This Zhou Gong, who is also the Zhou Gong who "interprets dreams of Zhou Gong" and "performs the ritual of Zhou Gong", some people want to ask what is the meaning of "Zhou Gong's gift"? This requires curious friends to check it out for themselves...
Because everyone is more familiar with the Three Kingdoms and More Familiar with Cao Cao, they still start with Cao Cao's "Short Song Line": "... Qingqing ZiZhen, leisurely my heart.....Zhou Gong spits and feeds, and the world returns to the heart. Therefore, this sentence was said by Cao Chengxiang.
Q: What feelings does this poem express about Cao Cao?
Answer: To express Cao Chengxiang's mood of "seeking talents and thirsting for talents", this is Cao Chengxiang's "Book of Recruitment under the Heavens".
Why does "Zhou Gong spit and feed, the world returns to the heart" means to recruit talents and talents? The allusion comes from Sima Qian's "History of the Lu Zhou Gong Family".
The Duke of Zhou, not Ji Chang the King of Zhou Wen, but his fourth son Ji Dan, the younger brother of Ji Fa the King of Zhou Wu, was in Zhou, and the feudal Caiyi (i.e., the home of the family kingdom under heaven) was in Zhou, and the Shanggong was a knighthood, known as the Duke of Zhou, and later known as the Duke of Zhou.
At the beginning of the "History of the Lu Zhou Gong Family", Sima Qian used "Dan is filial piety for sons, Du Ren", that is, "Ji Dan is very filial to his son, and he is very benevolent and benevolent". The reason why Zhou Gong was famous and respected by later generations was first, because of his political and military ability to govern the country, and second, sima Qian's meaning was that Zhou Gongdan was a high-spirited and bright-mannered courtier, a corporal of official courtesy, a noble character, and outstanding ability.
King Wu of Zhou was successful in his conquest and divided the world, and the recipients were meritorious servants, surnames and relatives, and Zhou Gongdan was sealed as an imperial relative in what is now Qufu, Shandong, which is later the state of Lu. However, the world was decided, and King Wu of Zhou did not want his younger brother, who was talented and virtuous, to leave his side and wanted to stay by his side to assist the government, so the Duke of Zhou asked his son Bo Yan to go to the state of Lu to replace himself as the Duke of Lu, and he stayed with Tianzi to assist the government. The Duke of Zhou not only assisted King Wu of Zhou, but also assisted the infant King Cheng of Zhou, quelled some rebellions in his childhood, and strictly adhered to the way of the king and the people of the world.
When his son was on his post, the Duke of Zhou instructed his son BoYao: "I am the son of King Wen, the brother of King Wu, and the uncle of King Cheng, and I am not a lowly person in the world." However, I caught my hair three times, spit and fed three times, and waited for the soldiers, as if I was afraid of losing the sages of the world. Zi Zhilu, cautious and proud of the country. "What do you mean?" Just say, "I Ji Dan is the son of King Wen of Zhou, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, the uncle of King Cheng of Zhou, the identity of the whole world, is the honor of one person under ten thousand people, but in order to recruit talents to the imperial court, I lowered my posture to the dust, there are sages to visit, I never let them wait, I wash my hair once to interrupt three times to receive the sages (this is a bit exaggerated, and the ancients certainly did not use shampoo, otherwise full of foam, why stop?). Eat a meal, spit out the food in your mouth three times to receive the Magi..." Imagine being so busy that you don't even have time to wash your hair and eat, how busy it is, it is estimated that the gate of his house should be open every day, otherwise the doorkeeper who guards the door will be exhausted when he opens the door and closes the door.
Cao Cheng Xiang said, "Zhou Gong spits and feeds, the world returns to the heart", Cao Cheng Xiang quoted the scriptures, exported into a chapter, and also passed on a word to the world's talents: "I am the zhou gong of the present world, at this time, if you are thirsty for talents, come to me quickly, I respect you, reuse you, treat you kindly, give the house to the car to the household registration, and subsidies..."
The son of the Duke of Zhou went to the fiefdom of Luguo, changed its customs, and changed its etiquette, which is probably not unrelated to ludi's later becoming a state of etiquette, after all, the father of the founding prince of the state of Lu was the originator of etiquette, Zhou Gong.
Zhou Gong not only governed the country and assisted the government well, but also had a strong pen pole. King Wu wrote the mobilization order "Pastoral Oath", and also wrote "Duoshi", "WuYi", which exhorted the young King Of Zhou Cheng to be diligent in the imperial government, and most importantly, wrote "Zhou Guan" in his later years, which was later changed to "Zhou Li" by Wang Mang and others of the Han Dynasty, which is what is seen today.
After the Presidents of the United States stepped down, did they write books and sell books to get rich, and the inspiration came from China's ancestors? Looking at many high-ranking officials of various dynasties, in their later years, they must write a book or preside over the compilation of this book, summarizing their lifelong experience in governing the country for officials.
The Zhou Li perfected the official system of the Zhou Dynasty and stipulated the duties of hundreds of officials in order to standardize etiquette and consolidate rule. The content covers almost all aspects from the upper to the official system to the farming, all kinds of rules and regulations, the way of etiquette, sacrifice and worship, medical divination, education, politics, military, criminal law, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishing, food, clothing, housing and travel, everything.
For example, the "Straw Man/Feather Man" under the Zhou Li Di Guan Situ not only stipulates the duties of the Straw Man/Feather Man, but also describes in detail the methods of performing the duties. The responsibility of the straw man is to "take charge of improving the soil and adapting it to local conditions", and the specific improvement methods are also specified in detail: "What kind of land is improved with what kind of fertilizer, some soils should be improved with cow dung, some should use sheep manure, some should use elk manure, some should use deer manure, some should use pig manure, and some should use dog manure..." Of course, there is no comparison with what soil uses phosphate fertilizer, what soil uses potassium fertilizer, and what soil uses nitrogen fertilizer, but it is a low-productivity slave society nearly 3,000 years ago. Methods are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors.
The book "Zhou Li" has been examined many times by later generations, and there are those who have raised objections to its author, believing that it was not implemented in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which needs further evidence from archaeology, but it is of great significance to the feudal bureaucracy of later dynasties and generations, and the official system of many dynasties can see the shadow of the official system of "Zhou Li".
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