In today's era when material needs are no longer scarce, people have begun to pay more and more attention to cultural and spiritual needs, so tourism has begun to flourish, and the economic benefits brought by it are quite considerable, and many areas have begun to build tourism projects with local characteristics. China's thousands of years of history and culture have been able to develop countless tourism projects, and many regions have begun to compete for historical celebrities and attractions. But there is a well-known cultural allusion, there are two regions for this allusion have attractions, but these two counties, but did not have any negative news out, these two counties are Sheyang County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, and Changzhi Changzi County, Shanxi Province, as for this cultural allusion, it is Houyi Shooting Day.
As we all know, the sun is the core of the solar system, and it is no exaggeration to say that without the sun, I am afraid that human beings would not exist. Since ancient times, the ancestors of that time have been full of respect and worship for the sun in the sky, and have derived many mythological figures, such as China's Kwapa and Houyi, Apollo in ancient Greece, Sur in Northern Europe, Amaterasu in Japan and so on.
Among these mythological figures, the most controversial is Houyi, some people say that he was a archer during the Five Emperors period of antiquity, some people say that he was a poor monarch in the middle of the Xia Dynasty, and there are two theories as to the location of his shooting, one is in Changzi County in present-day Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, and the other is near Sheyang County in present-day Yancheng, Jiangsu Province.
In the long poem "Heavenly Questions" created by Qu Yuan, a famous poet of the Chu state during the Warring States period, there is a record about shooting the sun ("Yi Yan Yi Yi Day?). Uchiha? However, Qu Yuan did not reveal Qingyi's true identity. However, in the pre-Qin document "Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Jing", a record of Yi's identity was found, Shangyun: "Emperor Jun gave Yi Tong a bow to help the country, and Yi was the first to sympathize with the difficulties of the land." "Emperor Jun is the ancient Heavenly Emperor of the Huaxia clan, although the true author of the Classic of Mountains and Seas is unknown and the specific date of the book is unknown, but it can be used as a reference to support it, and the Yi who shot the sun may be a figure in the ancient period. Moreover, in many documents from the pre-Qin to the Han Dynasty, the name of the sun shooter is generally called "Yi".
But in the Tang Dynasty, all this changed. At this time, when creating poetic works, most of the literary people replaced the original "Yi" with the Dongyi tribal leader "Houyi", who was subordinate to the Xia Dynasty, and the allusion of "Houyi Shooting Day" basically appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but there are still scholars who use the "Nine Days of Yi Shooting" to call this allusion.
Let's leave aside for the moment the question of whether the "Houyi Shooting Day" and the "Nine Days of Yi Shooting" are true or false, in fact, the leader of the Dongyi tribe was not called Houyi at the beginning, but was called Yiyi, also known as Yiyi, he is likely to worship yi in the Five Emperors period, before calling himself Yi, and Yi in ancient Chinese is the meaning of a good shooter, so why is Yiyi later called Houyi? This has to mention the famous "Taikang Lost Country" incident in the Xia Dynasty.
Dayu's son Qi, who had succeeded Bo Yi as emperor, soon defeated the Youhu clan, who opposed his rule, and there was no more opposition in the country. After the dominance was consolidated, Kai became a person, addicted to the sound and color of dogs and horses, neglecting the discipline of TaiKang and other heirs, resulting in Taikang, who had been pampered since childhood, after succeeding his father Qi as a monarch, he also learned to indulge in hunting and pleasures without asking about the government. Due to Taikang's corruption and lack of respect for government affairs, the foundation of the Xia Dynasty's rule plummeted, and discontent spread throughout the government and the public. Although the rulers of the Xia Dynasty were addicted to fun, the Dongyi tribe in the east had the monarch Yiyi of the poor country, although at this time submitted to the Xia Dynasty, the ambitious Yiyi did not give up his belief in defeating the Xia Dynasty, and was ready to rebel at any time.
During a Taikang safari, Yi Yi, the leader of the Dongyi tribe who was hostile to Xia in the east, heard about it, so Yiyi immediately led his troops to block the only way for Taikang to return to China, and Taikang, who had few soldiers and was in danger, had no choice but to leave far away, allowing the Dongyi tribe to capture Xiadu.
Although Yi Yi captured Xia Du, because Taikang was still alive and there were many people within the Xia Dynasty who opposed Yi Yi's assumption of power, they did not dare to stand on their own behalf of Xia. Therefore, after Yi Yi came to the dynasty for eight years, he could only first support Taikang's brother Zhongkang to the throne, and then find another opportunity to seize power. Although Yi Yi was forced by the situation to temporarily be unable to succeed to the throne, he had been making plans for the early arrival of this day, so although the throne was in the hands of Shao Kang at that time, the monarchy was in the hands of Yi Yi.
During Zhongkang's reign, he was not willing to be Yiyi's puppet and took various measures to regain his authority, so he appointed Sima Yinhou the Grand Sima to command the Sixth Division of the Xia King to conquer Yiyi's henchmen, but due to the disparity between the number of people, Yiyi was defeated, and eventually Yinhou had to retreat to Hexi. Zhongkang, who heard of the defeat of Yin Hou's army, soon became depressed and died.
Although Zhongkang died, Ke Yiyi still felt that the time was not ripe to usurp Xia's power, so he put Zhongkang's son on the throne. However, this time Yiyi did not raise tigers for trouble, and before Xiang had the opportunity to be able to kuang zheng sheji, he exiled Xiang and seized the throne as a monarch, thinking that he was the sixth monarch of the Xia Dynasty. Because qi, the second monarch of the Xia Dynasty, created the new word "hou" by writing the word "Si" backwards, and used it as a synonym for the monarch, "hou" became the most honorable title in the Xia Dynasty. Therefore, after Yiyi succeeded him as Xia Jun, he had the title of "Houyi".
However, after Hou Yi became the Prince of Xia, he did not learn the lesson of Taikang's loss of the country, and after the throne was secured, he was also obsessed with hunting and amusement like Taikang. Ignoring the advice of Wu Luo, Bo Yin, and other loyal ministers, Hou Yi insisted on entrusting the government to Yizi Hanhuan.
After Han Hun took power, he had an affair with HouYi Xinna's young concubine, a pure fox who was only eighteen years old, and the two conspired to find an opportunity to kill Houyi and seize the throne. In three years, Han Hun and Pure Fox first resorted to various means to kill several ministers loyal to Houyi in succession in order to isolate Houyi. Three years later, Han Hun saw that most of the ministers in the court were subordinate to him, so he began to plot to seize power.
Unexpectedly, before the incident, Houyi discovered that Han Hun had an affair with a pure fox, and originally wanted to kill Han Hun, but in the end, because of drunkenness and long-term addiction to sound and color dogs and horses, which led to a serious decline in physical strength, and finally Hou Yi was killed by Han Hun. After HouYi's death, Han Hun immediately established himself as a monarch and changed the name of the country to Han. However, in the end, Han Hun did not escape the fate of being killed, and was eventually killed by Shao Kang, the widow of Xia Junxiang, and his country was also destroyed by Shao Kang, known in history as "Shao Kang Zhongxing".
It can be seen through the four events of "Taikang Lost Country", "Houyi Dynasty Xia", "Han Hun Jun" and "Shaokang Zhongxing", yi and Houyi have a lot in common, such as both of them are good at archery, and their wives have done things that are sorry for themselves (one ate the elixir of immortality, one committed adultery with thieves and killed the husband), Yi left a sun, and although Houyi was not out of his own heart, he also left a widow for Xia Dai, so that Xia Dai could be zhongxing (the word Xia itself has a deep connection with the sun). It is precisely because of these commonalities between Yi and Houyi that some people in later generations confuse the two.
But why were the two confused during the Tang Dynasty and not in other dynasties? In fact, through the life of Tang Xuanzong, readers can see some clues. Readers who know the Tang Dynasty will surely know how great a role Tang Xuanzong played in major events related to the life and death of the Tang Dynasty, such as the Tang Long coup and the eradication of the Wei Hou forces. It can be said that without Tang Xuanzong, the Tang Dynasty would most likely have perished two hundred years in advance. However, in the later years of Tang Xuanzong's reign, because the country was peaceful and uneventful and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, Tang Xuanzong thoroughly indulged himself, spent all day seeking pleasure with Yang Guifei, abandoning the fine policies of the early stage and becoming arrogant and lascivious, allowing contradictions between the officials and the people, contradictions between the interior and border customs, and so on, and ignoring a series of major problems such as discord between the outside and the light on the inside, and only knew that the government of the dynasty was successively appointed to Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, resulting in the two holding the government for decades, and abandoning Zhang Jiuling, Wang Zhongsi, and many other good names. On the contrary, in order to keep his power, he did not hesitate to kill Wang Zhongsi, if it were not for An Lushan and other anti-thieves killing each other, and Datang still had many loyal subjects such as Guo Ziyi, Yan Zhenqing, Zhang Zhu, Xu Yuan, etc., otherwise Datang would have ceased to exist long ago.
Seeing this, I think you readers already have a good idea, the Chinese literati have a tradition of borrowing from the past to satirize the present, Houyi and Tang Xuanzong have so much in common, the literati do not dare to say Tang Xuanzong, do not dare to say that Houyi has long been an ancient Houyi?
The allusion of "Houyi Shooting Day" is a treasure of Chinese culture, representing the fearless and unremitting spirit of the Chinese people, no matter who shot these nine arrows, no matter where they were shot, Sheyang City, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, and Changzhi Changzi County, Shanxi Province, are an indispensable part of China, and we only need to carry forward this fearless and unremitting spirit.
Author: Our special invited author Si Wu