Ji Chang was also known as King Wen of Zhou, Xi Bochang, and King Wen of Zhou was given the title given to him by his son.
Ji Chang was the monarch of the Zhou Dynasty, a small vassal state at the end of the Shang Dynasty. He was the grandson of King Tai of Zhou, the son of Ji Li, and the founder of the Zhou Dynasty. It was because of Ji Chang's planning and preparation that his son Ji Fa defeated the Zhou royal family and established the Zhou Dynasty. He was a ming emperor of a generation, and was called "the hero of three generations" by Confucius.
During Ji Chang's reign, he was diligent in government affairs, attached importance to the development of agricultural production, and recruited talents from Guangluo, so he specially went to the Weihe River to pay respects to Jiang Shang and hire him as a military master to inquire about the major affairs of the military state. With the assistance of Jiang Shang, Ji Chang took over Yu and Rui, and also attacked and destroyed the states of Li and Han. The establishment of the capital Fengjing laid the foundation for the wu king to destroy the merchants.
Legend has it that the Zhou Yi was written by Ji Chang, who also founded the Zhou Li and was revered by later Generations of Confucians.
Ji Chang reigned for 50 years, died in 1065 BC, was buried in Biyuan, and was posthumously honored as King Wen by King Wu of Zhou, and later posthumously honored by Wu Zetian as Emperor Wen.
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Real name: Ji Chang
Aliases: King Wen of Zhou, Xi Bochang
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 1152 BC
Birthplace: Qi Zhou
Father: Quarterly calendar
Ethnicity: Huaxia
Dynasty: Late Shang dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty
Date of death: 1056 BC
Mausoleum Location: Tomb of King Wen of Zhou
Main achievements: deducing Zhou Yi, strengthening national strength, and laying the foundation for Wuwang Keshang
Zhou Yiyuan
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Ji Chang's father, Ji Li, as the king of a country in the Zhou Kingdom, can be described as a ming lord. He exerted great efforts to launch a series of wars against the surrounding Rongdi tribes and achieved brilliant victories. Under the rule of Ji Li, the territory of the Zhou State continued to expand, causing panic among the Shang royal family. In order to curb the power of the Zhou clan, Wen Ding, the King of Shang, summoned Ji Li to the capital of Yin in the name of a reward, and nominally named "Fang Bo" and called "Zhou XiBo", ostensibly the head of the Western princes, but in fact was put under house arrest by the Shang King. Sure enough, after a while, Ji Li was killed by the Shang King on trumped-up charges.
After Ji Li died, Ji Chang succeeded to the throne, which was Ji Chang, Xi Bochang.
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Ji Chang was diligent in government and loved money, and his national strength gradually became stronger, and various princes were attached.
Ji Chang, like his father, is equally diligent and loves the people, and has a wide range of talents. Many of the wise and talented people heard about it and turned to it. Among these people, there were talents who fell outside, and there were also sages who were disappointed in the King of Shang. For these talents, Ji Changdu has great respect, treats them with courtesy, and entrusts them with heavy responsibilities. Among the most famous of these people were Bo Yi, Shu Qi, Tai Qian, Hong Yao, San Yisheng, Huan Xiong, Xin Jia, and others, all of whom were successively subordinated to Ji Chang's subordinates. Ji Chang, who paid homage to Lü Shang as a military master, asked the military state about the grand plan, and issued a law of "there is a desert of death", stipulating that slaves will be searched if they flee, and whoever owns their slaves will not be allowed to hide fugitive slaves. So the princes rebelled and returned to Ji Chang.
Ji Chang also followed his father's example and advocated the social atmosphere of "benevolence, respect for the elderly, kindness to the young, and courtesy of the sages", so that the social economy of the Zhou Kingdom could develop. During the period of zhiqi, Ji Chang practiced moral governance at home, advocated "cherishing the small people", vigorously developed agricultural production, and adopted the policy of "Helping on September 1st", that is, dividing up the fields, allowing the peasants to help cultivate the public land, and paying one-ninth of the tax. Merchants do not collect customs duties when they come and go, some people commit crimes and wives do not sit together, and the politics of the early stage of the feudal system, that is, the politics of the people, is to collect taxes and taxes in moderation, so that the peasants have some savings to stimulate interest in labor.
Ji Chang lived a diligent and frugal life, wore ordinary people's clothes, and also worked in the fields to govern the Zhou Kingdom conscientiously. Under his rule, Qi Zhou's national strength became stronger and stronger.
Ji Chang was kind. At that time, the King of Shang Invented the Punishment of Cannon Burning, and those who received this punishment were often burned by the burned skin and rotten flesh and died of death. Ji Chang was very angry. Ji Chang expressed his willingness to offer a piece of land on the west bank of the Guoluo River in exchange for abolishing the punishment of cannon burning.
Because of this, Ji Chang was loved by the people of the world.
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Ji Chang was made the Third Duke and originally owned the territory of Yongzhou, and he tried his best to expand his territory all the way to the Jianghan region. There were six states among the vassals. With the strength of the country, the continuous expansion of the territory, and the continuous attachment of talents to Ji Chang, the King of Shang was afraid. Coupled with the fact that the chancellor Chonghou Hu secretly told the King of Shang that Xi Bohou was doing good deeds everywhere and establishing his own prestige, the princes all longed for him, which was probably not conducive to the King of Shang. The King of Shang imprisoned Ji Chang.
In order to rescue Ji Chang, the ministers of the Zhou Kingdom gave the King of Lu several beautiful women and a large amount of gold and silver treasures. King Joy also said that it was enough to give beautiful women, not to mention that there were so many treasures. As a result, Ji Chang was pardoned.
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Under the Shang Dynasty, the piggy Hou Yu state and the Rui state had a dispute, and the two sides did not give in. Everyone had no choice but to ask Ji Chang to arbitrate. When they came to the Zhou kingdom where Ji Chang was located, the Zhou people were humble to each other, the elders and children were courteous, and the order was orderly, and they felt very ashamed. The contradiction is naturally resolved. From then on, as long as there were contradictions and conflicts in the various princely states, they all came to Ji Chang. The longer fame spreads farther and farther.
Ji Chang finally became the king in people's minds.
Ji Chang also deduced Zhou Yi and formulated the Zhou Li.
All of the above laid the foundation for Ji Chang's son to destroy Shang Jianzhou.
After Ji Chang's son Ji Fa succeeded to the throne, he made Ji Chang the Prince of Zhou.
King Wen of Zhou lived until he was ninety-seven years old, and after his death, Ji Fa buried him in Weicheng District.
The Tomb of King Wen of Zhou is located in Zhouling Middle School, Zhouling Town, Weicheng District, six kilometers north of Xianyang City.
Later generations have a high evaluation of Ji Chang, mainly in the following points:
Politically, King Jifa of Zhou Wen laid the foundation for the Western Zhou political system and guarded the precursors of China's thousands of years of feudal autocracy and centralization.
The "Zhou Yi" made by King Wen of Zhou has a profound impact on the traditional culture of ancient China and great changes, it is the source of the culture of the Chinese nation, which has changed the development trajectory of ancient culture and affected the cultural matrix of today. Through the inheritance of literati scholars and rulers throughout the ages, King Wen of Zhou's Zhou Yi is known as the Bible of China, the source of the Hundred Sons and Hundred Families, and even the daily life of people.
King Wen of Zhou's last words, "Baoxun", the ideas in which he also had a profound impact on future generations. The concept of "Zhong", or "Middle Way", contained in the ideas in the Baoxun is the center of the entire Baoxun. It is intrinsically linked to what Confucianism later called the "Middle Way." The ideas contained in Baoxun are related to the concepts of "Middle Way" and "Yin and Yang Harmony" in traditional Chinese culture, which are the core elements that have long influenced mainstream Chinese culture.
The "Six Signs of Talent Method" proposed in the "Li Ji Wen Wang Guan Ren Shu" is the most complete, systematic and mature method of identifying talents. King Wen of Zhou instructed Master Tai to examine the quality of people and evaluate the merits of talents, which had a profound impact on the identification and examination of talents in later generations. Later generations of Zhou Gong, Confucius, Zhuangzi, Lü Buwei, Zeng Guofan, Liu Xun, Zhuge Liang, and other people who knew each other were deeply influenced by King Wen's law of seeking people.