The emperors of the last years of the Shang Dynasty, who ruled China around 1100 BC, were brutal and ruthless, declaring war on their neighbors. In order to consolidate their power, they killed many feudal princes. King Zhou was one of the princes killed by the Shang Dynasty. After his death, his son Ji Chang succeeded to the throne of King Zhou. In the decades that followed, he valued agricultural production and proper education, and empowered people like him with high moral standards. Gradually, his fame spread far and wide, until he was called a saint. After hearing the news of the country's growing strength, Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty feared that Ji Chang would eventually launch an anti-Shang rebellion. As a result, he lured Ji Chang into visiting Shangguo and arrested him as soon as he arrived. Di Xin wanted to kill Ji Chang, but he couldn't kill the saint for no reason. So he locked up the 80-year-old Ji Chang in a state prison and left him to die. When Ji Chang is in prison, he gets the apocalypse, and the sparrows fly to him, teaching him the secrets of the universe through their dance. Ji Chang had an epiphany about the laws of the universe and understood the meaning and use of the gossip created by FuXi in ancient times. In order to make wise use of his time in prison and pass on the knowledge he gained to future generations, Ji Chang deduced bagua to 64 gua and wrote a book called the I Ching. This book became one of the roots of Chinese culture and continues to this day.
After Ji Chang was imprisoned, his eldest son visited the capital of the Shang Dynasty in an attempt to persuade Di Xin to release his father. Di Xin despised Ji Chang and was jealous of his title as a saint, wanting to ruin his reputation at all costs. As a result, he ordered Ji Chang's son to be killed and boiled into meatballs for Ji Chang to eat. Ji Chang has the ability to predict the future, so when someone sends him meatballs, he doesn't want to eat them. But he knew that in order to satisfy Di Xin and save his book, the I Ching, he had to do so. So he ate the meatballs expressionlessly, but his heart was bleeding. After eating, he was asked how the food tasted. He said he had never eaten that kind of meat before, much to Thei Xin's delight, and he decided to let Ji Chang die in prison instead of being executed. Later, when Ji Chang was told that he had eaten his son's flesh, he couldn't help but be in pain and threw up. His vomit turned into several rabbits.
Upon hearing this news, Ji Chang's second son Ji Fa decided to adopt a different strategy to save his father. He found That xin to be a good woman, so he sent a beauty and some treasure to Emperor Xin in exchange for his father. Emperor Xin was overjoyed to see the beauty and agreed to release Ji Chang from prison. At the age of 90, Ji Chang finally left the cell with his legendary book "The I Ching".
When Ji Chang returned to the Zhou Kingdom, he passed on his sacred knowledge to his sons and worked harder to use his new wisdom to govern his country. Admiring Ji Chang's reputation, the rulers of the two neighboring princely states came to the Zhou kingdom to seek a verdict in resolving their dispute. However, after seeing how polite and kind the Zhou people were to each other, the two princes were ashamed of their own small dispute with them, so they left before they could see Ji Chang. The two princely states eventually settled the dispute in a peaceful and friendly manner. They even decided to become vassals of the Zhou Kingdom, which was an unprecedented phenomenon. The princely states of the Shang Dynasty admired Ji Chang and his methods of governing the people, and some of them began to regard Ji Chang rather than Di Xin as their ruler. Because of this, the power of the Zhou Kingdom became stronger and stronger. Unfortunately, a few years later, Ji Chang died of old age.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > Ji Chang's second son Ji Fa inherited the throne and promised to fulfill Ji Chang's long-cherished wish to destroy the Shang Dynasty. In the last battle, the army took control of the Shang state, suddenly changed its position, and decided to help the Zhou state defeat the capital of the Shang state. After hearing the devastating news, Di Xin committed suicide by setting fire to his palace, and the Shang Dynasty perished. Since then, Ji Fa has followed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Zhou Dynasty, which lasted for more than 800 years. </h1>