The history of the Zhou Dynasty is known to contain many myths and stories, especially in the aspect of King Wen of Zhou's arithmetic, many well-known myths and stories have been circulated. Moreover, the Zhou Dynasty is also the longest-existing dynasty in China's history, which has existed for a total of 808 years, while the Shang Dynasty before it is only more than 300 years old, and the subsequent dynasties are even shorter. Like the later dynasties, the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty did not exceed three hundred years. It can be seen how long the Zhou Dynasty existed. The Zhou Dynasty was divided into Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, of which Western Zhou had a history of three hundred years and eight years, and during these years, the Zhou Dynasty had dynastic power in the true sense.
The Eastern Zhou Dynasty has a history of five hundred years, but in this five-hundred-year history, the Zhou Dynasty did not have real ruling power, which can be said to exist in name only. Speaking of this, we have to say a legend, it is rumored that when King Wen of Zhou invited Jiang Ziya out of the mountain, Jiang Ziya once made a request to King Wen of Zhou, that is, to ask King Wen of Zhou to carry himself. King Wen of Zhou also walked eight hundred and eight steps with Jiang Ziya on his back. However, during this period, King Wen of Zhou made a mistake, which directly led to the division of the Zhou Dynasty into Eastern Zhou and Western Zhou. So what is the specific situation? Let's take a look.
Jiang Ziya was born in an aristocratic family, but for various reasons, Jiang Ziya's family fell in the middle of the road, and had to come out to find something to support himself, but this Jiang Ziya is a very strange person, that is, he loses anything when he does, it is not the material for doing business at all, so Jiang Ziya still has nothing after a long age. But this Jiang Ziya has a high degree of wisdom, is not an ordinary person, and has great ambitions, but unfortunately there has been no room for display. The elderly Jiang Ziya sits on the edge of the Wei Water every day to fish, and because there is no bait, he fishes with a straight hook.
Jiang Ziya also praised this as a fishing, and the willing one was hooked to block those who laughed at him. At this time, King Wen of Zhou happened to come to Weishui to find someone who also helped him. It just so happened that Jiang Ziya's words caught his attention, so he walked over to talk to Jiang Ziya. In the process of conversation, King Wen of Zhou learned about Jiang Ziya's ability and wisdom, so he sincerely invited Jiang Ziya to help him. Jiang Ziya himself has always wanted to show his talent, so he agreed. As the saying goes: The king chooses the subject, and the subject also chooses the lord. When he jiang ziya chose the monarch, he naturally had to test one or two.
Halfway to the road, Jiang Ziya suddenly said that his legs and feet were inconvenient, hoping that King Zhou Wen could walk on his back for a while. This week, King Wen was also good at talking, so he walked with Jiang Ziya on his back for a while, a total of eight hundred and eight steps, but he really couldn't walk, so he put Jiang Ziya down. As a result, we found that the Zhou Dynasty existed for 808 years, so this matter was also passed down as a myth. When you see this, some friends will ask why the Zhou Dynasty was divided into Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou. Speaking of which, we are going to talk about a mistake that King Wen of Zhou made when he was attacked by Jiang Ziya.
That is, when King Wen of Zhou was attacked by Jiang Ziya, he took the wrong direction and took five hundred steps to the east, and then found out the problem, and took three hundred and eight steps towards the correct discovery of the west, for which King Wen of Zhou always said that he had made a mistake. But miraculous things happened, and the historical direction of the Zhou Dynasty coincided with this situation again. At this point, I remembered that King Wen of Zhou seemed to be proficient in the art of gua, whether he had calculated something himself, so he always said that he had made a mistake. Of course, these are only some rumors, and the authenticity cannot be verified.