Nange Shui Brother, where to say. Hello everyone, today Xiaobian came to talk to you about the character stories of the Spring and Autumn Period, and today I want to tell the story of a Ling Yin of the Chu Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period called Dou Yu Yu Also called Ziwen.
To tell the story of this mr. Yu Yu, we must first explain a few key concepts. One is how the name came to be why it's so strange.
The situation during the Spring and Autumn Period
According to the record of the "Four Years of Zuo Chuan Xuangong", (the original text is Wen Yanwen, in order to express it clearly, Xiaobian will interpret it in the vernacular) This child called Ziwen was born with very twists and turns. His father, Dou Bobi, and Xiao San were born for adultery, but they were abandoned in Yunmeng Daze, but fortunately a tiger fed him with milk to keep him alive. One day, when the monarch of the Kingdom of Yun found this child raised by a tiger while hunting in the field, he felt that it was amazing and brought it back to the palace to be raised, so he gave him this name called Dougu Yusuke. The meaning of this yu yu in Chu Chinese is the meaning of tiger milk raising. Interestingly, Dou Yu was born on May 5, and Qu Yuan, another great poet of the Chu state, committed suicide on May 5. The difference is that Dou Yu yu began to achieve the hegemony of the Chu state, while Qu Yuan threw himself into the river because he resented the demise of the Chu state.
Well, after the introduction of the prelude, our male protagonist debuted. After eight years of confrontation, King Cheng of Chu finally put an end to the internal unrest in Ziyuan. And the country is in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, and it needs a special Ling Yin who has the ability to govern the country to lead the country to the road of hegemony. So King Cheng of Chu confessed ziwen as Ling Yin and began the story of a long reign.
At that time, the Chu state was in ruins, the country was poor, and the people's livelihood was poor, as the ruler of the country (note that the King of Chu at this time belonged to the stage of comprehensive decentralization and was only responsible for watching the direction of the wind), he had to have a fearless spirit of sacrifice to devote himself to production and construction. Therefore, the history books gave Ziwen's evaluation of this experience as destroying the family and relieving the difficulties. Sell your property and devote yourself to the governance of the country.
After that, the story is a routine of striving to govern and support the Chu Room, first launching an attack on some small countries in the surrounding areas, including the Huang Kingdom, the Jiang Kingdom, the String State, and the Tateyama State. Because the political system of the Chu state is different from that of the Central Plains countries, all the countries that are captured belong to the public office rather than to the feudal, so the power of the Chu state office is increasing day by day, and the intention of hegemony is further promoted. In the thirteenth year of King Cheng of Chu, he launched three consecutive attacks on the State of Zheng and forced the great power of the Central Plains to submit to Chu. Zheng Guo had no choice but to pull the then Central Plains overlord Qi Guo to preside over justice.
In the sixteenth year of King Cheng of Chu and the fourth year of the Duke of Lu, the Duke of Qi Huan organized the United Nations army to attack the Cai State, an ally of the Chu State, which was actually a crusade against the Chu State. Ling Yin Ziwen tit-for-tat, sent an ambassador to Qu Quan, and held peace talks at the Combined Forces of the State of Qi at Zhaoling. Temporarily mediated the Chu state's plan to go north, which was also the farthest crusade plan of Qi Huangong's life. Open the era of more than ten years of hegemony between Qi and Chu.
For Ziwen's personal incorruptibility, it can be regarded as the most incorruptible in the entire Spring and Autumn Period. Such a story is recorded in the "Chinese Chu Language". Yin Ziwen's feng lu was used to relieve the commoners, so the imperial court prepared a dry food and a piece of bacon for Ziwen every day to feed his family, and this tradition was continued. In addition, King Cheng of Chu proposed to increase Ziwen's salary three times, but he refused or even threatened to resign. Such a high style and bright temperament, until nearly 300 years later, the rulers of the Late Warring States period of the Chu State often mentioned Ziwen's sentiment of honesty and public service at that time. Confucius referred to Ziwen Sanshi Sanshe's actions in the Analects as loyalty.
The story always has an end. After Ziwen retired, He was succeeded by The Most Outstanding Ziyu of the Dou Clan. Although he was also a capable subject, he eventually committed suicide due to the defeat at the Battle of Chengpu in Jin and Chu, which also ruined the best chance for King Cheng of Chu to dominate the Central Plains.
The Dou clan began to prosper for several generations since Ziwen, but prosperity declined. In the end, DouYue Pepper launched the rebellion of the Ruo Ao clan, so that the Dou family completely lost the living space in the Chu state and was almost wiped out by the entire clan, leaving only the descendants of Dou Yue Yu Yu, who continued to guard the frontier for the chu state town, which also showed the position of Ziwen in the hearts of the Chu people.