In the Fengshen Rendition, we are very familiar with two place names, one is the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Xiqi, and the other is the capital of the Shang Dynasty, Chaoge, these two places are often legendary in everyone's mouth, but many people are actually not very clear about the specific location of these two places, so do these two places exist in real life? Where is it now?
Pilgrimage
The biggest villain in the Fengshen Rendition is the Shang Dynasty monarch Shang Gong Wang, although a little skilled, but good joy, often oppress the surrounding countries, and indulge in pleasure, created a wine pond meat forest for their own entertainment, fainted, so that the dissatisfaction of the people in the world, it is under this opportunity, the army that rebelled against the Shang King under the leadership of King Ji Fa of Zhou Wu began to counterattack.
Although the Shang Dynasty army was strong, the fighting power of the rebel army was stronger, and in the end, the Shang Dynasty army was defeated and retreated, and even the King of Shang Was personally out of his horse, he could not stop the rebel army's offensive. Seeing that the general trend had gone, the King of Shang was discouraged, he knew that what he had done had made the people of the world very dissatisfied, and if he surrendered, he would definitely be greatly humiliated, so in order to avoid humiliation, he chose to self-immolate and die. Since then, the Shang Dynasty has perished and the Zhou Dynasty has been established!
"History of Yin Benji": King Wu of Zhou then led the princes to cut down the silk. He also sent troops to Makino. On the day of the koshi, the soldiers were defeated. He walked in, climbed the deer platform, dressed in his precious jade clothes, and went to the fire to die. King Wu of Zhou then beheaded the head and the white flag of the county.
In everyone's impression, Chaoge is the capital of the Shang Dynasty, and eventually the King of Shang also died in Chaoge, but in fact, for a long time, the state of the Shang Dynasty was Yindu, and the reason why everyone would call the Shang Dynasty Yin Shang and call the Shang Dynasty ruins Yin Ruins is because the city of Yin existed for a long time as the capital of the Shang Dynasty! However, in the generation of the King of Shang, because his early Wenzhi martial arts were very good and made the Shang Dynasty very powerful, the King of Shang's self-confidence exploded and wanted to expand the city, so Chaoge became the capital of the Shang Dynasty and became the political and cultural center of the Shang Dynasty.
Although the king of Lu was defeated and killed, the huge clan behind him was not destroyed, and the rulers of the Zhou Dynasty were not willing to kill the four sides, because the strength of the Yin Shang clan was still very strong, and if they rushed to war against them, the strength of the Zhou Dynasty would also be seriously weakened, so everyone reached a tacit understanding with each other: the descendants of the Yin Merchants submitted to the Zhou Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty guaranteed the safety of the descendants of the Yin Merchants, and did not kill them all. Although the rulers of the Zhou Dynasty were reluctant to kill the descendants of Yin Shang, they also had to guard against the resurgence of Yin Shang, so they adopted a differentiated approach to the descendants of Yin Shang.
King Wu of Zhou divided Wu Geng, the son of King Shang, into Chaoge and had his three younger brothers create a state near Chaoge to monitor Wu Geng and prevent Wu Geng from rebellion. However, what people did not expect was that after the death of King Wu of Zhou and when King Cheng was young, Wu Geng actually rebelled together with king Wu of Zhou's younger brother, but fortunately, the Duke of Zhou reacted in time and successfully foiled the plot. After defeating the rebels, the Duke of Zhou felt that the place of Chaoge could not let the descendants of Yin Shang stay any longer, so he divided the descendants of Yin Shang into two, part of them let them go to Shangqiu, and finally established the Song State there, and part of them let them go to Yin Capital, where they established the Wei State. Through various measures, the descendants of Yin Shang were completely pacified, and Chaoge, as the capital of the former Shang Dynasty, was completely burned.
Since then, Chaoge has completely withdrawn from the historical stage, due to the long distance in age, everyone has not been conclusive about the specific location of Chaoge, until modern times, archaeologists after rigorous argumentation, finally determined that Chaoge is located in the south of the city of Hebi City, Henan Province!
Nishiki
Xiqi is the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty, because it is located in the Qishan Mountains and is in the west, so it is named Xiqi. Xiqi had been the capital of the Zhou Dynasty when the Zhou Dynasty had not defeated the King of Shang, but by the time of King Wen of Zhou, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty had changed. With the strength of the Zhou Dynasty, they continued to expand everywhere, pacifying many surrounding tribes, and with the expansion of the Zhou Dynasty's power and territory, the command center must also move forward accordingly, so in the later period, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty directly changed from Xiqi to Fengyi, known as Fengjing in history!
Although Xiqi is no longer the capital of the country, it has not actually declined rapidly, and for a long time, Xiqi is still very prosperous. However, in the end, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty moved east, Xiqi is no longer the capital of the country, it will eventually decline, plus the location of Xiqi is indeed relatively biased, so in the end Xiqi still went into decline and became an ordinary city. According to expert research, the Xiqi of the Zhou Dynasty is actually near Qishan County in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province!
epilogue
In the Fengshen Yanyi, Chaoge and Xiqi, as the capitals of the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, are place names that we are all very familiar with, but many people probably do not understand where these two places are now, after reading this article, do you know the specific addresses of these two places?
(This article mainly refers to the "Fengshen Yanyi", "Notes on the Water Classic", and "Historical Records")