A great dynasty that has been overlooked is also the second dynasty in Chinese history, the first dynasty and a Shang dynasty in China with direct written records of the contemporaneous period
During the Shang Dynasty (c. 1675 BC – 1029 BC), according to legend, the ancestors of the Shang kings were one of the descendants of the Five Emperors. Yu's father was Cang, and his ancestors came directly from the Yellow Emperor clan. The ancestor of the Shang Dynasty, Qi (玄水之鸟, to borrow a myth to illustrate his noble origin), is said to have been born very special, not by his parents through sex, but by his mother who ate bird eggs and became pregnant. Around the 16th century BC, a bird-totem clan, the Shang, rose in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and Tang was a tribal leader with great ambitions who won the hearts of the people; Shang was adjacent to another princely state, Ge, and if he wanted to unify the world, he had to conquer Ge first, and Tang took advantage of the fact that Ge Bo, the leader of Ge, did not sacrifice ancestral gods to provoke trouble, and with the strong assistance of the ministers Yi Yin, Zhongyu and others, began the war of cutting down. First destroyed the allies of Ge, Wei, Gu, Kun, and Wu, and removed Xia Jie's wings, and then defeated Xia Jie's army twice at the Ruins of Youluo and Mingtiao. After Cheng Tang returned to Shi Haoyi, he officially became the king, and various princes came to pay tribute to the emperor, and the Shang Dynasty was officially established.
Because the Shang Dynasty once built the capital Yin (present-day Anyang City, Henan Province), the Shang Dynasty was also known as Yin Shang. Went through three major phases. The first stage is "First Shang"; the second stage is "Early Shang"; the third stage is "Late Shang", and there are 31 kings in Shang--Tang, Taiding, Waibing, Zhongren, Taijia, Woding, Taigeng, Xiaojia, Yongji, Taipeng, Zhongding, Wairenhe Qijia, Zuyi, Zuxin, Wojia, Zuding, Nangeng, Yangjia, Pangeng, Xiaoxin, Xiaoyi, Wuding, Zugeng, Zujia, Liuxin, Kangding, Wuyi, Wending, Diyi, and 纣, of which 28 kings died of illness, 1 king who died of self-immolation after the death of the kingdom, and 1 king who may have died in battle, which has been passed down from generation to generation , 646 years. The last king, King Shang, was defeated and died at the Battle of Muye by King Wu of Zhou.
Why is it said that the King of Shang was the last human emperor?
The fundamental reason why Di Xin was the last human emperor was that after Di Xin, all the emperors in the human world became "sons of the heavenly emperor", and according to the legend of heaven and earth, at the beginning of the birth of heaven and earth, although the strength of the human race and the god clan was very different, but the status was equal, the leader of the human race and the leader of the gods sat on an equal footing, each managing the heavenly world and not interfering with each other. The leader of the God Clan is called the Heavenly Emperor, and the leader of the Terran race is called the Human Emperor. Di Xin is the emperor of man, the lord of the world, and the same status as the gods of the emperor and the earth. The human emperor and the sage Jade Emperor are of the same rank, enjoying the luck of the human world, so the ancient dynasty will exceed five hundred years. But since the Zhou Dynasty, successive emperors have begun to call themselves "Heavenly Son", which means the Son of Heaven and the Chosen One! The status of Zhou Tianzi became the concept of "divine right of kings", and power was given by god. Every year, he prayed to the Emperor of Heaven to let the wind and rain be smooth and the grain be abundant, so it is said that there will be no "human emperor" after the King of Lu. In folk mythology, there is such a saying: the terrans are actually the biggest losers in the battle of the gods. The emperor of the human race, before the battle of the gods, was called the "Nine-Nine Supreme", and after the sealing of the gods, he was called the "Nine-Five-Five-Lord", and the gap between the two needless to say.
The discovery of the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty pushed the Chinese civilization forward for 600 years, and the written materials of the Shang Dynasty mainly included pottery, jade, oracle bones and gold texts, and the oracle bones of the late Shang Dynasty were the most. Oracle bone, the earliest known systematic form of writing in China, is the Inscription carved on tortoiseshell and animal bones in the Yin Shang Era. It is one of the four major ancient scripts in the world. It was first discovered in 1898. After 1928, after many excavations, more than 100,000 pieces have been excavated, mainly engraving divination words and divination sacrifice related texts. Before the discovery of oracle bones, the international community only recognized that our civilization originated 3,000 years ago in the Western Zhou Dynasty. I have written about the Xia Dynasty and the Yu Dynasty before and asked them whether they existed, but because there is no documentary record, it is not certain, but unlike the Shang Dynasty, a large number of modern excavations of the Shang Dynasty contemporaneous writings (oracle bones, Jin scripts) prove that this dynasty did exist.