Speaking of the name of Dai Ji, I am afraid that the first impression that most people come up with is the fox spirit, and the demise of the Shang Dynasty is mostly pushed on her. After all, the Shang Dynasty was too long ago, and people at that time did not have too much habit of recording daily life. Most of the history books about that time were recorded by the descendants of the city based on information obtained from visits around.
That is to say, the records of this part of the history books are also stories passed down by word of mouth. As long as someone passes it on, there must be changes and errors. It is good to say that the history books alone, but we all know that the main way for everyone to understand the person of Dai Ji is really not a history book, but more through the novel of Fengshen Yanyi. In the novel, the Shang Dynasty cattle ghosts and snake gods coexist, and the gods and ghosts coexist, and the Dai Ji in the book is also possessed by the fox demon, and is assigned by the gods in the sky to destroy the Jiangshan of Emperor Xin of the Dragon King. Therefore, all kinds of magic tricks eventually entangled the King of Shangyi in a daze and ignored the government, which was even more chaotic in the world. In the end, King Wu of Zhou seized the world. But is this really the case with history?
First of all, we know that slave societies have a strong belief in ghosts and gods and the Mandate of Heaven. Whether it is a marriage or a national expedition, it is necessary to first divinate and sacrifice. The former is to divinate whether this should be done, and the latter is to pray to God and bless the family and soldiers to have a satisfactory and good result. It was such a strong ghost god emotion that the ghosts and humans in the Fengshen Interpretation appeared at the same time, and even helped the Shang King and the King of Zhou Wu to fight each other, which looked extremely normal in the eyes of people at that time, especially the King of Zhou Wu could defeat the legendary army of hundreds of thousands with tens of thousands of horses, and the actual army of about 170,000 according to people's examinations. Although later historians have verified that the reason why King Wu of Zhou was able to win more with less at that time was entirely because many generals of the Shang Dynasty army rebelled and joined the camp of King Wu of Zhou, people were still willing to believe that this was the help of the gods. Therefore, it is logical that Dai Ji, a young concubine who seduced the king, became a fox demon. But why the fox demon?
First of all, the fox mostly represents a beautiful image in people's hearts, and it is also mentioned many times in the chat that the fox demon and the scholar have a night affair, or a long-term love affair, or an impure fox demon who sucks people's essence for fun. No matter what the ending is, we can see that the identity of the fox demon represents the charm and leads people astray in feudal society. Therefore, such a beautiful girl as Daji, under the age of good looks and youth, met Di Xin, who was nearly a flower armor, it must be a fox demon. In particular, Di Xin was extremely fond of her, and the only person recorded in history was the only one who loved him, and even did not know whether it was true or false for her joke to cut open the heart of the heavy minister Bigan. This made people convinced of her fox demon's identity. But the legend of the fox demon is only a feudal society after all. If people doubted that daemin was a goblin at that time, why did they choose such an animal as a fox?
From history, we can see that Daji was born in the Su tribe in Henan today. We know that at that time, there was no great unified dynasty, but an alliance of fang states composed of many fang states. The leader of this alliance was the most powerful of them, and at that time, the most powerful was shang. At that time, I don't know what the reason was, so that Shang sent troops to attack the Soviet Union. Su Guo had to sacrifice his daughter Dai Himself. And the totem of this Soviet country is the fox. Therefore, later folklore, Dai Ji was possessed by the fox spirit, and the legend of this fox spirit came from here.
There are many legends about daiji being a goblin. Among them, it was nothing more than pestering Di Xin, making him indulge in wine all day, ignoring the government, and often making him make wrong decisions, resulting in chaos in the Shang Dynasty. Indeed, at that time, the status of women was still relatively high, at least higher than in the feudal period, when women who died had the right to receive independent sacrifices.
But there is no record of women at that time being able to participate in government affairs. Even if they could participate, with the belief in ghosts and gods at that time, no matter what they did, they had to be decided through divination. Di Xin was no exception, how could he make Dai Ji overthrow the ghosts and gods that everyone believed in with a single word? What's more, when Di Xin ascended the throne, it was well known that di xiong was a great talent, and in his later years, he fainted, and before he entered the palace, so how could he destroy the dynasty because of the words of a favored concubine.