In Chinese history, there are three times "Journey to the West"!
Everyone is most familiar with the Tang Xuanzang Journey to the West!
What everyone admires most is Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions! Opened up the Western Trade Route!
In fact, the most cattle Journey to the West is recorded in the pre-Qin classics, the story of King Mu of Zhou's travels to the Western Regions!
Today, it seems like a myth! King Mu of Zhou was a particularly wild man, a ashes-level donkey friend.
The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin even had a poem as evidence: Yaochi Amu's window was open, and Huangzhu sang a song of mourning. Eight Jun travels 30,000 miles a day, why doesn't King Mu come back?
In the eyes of future generations, the Eight Juns travel 30,000 miles a day, which is very mysterious!
In fact, his life is essentially a life of expanding the territory.
Archaeologists, through excavation, have uncovered the truth about King Mu of Zhou's journey to the west!
In the 1930s, the skulls of Caucasians from the Western Zhou Dynasty were discovered in Anyang! In the 1980s, in the Fufeng area of Shaanxi Province, white heads from the Western Zhou Dynasty were found. According to the professional judgment of archaeologists, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Central Plains and the Western Regions had already opened up trade routes!
This was an incredible thing for the people of the Han Dynasty. With the strong military strength of Emperor Wu of Han, Zhang Qian opened up the Western Regions Trade Route, which was also full of difficulties!
The "Records of History" and "Biography of Mu Tianzi" have such records!
The fifth king of the Zhou Dynasty, Ji Man, when he was fifty years old, very lively engaged in a "journey to the west". Riding in a car of eight horses, he traveled thirty thousand miles a day. Go visit the Queen Mother of the West. The mysterious matrilineal queen of the Western Frontier land and the patriarchal male king of the Central Plains who have the power of the world have produced a love that makes people sigh!
On the auspicious day of the zodiac, King Mu of Zhou presented valuable Bai Gui Xuan Bi and gorgeous silk fabrics. Instantly get the heart of the Queen Mother of the West, and the good times are always short-lived. In order to escape, King Mu of Zhou used the country and the people as an excuse. Promise to see you in three years!
Of course, the Queen Mother of the West did not believe it, and she could not lose face! He said, "I am the daughter of the Heavenly Emperor, and I have a duty to guard the land, and I can't leave casually." “
Two people say goodbye!
In order to commemorate this relationship, King Mu of Zhou planted a locust tree on a mountain with the inscription "The Mountain of the Queen Mother of the West" to commemorate his short love affair with the Queen Mother of the West.
In fact, the events of the Western Zhou Dynasty are all stories for the people of the Han Dynasty!
After all, time can erase everything, but we will find a problem in these stories! By the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty, China was already very powerful!
King Mu of Zhou's eight horses traveled 30,000 miles a day, perhaps just a metaphor, from the side door to show that this country has a strong ability to maneuver!
King Mu of Zhou brought his soldiers, and it didn't take long to see the Queen Mother of the West!
The Queen Mother of the West should be a mysterious matriarchal tribal co-lord, obviously two people from meeting, to acquaintance, to love, is a complex process, the battle is inevitable!
King Mu of Zhou conquered the distant Western Regions and was able to maintain his influence all the time! It shows that the strength of the Western Zhou At that time was so strong that we could not imagine it!