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 Ji Man, the King of Western Zhou.
Ji Man (c. 1026 BC – c. 922 BC), also known as "Mu Tianzi", son of King Zhao of Zhou, was the fifth monarch of Western Zhou. King Mu of Zhou reigned for 55 years and lived for 105 years, making him the longest reigning King of Zhou in Western Zhou. In the nineteenth year of King Zhao of Zhou (977 BC), King Zhao's Concubine Ji was buried in Hanshui. King Mu of Zhou succeeded to the throne, and King Ji of Zhou Mu opened his territory to expand his territory in the northwest. During his reign, he enlisted inuyasha (一作畎戎), Wu Xu Rong (绥戎), and Zuo Fu (also known as Lü Punishment). King Ji Man of Zhou Mu is full of legends, especially the legends of King Mu and the Queen Mother of the West.
King Wu of Zhou conquered the world, and King Cheng of Zhou and King Kang of Zhou ruled the world. King Ji of Zhou Zhao was a loser. King Ji Man of Zhou Mu had to clean up the mess left by his father. In the early days of King Mu of Zhou's reign, in order to calm down various domestic contradictions and for the normal operation of the imperial program. Ji Man, the King of Zhou Mu, formulated the "Imperial Decree" to regulate the ruling norms of the hundred officials of the imperial court; formulated the punishment book "Lü Punishment" to warn the four parties to correct the world. The criminal book formulates 5 punishments for ink, sword, stomach, palace, and dapu, and its detailed rules amount to more than 3,000. After the dynasty stabilized, Ji Man, the king of Zhou Mu, began to expand his territory.
King Wu of Zhou focused on the east; King Zhao of Zhou opened his territory to expand his territory in the south; King Mu of Zhou began to take the initiative to attack in the northwest. King Mu adopted a repressive policy against the ethnic minorities on the frontier. During the reign of King Mu, the Inuyasha forces in the northwest became stronger and began not to pay attention to Western Zhou. In order to facilitate the conquest of the northwest, Ji Man, the king of Zhou Mu, moved the capital from Chengzhou City to Hojing. In the spring of the twelfth year of King Mu (964 BC), King Mu of Zhou personally led an army to conquer Inuyasha on the grounds that inuyasha did not pay homage and pay tribute in time. Zhou Jun won a great victory. The conflict between King Mu of Zhou and Inu rong intensified, and he no longer worshipped into Gongxi Zhou. When the remote countries saw that some people were taking the lead, they no longer went to see King Mu of Zhou, and King Mu of Western Zhou reorganized his men and horses for the second crusade, won a great victory, "widely won his five kings", and moved some of the Rong people to Taiyuan (in the area of present-day Zhenyuan, Gansu). The contradiction between Western Zhou and Inuyasha became even greater.
In the process of conquest with Inuyasha, King Ji Man of Zhou Mu heard that probably in the area of present-day Gansu and Xinjiang, with Xining and Lanzhou as the forecourt, Xinjiang as the backyard, and the center in the Dunhuang and Jiuquan areas, there was a Western Queen's mother country, where there was an elixir of immortality, and it could not die after eating. Kunlun Mountain is located in the deep mountains and old forests, deserted, and the traditional Chinese medicine produced is now a fine product of longevity. It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that "three hundred and fifty miles northwest, known as the Jade Mountain, is the residence of the Queen Mother of the West." King Mu of Zhou was thirteen years old, touring the west, when he took the seven masters, drove the eight rides, with Bai Tian as the guide, the father as the emperor, and drove thousands of miles, and began to tour the west with the end as the northwest. After ten years of western tour, in the seventeenth year of King Mu of Zhou (about 959 BC), King Mu of Zhou arrived at the tribe of the Queen Mother of Kunlun Mountain, and King Mu of Zhou brought a white gui, a black wall, a hundred brocade horses, and three hundred white silk to the Queen Mother of the West. Seeing the legendary beauty West Queen Mother, King Zhou Mu did not expect that the West Queen Mother was a monster. The Queen Mother of the West has a leopard-like tail, tiger-like teeth, and roars like an ape. But King Mu of Zhou got the immortal medicine he wanted. In the seventeenth year of King Mu of Zhou, the Queen Mother of the West entered the Zhou Dynasty to meet, and King Mu treated her as a guest and gave her residence in ZhaoGong. Later, King Jiman of Zhou Mu lived for 105 years.