#Ancient History Legend #In 2001, Hong Kong once produced a comedy film called "Zhong Wuyan", starring Mui Yanfang, Zheng Xiuwen and Cecilia Cheung, of which The man who mui Yanfang is the protagonist of today's Qi Xuanwang, the film tells the love story of the ugly woman Zhong Wuyan and Qi Xuanwang who finally came together. There is also a joke that "there is something Zhong Wuyan, nothing xia Yingchun", Zhong Wuyan and Xia Yingchun are all women around King Qi Xuan, the former is ugly and talented, the latter is beautiful and incompetent. Therefore, When King Xuan of Qi had something to do, he ran to Zhong Wuyan for help; as soon as the matter was over, he went to Xia Yingchun to find joy and fun, and threw Zhong Wuyan aside.
The indiscriminate number of idiom stories also occurred during the two generations of monarchs of King Qi Xuan and King Qi Min, King Qi Xuan liked to listen to people blowing pipes, and it was an ensemble of more than 300 people, Mr. Nan Guo could not blow pipes, and had been mixed in and had not been found. King Xuan of Qi died, king Qi Tang succeeded to the throne, he liked to listen to the performances one by one, nanguo listened to it and fled.
Old Master Meng heard that King Xuan of Qi had special respect for learned people and immediately came to visit. When King Xuan of Qi heard that Mr. Meng Lao had come, he quickly went out of the city to greet him and took him all the way to the Snow Palace, the most advanced state guesthouse in the State of Qi at that time, where only the best people could live. Mencius, which our descendants call the saints, there are many interesting stories that happen between the mortal King Qi Xuan and the saint Mencius.
One day, Mencius said to King Xuan of Qi, I will inquire with you--next, how do you deal with such a matter? King Xuan of Qi said, What? He said that there was a man, he was going to do something in the Chu Country, but he had a wife and children, he couldn't take care of it himself, so he entrusted his wife and children to the care of his friends, and he went to the Chu Country, and after a month he came back to see, his wife and children were hungry before and after the heart, the two of them were there screaming and crying, what do you say to face this kind of friend? At that time, King Xuan of Qi said that he had severed relations with him.
Then I ask you one more time, saying that there is a magistrate who cannot control his subordinates, and he often pays bribes to his superiors, and at the same time accepts bribes from subordinates. King Xuan of Qi said to withdraw him.
Mencius went on to say that there was a king who could not govern his own country well, and what do you say in response? King Xuan of Qi talked about him around him—he ignored Mencius. Although Mencius was ignored, the treatment given to Mencius was getting better and better, at least we can see that King Xuanwang of Qi was a very elegant person, and although he did not fully believe in the words of intellectuals, the minimum respect was there.
Sometimes King Xuan of Qi also begged for food. One day, he went to Mencius to talk to him. "Shu Shu" knocked on the door, came in, and the two of them chatted. I said Mr. Meng Lao, why do you say that I am so good? Why did I destroy a magnificent Yan kingdom in fifty days? Who do you say can do it like I do? At this time, Mencius said that they all wanted to escape the rule of the Yan King, not hello, but the Yan King was too bad. If the people of yanguo did not live a good life, then it would be you who had a bad back next time. Then we say that it is precisely because King Xuan of Qi annexed the State of Yan, so we say that it is difficult to digest it, and other countries have united to fight against the State of Qi. At this time, King Xuan of Qi panicked and hurried to find Mencius again, I said Mr. Meng, you said that they are going to beat me together, I can't beat me? Mr. Meng Lao told him a lot of stories, and told a lot of old stories about Xia Shang and Western Zhou. Say that the best way to say that you can eat now is how to spit out people, and if you put the land of the Yan Kingdom back, it will be over. Of course, King Xuan of Qi did not listen, although he did not listen, but he had more respect for Mencius, and he was treated more well.
The most typical event at the time of King Qi Xuan was the destruction of the Yan state mentioned above: in 314 BC, the king of Yan in the state of Yan was so confused that he actually ceded the throne to the chancellor Zizhi, and the prince Ping raised troops to regain power, but was killed, and civil unrest broke out in the Yan kingdom, and King Qi Xuan took the opportunity to send troops to intervene. It took only 50 days to capture ji (present-day Beijing), the capital of the Yan state, and almost destroyed the Yan state. But it also laid the groundwork for the decline of the State of Qi. 30 years later, during the reign of King Min of Qi, King Yan Zhao, in order to avenge this, under the command of Le Yi, commanded the State of Yan and the combined forces of Zhao, Qin, Han, and Wei to attack the State of Qi, and more than 70 cities in a row, leaving the two isolated cities of Jimo and Ju in the State of Qi, and finally although relying on Tian Dan's fire bull array to break the enemy and restore the country, the State of Qi declined from then on until it was destroyed.
King Xuan of Qi was not a Ming Emperor, but there is no doubt that during his reign, the State of Qi still developed rapidly, especially when he pushed the Jixia Xuegong to its peak, creating the greatest cultural and ideological controversy in Chinese history. At that time, the Jixia Xuegong concentrated the cattle people of various schools of Confucianism, Mojia, Taoism, Fajia, Bingjia, Criminals, Yin and Yangjia, Peasants, and Miscellaneous Schools, Mencius, Xunzi, Jiaoyan, Chunyu, Tian Biao, Jieyu, Shenzhi, Huanyuan, Ershu, Zhizi, Song Ju, Yin Wen, Peng Meng, Ji Zhen, etc. They carried out academic research, formed an unprecedented hundred schools of contention, and created China's splendid "pre-Qin culture", until now, we still miss the golden period of the most brilliant culture and thought, and still absorb the cultural essence of that time. The way of the past, to the present. Thanks to King Xuan of Qi for his contribution to Chinese culture,
The movie version of Zhong Wuyan
King Xuan of Qi and Mencius
Guo Jin'an's version of King Xuan of Qi