Luoyang, a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city history and more than 1,500 years of capital construction history, has created countless legends of Chinese civilization. "Shannanshui north is yang", Luoyang is named because it is located in the sun of Luoshui, and the Heluo area centered on Luoyang is the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization. The ruins of the five major capitals of Xia Du, Shang Du Xi Bo, Eastern Zhou Wangcheng, Han Wei Luoyang City, and Sui and Tang Luoyang City are lined up along the Luo River, which is rare in the world. More than a hundred emperors ruled here. Today, I will talk about Ji Yu, the King of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
King Ding of Zhou (?) –586 BC), courtesy name Yu , son of King Qing of Zhou, brother of King Kuang of Zhou, ninth king of Eastern Zhou, reigned from 606 BC to 586 BC, reigned for twenty-one years. In the thirteenth year of King Ding of Zhou (594 BC), when Chu besieged the Song Dynasty, causing the tragedy of "changing children and eating", during the reign of King Ding of Zhou, the southern State of Chu became strong under the administration of King Zhuang of Chu. In November 586 BC, Ji Yu fell ill and died. After Ji Yu's death, his posthumous title was Ding wang. His son Ji Yi (姬夷) the Prince of Zhou Jian ascended the throne.
During the reign of Ji Yu, the King of Zhouding, the state of Chu in the south became powerful under the rule of King Zhuang of Chu. In the first three years of his reign, King Zhuang of Chu ignored political affairs and indulged in the life of the decaying wine pond meat forest. After the King of Chu Zhuang investigated clearly and had a strategy of plotting against the world, he began to try to compete for hegemony. King Zhuang of Chu rectified the government, carried out reforms, expanded his army, and destroyed some small countries. That's where the blockbuster will come from. King Zhuang of Chu (–591 BC), surnamed Qi, Xiong (芈氏), courtesy name Lu (一作吕、 Brigade), son of King Mu of Chu, king of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period, reigned from 613 BC to 591 BC, and was one of the Five Lords of the Spring and Autumn Period, highly recognized in various historical books. When the State of Qi was hegemonic, the State of Chu annexed a number of small states to the east, and the national strength was strong. After the decline of the State of Qi, the State of Chu expanded northwards to compete with the State of Jin for hegemony. In 598 BC, King Zhuang of Chu led an army to fight the Jin army at Zhao (邲, in present-day Zhengzhou, Henan) and defeated the Jin army. The countries of the Central Plains turned their backs on Chu, and King Zhuang of Chu began to become the overlord of the Central Plains. In the process of competing for hegemony with the Jin state, King Zhuang of Chu once led the Chu army north, taking advantage of the opportunity of luhun zhirong (northeast of present-day Song County, Henan) to drive the main army of the chu state to the southern suburbs of Luoyang in eastern Zhou to hold a grand military parade. This Lu Hun Rong is Lu Hun Rong of Luoyang Yichuan Xuyang. It is also one of the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China in 2020". Xuyang Cemetery is a national key cultural relics protection unit, Xuyang Cemetery is located in Luoyang City, Yichuan County, Minggao Town, Xuyang Village, with a total area of about 200,000 square meters. The location of the cemetery is flat and surrounded by hills, with Luhun West Mountain and Deer Hoof Mountain in the west and north, and open valleys on the west bank of the Yi River in the east and south. In the summer of 2013, archaeologists were pleasantly surprised to discover the 2,600-year-old Lu Hunrong tomb group. Up to now, a total of 150 tombs have been cleaned, including 12 large and medium-sized tombs. In large tombs, chimes, chimes, bronze and jade ceremonial vessels have been unearthed, and single-eared clay pots are commonly found in small tombs. Lu Hunrong originally lived in Guazhou, which is roughly the area around Gansu, Qinghai, and Shaanxi in present-day northwest China, and was a powerful tribe among the Rong people and the biggest obstacle to the development and growth of the Qin state. Qin Mugong couldn't swallow this hard bone. In 638 BC, the State of Qin and the State of Jin forced Lu Hunrong to move to present-day Luoyang, Yichuan, Xuyang. Ji Yu, the king of Zhou Ding, was nervous after hearing that King Zhuang of Chu was marching on the southern outskirts of Luoyang in Eastern Zhou, and was so frightened that Ji Yu hurriedly sent the eloquent Wang Sun Man to comfort the Chu army. King Zhuang of Chu asked Wang Sun about the "small, big, big, and heavy" in the Temple of the Zhou Dynasty. This is the origin of the idiom in the Central Plains. Jiuding symbolizes Kyushu and is synonymous with China, and Ding denotes the status of royal nobility. There were strict rules: the soldiers used one or three dings, the doctors used five dings, the princes used seven dings, and the son of heaven could use the nine dings, and performed the nine dings when sacrificing the ancestors of heaven and earth. King Zhuang of Chu meant to be more powerful than Zhou Tianzi, which meant that he had ambitions to covet Tianzi's throne. Wang Sun man immediately refuted it, and King Zhuang of Chu led his troops to retreat. This incident is called "Winning the Central Plains" in history.
In 597 BC, at the Battle of Qi, King Zhuang of Chu annihilated the Jin army with 600 chariots in one fell swoop, and became the overlord after the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Song Xiang, the Duke of Jin Wen, and the Duke of Qin Mu, and historically referred to them as the "Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons".