry bows and quivers, and killed them when they saw them. At that time, a couple selling mulberry bows and quivers accidentally got the news and fled. On the way to escape, they encounter the strange girl that the maid abandoned on the side of the road, so they adopt her and flee all the way to the country of Praise.
This girl is a.
From this, it can be judged that even the heroine's life is a mythological interpretation, and the princes of the Beacon Theatre are a deduction in the interpretation. Just like the list of gods and the interpretation of the Three Kingdoms, there are both real existences and added branches and leaves.
However, by narrating the mythical origins of Qiu Ji, Sima Qian vividly conveyed to the world a message that when the throne of the Great Zhou Dynasty passed to the hands of King You's grandfather and father, it was already decaying. The emperors were promiscuous, tyrannical, and arrogant, and the tide was gone.
Therefore, it can be understood that the praise is only a performance symbol.
Sima Qian continued his mythical narrative: After He grew up, the King of The Kingdom of Chu offered beautiful women to the King of Zhou in order to save himself. King Zhou Youwang liked this beautiful woman very much, but this beautiful woman was beautiful, but she never smiled.
The more she didn't smile, the more itchy Zhou Youwang felt in his heart. As we know it, "The more you don't get it, the more you want it." "Not to mention the tyrannical and arrogant King Zhou You, he can't stand it."
It can be said that just to see the smile of the concubine, this absurd king was the most absurd thing, he first deposed the original prince, and made the child born of the concubine a prince.
She still doesn't laugh. However, here we can understand sima Qian's actions from another perspective—why did he need to show the end-time chaos of the Western Zhou Dynasty through such a mythical story, without saying it directly? That's because when Sima Qian wrote the Records of History, it was also the time when Emperor Wu of Han deposed Prince Wei. Directly write about the deposed prince of Zhou You, what would the sensitive Emperor Wu of Han think? So I had to bend the pen.
Bo praises a smile, a heavy reward of thousands of gold!
As a result, Father Yu Guoshi offered the idea of "the Beacon Theater Prince Bo Meiren smile".
Congratulations
This smile is intriguing, and the Yu King is overjoyed--the power thing is really easy to use, even the Ice Beauty can laugh at it.
In 771 BC, Shen Hou's father, Shen Hou, joined forces with The State of Yan and Inu Rong to attack King You of Zhou. Inuyasha's army arrived, the Youwang rekindled the beacon, the princes did not send troops to rescue, the Youwang was killed, the Jurchens were taken captive, and their whereabouts were unknown from then on, and the Western Zhou died.
This is the story of the Beacon Theatre princes. However, through the history books, only Sima Qian wrote this story, and the earlier "Chinese", "Jin Language", "Zheng Language", "Book of Poetry", "Lü's Spring and Autumn", etc., only recorded that King Zhou You's favor spoiled and praised.
Why? As mentioned earlier, Sima Qian wanted to tell the world that in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the entire dynasty was already full of hostility, and even laughed for bo meiren, and the adulterous and arrogant King Zhou You dared to depose the prince!
And the abolition of the prince was the real reason for the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty! The historical fact is that the adulterous and arrogant King Of Zhou You, in order to see the beauty smile, abolished the original prince Yi Usu. Unconvinced, Yi Usu escaped from the capital city of Hojing, and after reaching the fiefdom of his grandfather Marquis Shen, he united with other princes and colluded with Inuyasha to invade Hojing and seize the throne.
Yi Usu succeeded to the throne for the King of ZhouPing, he was not a normal succession, and the power naturally had to be reshuffled. Hokyo is an old sphere of influence that was purged by inuyasha's hand. Moreover, after the inuyasha was in a commotion, the whole city was almost destroyed. Therefore, it was just an excuse to move east to Luoyang, reward those who have made meritorious contributions, punish those who disobey, and redivide power.
However, after such a toss, the princely states also had an opinion of the royal family, began to look down on it, and the vicious thinking of strength was released from the cage, opening up the situation of the crowd competing for hegemony.
Therefore, although there is a qu pen to avoid the suspicion of Prince Wei of The Han Wu emperor, it is undeniable that the "Princes of Beacon Theatre" is the finishing touch to Sima Qian's summary of the demise of The Western Zhou, and his conclusion is still the fornication of the country - Xia Zhi Xi, Shang Zhi Daji, Zhou Zhi Zhi Ji, Jin Zhi Li Ji, the four major demon Ji conclusions are the same.
Of course, the "red face and bad water" is only a prop for deducing the willful power, and the purpose is to warn the world of the true secret of the subjugation of the country - any society and individual, once they lose the bottom line and have no reverence, will inflate themselves, and their demise will follow, that is, the so-called "if you want to let it perish, you must first make it crazy"!