Luoyang, a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city history and more than 1,500 years of capital construction history, has created countless legends of Chinese civilization. "Shannanshui north is yang", Luoyang is named because it is located in the sun of Luoshui, and the Heluo area centered on Luoyang is the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization. The ruins of the five major capitals of Xia Du, Shang Du Xi Bo, Eastern Zhou Wangcheng, Han Wei Luoyang City, and Sui and Tang Luoyang City are lined up along the Luo River, which is rare in the world. More than a hundred emperors ruled here. Today, I will talk about the Eastern Zhou Dynasty's mourning wang Ji to go to the disease.
King Ji of Zhou(?—— 441 BC) – reigned for 3 months in 441 BC. King Of Zhou, courtesy name Ji (姬) was the eldest son of King Zhending of Zhou. In 441 BC, King Zhending of Zhou collapsed, and he had four sons, the eldest son Ji Fuyi, who succeeded to the throne, that is, the King of Zhou. Three months later, his second son, Ji Shu(姬叔), usurped the throne, the King of Zhousi.
King Ji of Zhou was an emperor for three months, basically a matter of grabbing the throne. Here we will talk about the Song Kingdom of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons. The State of Song (11th century BC – 286 BC) was a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty, with its capital at Shangqiu (present-day Shangqiu, Henan). At the beginning of Zhou, he was made a duke by Zhou Tianzi, and his surname was Song ( Song ) . Thirty-four kings were passed down, and they enjoyed eight hundred and twenty-nine years of the kingdom. In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, after Zhou Gongdan assisted King Zhou Cheng in quelling the rebellion of the Three Prisons, according to the ritual law of the sub-feudal system, although the country fell, the victors still could not let the former noble ancestors go extinct, which was the tradition of "rising and destroying and succeeding to extinction", and the brother of the King of Shang was enlightened in the old capital of the Shang Dynasty, Shangqiu, and established the State of Song, and was specially allowed to use the Tianzi ceremony to worship the Shang Dynasty's ancestors and be guests with Zhou. The State of Song had a special status and was revered by Zhou Tianzi as one of the "Two Kings and Three Kes". During the Spring and Autumn Period, Song Xianggong helped the Prince of Qi to restore the country, and Dai Qi, as an ally, became one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period. The Song Kingdom is the source of Chinese sage culture, the birthplace of the four major ideas of Confucianism, Mojia, Taoism and Famous Artists at the core of traditional Chinese culture, known as the "State of Etiquette", the four saints of Confucius, Mozi, Zhuangzi and Huizi are all from the Song Kingdom, and Shangqiu is known as the "Chinese Sage Cultural Circle". Duke Huan of Qi entrusted Gongzi Zhao to Duke Xiang of Song and supported him as the monarch of the State of Qi. After the death of Duke Huan of Qi, the civil unrest in Qi continued. Duke Xiang of Song led the Four Kingdoms to send Gongzi Zhao back to the State of Qi to succeed to the throne, in order to serve duke Xiao of Qi. After Song Xianggong helped Qi Xiaogong ascend to the throne, he became complacent and blindly arrogant, and he developed the ambition to replace the lord of the Qi alliance without self-control. In 639 BC, Duke Xiang of Song sent an invitation to King Cheng of Chu and Duke Xiao of Qi, inviting them to go to the Song kingdom of Lu (盂, in present-day Sui County, Henan) in the seventh month of the lunar calendar to convene a meeting of the princely states and conclude a covenant. At the time of the meeting, both Song Xianggong and Chu Chengwang wanted to be allies, and the two sides quarreled endlessly, but the Chu state was powerful, and there were many princely states that joined the Chu state, and Song Xianggong was kidnapped. Under the persuasion of the State of Lu and the State of Qi, the princes agreed to King Cheng of Chu as their ally. After Song Xianggong returned, he held his breath and decided to go on a crusade against Zheng Guo, who was out of nostrils with King Cheng of Chu. In 638 BC, the State of Song sent troops to attack the State of Zheng, and the State of Zheng asked the State of Chu for help, and King Cheng of Chu led troops to attack the State of Song directly. The Chu and Song armies faced each other across the Hongshui River (present-day Zhecheng, Henan), the Chu army was in the north, the Song army was in the south, and the Chu army was full of people, and forced to cross the river in broad daylight to attack the Song army. Song Xianggong insisted on waiting for all the Chu troops to come ashore and lining up to set up a position before starting to fight. But the facts surprised Song Xianggong. When the Chu army came ashore, it immediately rushed to kill them like a flood, the Song army fled one after another, and Song Xianggong was also hit by an arrow in the thigh, and under the protection of several loyal ministers, Song Xianggong was able to escape. However, Song Xianggong insisted that he had done nothing wrong, and that the Chu state did not pay attention to benevolence and morality. Speaking of which, I have to briefly talk about the weekly ceremony. There are many places where Zhou Li pays attention, and it is difficult for people to understand them now. For example; nobles go out hunting without killing young beasts, wounded beasts that are not killed by an arrow cannot be exterminated; old people are not killed in battle, and so on. In short, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the purpose of the princes' struggle for hegemony was not to eliminate others, but to make the princes submit and order the princes. These many rules of etiquette are still followed today, such as the prohibition of fishing small fish in the river and the prohibition of fishing on the seashore. The wounded Duke Xiang of Song died of illness a year later (637 BC).
During the Warring States period, the Song Kingdom also underwent qualitative changes. In 318 BC, Dai Yan was proclaimed king, that is, King Kang of Song. King Song Kang "practiced the royal government" and became strong. It is known as the "Five Thousand Multiplier Song". He was hated by the great states of Qi, Chu, and Wei. The State of Qi tried to destroy the State of Song. It just so happened that Su Qin was assigned by King Yan Zhao of the State of Yan to come to the State of Qi, and under su Qin's constant encouragement, King Qi Tang sent troops to attack the State of Song. This development was not tight, and the Three Jins were also involved due to reasons such as bordering the Song Dynasty. The result was "killing a thousand enemies and inflicting eight hundred self-inflicted wounds." In the end, King Yan Zhao sent Le Yi to unite with the soldiers and horses of the Five Kingdoms to cut together. At this time, the King of Qi Tang knew that he had let Su Qin play a trick, and immediately put Su Qin in a car split, that is, five horses and split the body. But in any case, the Song Kingdom weakened.
In 286 BC, civil unrest broke out in the State of Song, and the State of Qi took the opportunity to unite with the State of Chu and the State of Wei to attack the State of Song. The Song state was unable to hold the city, and the people scattered and fled, and King Kang of Song fled to the residence of Ni Hou. The Qi army captured and killed King Kang of Song, destroyed the Song state, and the three kingdoms jointly divided the land of the Song state.