Why did King Wu of Zhou seal the brother of Zhou Zhang, the monarch of the State of Wu, in Xia Xu (虞国, Shanxi)?

This article comes from the Internet, more or less answered a question I have long had, why did King Wu of Zhou seal the brother of Zhou Zhang, the monarch of the State of Wu, in Xia Ruins, a place so far away in the State of Yu, Shanxi? I think it can be discussed rationally. At the same time, if the original author sees me reprinting, he also looks forward to Haihan.

After letting the crown prince run to Jingman, the Zhou royal family has not forgotten Wu Taibo, in the later generations of the ancestors of the tablets, there are still Wu Taibo tablets, after the Battle of Muye, King Wu of Zhou also immediately sent people to find wu Taibo and Zhongyong's descendants, and found Zhongyong's great-grandson, Zhou Zhang, the distant cousin of King Wu of Zhou, zhou Zhang, sealed Zhou Zhang as the king of the state of Wu, and at the same time sealed Zhou Zhang's younger brother Yu Zhong in Xia Ruins and established the state of Yu. (There are also historical records that Wu Taibo had descendants and has always been in Zhou Yuan, and Wu Taibo's great-grandson was named Zhongyi, who was sealed by King Wu of Zhou in Yanxiang and awarded a knighthood, which was the beginning of the Yan clan.)

Tabor Benjing, also known as Tabor Ben Wu. Some people think that Taibo Ben Wu is Taibo Ben WuDi (Southern Jiangsu), and Taibo Ben Jing refers to Tai Bo Ben Jing Chu, because later Wu Di was occupied by the Chu State (Jing Chu), which is called Tai Bo Ben Jing in history. In fact, according to the legend, first taber ben wu, then tabor ben jing. Because Taibo Zhongyong first went to Wushan, the west town west of Qishan, to run Wu for Taibo, and then from Wushan to Wudi in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

So, why is Wushan, the west town of Taibo Ben Wu, called Wushan? In ancient times, Wu Yu was connected, and in general, only if there were people with the surname Wu or Yu living here, this place could be called Wu Mountain or Yu Mountain.

There is an ancient idiom called Yu Rui Zhi Litigation, which refers to the period of King Wen of Zhou, when the State of Yu and the State of Rui fought for the matter of land boundaries, and then asked King Wen of Zhou to judge, and on the road to see the State of Zhou under the rule of King Wen of Zhou, the people generally gave in to each other, so the two countries of Yu Rui were reconciled with each other. This incident shows that during the period of King Wen of Zhou, there was a State of Yu, which of course was not the state of Yu that King Wu of Zhou had sealed as the brother of Zhou Zhang, and some people believed that the place of the State of Yu (Pinglu, Shanxi) where Zhou Zhang's brother was located, and the State of Rui was next to the State of Yu, where Zhou Zhang's brother was located, that is, Dali, Shanxi.

However, in the late Western Zhou Dynasty Fengxiang,Shaanxi Province, the inscription "Shanshi Pan" unearthed by Fengxiang in Shaanxi In the early years of Qianlong contains the words "King Yu DouxinGong Dongting", and Mr. Zhang Xiaoheng said in the article "Scattered Disc Interpretation": "夨, Wuzhi Province Wenye. "Wu, Yu, Yu Universal." That is to say, in the area of Fengxiang in Shaanxi (near Wushan in Xizhen) there is a State of Wu or a State of Yu (Wu tribe or Yu tribe). After Taibo Zhongyong left Qishan, the place where he ran was this Wu or Yu kingdom (Wu tribe or Yu tribe), and the relationship between Taibo Zhongyong and (Wu tribe or Yu tribe) was very good, so that when Taibo ran to Jingjing, he brought a lot of residents here, so when Taibo arrived at the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and established the country, he called himself the state of Wu.

In fact, it can be seen from the litigation of Yu Rui that if the State of Rui of Yu was in Pinglu, Shanxi and Dali, Shanxi, the people in these two places were disputed for land, and if they went to Qishan Zhouyuan to find King Wen of Zhou, they would have to cross the Yellow River. And yu guo rui guo was near Fengxiang, and they had a dispute to go to Qishan to find King Wen of Zhou, which was convenient, which was also reasonable. (Fengxiang to Qishan is only more than a hundred miles)

Why is there a Yu kingdom near Fengxiang? Generally speaking, the establishment of the State of Yu must have been established by people of the Yu clan, and in ancient times, the Yu clan, that is, the descendants of Emperor Shun, one of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, were founded. The Yu clan, where Emperor Shun was located, was in the Zhongtiao Mountain area of Shanxi, where the Xia Ruins were located, that is, the place where King Wu of Zhou sealed Zhou Zhang. This is the area east of Qishan.

It is likely that Emperor Shun had descendants of the Yu clan, and some of them moved to the vicinity of Fengxiang, established the State of Yu, and left behind the antique "Sanshi Pan", and the nearby mountain was also known as YuShan (Wushan), later known as Xizhen Wushan.

Siku Jinshu Lushi Houji Youyu Clan (有虞氏): "Emperor Shun had the surname of Yu (虞氏姚), and his ancestors were Yu (虞), which began as Yu (虞氏). In the "Chinese Volume 16 Zheng Yu", it is said that Shunzhi's ancestor was Known as Yu Mu, and the ancestral name of Emperor Shun was Yu Mu. (Of course, the "History of the Five Emperors Benji" records: "Yu Shun's name is Chonghua.") Chonghua Father Yue Qiao, Qiao Qiao Father Yue Qiao Niu, Qiao Niu Father Yue Sentence Wang, Sentence Wang Father Yue Poor Cicada, Poor Cicada Father Yue Emperor Yue, Father Yue Changyi, and even Shun VII. Since the poor cicada to the emperor Shun, they have all been humble people. "There's no mention of Yu Mu here." Emperor Fu Moyun: "Yao took his second daughter's wife Shun, and sealed it in Yu, and now The Western Yudi of Dayang Mountain in Hedong is also." "Yu Shun's birthplace was either in Yaodi (present-day Puyang, Henan) or in Yao Xu (present-day Zhufeng Village, Wanjiazhuang Township, Zhucheng, Shandong), but Yu Shun was enfeoffed by Emperor Yao in the Zhongtiao Mountain region (i.e., Dayang, i.e., Pinglu, Shanxi), which should be certain. This area of water with concubines, including Alexandria, was the place where Emperor Shun was active.

In Pinglu County, Shanxi (known in ancient times as Dayang County, Hedong County), there is a Yu Mountain, also known as Wu Ban and Yu Ban, which is a branch of Zhongtiao Mountain, the eastern section of Zhongtiao Mountain is called Lishan, the main peak is Shunwangping, and Zhongtiao Mountain is also called Lishan, also known as Wushan. In ancient times, Wu Yu was connected, and Wu Mountain, also known as Yu Mountain, was also the place where the Yu clan, which was active by Emperor Shun, was divided.

Some people have analyzed that Jiang Yan, the mother of the Zhou people's ancestor Hou Ji, was a descendant of shennong of the Lieshan clan and lived in Hedong. There is a tomb of Jiang Yan in Wenxi County, Shanxi, and Wenxi is also in the Zhongtiao Mountain area, including Jishan County, where Hou ji is active, also in the Zhongtiao Mountain area. Some people believe that this area is the fengyi where Houji's descendant Gong Liu and his people settled, and fengyi is not in Bin County on the border between Shaanxi and Gansu. Gong Liu's twelfth-generation grandson, Gong Gu, was moved from here to the Zhongtiao Mountain area to the Zhouyuan Qishan.

Wen Yiduo's "Heavenly Questions and Neglect Evidence" explains: "The King of Tai (the father of the ancient gong) migrated from ancient Qi, and Tai Bo lost his position and fled back to ancient times. "The ancient land here, that is, the Nakajō Mountain area. The "Notes on the Water Classics" written by Li Daoyuan in the late Northern Wei Dynasty introduced: Fenshui is west of Changxiu County, and west is merged with ancient water. The water flows out of the ancient city of Linfen County in the west of Huangfu, and the east is injected into Fen. Dong Youcheng was also quoted: "The ancient city of Linfen is in the northeast of present-day Xuzhou, and the water is under the ancient mountains in the northwest." That is to say, Linfen has ancient mountains and ancient waters, and the father of the ancient gong originally lived in its land, so it was called the ancient gong. It is not very far from Mt. Nakajō. According to Wen Yiduo, after Wu Taibo gave up the position of crown prince, he returned to the Zhongtiao Mountain area. Since this place is the hometown of the Yu clan in Shundi, it is also called Taibo Ben wu (虞).

The "Biography of Mu Tianzi" records that King Mu of Zhou spent three days from the Palace of the Yellow Emperor in Kunlun Hill to The Palace of the Yellow Emperor in Kunlun Hill, and another three days from Gangshan to Chiwu, where he received two beautiful women offered by the locals, and then spent six days from Chiwu to Heishui, where he rewarded the long-armed countrymen who received him with courtesy, and spent three days from Heishui to reach the Mountain of Qunyu, and then spent another seventy days to reach The Mountain of Kunku and meet with the Queen Mother of the West. The period of Mu Tianzi, that is, the great-grandson of Zhou Zhang of the State of Wu, the son of Ke Xiang, the eighth generation of Wu Junqiang Jiuyi reigned.

When King Mu of Zhou was in Chiwu, he once said, "The Chiwu clan first came from Emperor Zhou, and the great king's father was the western soil, and his eldest son Wu Taibo was enfeoffed in Eastern Wu, and he was punished with a golden blade and bribed with the Bi of the Zhou Chamber." Fengqi Bichen's chief Ji was nicknamed the lice of the Mountain, and his wife was given the title of Yuan Daughter, and he was punished with jade, thinking that he was the lord of the Zhou Chamber. This means that Chi Wu and Zhou Mu were the same sect, and his father sealed Wu Taibo in Eastern Wu, and married Wu Taibo's sister or sister to Mount Gang (that is, the place between Kunlun Mountain and Chi Wu).

Here it is said that his father sealed Wu Taibo in Eastern Wu, and King Mu of Zhou knew that Wu Taibo and his brother Zhongyong took the initiative to go to the Jingmang Land in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and called himself Wu. Why is it said that the father sealed Tabor to Wudi? There are two possibilities for this, one is that King Mu of Zhou put gold on his father's face, not mentioning that TaiBo obeyed his father and gave the throne, one is that Father Qi did indeed seal Tai Bo in Wu Land, and this Wu Land was east of Zhou Yuan Qishan, east of Zhou Yuan Qishan, then only Emperor Shun in the Zhongtiao Mountain area had the hometown of Yu Shi, that is, where Xia Ruins were located, and where the Yu Kingdom was sealed by Yu Zhong, the brother of later Zhou Zhang. This may also explain why King Wu of Zhou wanted to seal Zhou Zhang's brother Yu Zhong in Xia Ruins, because this is the place where Taibo was divided, so let Taibo Zhongyong regain this place after that, which is considered to be the original owner. (If it is the father who sealed Wu Taibo here, 600 miles north-east of Zhou Yuan, and 600 miles north-east of this place, is the capital of the Shang Dynasty, yin, then the intention of the father to seal Taibo here should be to let Taibo as a barrier against the Shang Dynasty army)

This means that In order to resign the throne, Taibo went from the Qishan Mountains of Zhouyuan to Yudi (Wu) in Zhongtiao Mountain, and then, in order to completely abdicate the throne, led some of the people here (there are Yu clans) to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River from the Yu lands of the Zhongtiao Mountains, established a state, and named the country the State of Wu (虞国, a country with the Yu clan). In other words, Wushan in Pinglu, Shanxi, is the starting point of Taibo Benjing.