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In 2016, in a census, the population of Chinese mainland Lin surnamed Lin totaled about 14.16 million, ranking 16th among the hundred surnames. The place with the highest population density of the Lin surname is in today's southern Fujian region. The famous Lin Zexu was the representative figure of the Lin clan in Fujian Province at that time.
Tracing the ancestors of the Lin clan back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties more than 3,000 years ago, it was Ji Fa, the founding monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty, who personally gave the surname. The ancestor of more than 14 million people with the surname of Lin was Bigan.
Thanks to the Ming Dynasty novel "Fengshen Yanyi" and the current dissemination of various TV movies, we are no strangers to Bigan. Stripping away the mythological elements of the rendition, let's take a concrete look at how good this real historical figure of Bigan really is.
1. Birth of a royal family
Bi Gan was the son of King Wen Ding of Shang, but because he was not a concubine, he could only serve as an official in the dynasty, assisting his brother Emperor Yi in governing the government and stabilizing the country. Intelligent since childhood, he was only 20 years old and took up the post of taishi. It can be said that at that time, under the whole world, the 20-year-old was above ten thousand people under one person.
But a few years later, Emperor Yi died, and his successor was Emperor Yi's younger son, Di Xin, who is also known to us in later generations as the King of the Fallen Kingdom of the Shang Dynasty. Bigan accepted the entrustment and began his career as a courtier of two dynasties.
Second, Zhi Zhi died tragically
Di Xin, who had just taken office, was young and ambitious. At that time, the Dongyi rebellion was continuous, and he frequently sent troops to the East. Several consecutive expeditions led to a sharp decrease in the combat effectiveness of the Shang army. At that time, Zhou of Xiqi took advantage of this chaotic world to continuously develop his power and gradually grow.
Bi Gan, noticing the threat from Zhou, entered the hajj to meet the King of Shang and advised him to stop the crusade and be careful to guard against Zhou. At that time, the King of Shang was immersed in the joy of victory, where to listen, moreover, this was also a basin of cold water poured on him. So he developed a grudge against emperor Bigan.
On the one hand, the King of Shang frequently crusaded, but on the other hand, he ignored the government and politics, and drank and enjoyed himself all day with many harem beauties such as Dai Ji, and was extremely extravagant. Not only that, the King of Shang also snatched all the gold and silver jewelry from the world to Chaoge Lutai, which completely angered the people of the world. Bi Gan stood up again and accused the Shang King of his tyrannical behavior to his face. This move once again angered the King of Shang.
At that time, after King Wu of Zhou and Jiang Ziya watched Mengjin, the intention of cutting down the merchants was clearly revealed. Just as the Shang Dynasty ruled the group was in civil strife, King Wu of Zhou and Jiang Ziya led their elite divisions straight to the Shang capital Chaoge.
When king Shang received the news, he was furious and decided to summon slaves and men near The Shang capital to suppress the rebellion of King Wu of Zhou. At this time, Bigan put forward a different opinion, and he suggested that the King of Shang should wait for the Shang army of the Eastern Crusade to return before sending troops to meet the enemy, and before that, it was reasonable to stick to the Song.
The King of Shang had already complained about Bi Ganduo, and when he heard that Bigan had proposed such a strategy to deal with the enemy, he was even more angry. He immediately ordered That Bikan be captured, and what was even more cruel was that he directly removed Bikan's heart alive. When Bigan died, the courtiers were shocked, the courtiers stayed away from the song, and the villain took the opportunity to flatter.
3. The widow flees
When Bikan's wife, Guī, heard of Bigan's tragic death, she quickly dragged her three-month-pregnant body and escaped from Asaka to avoid harming her wife and children. It just so happened that King Wu of Zhou attacked shang, and the domestic chaos also gave the concubines the opportunity to escape. She fled all the way to Changlin (長林, in present-day Weihui, Henan), and finally settled in a safe place, and after half a year of recuperation, she was left with her son Ziquan in a stone chamber.
4. The King of Wu gave him the surname
Looking at King Wu of Zhou, although he invaded Chaoge, the Shang Dynasty was still very powerful, and the unification of the Zhou Dynasty was not yet completed. In order to appease the remnants and nobles of the Shang, King Wu of Zhou took a series of measures.
First, he sealed king Shang's brother Wei Zi Qi fen in the birthplace of Shang, making him the founding monarch of the Song Dynasty;
Secondly, he divided the sons of the King of Shangqiu in Shangqiu;
Again, he released the uncle of the King of Shang from prison, Jizi, and invited him to join the court as an official to assist the Zhou clan;
In the end, he crowned Bigan, who died tragically, as the god of the country, so that future generations would worship Bigan, so that the image of his loyal subjects would be passed on to future generations.
Before this was over, he sent people around to look for Bigan's descendants, and finally found Bigan's wife and children in Changlin. Therefore, he gave the surname of Lin to Ziquan, the son of Bigan, and changed his name to Jian, called Lin Jian. Therefore, Bigan became the ancestor of the Lin clan. Later generations also enshrined it as the god of literature and wealth, because its heart was dug up, and it was most suitable for those who had no heart to be the god of wealth!
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