In the minds of the ancients, if a meritorious general could enjoy the temple, it would be the supreme glory, which meant that his merits and deeds were recognized.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, there were the Temple of Literature and the Temple of Wu, and the Temple of Literature was dedicated to a group of courtiers, the holy kings were Confucius, the Saint Mencius, and there were also ten zhe and seventy-two sons. The Wu Temple, on the other hand, is dedicated to martial generals, of which the Holy King is Jiang Taigong and the YaSheng is Zhang Liang, who is also equipped with the Seventy-two Sons of Ten Zhe.
Today we are talking about the martial arts temple. The Wu Temple is a temple set up by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, in which Jiang Ziya, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty, is the main sacrifice, zhang liang of the Han Dynasty is the companion, and ten famous generals of the past dynasties are subordinate. After Emperor Suzong of Tang revered Jiang Taigong as King Wucheng, this temple was referred to as Wumiao for short.
The main sacrifice and the sharing of the Martial Temple have remained basically unchanged for thousands of years, but the ten famous generals who accompanied them have changed. When Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty, first went to the Wu Temple to worship, he erased the dignity of a person by name, believing that he was not worthy of enjoying the offering.
Who is this hapless warrior? He was Bai Qi, the god of war of the Qin Kingdom, who ranked first among the Ten Philosophers, and the reason why he was said by Zhao Kuangyin that he was not worthy was because of a widely criticized reason - killing and descending.
Needless to say, in addition to Bai Qi, han xin, zhuge liang, Li Jing, Wu Qi and others who enjoy this honor are all military tycoons and industry authorities.
Bai Qi, who is known as the God of War, is the best of them, because he is not only proficient in the art of war, but also has a personal strength score, which is more amazing than the others. After all, most of the other people are mainly based on advice, and there are few times when they go on the field to kill the enemy.
Bai Qi is a fierce general, who has been fighting on the battlefield for more than 30 years, destroying millions of enemies and attacking countless cities, it can be said that he has not tasted defeat, is a genuine and victorious general, and has made unparalleled contributions to the great cause of the unification of the Qin Dynasty.
The only thing that is reprehensible is that the killing is too heavy. Originally, after fighting so many big battles, killing people could not be avoided, and later he killed 400,000 Zhao Guo's troops in the First Battle of Changping, and suddenly fell from the altar and became the object of people's accusations. Later generations have criticized this, after all, the ancients thought that killing was ominous.
It was for this reason that Zhao Kuangyin ordered Bai Qi to be removed from the Ten Philosophers of the Martial Temple, bluntly saying that the enemy would surrender and be killed, which was obviously an act of immorality and unworthy of offerings.
In fact, regarding the matter of Bai Qi's killing and surrender, modern people can see it, after all, judging from the situation at that time, the Qin State was suffering from the conquest of the four sides, and it was unable to take care of the prisoners, if it was released, it would increase the strength of the Zhao State, and it was really helpless to kill them in white. But the ancients didn't care so much, they only knew that they were killing in vain and losing morality, so they criticized him a lot, and it was really wronged to kill him.