Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, in addition to Han Zhao Wei, who was born from the Jin Dynasty and began in the early Warring States period, the four kingdoms of Qi, Qin, Chu, and Yan all began in the early Zhou Dynasty, so which of these four countries has the longest Guozuo and whose Guozuo has the shortest Guozuo? What is less known is that these four kingdoms seem to be divided in the early Zhou Dynasty, but they appeared at the same time, and the Yan state was very special, and Sima Qian recorded it particularly briefly, because there was a gap of 200 years, and it was once suspected that it was a state established by Di Rong.
State of Qi: King Wu was the first to be sealed, but was occupied by the dove
After king Wu cut down the Land, because the Zhou people were "Xiao bang Zhou" and the merchants were "Dayi merchants", in order to consolidate their rule and deter the Hardcore allies of the Shang Dynasty, the Dongyi clan, King Wu of Zhou was the first to seal Jiang Ziya (Lü Shang) in Qidi and grant him the right to conquer within the scope of "east to the sea, west to the river, south to Muling, and north to Wudi", so in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Jin text often appeared in the Jin dynasty to participate in the conquest of Huaiyi. Jiang Ziya was an outstanding military commander, and it was very suitable for him to take on this task.
Among the four kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Qin, and Yan, the State of Qi was the first to appear and was the oldest princely state. However, in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Qi accepted Chen Guan, a descendant of Yu Shun, and sealed it in the "Tian" land, so Chen Guan became Tian Guan, and after several generations of painstaking management, in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the Tian clan took control of the state of Qi, and in 386 BC, the King of Zhou'an ordered Tian He to be the Marquis of Qi, and after the death of Duke Kang of Qi in 379 BC, the Tian clan still used "Qi" as the state name, historically known as "Tian Qi", until 221 BC.
That is to say, the State of Qi, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, has been filled with new wine in old bottles, and actually belongs to a newborn country, that is, the Lü Clan Qi Guo Guo Zuo is about 650 years old, and the Tian Clan Qi Guo Guo Zuo is about 150 years.
Qin State: Descendants of anti-Zhou rebels, the latest to appear
The ancestor of the Qin people was called Fei Lian, a hardcore loyalist of the Shang Dynasty, who had two sons, Evil Lai and Ji Sheng, of whom Evil Lai died in the Battle of Makino. After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, Fei Lian traveled to all sides to contact the anti-Zhou forces, and eventually Zhou Gongdan went on a crusade to quell the rebellion and killed Fei Lian, and Qinghua Jian revealed that Zhou Gong also migrated the Fei Lian tribe to the northwest.
Later, Ji Sheng's descendants made meritorious contributions to their fathers, and were sealed in ZhaoCheng by King Mu of Zhou, and later annexed by the Jin State; the descendants of Evil Lai were not sons who raised horses and were said to be good at raising horses with a fodder grass called "Qin", and were sealed by King Xiao of Zhou in Qin, existing as vassals rather than independent princely states.
In 770 BC, at the turn of the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties, King Ping of Zhou moved the capital to Luoyang, and Duke Xiang of Qin was made a prince by King Ping of Zhou for sending troops to escort him, and then the State of Qin officially became a princely state of the Zhou Dynasty, the last of the four kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Qin, and Yan. Therefore, by the end of the Qin Dynasty, the State of Qin had been in power for about 560 years.
Chu Kingdom: Has a long history, and the founding of the country has been full of twists and turns
The Chu people have a very long history, living around the town of Danyang in Huaichuan, Henan during the Shang Dynasty, but at that time they did not establish a state and still existed in the form of tribes. Through the oracle bone "Chu" character and Bu Ci record, "Chu" is a plant, Chu land represents the lush vegetation where this plant grows, so there were many Chu people at that time, roughly equivalent to people living in the woods can be called Chu people.
During the reign of King Wen of Zhou, the literature records that the leader of the Chu people surnamed Ji Lianbu ( Ji Lianbu ) " took the title of King Wen of Zishi " or "as a master of King Wen" to help the Zhou people plan the world. It is reasonable to say that if the Zhou people seized the world and the Chu people had made meritorious contributions, the King of Zhou Wu should have divided the titles, but in fact, there was no, and Xiong Li, the son of Xiong Xiong, and Xiong Fan, the grandson of Xiong Xiong, were not sealed. During the reign of King Cheng of Zhou (?-1021 BC), the great-grandson of The Bear was enfeoffed with the State of Chu, and the Chronicle of History records that "Juwen and Wu were diligent heirs, and the Feng Xiong was enfeoffed in Chu Man, and the title was given the title of Son's Man' Field, with the surname of Qi, Ju Danyang", and only then did the State of Chu officially appear.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiong Xuan led the Chu people to start a hard business of "The Blue Wisp of the Yanlu Road". The Chu people first settled in Danyang, only a land of bullets, and then used this as a foothold to advance southward, developing into a great country of Yangyang in the south, and died in 223 BC.
Yan Guo: Guo Zuo is the longest, and whether it existed was once doubtful
Yin Xu was located in Anyang in northern Henan, while the Hebei and Beijing areas further north had long been the sphere of influence of merchants. In order to consolidate the rule of the land of Yan Zhao, King Wu of Zhou sealed the heavy minister Zhao Gongyi in "Northern Yan". However, this history makes people suspect that some scholars in modern times believe that the Yan kingdom may have been founded by Di Yi, that is, the later Di Yi forged it into a descendant of the Ji surname. There are two key reasons for this questioning: First, including the "Records of History", the historical descriptions of the early history of the Yan kingdom in the history books are about "the ninth generation of the Self-Summoning Gong to huihou." Marquis Huihou of Yan was the King of Zhou Li, at the time of the Republic (841 BC)", with a gap of 200 years in between; second, there was no piece of the Western Zhou bronze excavated, and there was not a single princely state with the name of "Yan".
In the 1950s, in the Liulihe area of Beijing's Fangshan District, a site from the early Zhou Dynasty, the Liulihe Ruins, was discovered, which was initially judged to be the early capital of the Yan State. After that, some bronzes were excavated one after another, with inscriptions such as "匽侯" and "Dabao", but it still made people have a little doubt about the early history of the Yan Kingdom. In 1974, a bronze artifact, the Violet Ding, was found at the site, with an inscription clearly stating, "Hou Ling 堇饴大保于宗周." Gengshen, the great bounty of viola, with the eldest son of Decabao. Zhong", that is, Hou Ji asked Yan to go to Zong Zhou to deliver delicacies (maltose) to the Great Bao, and then the Great Bounty gave the shells to the Yan. Words such as "匽侯", "Zong Zhou" (镐京), "Dabao" and so on made the truth of the matter clear, it turned out that the original title of the State of Yan was "匽国", which indeed originated from the line of Summoning Gongyi, as to why and when it was changed from "匽" to "Yan", it is still uncertain.
Therefore, the State of Yan did begin in the period of King Wu of Zhou, died in 222 BC, and guozuo was about 820 years old, making it the longest-lived country in the Seven Xiongs of the Warring States. (Pictured below, Yan Zhaowang, stills)
As for the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei, at first they all had their own fiefdoms, and later they were either annexed by the Jin state or defected to the Jin state, of which the ancestors of Korea and wei may have all had feudal states, such as the ancestor of the Wei state was Bi Gonggao, the fifteenth son of King Wen of Zhou, the founding ancestor of the Bi state, and the country defected to the Jin state after the country was destroyed. Therefore, the Three Kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei also have a long history, and it was only in the Warring States period that they formed an independent state.
Of course, although the Seven Heroes of the Warring States have long disappeared, they have appeared repeatedly in later generations, such as Xiang Yu, the King of Chu, Han Xin, the King of Qi, Zhu Di, the King of Yan, and so on, so in a sense, they have always existed.