Idiomatic stories: a few classics forget the ancestors; a few ridiculous things done by the funny King Zhou Jing

Zhou Jingwang is very funny.

That's what we say about him more than two thousand and five years later. But he didn't know he was funny, just as he didn't know that his image in the history books was so funny for more than two thousand years.

Originally, he should have been brushed off in the history books like other mediocre sons of heaven. However, the twelfth monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, because he did some absurd things, and even created two idioms for the Chinese thesaurus, he also occupied two extra pages in the history books.

Summarizing the life of King Jing of Zhou, it can be described as follows: he picked up a throne, created two idioms, did three stupid things, gave birth to four sons, and chaotic the country for five years.

King Jing of Zhou was named Ji Gui and was the second son of King Ling of Zhou. His wise and virtuous brother died young, so a crown fell from the sky and smashed his head, becoming the successor of King Zhou Ling.

Seemingly lucky for him, Bai picked up a throne. However, after he became a monarch, he found that the Zhou Dynasty at this time had long lost its former prestige. At this time, it was the juncture of the spring and autumn princely states vying for hegemony, and everyone was fighting for the interests of the two dates, and who cared about the Son of Heaven who had no authority.

The Zhou royal family was so poor that even the drinking utensils had to be paid tribute by the princely states. As the saying goes, people are poor and short-minded, and horses are thin and long-haired. However, our Zhou Jing King is poor, but Na Zhi is not much shorter, but his temper is a little long. No, he was about to throw a tantrum at the great powers among the princes, a ridiculous and funny temper.

His queen and crown prince died, and the princely states naturally sent people to mourn, and the Jin state sent the doctor Xun Shu. Of course, the emissaries sent by the great powers had to be personally entertained by King Jing of Zhou. The atmosphere is not awkward, and there is a little harmony. After toasting a circle of wine, King Jingwang of Zhou may be a little on top, suddenly picked up the wine bottle in his hand, and said to Xun Zhi, Do you know where this wine bottle came from?

Xun Shu was drinking happily, and was asked a confused look, thinking that this was not in your hand? Isn't it the wine bottle of the Zhou royal family? A few dishes, the king, you drink like this.

What King Zhou Jingwang wants is to ask you a dumb mouth. He went on to say that this wine bottle was paid to me by lu guo. But what about you Jinguo? Why haven't you given me anything in recent years? Empty-handed every time?

Yo ho, tangtang day to play with me a rogue, right? Xun Shu woke up from the circle of ignorance and thought that you are playing a bare stick here, I am not a vegetarian, just ignore you. So I didn't say a word. However, the deputy envoy next to him could not sit still, and he could not always hang the heavenly son of a man there as a quilt. Carefully replied, we in the Jin Dynasty have recently been fighting with the Rong di in the north, and we have nothing to pay tribute in our hands, you have to understand our difficulties. The deputy envoy was still shallow, and it was enough to explain a sentence, but added a hurtful sentence: Besides, when we founded the Jin Dynasty, the Zhou royal family did not send any decent gifts.

King Jing of Zhou was even more angry when he heard this, and he also lost his good memory, bar la la little devil fairy, no, bar la bar la a lot, put the Jin kingdom from the founding of the country Zhou royal family sent all the gifts with their mouths made a list, and finally proudly raised their heads and asked the two messengers who only knew the stunned: Is there any, do you say there is any? You guys who have forgotten their ancestors!

This is the origin of the idiom of forgetting ancestors.

In the end, it was Jin Guo who sent some gifts to suppress this absurd gift incident.

This King Of Zhou Jing not only asked for gifts, but also tossed his own country unequivocally. First of all, he minted large money, and wanted to use it to replace the small money of the people, and by the way, he made some money, which made the people complain. Later, he slapped his head on the door, and he wanted to cast two large chimes and show off in front of the princes and monarchs who came to make envoys.

After the chimes were made, he ordered his music officers to take the men to rehearsals. Le Guan said that what the people are willing to do, they will always work together and try their best to do it well. If the people don't want to, you can't pull ten cows, and the spit they spit out can melt the metal.

Yes, King Jing of Zhou gave us another idiom, unity of purpose.

One absurd thing after another, after tossing the country, he began to toss his son again, of the four sons, the eldest who was the successor was long gone, and the remaining three who would take over the throne, he was stunned that he did not understand.

Therefore, after King Jing of Zhou left in a daze, the three sons fought a pot of porridge in order to compete for the throne, which directly led to the turmoil of the Zhou royal family for the next five years.

This is Zhou Jingwang, a little naïve, narrow-minded, but still a little cute Zhou Tianzi.

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