Mencius lost his father at a young age, and after his mother's careful teaching, he suddenly woke up, and later grew into a generation of great thinkers, who were praised by posterity as Confucian sub-saints and became a model for literati for thousands of years. However, what is less known is that There is a disgraceful page on Mencius' ancestors, whose ancestors were the sons of the lu monarchs, who once killed two monarchs in a row, and because of the excessive crimes, the name of the ancestor became synonymous with the civil unrest in later generations.
The state of Lu is a country that is suspicious and sad, and the reason for the suspicion is that the state of Lu holds the right to write history and writes history on behalf of Zhou Tianzi, so if anyone is not pleasing to the eye, he will smear his two sentences and nail it to the column of shame of history; the reason for the sadness is that the state of Lu is only a small country, and the powerful state of Qi is next to it, resulting in it being often bullied by the state of Qi.
In the early Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Lu Huan married the beautiful Wen Jiang, but Wen Jiang had already had an affair with his half-brother Qi Xianggong, so Lu Huan Got Wen Jiang's people, but he could not get Wen Jiang's heart. Once, When Duke Huan of Lu visited the State of Qi with his wife Wen Jiang, Duke Xiang of Qi had an affair with Wen Jiang, and when Duke Huan learned of this, he was furious and reprimanded Wen Jiang, so Duke Xiang of Qi did not stop doing anything, drunk him, and sent someone to strangle him.
In the face of the powerful State of Qi, the people of lu could only consider themselves unlucky, and then the eldest son of Duke Huan of Lu succeeded to the throne, known in history as "Duke Zhuang of Lu". However, when Duke Luzhuang succeeded to the throne, the three half-brothers were all Qing Dafu, namely Zhongsun Qingfu, Uncle Sun's Shuya, and Jisun's Jiyou, who jointly assisted Duke Luzhuang.
In ancient times, the order of brothers was: Bo (Meng), Zhong, Uncle, and Ji, Bo represented the eldest son of Concubine, and Meng represented the eldest son of Shu. At that time, when the man was 20 years old, the crown ceremony took the word, and the structure was "rank + private name + Fu", of which "甫" passed "father", so you can see the titles of "Bo Father" and "Zhong Father" in the history books.
Duke Lu Zhuang was a generation of British lords, reusing Cao Jiao, and once defeating his old enemy Qi Guo (Cao Jiao Controversy), but in his later years he did not deal with the issue of heirs.
According to the succession system of the State of Lu, the eldest son of the concubine inherits the throne, but if there is no concubine, the throne can be inherited by the younger brother who is in line with the throne. The problem is that Lu Zhuang's righteous wife Wai Jiang (daughter of the Prince of Qi) is not fertile, Wai Jiang's sister Uncle Jiang has Shuzi Gongzi Qi, pet concubine Meng Ren has Gongzi Ban, and there is also an unappreciated Gongzi Shen, and Lu Zhuang Gong likes Gongzi Ban and does not like Gongzi Qi, so he wants to arrange For Gongzi Ban to be the heir. Since Gongzi Qi is the son of Lai Jiang's sister, if the Luzhuang gongchuan is located in him, then Gongzi Qi can not only get the support of Wai Jiang, but also the support of Qi Guodingli, and his position will be relatively stable. However, Meng Ren was the daughter of the Lu Guo Dafu Dang clan, and her background was relatively poor, and if the Lu State inheritance system did not have a concubine, the throne could be inherited by the younger brother Qing Father, so it was passed on to Gongzi Ban, which was very likely to cause civil unrest.
In order to ensure that Gongzi Ban succeeded to the throne, Duke Luzhuang tested the third brother Shuya and the fourth brother Jiyou, who believed that it should be inherited by Qing's father, and JiYou believed that it should be inherited by Gongzi Ban. In order to avoid collusion between Shuya and Qingfu, at the behest of Duke Luzhuang, Ji You used Shuya's family as a threat and poisoned Shuya.
After the death of Duke Zhuang of Luzhuang, Ji You supported Gongzi Ban to take the throne. QingFu was very unwilling, so he conspired with his old lover Wai Jiang, and the two prepared to assassinate Gongzi Ban. At that time, a groom named "Luò" flirted with Gongzi Ban's favorite maid, and was whipped by Gongzi Ban and held a grudge, so Qing Father instigated Xing Yin to assassinate Gongzi Ban during the funeral of Duke Luzhuang.
Duke Zhuang had just died, Xinjun had died again, and in order to avoid suspicion, Father Qing had established his uncle Jiang's son, the eight-year-old gongzi Qi, as a king, and was known as "Duke Lu Min" in history. Soon after, Father Qing felt that Gongzi Qi was an obstacle and prepared to kill him as the monarch. At that time, the emissaries of the State of Qi reported to the Duke of Qi Huan that "if you don't go to Qing Father, Lu Huan is not long gone", although Duke Qi Huan is the uncle of Duke Lu Min, but he is in a period of competition for hegemony and being a model for the princes, and he cannot kill the ministers of other princely states for no reason, so he can only support the Duke of Lu Min to govern the country and let Ji You serve as the minister of state.
However, the following year, Father Qing couldn't help himself and instructed a man named "Gong" to attack and kill Duke Lu Min and prepare to establish himself as a monarch. Seeing that both monarchs had been assassinated, Ji You took advantage of the chaos and fled with his son Shen (邾子) to the state of Qi (邾国, in present-day Zou County, Shandong), and at the same time issued a letter of rebellion, calling on the people to kill Qingfu and support Ji Shen. After that, the people of the country responded to the call, and Qingfu was very frightened and fled to Juguo. After Ji Shen (Duke of Lu) succeeded to the throne, Ji You bought off Ju Guo, and Qing's father committed suicide on the way, but the family was saved.
Because Qing father was in turmoil and killed two monarchs in a row, he often compared the person who created civil unrest to "Qing Father", and the idiom "Qing Father does not die, and Lu is not dead" is derived from this.
Then, Qing's father is the Zhongsun clan, which is supposed to be the second in line, how did his descendants become the Meng surname?
Originally, Qingfu was actually the eldest son of Shu, and should be "Meng" in order, but because Ji Tong (Duke Of Luzhuang) was the monarch, in order to show that the king was greater than the subject, he called himself "Zhong" - the second eldest. The commentaries of the past dynasties point out that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Qingfu called himself "Zhongshi", but in fact people at that time called "Zhongshi" as "Mengshi". After the death of Duke Luzhuang and Father Qing, the descendants reverted to their original titles, and the son of Father Qing was not called Zhongsun Ao, but Meng Sun Ao, and his nickname was "Meng Mu Bo". For a time in the late Spring and Autumn Period, his descendants took "Zhongsun" as their surname, but their nicknames all began with the word "Meng". Therefore, the ancestor of the Meng surname is Meng Sun Ao, the son of Qing Father, and Mengzi is the twelfth generation of Qing Father.
During the Warring States period, the Mengsun clan declined, and Mencius's ancestors migrated from the State of Lu to the State of Zou, but after arriving in the State of Zou, this branch continued to decline, and the poor life created the great Mencius.