"The Legend of Chu Bile King Bear Bile "
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Chu Gong Wang Xiong Bile (Xióng dǎn), descendant of 鬻熊, surname 芈, Xiong clan, given name gall, also known as 黵; It is called "guts" in "Chu Ju", and it is also called "Xiong Yu" in "Shiji Chu Shijia".
Xiong Bile was the third king of Chu during the Zhou Dynasty of China, and succeeded his father "King of Chu Ai" Xiong Ai as the king of the State of Chu, and was historically known as the "King of Chu Billy".
Chapter 1: Family Lineage and Age of Survival
First, the blood relationship of the Chu Gallbladder King family
Xiong Er, the king of Chu Billy, was the son of Xiong Ai, the king of the state of Chu, and his mother was the daughter of the leader of the tribe surnamed Ji of Dayu, "Ji Yu". Xiong Bile married "Ying Zhen", the daughter of the tribal leader surnamed Ying, and had children Xiong Sheng and Xiong Jiao.
King Xiong Bile of Chu was the grandson of Xiong Yi the King of Chu, the grandson (5th grandson) of the cultural emperor Xiong Daxiong, the 38th grandson of Emperor Zhuanxiong, and the 40th grandson of the Yellow Emperor.
Second, the reign of King Chu is speculated
Around 981 BC, Xiong Ai, the king of Chu, died and Xiong Ai, the king of the state of Chu, died and Xiong Bile succeeded him as King of Chu, known as the "King of Chu Billy". The reign of King Chu was about 981 BC to 970 BC, a total of 11 years.
Third, the time of King Chu Guan is speculated
Chu bile king bear bile was born in the new capital of the Chu state "Yitun" in the Han River valley, if according to the bear bile father Xiong Ai was born bear bile around the age of 25, bear bile birth time, about 1040 BC.
The time of death of the king of Chu Gall, Xiong Bile is recorded in relevant historical records around 970 BC. Therefore, the survival period of King Chu Gallbladder is more than 3,000 years ago, about 1040 BC ∽ 970 BC, and the living time is about 70 years.
Chapter II: Historical Deduction of Life Deeds
First, the successor to the throne Queen of Chu exerted herself to govern
King Xiong Bile of Chu was a very accomplished king of the State of Chu, and after he succeeded his father Xiong Ai the King of Chu Ai, he worked hard to make the State of Chu stronger. During the reign of Xiong Bile , he fought against the third invasion of King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tianzi, and killed King Zhou Zhao of Zhou and the army of the Zhou Dynasty in Hanshui.
Second, Zhou Tianzi planned to destroy Chu again
Four years after the death of Chu Dynasty King Xiong Ai's father, Chu Ai King Xiong Ai, Zhou Zhao Wang Ji Fang, who was the son of Zhou Tianzi, observed the situation of the Chu state, and did not see any military talents of Chu Chu King Xiong Qi, so he vigorously reserved military forces and prepared to lead the Zhou Dynasty army to attack Jing Chu for the third time, in order to plunder the land and treasures of the Chu State and eliminate the threat of the rising Chu State to the Zhou Dynasty, in order to avenge the defeat of King Zhou Zhao's second defeat of Chu Ai King Xiong Ai.
Third, Zhou Tianzi felled Chu for the third time
Around 977 BC, King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tianzi, personally led the elite troops of the Zhou Dynasty to defend Haojing's "Western Sixth Division" and other Zhou Dynasty armies to attack Chujing for the third time.
At the beginning, the situation of King Zhou Zhao's army was still very good, and the Zhou army started from the Tang State and advanced smoothly south through the State of Li and the State of Zeng. In order to strengthen his momentum, King Zhou Zhao ordered the world with Zhou Tianzi and sent ministers to various large and small states in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to appease the tribes to organize armies to jointly destroy Chu, and King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tianzi, led his division up the river to the hinterland of Jingchu in the state of Chu.
Fourth, Zhou Tianzi was ambushed by King Chu Tianzi
Inheriting and carrying forward the military thinking and command skills of his father Chu Ai Wang Xiong Ai, he led the Chu army and people and some Jingchu tribes to join forces with the Zhou Dynasty army of King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tian, to maneuver around the Jingchu jungle, avoiding the actual attack and exhausting the Zhou Dynasty army, and laying a "battle situation" on the Hanshui River, the only way for the Zhou army to retreat.
When the Zhou Dynasty army of King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tian, crossed the Han River to attack the hinterland of the Chu state, King Chu lured the enemy deep into ambush King Zhou Zhao, and the Chu army surrounded King Zhou Zhao and the "Western Sixth Division" of the Zhou army in the jungle.
At this time, the Zhou Dynasty generals Shigong and Xin Yujing, who accompanied King Zhou Zhao to participate in the battle, found that they had entered the ambush circle of the Chu State, and they saw that the situation was not good and could be wiped out by the whole army, so they took some of the elite "Western Sixth Division" Zhou troops to protect Zhou Tianzi, King Zhou Zhao, and killed a bloody road to break through and escape.
5. Zhou Tianzi drowned in the Han River
The army of the Zhou Dynasty led by the Chu king Xiong Bile and the Jing-Chu army led by the king of Chu Tianzi was defeated, and King Zhou Zhao, under the protection of the generals Gong Gong and Xin Yujing, threw his armor and escaped from the encirclement set up by King Chu, and King Chu continued to command the Chu army to pursue King Zhou Zhao and his remnants behind him.
King Zhou Zhao and his party fled all the way to the Han River, and found that there were several new empty boats left by the Chu army on a port of the Han River, so the Zhou army hurriedly grabbed the boat, pushed the boat into the water, and the priests and others helped King Zhou Zhao to get on board in a hurry, preparing to cross the Han River to escape.
After King Zhou Zhao and others boarded the ship, when the boat reached the center of the river, the boat on which King Zhou Zhao and others were riding suddenly collapsed in the water, and King Zhou Zhao, together with the property of the people of Chudi that the Zhou army had plundered along the way, was buried in the river, and King Zhou Zhao, as the Son of Heaven, also drowned.
6. The mystery of the cause of Zhou Tianzi's death
According to relevant historical data research, we speculate that the reasons for the drowning of King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tianzi, in the Hanjiang River are:
The first is the elaborate design of King Chu Zhao: King Chu predicted that King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tian, would rush to cross the fleeing Han River port after the defeat, and let the Chu army prepare boats for King Zhou Zhao and the remnants of the Zhou army to cross the river in advance on the bank of the Han River that they must pass.
And these ships have long been made "organs" by the Chu army, and the ships placed on the Han River are only glued together with wooden planks with gum, and are not reinforced with iron nails at all. When King Zhou Zhao and they boarded the boat and sailed to the center of the river, the gum melted, the wooden boats cracked and fell apart, the boats sank to the bottom of the river, and King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tian, was buried in the belly of the fish.
The second is that King Zhou Zhao robbed the unfinished boat: after King Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tianzi, came to the Han River, the boat he grabbed was a new boat made by the local Chu people for fishing, and the boat was not yet completed and could not be used normally. Therefore, after the Zhou Tianzi King Zhou Zhao and them boarded the boat, when the boat encountered wind and waves in the center of the Han River, it cracked and sank.
Third, there are other special reasons: some sources believe that King Zhou Zhao suffered an earthquake when crossing the Han River; There are also sources that believe that the crocodile of the Han River swallowed King Zhou Zhao, etc.
According to the "Shiji • Zhou Benji" compiled by the historian Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty, it is recorded that King Zhao did not return from his southern patrol and died on the river. His pawn did not go to the prosecution, and he did not sue.
Chapter Three: Aftermath and Historical Contribution
First, the matter behind the death of King Chu Gall
(1) King Chu died Xiong Sheng succeeded to the throne: King Chu died about 970 BC seven years after he killed Ji Fang the Prince of Zhou Zhao, the son of Zhou Tian. Xiong Sheng, the eldest son of King Chu, succeeded him as King of Chu, and was historically known as "King Sheng of Chu".
(2) King Chu was buried in Yitun, the capital of Chu: According to the records of the Warring States Bamboo Jian "Chu Ju": To Yu Yi and Qu Hong, so that Yan Yibu migrated to Yitun. To the Yi Qi, the Qiu Chu (bear bile), the Fan Fan, and the Qiu Ci, and the Qiu Qu all lived in Yitun, and the Qiu Qu gradually moved to the end.
Therefore, during the period of the Chu bile king bear bile, the capital of the Chu state was still "Yitun". After his death, King Chu should also be buried near Yitun, the capital of the State of Chu at the time, in the Hanzhong region of present-day Shaanxi Province in the Han River basin.
Second, the historical contribution of King Chu Guan
(1) Carrying on the past and forging ahead to make the state of Chu strong
King Chu Die inherits the legacy of his grandfather King Chu Yi and his father King Chu Ai, and continues to carry forward the arduous entrepreneurial spirit of "the blue strands of the road to enlighten the mountains and forests" pioneered by his grandfather King Chu Yi, King Chu Die assisted his father King Chu Ai King Xiong Ai to open up territory for the State of Chu, resist the suppression and crusade of King Zhou Zhao, the son of the Zhou Dynasty, and make the State of Chu continue to grow.
(2) Killing Zhou Tianzi with a weak enemy
In the three campaigns against Chu by King Zhao of Zhou, the son of the Zhou Dynasty, the first two times assisted his father King Chu Ai against the conquests of the Zhou Dynasty's army. After the death of Xiong Bi's father, King Chu Ai, Xiong Bile succeeded to the throne as King of Chu, and King Zhao of Zhou attacked Chu for the third time, and King Chu led the Jing Chu army and people to fight against strong enemies. He lured the enemy deep and wiped out the "Western Sixth Division" of the Zhou Dynasty's elite force led by King Zhou Zhao himself, Shuwei Haojing, in the Hanshui River Valley, and Ji Fang, the son of the Zhou Dynasty, also drowned.
(3) Defeating the Zhou Dynasty as a shame on his grandfather
Ji Chang (King Wen of Zhou), the ancestor of King Chu and the ancient Chinese cultural emperor Xiong Daxiong, and Ji Chang (King Wen of Zhou), the leader of the Zhou Fang State, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty, were also the initiators of the overthrow of the "Wudao Shang Dynasty" King Shang, and after Ji Fa the Prince of Zhou Wu assisted King Wen of Zhou and King Zhou Cheng's son Ji Fa to seize the world, he assisted King Wu of Zhou and King Wen of Zhou's grandson Ji Cheng to govern the world, which can be described as an outstanding feat.
When Zhou Fangguo took over the world and divided the vassals, he ignored the contribution of the Chu people, and it was not until after the death of Xiong Daxiu and the reign of Prince Cheng of Zhou that Xiong Yi, the great-grandson of Xiong Daxiu and Xiong Bile 's grandfather, was posthumously given a lower title "viscount", that is, "Chuzi". And King Chu's grandfather, Xiong Yi, was scorned by the Zhou royal family during the Zhou Dynasty. King Chu defeated the Zhou Dynasty, and his grandfather Xiong Yi was disgraced and despised in the Zhou Dynasty.
(4) Kick off the prelude to the struggle for the world
King Zhou Zhao, the son of the Zhou Dynasty, attacked Chu three times, and was finally completely defeated by the combined army of the Chu State and the Jingchu tribe led by the King of Chu, so that King Zhou Zhao, who was the son of Zhou Dynasty, drowned, and the Zhou court "lost six divisions to Hanshui, and the Son of Heaven returned to Huangquan".
At the same time, after King Chu defeated the army of the Zhou Dynasty and King Zhou Zhao was buried in the Han River, the prestige of the State of Chu was greatly enhanced, and the Chu people have risen and grown from a small country with a radius of less than 50 miles, and the Zhou people have since "regarded Han Water as a daunting path", which marks that the State of Chu has gradually become stronger, and can compete with the Zhou Dynasty and win the world!
[The first draft was completed in May 2016, and revised and released by Professor Xiong's ® studio on October 13, 2023]