Cao Cao left an ancient famous sentence in the "Short Song Line", "Zhou Gong spits and feeds, the world returns to the heart", comparing himself to Zhou Gong, hoping that the world's talents will all belong to his command!
The Duke of Zhou was surnamed Ji Mingdan, the fourth son of Ji Chang, and a loyal minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Shangshu Da biography summarizes his exploits as follows: "One year to save the chaos, two years to ke yin, three years to jianxiang, four years to build hou wei, five years to camp into Zhou, six years to make liturgical music, seven years to become a king"!
Therefore, for a long time, people regarded Zhou Gong as the first auxiliary chancellor recorded in the history books, and there was no doubt about the sage of Zhou Gongzhi, but the first auxiliary chancellor was not very accurate, and there was also a minister in the Shang Dynasty before Zhou Gong, who was ordered to assist Emperor Xin, the king of Zhou, who was loyal and loyal, and finally died because of advice.
He is the Bigan known as the "Loyal Servant of the Ancients".
An image in a film or television drama
People who have watched the "Fengshen Yanyi" must know that Bigan is the uncle of Emperor Xin of the Nine-tailed Fox, who has the "Seven Tricks of Linglong Heart" given by Nuwa, was ordered by the previous king to assist the King of Qi, loyal and loyal, and was hated by Dai Ji for burning the fox grandson of the "Nine-tailed Fox" Dai Zi.
In order to take revenge on Bigan, Dai Ji lied to the King of Ling that he was suffering from heartache, and only Bigan's "Seven Tricks of Linglong Heart" could be cured, and the faint and incompetent King of Ling actually ordered Bigan to cut out his heart to cure His own illness, and the disheartened Bigan cut himself off his heart and died of death.
After the fall of the Shang Dynasty and the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Ziya held the list of gods, and the great seal of meritorious service, Bi Gan was named "Wenqu Star" because of his unparalleled loyalty and righteousness, and from then on he jumped out of the ordinary world and ranked in the Immortal Class!
Historically true than dry
In history, there is indeed a Bigan qiren, not a fiction, Than gan is from a noble origin, he is the Shang King Wending Shuzi, the brother of Emperor Yi, after the death of Emperor Yi, his son Emperor Xin succeeded to the throne, for the Shang Dynasty, Emperor Yi was entrusted to Lonely Bigan when he was dying, so Bigan should be the first "auxiliary minister" in history.
The real Di Xin is not as faint and incompetent as in the film and television drama, but quite talented, he has a large waist, natural divine power, loves to attack and fight the most, after succeeding to the throne, he strongly advocates external expansion, often launches aggressive wars, and Many of Bi gan's advice has been rejected by Di Xin.
Western Zhou rebelled against the Shang, and Emperor Xin was furious and raised the strength of the whole country to cut down the Zhou, but at this time, the Shang Dynasty had just ended a major war with Xu Yiguo, and the national strength was seriously depleted.
Therefore, Bi Gan suggested sticking to the song and recuperating, who knew that such advice was regarded by Di Xin as an act that shook the hearts of the army, so he ordered Bi Gan to be killed, and a generation of loyal subjects died!
Afterwards, Bi Gan became a proverb, the Western Zhou Became more and more courageous in the War, the Shang Dynasty turned from attack to defense, and finally the two armies confronted each other in Muye, the prisoners temporarily pulled by Di Xin turned against each other, the Shang army was defeated, the Western Zhou army broke through chaoge, Di Xin set himself on fire in the Star Picking Tower, and the Shang Dynasty perished.
Origin of the Lin surname
When Bigan fell, his wife Chen was already pregnant with Liujia, in order to protect The Blood of Bi gan, she risked her life to escape from Chaoge, lived in seclusion in Changlin, and gave birth to a boy a few months later, Chen pointed to the land as a surname, named "Quan", for Bigan's widow "Lin Quan"!
After the establishment of Western Zhou, King Wu of Zhou admired Bi Gan's loyalty and righteousness, ordered the search for Bi Gan's descendants, and finally found Chen and his son "Lin Quan", after King Wu of Zhou saw Lin Quan, he officially gave him the surname of "Lin" and changed his name "Quan" to "Jian", for "Lin Jian"! Since then, the Lin surname has appeared, and Bigan is the ancestor of the Lin clan.
There is a relevant record in the "Cihai": Lin, "surname also, the history of Yin Bigan took refuge in the mountain of Changlin, because Lin was a clan name".
In the Song version of the "Hundred Family Names", lin surname ranked after the hundred, for the "minority" surname, after hundreds of years of development, the Lin people Ding prosperous, talented, in the last national census, lin surname people have exceeded 10 million, in China's many surnames have risen to sixteen, called the big surname.
Most of the people surnamed Lin are distributed in the south, the north is relatively rare, in the south of many surnames, Lin surname ranks fourth, of which Fujian Province Lin surname has the largest number of people, has been nearly five million!
brief summary
Bigan single-mindedly for the country, loyal, worthy of the name of "ancient loyal subjects", and finally died because of advice, it is a pity, the "Incarnation into Immortals" depicted in the "List of Fengshen Gods" is only a fiction of posterity to show the admiration of Bi gan, and still the folk still call Bigan "Wenqu Star"!
It is gratifying that although Bigan died because of the advice, his ambition was difficult to exert, but his life continued in another form, he was the ancestor of the Lin surname, and now more than ten million people with the Surname of Lin can be said to be his descendants!
Bigan was buried in Weihui after death, as the first loyal minister in history to die because of the advice, Bigan was deeply respected by posterity, in 497 BC, Confucius traveled around the world, came to Weiguo, saw the tomb of Bigan after respectfully held a memorial, and wielded a sword to carve four words "Yin Bi Ganmo" four big characters, now this stone stele is still preserved in the Bigan Temple, because it is the true hand left by the "Most Holy Ancestor", so it is called "the first monument in the world" by posterity!
References: "List of Fengshen Gods", "Short Song Line", "Shangshu Da biography"