Fifty-eight of the Five Thousand Years of China: The Hometown of Taigong

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Jiang Shang, a famous politician and military figure of the Western Zhou Dynasty, also called him Shi Shangfu, Taigong Wang, Grand Duke of Qi, Lü Shangren, Lü Ya, Lü Wang, Lü Hua, and ZiYa in the Bamboo Book Chronicles and Imperial Titles. His superb organizational skills and military command skills were admired even by Sun Wu. The "Art of War of Sun Tzu" says: "In the past Zhou Zhixingye, Lü Ya was in Yin. This means that Zhou's prosperity and strength are the result of Lü Ya's assistance. He assisted King Wu in cutting down the silk and brilliantly commanded the Makino War of unprecedented scale in Chinese history, which Comrade Mao Zedong affirmed as the "People's Liberation War" at that time (see Farewell, Stuart Leiden). Regarding Jiang Shang's life, encounters, and martial arts, there are many records in the ancient books of the pre-Qin Dynasty, but most of them are confusing and confusing, making it difficult to distinguish between right and wrong.

Qu Yuan raised the question of "What knowledge is in The Master's Hope" in "Heavenly Questions". For example, where is he from? The "History of the Qi Taigong Family" says that he was a "man from the East China Sea", the "Lü Shi Chunqiu" says that he was a "soldier of Dongyi", and the "Warring States Policy" says that he was a "Qi Zhi Zhi Fu" (a man who was driven out), which is really more and more confusing. In September 1983, comrades from the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries accompanied foreign guests from a magazine in Tokyo, Japan, to visit Taigong's hometown in Jixian County, Henan Province. Because the late Japanese writer Yukida Luban wrote a book that said, "Ki Prefecture is the hometown of Taigong." The first to raise the claim that Grand Duke Jiang was a "native of Ji County" was the Han Dynasty Hui ji (太守杜宣) and the Hanoi Xing Ji County Ling Cui Zhen (元瑗).

The "Notes on the Water Classics" says: "There is a Taigong Temple on the north side of the east gate of Jicheng City, and there is a stele cloud in front of the temple, and the county people's former council auditor Shou DuXuan and Gu Ling Cui Yi yue Taigong was born in Jicheng, and the old residence still exists." Secondly, there is also a record in the Book of Kizuka as "a person of Wei Zhiyi". During the Warring States period, Ji County belonged to Wei Jiyi. According to the records (Jin Shu Shu Chuan), in the second year of the Western Jin Dynasty Taikang (or the fifth year of Yan Xianning), the people of Ji County were not allowed to steal the tomb of King Wei Xiang (or the tomb of King Yan Wei Anao (xi) in the village of Jicheng, fifteen miles southwest of the city, and dozens of bamboo books were written in tadpole characters, all of which recorded the history of the Yellow Emperor from the end to the twentieth year of King Wei Xiang (299 BC), which was when King Xiang was not dead, and the historians of the State of Wei compiled the ancient records and their state books for the King of Xiang to review and pass on, so it was called the "History of the State of Wei". These bamboo books are handed down as the "Kizuka Book".

Sima Qian wrote the Records of History in 104 BC, and the Book of Kizuka was unearthed in 281. The Book of Kizuka, which has been buried for five or six hundred years, contains the idea that Taigong was a "Wei Jiyi person", which is nearly two hundred years earlier than Sima Qian's "People of the East Sea". Therefore, in the ninth year of the excavation of the Book of Kizuka, that is, in the tenth year of Taikang (289), Ji Ling Lu Wuji erected a monument to record the inscription "Qi Taigong Lü Wang, the people of this county", for details, see the "Golden Stone Compilation" volume 25 (Qi Taigong Lü Wang Table). This stele was originally placed in the Taigong Temple of Jixian County, and now the inscription has been destroyed, and only rubbings remain (refers to the shape of cultural relics such as inscriptions and stone carvings and bronzes, as well as the words and patterns on them. Tuo, ta ) can corroborate this.

In the Song Dynasty, the famous scholar Luo Bi said in his book (Lu Shi Zhi Zhi): "Tai Gong wang Hanoi also draws people." At that time, Ji County belonged to Hanoi County), and the Qing Dynasty classics master Wu Yi also asserted in the "Three Treks of The Golden Stone" that "then Ji Gu Qi Li, Hai Qu is a liuyu" in the "Three Treks of The Golden Stone". ", Weihui Fu Zhi, vol. 27 Clouds: "Zhou Taigong looked forward to Lü Shangji' people. In addition, the "Jixian Chronicle" and the "Jixian Jinzhi" have similar accounts, and historically, some people may have confused Taigong's hometown and youyu, which caused errors.

Yao Jia in the Warring States Strategy, Qin Ce V, says that Taigong is "the husband of Qi, the abolition of the song ... Chou is not trivial". This means that before King Wen of Taigongshi, he was the leader of a tribe that had been defeated by the Shang Dynasty, a useless butcher of Chaoge, and a native of Jijin (in present-day northeast of Yanjin County, Henan Province), who could not be appointed. "Thorn Jin", "Minutes of Reading the History of Fang Public Opinion", reads: "In the southern seven miles of Ji County. "Taigong was not used by Yin Shang, so he had to slaughter cattle and serve as a companion to others, and when he heard about Xi Bo's political virtues, he happily "resigned from The Thorn Jin and went west into Wei, and he also knew that King Wen was prosperous" "Lu Shi Taigong Zhouren Said"). Taigong left his hometown and went west to Weishui in Shaanxi to fish, and at the edge of The Weishui River, he met king Xi Bowen and was later used by king Wen. The Chronicle of the Examination of the Bamboo Book and the Chronicle of Yin Shang says: "In the thirty-first year of (King Wen), Xi Bozhi was a soldier in Bibi, and Lü Shang took him as a teacher. ”

In view of this, sima Qian, when writing the "History of the Family of The Prince of Qi", with a scientific attitude of history, did not confine himself (limited) to his own statement, but learned from the public, pointed out several possibilities, and specially added two paragraphs of "or yue" to the text: "Or: Lü Shang, Hidden Bin." Or: "Taigong is knowledgeable, tastes things, has no way to go, persuades the princes to encounter nothing, and returns to Zhou Xibo." These words are quite consistent with the statement in the two books of Mencius LiLou and Shangshu Da biography: Taigong "moved" to the East China Sea to avoid the silk, and the so-called Taigong was a "person from the East Sea", obviously, it was Taigong who lived in the East Sea. It is likely that Jixian is his true hometown, and there are still Taigong Temple, Taigong Ancestral Hall, Grand Duke Pavilion and Taigong Hometown Lu Village in Jixian County. In addition, there are cultural relics such as the Eastern Han Dynasty Cui Yao's "Taigong Temple Stele", the Western Jin Dynasty Lu Wuji's "Qi Taigong Lü Wangbiao" stele, and the Northern Wei Wuding Period Mu Yurong's "Rebuilding the Taigong Temple Stele", and these inscriptions have an account of "Taigong Jiyi People".

However, some famous scholars in history did not agree with this statement, and Wang Yun (号秋涧) was a disciple of Yuan Haohe, a famous politician and writer of the Yuan Dynasty. Yun, yun), in the "Complete Works of Mr. Qiu Jian", pointed out that Taigong is the crown of Ji County, "it is inevitable that it will only flow into the appendage". Obviously, Wang Yun disagreed with the claim that Ji County was the hometown of Taigong. The famous Qing Dynasty scholar Yan Kuxuan (qu) also said in his "Four Books of Interpretation" that "Taigong Lüwang's present-day Donglu Township" "Bowuzhi Notes" coincided with Yan's saying: "Haiqu County (present-day Dagu City, Donggang District, Rizhao City, Shandong Province) has Donglu Township Dongluli, and Taigongwang is also out." "Lü, or Ju (ju), is now the land of Yizhou in Shandong. In the twenty-three volumes of the Taiping Huanyu Chronicle, Yizhou, it is said: "Pre-Linyi, Yishui, Fei County, Chengxian County, Xintai, three hundred miles from east to west, three hundred and seventy-five miles from north to south." "There is no record of Taigong in the historiography involved.

However, judging from the relevant domestic literature, people cannot find any clues about the arguments used by Wang Yun and Yan Kuxuan. Therefore, the theory of "Haiqu" ("Dongluxiang") was refuted by the famous Qing Dynasty scholar Wu Yi. Wu Yi further elaborated in the third "Jin lu wuji jian taigong table" of the "Jinshi Three Treks" Jinshi Yibao volume: "Kaozhi's "Four Books interpretation of the land", after the Han LangYa state Haiqu County Liu Zhao quoted the "Naturalist Record" cloud, Taigong Wang, now there is Donglu Township, and fishing in Thorn Jin, its pu exists today. On that day, taigong avoided living on the coast of the East China Sea, which was his home, and Han Cui and Jin Lu wujie set up the Taigong Monument of Qi to think that the people of Jixian were wrong. Yu said otherwise, the "Notes on the Water Classics" said that the people of the county would be too shou Du Xuan, Bering Cui Yao, Tai Gong was born in Ji, the old residence still exists, Du Xuan's conquest of the ancient is not far away, deserved to be true, and Tai Gong both lives in the soil, close to the ruins of Chao Ge, can not bear its difficulties, and then hide in the east, then consolidate its Yili, Haiqu is LiuYu (hermitage) ear. The stele traces back to its beginning, and Yan Shi's "Four Books of Interpretation and Continuation" is wrong, and it is not very bad (yu)!"

Therefore, the "Luzi Dedication" says: "Boyi avoids the shores of the North Sea... Taigong avoids the shores of the East China Sea", indicating that the land of the East Sea is the "wandering residence" of Taigong avoidance. Is Jixian the hometown of Taigong? Further investigation is needed.