It is said that after the death of the king of Tang, the Terran race will no longer have luck, and after death, there will be nine or nine emperors in the world, and some are just the Son of Heaven. Why would a comatose monarch known for his brutality cause such a big disagreement for posterity? Could it be that the demise of the Shang Dynasty was just because King Shun favored Daji? Now let me take you through the glorious history of the Shang Dynasty easily.
The Shang Dynasty is the second dynasty in Chinese history, with 17 dynasties and 31 kings, lasting for more than 500 years, and was later destroyed by the Zhou Dynasty. At the same time, it is also the first dynasty in Chinese history to have direct written records of the same period, and together with Xia Zhou, it is called the third dynasty of China, and has a very important position in Chinese history.
The Shang Dynasty was in the heyday of slavery, far more technologically and productive than any country at the same time, and the history of the Shang Dynasty can be roughly divided into three stages, early Shang, early Shang and late Shang. We call the period before the Shang extinction of the summer as the first shang, the Shang dynasty before and after the Tang extinction of the summer to the Pangeng migration to Yin is called the early shang, and the period after the Pangeng migration to Yin we call the late shang.
In the early days of the hereditary system of Shang kings, it was a disciple before a son, and later transformed into a typical father and son succession. In 1600 BC, Xia Wei was cruel and unkind, a clan with birds as a totem rose in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and its leader Shang Tang led his soldiers to raise troops to attack Xia, and near the present-day Fengqiu in Henan, the Battle of Narujo broke out, and Shang Tang defeated Xia Wei and established the Shang Dynasty, becoming the first boss of the Shang Dynasty, reigning for 30 years without a problem.
After Shang Tang's death, King Shang Wei and King Shang Yi successively inherited Shang Tang's legacy. The Shang Group lived a relatively stable life, but unfortunately both brothers lived very short, and both died after a total of seven years of reign. When Shang Tang's eldest grandson, Shang Taizong Taijia, took power, he began to be restless. Because Emperor Taizong of Shang subverted the typical example of Tang, he was banished to the Tong Palace by Yi Yin, the elder of the Four Dynasties, and after three years of trouble, no one took care of him, only then did he rehabilitate himself and was reinstated as king, and the history called Yi Yin Fang Taijia.
Taijia died after 23 years of reign, and in the 100 years after Shang Taizong's death, the Shang Group changed four bosses, Woding, Taigeng, Xiaojia and Yongji. These people have no great ability, are not diligent in national affairs, only seek pleasure all day, rely on the monopoly position of the business group, and live a dashing life. It was not until the ninth boss, Shang Zhongzong Taipen, came to power, that the situation of the Shang Group took a turn.
In his seventh year in office, a tree suddenly grew under the mulberry tree in the backyard. Tai Peng thought that this was a warning from heaven to him, and since then, Tai Peng has been diligent in government and morality, governing the country and caring for the people, and has been quite cheerful, and this tree has really slowly withered. Emperor Zhongzong of Shang reigned for 75 years, and he was also the longest-reigning eldest in the history of the Shang Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Zhongzong of Shang, his son Shang Xiaocheng Wang Zhongding succeeded to the throne, but his old son was in power for too long, let him do everything he should do, Zhongding thought, I also have to do something, so he signed the capital city, now Shangqiu, Henan, and died of illness after only 11 years of reign.
After Zhongding's death, his younger brothers fought for the throne, causing the Ninth Rebellion, which led to the decline of the Shang Dynasty for a while. In the end, Zhongding's younger brother Shang Si Wang Wairen successfully succeeded to the throne and became the 11th boss of the Shang Group, reigning for 15 years and dying. By the time of the Shang Dynasty of King Pinghe, the Shang Dynasty would be a little able to do it, don't quarrel about that, what's going on?
Because King Ping of Shang also wanted to do something like his ancestors, he first learned from Xiaocheng Wang and moved the capital to Yuxiang, and then sent troops to conquer Lanyi and Ban Fang in the southeast, but he did not expect to make the Shang dynasty poorer and poorer, and he was hastily resigned in only nine years. Next, his son Zuyi the Prince of Shang Mu did two major things, one was to move the capital to Pi, and the other was to send troops to subdue Lanyi Banfang and other countries many times, lifting the threat of the Yi tribe in the southeast to the Shang Dynasty, causing the national fortune to flourish again, and died of illness after reigning for 19 years.
In the 100 years after the death of King Mu of Shang, the Shang Dynasty experienced the four bosses of King Shang Huan, King Shang Xuan, King Shang Zhuang, and King Shang Yuan, and life was worse day by day. During the nine years of the reign of King Shang, the Shang Dynasty was even more civil strife, the princes were not dynastic, the nobles killed each other, and the situation was uncontrollable. At this time, more than 500 years of Shang Dynasty history had been halfway through, and the baton of the Shang Dynasty passed to an important figure, he was Shang Shizu Pangeng.
In order to ease class contradictions, Pangeng ignored the opposition of the aristocracy and implemented the sixth move of the capital since Shang Tang, moving the capital to the deserted Yin, which is historically known as Pangeng Qianyin. After moving to Yin, Pangeng reduced exploitation, advocated thrift, and developed the new capital into a very prosperous city, so that for more than 270 years, the capital of the Shang Dynasty remained here, and the Shang Dynasty was also called Yin Shang by later generations.
The Shang Dynasty entered the late Shang period, and Yin Wu also became the first documented capital city site in Chinese history, which also proved that Chinese civilization had developed to a fairly mature stage in the Shang Dynasty. If the predecessors plant trees, then the descendants will have to take advantage of the cool. After Pan Geng's death, his two younger brothers, King Shang Zhang and King Shang Hui, succeeded to the throne, and these two people not only cared about pleasure for more than 40 years, but also gave up Pan Geng's statecraft, causing the Shang Dynasty's national fortunes to decline again.
It was not until another legendary emperor of the Shang Dynasty, Shang Gaozong Wuding, appeared, that the Shang Dynasty rose again. Wu Ding was sent to the countryside by his father as a teenager, incognito, well aware of the hardships of the bottom, and during this time he also met his future right-hand men Gan Pan and Fu said, and he also became the first young man in Chinese history to go down to the countryside for training.
Wu Ding's efforts to rule the Shang Dynasty achieved unprecedented political, economic, military, and cultural development. Sending heavy troops to defeat the Qiang side, penetrating deep into the land of Jingchu, defeating the Jingchu army, conquering the forces of Yifang, Bafang, Shu and Hufang, expanding the territory and sphere of influence of the Shang Dynasty, making the Shang Dynasty a great country with many tribes from Gansu in the west, the seashore and the Arctic desert in the east, and the Jianghan River basin in the south. He reigned for 59 years, and was known as Wuding Zhongxing.
Since Wu Ding, the seven bosses of the Shang Dynasty have all been a bit of a warrior, one can fight more than the other, Shang Hou Ping Wang, Shang Shizong, Shang Jiazong, Shang Kuanzu, Shang Wuzu, Shang Kuang King, Shang De King seven people have been for nearly 200 years, either in the war or on the way to the war, the surrounding Qiang, the West these forces one by one, but they have not really conquered them, the Shang Dynasty's national strength has gradually declined.
By the time of King Shang, the capital of the Shang Dynasty had signed Mo, which is known as the Dynasty Song, which is now Qi County, Henan. King Shang was intelligent and powerful, and he once attacked Dongyi in a big way, won victories, and made certain contributions to the spread of Central Plains culture. However, the king of Shang was cruel, spoiled himself, and overhauled the palace, causing the people to have a poor life. Endless wars combined with heavy labor became the last straw that overwhelmed the Shang Dynasty. At this time, the Western Zhou was gradually growing, and finally defeated Shang Jun in the Battle of Makino, and King Shang also set himself on fire and died. The Shang Dynasty, which lasted for more than 500 years, was finally replaced by the Zhou Dynasty, and a dynasty with the longest duration in Chinese history is coming, please like and pay attention to the next issue, and take you to see the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty in one breath.