The Shang Dynasty was the second dynasty in Chinese history, the Xia Dynasty fell and the Shang Dynasty rose. The Shang Dynasty is too far away from us, full of mystery, the TV series favorite is the mythical story of the tyrant Shang Yu King and the fox Jing Su Daji, these friends have long been familiar with it, but this is a myth after all, the authenticity is debatable, and it is one-sided, and it does not reflect the true face of the Shang Dynasty. What is that distant Shang Dynasty really like, today we will carry a small bench to talk about what the Great Shang Dynasty is like.
The Shang Dynasty had a new use of slaves. Classifying the Shang Dynasty as a slave society, many small partners had to jump out and oppose it in a hurry. Was the Shang Dynasty a slave society? Or feudal society? Personally, I think it is the benevolent who sees the wise, and the wise see the wise. But it has to be mentioned that there is still a difference between slaves in the Shang Dynasty and slaves in the traditional sense, traditional slaves are bought by slave owners to act as cattle and horses, work hard, move bricks and carry large stones, but what are the slaves of the Shang Dynasty used for? It is used for "human martyrdom" and "human sacrifice".
"Human martyrdom" means that after the death of emperors and nobles with high status, the living people feel that they have no one to serve after death, and their lives are lonely, and they find living people to accompany them to bury them; "human sacrifice" is to use living people as sacrifices and offer them to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth. The slaves of the "human martyrdom" were to keep the whole corpse and could not affect the servants of the underworld, and the slaves of the "human animals" were to be unloaded in eight pieces and served to the table like delicious dishes.
I only know that king Huan is a tyrant, but I don't know that he is still a military wizard. The King of Shang, whom we are familiar with, is not only a famous tyrant, but also a hero who has made great contributions to the expansion and consolidation of the Territory of the Shang Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty was a military power, with many years of conquest and invincibility. The Shang Dynasty was in the bronze age, when the Shang Dynasty developed advanced chariots, as well as well-made bronze weapons, mastered these two military weapons, and was able to navigate the battlefield with ease and cut through thorns.
The King of Shang is not only the faint, violent, and lustful side that we know, he is also a man who can write and fight, he led the Shang Dynasty army to a great victory over Dongyi, unified and consolidated the Central Plains and Dongyi, and worked hard to run the southeast. The territory of the Shang Dynasty greatly exceeded that of the former Xia Dynasty, whose territory was mainly concentrated in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi, while the territory of the Shang Dynasty expanded to Liaoning, Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Gansu, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places.
The yellow race became the slave owners of whites and blacks. In the impression, the people who have lived in our land of China for generations are yellow people and pure races. However, another scene that we dare not imagine and cannot believe is a reality in the distant and mysterious Shang Dynasty. At that time, the land under our feet now lived together with yellows, whites, and blacks, which seemed to resemble the United States today.
Archaeologists have found that there are many black human skulls in the tombs of Yin Shang, which archaeologists have speculated are homologous to The Andaman, Papua or Aboriginal black Australians, and a small number of skulls similar to those of early English and Eskimos, which are said to be white skulls. The Shang Dynasty has been conquering and expanding for many years, taking a large number of prisoners from different regions, so it is not difficult to understand why different races appear here, and these captives are mostly used for martyrdom or sacrifice to the heavens, which also confirms why there are so many black and white skulls in the ancient tombs of the Shang Dynasty.
The profession of a merchant began in the Shang Dynasty. During the Shang Dynasty, agriculture, aquaculture, and handicrafts all developed greatly. The rulers of the Shang Dynasty have always attached great importance to agriculture, bronze smelting and manufacturing have gradually matured, and they have also invented freshwater fish farming, innovated silk fabric weaving technology, etc., and are more and more materially rich. Since good things between regions could not be easily passed across regions, at that time, slaves were asked to drive cars and pull goods to different places for sale, and because these people came from a tribe called "Shang" at the beginning, everyone called them "merchants".
Later, because the King of Shang was too cruel to the slaves, a large number of slaves could not bear it, rebelled, the Shang Dynasty collapsed, the Zhou Dynasty was established, and the "merchants" also changed from nobles to inferior people, without political status and rights, nor land, and could only do the industry of going south and north, buying and selling back and forth.
The Shang Dynasty had a rough and barbaric side of primitive society, and also a progressive side of historical civilization, a community of barbarism and civilization. What are your views on the history of the Shang Dynasty, we welcome everyone to discuss it together.