The Song state during the Spring and Autumn period was an alternative prince. King Wu of Zhou gathered together the remnants of the defeated Yin Merchants and established a princely state in present-day Shangqiu, Henan, which was the State of Song. After King Cheng of Zhou quelled the rebellion of Wu Genglu's father, king Fengshang's younger brother Wei Ziqi became the monarch of the Song state and ruled over this group of subjugated people. Therefore, in order to survive, the Song kingdom had to establish good relations with other princely states, especially the clan states of the Zhou royal family.
During the reign of the twelfth monarch, Song Wugong, the State of Song was also facing an invasion of the nomadic Changdi people in the northwest, which made the monarch Song Wugong feel more urgent to ally with other princely states. At that time, the state of Lu was the zhou royal family, with the temple of King Wenzong, enjoying the privilege of tianzi lile, belonging to the first-class princely states, and the Duke of Song Wu was bent on the state of Lu.
Just in time, Song Wugong gave birth to a daughter, this daughter was born with some strange palm prints on her palms, and the ancient fonts were sealed, and her palm prints were like the four seal characters of "Lady Lu". Duke Wu of Song was very happy, so he informed Lu Guo of this matter, saying that my daughter was born to be lu guo's wife, and she would definitely marry Lu Guo in the future, which was the destiny of heaven. In fact, it was a gimmick created by Song Wugong who wanted to ally with the State of Lu.
At this time, the State of Lu was ruled by The Duke of Hui, and according to the regulations of the time, there were nine daughters in the harem of the princes. Huigong's wife did not give birth to a son, and the sister of the wife, Shengzi, was one of the nine daughters of the dowry, and her status was not high, and she was the left wife. Son, Shengzi bore a son for Huigong, named Sigu, who was the eldest son of Huigong, but only Shu out.
As she grew up, Huigong wanted to find him a daughter-in-law, and she remembered the daughter of Song Wugong of song, who had said that this daughter would become Lady Lu guo in the future. This daughter of Duke Wu was the later Zhongzi. Because the name Zhongzi will only exist after arriving in the Lu Kingdom, Zhong is the second oldest in the ranking, and the Son is the national surname of the Song Kingdom. Her real name is only used by her mother's family, and she will not use it after marriage.
Huigong sent someone to the Song Kingdom to ask for relatives, and Song Wugong immediately agreed.
When Zhongzi arrived in Luguo, Huigong saw that Zhongzi was very beautiful, graceful, graceful, and her face was as beautiful as a peach and plum. Nakako's beauty completely captivated Hye-kung. So Huigong, who was Nakako's father-in-law, did something less honorable, and he simply took Nakako as his wife.
She also knew the beauty of Nakako, and perhaps personally participated in the welcoming procession. There was nothing he could do about his father's absurdity. Although he was very reluctant to Zhongzi, Huigong was both a father and a king of a country, and he, the eldest son, could only swallow his anger in the face of his father's unreasonable behavior.
According to the "Records of History", Huigong reigned for forty-six years, the year of birth is unknown, and it is common sense to speculate that there should be more than seventy at the time of his death. According to the general life expectancy of the Spring and Autumn Period, Huigong was not only a bad old man, but also a dying man.
This incident is recorded in the "History of the Lu Zhou Gong Family". Because there is no detailed record in the Zuo Zhuan, and Huigong did not have the name of Emperor Hui in history, some people doubt whether this is true. However, from the other events recorded in the "Zuo Biao", we can fully prove that this matter is true, perhaps this is the "Spring and Autumn" brushwork, "Spring and Autumn" is not convenient to say directly, it will imply the event in other things.
Marriage is an important form of alliance between princely states, and zhongzi are married to the state of Lu, and the relationship between the two countries is the kinship relationship of the political alliance. However, Duke Hui of Lu possessed his daughter-in-law, who was originally married to his son, and Duke Wu of Song was furious when he learned of this. According to the Spring and Autumn ceremonial system, the princes no longer marry, and the woman who becomes the Duke of Hui cannot be the lady of the main room, and the zhongzi marries the sister, who is the eldest son, and it is possible to inherit the throne, and the middle son is likely to become a lady. Therefore, the matter of Huigong's occupation of his daughter-in-law was unacceptable to Song Wugong, and he decided to send an army to attack the State of Lu. The war between Song and Lu was small in scale, and had little influence in the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, a matter of face, but the two sides also fought for more than a year. Until the death of this "son-in-law" of the Song Kingdom, Huigong, the Song State not only did not come to mourn the son-in-law of the monarch, but even the war did not stop.
The "Zuo Biography" records that "Huigong Zhixue also had a Song master, a prince, and a gap in the burial, and was reburyed." "There are Song divisions, that is, there are Song troops on the border." It can be seen that at that time, because of this war, the State of Lu could not be buried properly because of the death of Huigong, and it was not until the end of the year after the regency of the Duke of Yin that the State of Lu reburied Huigong.
From this war, it can be seen that the Song Kingdom originally wanted to form an alliance with the Lu State in the form of marriage, because Lu Huigong's absurd behavior made the two countries enemies.
In 722 BC, Duke Hui of Lu died, and Zhongzi bore him a son named Yun. According to the "Zuo Chuan", "The birth of Huan Gong and the benefit of Gong Xue are enshrined in the form of hidden publicity." It can be speculated that it should be the year when Zhongzi gave birth to Yun, and Huigong died, so Yun was too young at that time. Sigu was pushed out, and he was Lu Yingong.
Originally, it was not in line with the etiquette of the week to abolish the long and young. Zhongzi's status among all the women of Huigong is only a little higher than that of Yingong's mother, Sonic, who is the left concubine and Sonic is the right concubine. The Duke of Cain could have ascended to the throne himself. However, it is precisely because he is obsessed with Zhongzi that he and Zhongzi cannot go back to the past now, so Shigu decides to fulfill Zhongzi's son Yun. She herself renounced the throne, loved Wu and Wu, and served as a regent for the son of her beloved woman. He planned to formally hand over the power of the monarch to Yun once Yun had grown up. Therefore, The Duke of Yin has been governing the State of Lu as a regent.
In September 722, the year of the regency of the Duke of Yin, the State of Lu also sent people to make peace with the State of Song, and in the capital of the present-day State of Dongping and Nansu in Shandong, representatives of the two sides signed a covenant under the witness of the State of Su, and finally a political alliance was formed between the two countries. After all, the Song Kingdom was Zhongzi's mother's family, and Huigong was dead, and the two sides should no longer become enemies.
Zhongzi also did not expect that after marrying into the Country of Lu, she did not become a young princess and a woman, and was occupied by her father-in-law, who was already more than seventy years old, and caused a war between the two countries. Depressed, she soon fell ill, and died in the second year of her regency.
Zhongzi died, and Yin Gong was extremely sad, and what he thought in his heart did not dare to show it. Although there was no abandonment of state politics, the Hidden Duke did not want to be bound by the etiquette system anymore. History records that in the fifth year of his regency, he suddenly wanted to leave the capital to see how the people lived.
In the spring of the fifth year of Lu Yingong (in fact, in winter, Lu Guo used the Zhou Li to take the november of the lunar calendar as the spring), and The Duke of Lu Yin went to a place more than a hundred kilometers away from the capital (now Yutai, Shandong) to see how the common people fished. This is the historically debated event of "Lu Yin Gongguan Yu Yu Tang". At that time, this was a very important matter of "not conforming to the law of etiquette", and it was immediately opposed and advised by his uncle Zang Shubo: In addition to these, the monarch generally does not go out, which is the rule set by the ancestors... There is a lot of truth, in short, this is not in accordance with etiquette. Yin Gong was not easy to refute, so he replied, "I am also going to patrol the border." I went anyway.
"Gongguan Fish Yu Tang", this is a small matter, because it is written in "Spring and Autumn", it is constantly fermented. The post-Confucians criticized and wrote, made great efforts, and even continued to dig up the so-called small words and great righteousness. The "Biography of Gu Liang" believes that "guan" is against convention, the monarch is noble, and fishing is a despicable thing, which is inconsistent with the identity of the monarch. The "Biography of the Ram" believes that "watching fish" is a hidden language, concealing the evil of the public, but in fact, it is a hidden public net fishing and competing with the people for profit. Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Dew" also believes that "watching fish" means that the prince himself fishes, pursues wealth and profits, has no benevolence, has the meaning of bad behavior, and great shame and humiliation.
In fact, including the uncle of the clan at that time, Zang Shubo, and the corrupt Confucians in later generations, where did they understand the sadness in the heart of a quasi-monarch who had lost his beloved woman, he had nowhere to tell, could not get rid of it, just wanted to go out and see how ordinary people lived. Judging from the fact that he later wanted to retire, Yin Gong really wanted to live a peaceful life for ordinary people.
Not only that, Yin Gong also made a bolder move in September of the year of "Watching Fishing". He built a family temple for Zhongzi to worship Zhongzi. Zhongzi was only a right-hand man and was not eligible to enter the family temple. The Duke of Yin built another family temple to worship Zhongzi alone, on the grounds that Zhongzi's son Yun was the legal monarch, and Yun's mother was of course eligible to build a temple to sacrifice. There is also a lot of opposition to this.
After the completion of the temple, when the shrine of the god sacrificing Zhongzi was welcomed into the temple, the Yin Gong also held a music and dance to offer six feathers. This kind of music and dance is also known as the Six Nobles. In ancient times, music and dance, with eight people in a column, were called one- and one-way. Six feathers, that is, a large dance of eight people and six columns, a total of forty-eight people, who hold the feathers of pheasants and dance.
This was a serious violation of the etiquette system, which at that time stipulated that the heavenly son was eight, the princes were six, the doctors were four, and the soldiers were all clearly stipulated. Nakako is not qualified to hold such a high-level music and dance. But Yin Gong insisted on doing so despite the objections of others.
For Zhongzi, Yin Gong is so important that he can be so polite to his father. Because when Huigong died, Lu Guo was fighting with the Song Kingdom, and Huigong's funeral was also carried out hastily, and now that The Hidden Duke is regent and the country is stable, everyone proposes to rebury Huigong. The "Left Biography" records that "in the winter of October, Gengshen was buried instead of Huigong." Gongfu Pro, so not the book. That is to say, on October 14, the year of The Hidden Era (722 BC), when Huigong was reburied, Yingong did not participate. The reason recorded in the "Records of History" is that Yin Gong was not an official monarch, so it was not appropriate to attend huigong's funeral. Does this reason make sense not to attend his father's funeral?
The "Zuo Biography" also records that "Wei Hou came to be buried, but he did not see the public, nor did he write." That is to say, wei hou, who was the prince of Weiguo, personally came to attend the funeral of Duke Hui, and Duke Yin did not go to see him. These are all unreasonable and disrespectful places. It can be seen how much Yin Gong resents his father for robbing his own woman, and he did not let go until his father died.
Yin Gong was a completely temperamental man, he had been regent for eleven years, and his politics were stable and stable. If he had the ambition to become a monarch, not to mention that in the beginning, after eleven years, the country was stable and the regime was stable, and he could have ignored his half-brother, who was also his beloved woman's son, and ascended to the throne himself. This was nothing at all during the Spring and Autumn Period, when it was very frequent to kill his father and brother.
However, Yin Gong still had a long mind for Zhongzi and did not care about Jiangshan. There is no record in history that Yin Gong married other women, nor does it record that he had children, but that he was actually alone.
When Gongzi Yi proposed to Yin Gong that he wanted to help Yin Gong get rid of Gongzi Yun and make Yin Gong an official monarch, Gongzi Yi himself also fished for a Dazai. What does Yin Gong say? Yin Gong said: "After all, I want to cede the country to Yun, but he is still young, and I am temporarily regent." I had built a place for myself in the place of Suoqiu (present-day Tai'an, Shan), and I was ready to retire there after I abdicated. ”
What a sadness this is, Gongzi Yi doesn't understand it at all, and no one can understand it. It should be known that The Duke of Yin was about twenty years old, and he was only in his thirties until now, in his prime. However, he had prepared a place for his retirement now, and he had no intention of the position of the monarch at all, and he also sincerely thought that Gongzi Yun would be a little older, so he would give up the power of the monarch to him. But now Yun is only eleven or twelve years old, and he is still a little too young. The Duke of Cain wanted to wait a little longer, and in two years he would cede the power of the monarch to the son of his beloved woman and go into seclusion himself.
Gongzi saw that Yin Gong was already disheartened and had no desire to seize power, but he was afraid. He was afraid that once his advice was known to others, it would be a disaster. So Gongzi Yi in turn consulted with Gongzi Yun on how to get Yun to ascend to the throne.
In the eleventh year of the Duke of Yin, that is, in 711 BC, the Duke of Yin went to a foreign country, and he was going to sacrifice zhong wu, the family god of the Zheng Guo Dafu Yin Clan, in order to repay the favor of the Zheng Guo Dafu Yin Who had saved him. Duke Yin temporarily lived in the home of the Wěi clan of the Lu Dynasty, and as a result, Gongzi Fei sent assassins to kill Yin Gong in the family of The Liao clan.
Gongzi Yun ascended the throne as Duke Huan of Lu.
The tragedy of Yin Gong's life began with Zhongzi and ended with Zhongzi. Later generations called him a "hidden" word.