After the death of the Duke of Zhou, he left the young King Cheng of Zhou with a Great Zhou Dynasty. Later, in order to commemorate the Duke of Zhou, people built Zhou Gong Temples in Qufu in Shandong, Luoyang in Henan, and Qishan in Shaanxi for future generations to sacrifice. Zhou Gong, as a great man of a generation, and even a saint, has many fans, and he is a master of the ancient and modern, such as Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi and so on. Ironically, Wang Mang, who stole the Han Dynasty' Jiangshan, was also among the fans, which was like a thief worshipping the detective as a god.
As the older generation of revolutionaries such as Zhou Gong and Jiang Ziya left the power center of the Zhou Dynasty one after another, it was the turn of the second generation of Zhou Chengwang to exert their wisdom. In the days that followed, through his excellent performance in governance, it can be seen that he did not live up to the ardent expectations of his father, Zhou Gong, Jiang Ziya and other leaders of the older generation. At this time, the world has been settled. When Zhou Chengwang recalled the entrepreneurial history of his ancestors, he suddenly remembered the professional talent fire master who fought in the same trench with his ancestors, and this person was the fire master who was dutiful and dedicated to the country all his life, that is, the person who managed the fire. In ancient times, there were no matches or lighters, so the preservation of tinders became a technical task, and Zhu Rong, the ancestor of the bear, was a senior expert in this regard. And he passed on this unique life from generation to generation, all the way to the side of the bear. Zhu Rong is also revered as the god of fire by the people, and although his status is not as famous as that of the ancestor of the Zhou people, the agricultural god Ji Ji, he is also a god who is very respected by the people. During the Xia Dynasty and Shang Dynasty, their family lived in the Central Plains as the orthodox Chinese, and the family later got the surname Of Qi, which is the one passed down by the TV series Mi Yue, and the word 芈 is the shape of the Chinese character. Although the later Shang Dynasty was the co-lord of the world, he always had the vice of oppressing the weak and insufficient. Under the pressure of armed forces, the ancestor of the Chu people, Ji Lian, led his people all the way south, heading into the barbarian land of lofty mountains and mountains, and finally reached today's Danyang and Fujian, and survived in the name of a tribe. During this period, the chu people's suffering was no different from the nature of the Zhou people's ancestor Bu Gu who led the tribesmen to the northwest and Gansu, all for survival, and they were all expelled by the strong force. When King Zhou Wenwang first started his business, he had always been interested in visiting Xian and recruiting everywhere, and Jiang Ziya was recruited by him by the river. At that time, all kinds of civilian subjects, military generals, and high-level technical talents were the objects of recruitment by King Wen of Zhou, and he naturally would not let go of such high-level technical talents and great sages as Bear Bears, and King Wen of Zhou always treated him as a high-level intellectual, so the ancestors of the Chu State contributed to the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty. Later, King Wu of Zhou officially destroyed the Shang Dynasty, and originally wanted to formally divide the bears, but spread out the map, took a magnifying glass to look for half a day, and did not find where the Chu state was, they were too small. Not even eligible to be a vassal, and can only be abandoned. After the second generation of King Zhou Cheng succeeded to the throne, he remembered his old predecessor, The Bear, of course, had already died, but fortunately his great-grandson Xiong Xuan was still there. King Cheng of Zhou remembered that the ancestors of the Chu people had been of great help to the Zhou Dynasty in the war to overthrow the Shang Dynasty, so he made Xiong Xiong's great-grandson Xiong Xiong a viscount with a fief of fifty miles, located in Danyang. This earth-shattering news made the entire Chu tribe rejoice up and down, and the tribesmen gathered together, singing and dancing, and reveling day and night. They were so kind that they thought that Zhou Tianzi still knew us, and still had us in their hearts. Although this fiefdom was small, it showed in the Zhou Dynasty that they had obtained a formal title from the legal level, which was a very important milestone for Xiong Xuan and for the entire tribe. Xiong Yi used these fifty miles as the original capital for entrepreneurship and began the road of entrepreneurship.
Although it was only crowned as the lowest rank among the princes, this day became the most solemn festival of the Chu people, the founding of the country. After hundreds of years of wandering, Zhu Rong's descendants were finally re-recognized by the Central Plains Dynasty. From the moment Zhu Rong left the Central Plains, the Chu people longed for this day, just like the Jews who were expelled from Israel, for more than two thousand years, there was not a single day that they did not want to return to Israel and return to Jerusalem. For hundreds of years, the Chu people were constantly expelled and attacked by the powerful groups in the Central Plains. But just as sunflowers always face the sun at all times, the Chu people have never changed their yearning for the culture of the Central Plains, and today their dream is finally coming true. Because the Chu people have their own country, they have their own place in the civilized world, a very important country in the history of China's pre-Qin dynasty, and the Chu state, which has enjoyed more than 800 years, has been officially born.
According to zuo chuan records, shortly after the founding of the Chu state, the spirited King Cheng of Zhou issued an order that the king of Zhou Cheng should hold a princely alliance, and the purpose of the alliance was to further envelop and unite the various small tribes in order to achieve the ultimate political goal of consolidating the Zhou Dynasty. Xiong Xuan, who was far away in the south, was also among the invited princes as the monarch. According to the Zhou Li, the princes must prepare a tribute ceremony to see the Son of Heaven. Xiong Xuan was worried about this. Although the State of Chu had already been divided, it was only a fiefdom that was consciously only fifty miles, and it was not as small as a township in today's society, and it was located in the midst of lofty mountains. In addition to trees, that is, beasts and insects, material resources are quite single and barren. Before the development, Xiong Yi really couldn't come up with decent gifts to pay tribute, so Xiong Yi was worried. The Chu state was so poor that not only did it lack decent cars, but even horses. In the end, they chose two old horses and pulled a worn-out firewood cart on the road. For this meeting, Xiong Xuan set off from Danyang more than a month in advance. There is no way, the Chu country is too remote, and the means of transportation of this old horse-drawn broken car are not conducive to the rope, so I have to get up early. The monarch went out so bitterly that the whole chu state felt remorseful. Everyone is asking themselves, but if we are stronger, we will not let the old horse-drawn carriages of the national army go to the meeting, even if there is no good horse, at least there is a decent car. The poor fortune of the Chu state can also be exemplified from the Qinghua Bamboo Jane. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Chu people had a hard time building a sacrificial house, but they were too poor to take out sacrifices, so they had to run to the neighboring weak country to steal a calf and secretly hold sacrifices at night. Because the cow is a stolen sacrifice, this thing is very unbrighteous and righteous, and when there is something that comes from an improper way, people will appear to be bottomless. Therefore, the Chu people chose to sacrifice at night. Since then, the time of sacrifice of the Chu people has been completely different from other countries. The Chu people called the ritual of sacrificing ancestors Xi, the sunset night, and the sacrifice had to be held at night. This tradition should have a certain relationship with the disgraceful act of stealing cattle [covering his face], and through this matter it can be determined that compared with the princes of the Central Plains, the newly born Chu state is a real poor and acidic country.
Xiong Ling's old horse broke the car
Xiong Xuan finally set off, and at that time, from the Danyang area to the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Hojing, had to cross a lot of primitive mountains and forests, and the road was untouched, which was very difficult. Strangely, the more Xiong Yi went north, the more excited he became. After going abroad, Xiong Yi realized the vastness of the world. Although it was a large and unfamiliar land to him, he felt a strange familiarity, which should be a telepathic and distant memory, after all, this was the place where the ancestors once lived. Today he finally returned, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Hojing, and the princes of the four directions came in droves. In the square in front of the palace, a dilapidated carriage was parked that was out of place with its surroundings. For the identity of Chu Jun Xiongxuan, the doctor who welcomed him was even a little confused. After Xiong Xuan got out of the car, bi respectfully greeted King Zhou Cheng, and offered the tribute brought from the Chu Kingdom, the peach wood bow used to drive away ghosts, and the bud thatch used to worship the gods and filter the wine residue. On the day of the meeting, Xiong Xuan was stopped outside the main hall, and King Zhou Cheng refused Xiong Xuan's request to enter the temple, and ordered him to guard the fire outside the hall with the monarch of the Xianbei Kingdom as a fire master. There are only three things he does, one is to provide mao mao, and the other is to wrap up the hair and shrink wine. Before the ceremony, the thatch is placed and then allowed to be operated by a full-time person, which is equivalent to laying a hand for others. The second is to place the watch, which is the seat card of modern society. Generally, on the conference table of large-scale events or large-scale conferences, the names of the guests will be placed in advance, and when the guests enter the venue, they will know which position they should sit on as soon as they see the seat card with their names written on them. The monarch Xiong Xuan was arranged to do this work. The third task is to keep the field, that is, to light the fire of the bonfire evening, which is equivalent to returning to the old business of the ancestors. In fact, these three jobs are the work of service personnel, and you let a person with the status of a monarch do it, which is indeed inconsistent with his identity, which must have a strong stimulus for Xiong Xuan's heart. In the end, Xiong Yi and the Xianbei King were regarded as barbarian kings and failed to enter the main hall to formally participate in the alliance. Looking at the bright lights in the main hall, the listing of cups and plates, and the dazzling variety of seasonal fruits, the princes in groups of three or five, singing and laughing, Xiong Xuan felt very lonely inside, no one greeted him, and he did not know those people with thrushes. At this time, Xiong Xuan truly understood that although he was named a viscount, in the eyes of the Zhou people, that kind of strong inferiority, for some people, inferiority is the beginning of sin, and for some people, inferiority is the basis of self-improvement, Xiong Xuan absolutely belongs to the latter. He instantly understood the need to work hard. Although Xiong Xuan's heart is full of rivers and seas and mixed feelings, as a qualified politician, he does not show any dissatisfaction on his face. He believed that the Chu state at that time was not humble, it was impossible to bargain, it was impossible to negotiate terms with King Zhou Cheng, so he adopted a strategy of completely submissiveness, and also behaved very well-behaved and very submissive. That is to say, your arrangement is right, I am completely convinced, I will follow your arrangement of Zhou Tianzi, seriously and carefully do everything I should do. This is actually a kind of taoguang and obscurity, in front of the good, with gratitude, before the dark choose to be patient, in order to achieve the possibility of dream. In fact, King Cheng of Zhou was also very satisfied with Bi Gongbi's Xiong Yi. Later, whenever the Zhou Dynasty held a major pilgrimage, Xiong Yi would be invited to preside over the sacred fire ceremony. It wasn't until a few months after King Zhou Cheng's death that Xiong Xuan finished attending the meeting and was ready to return to China. The Chu people happily went to greet him ten miles away a few days in advance, and it was estimated that this would also reach the border. The people of Chu were splashing streets with clean water and padding the loess pads, and for several days they were looking forward to the glorious return of Xiong Yi, and finally they did see the monarch. From a distance, Xiong Xuan's whole person was blackened and thinned twice, and when he looked closely, he couldn't see the joy and pride of participating in the Zhou Tianzi Alliance for the first time as a prince. Everyone thought that he was tired and mentally exhausted. Chu people only know one, do not know the second, ah, the body of the monarch who has traveled thousands of miles and the old cow pulled the broken car is indeed tired enough, but the biggest harm comes from his heart, the heart has been strongly stimulated, is it harmful, can this person not be thin? It was enough to be looked down upon by King Zhou Cheng. Before leaving, another insider who did not have a long eye ran over to Xiong Xuan and said, If it were not for the ancestors of the Chu people, Zhu Rong, you would not have had the opportunity to do such a job as hand fire, and you should thank your ancestors. See? This is already the biggest of Zhou Tianzi. Grace.
King Cheng of Zhou met for the first time
Successive blows made Xiong Xuan understand that I want to rise, I must rise. Over the next fifty years, Xiong Yi and his successors built cars from local materials, and then wore ragged clothes to develop the wilderness and strive to be strong. Chu's original meaning is Jing, which is a kind of deciduous shrub, this plant can be found everywhere in the south, and its function is powerful, and the Chu people take Chu as the national name, and thus degrade the Chu people as Jing, Man, and Nan Man. Because the thorn can be used as a whip to draw people, it has the function of torture device, so there are words such as pain and pain, and the use of thorns to draw on people, although it is very painful, but it does not affect the tall and beautiful of the thorns themselves, so there is the idiom of ChuChu moving, which is probably because of the Chu people, a very small number of idioms with positive meanings, shame and courage. In this way, the people of the Chu state struggled hard, and rushed out of the encirclement circle step by step, and the national strength was constantly increasing, and the territory was constantly expanding. By the time of King Zhou Zhao, it was already the hegemon of Jiang and Han, and its development speed was comparable to the reform and opening up of modern China, which was simply advancing by leaps and bounds. Just when the Chu state was struggling to develop, King Zhou Cheng, who had repeatedly watched the Chu state, died, and the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was in the golden stage of power change, although there was Zhou Li as a national policy to protect it, it was still full of dangers and dangers.