Yi Yin (1649 BC – 1550 BC), surname, surname Yi, Yi, Name Zhi, Character Yin, Number Ah Heng. There was the Xinguo ren clan (present-day Khlong Sang Village, Oniongang Town, Qixian County, Henan Province).
Historical records: Yi Yin was born in Yichuan County, Henan Province, the five generations of the Shang Dynasty, the founding father, an outstanding politician, a thinker, the ancestor of Chinese cooks, the originator of China, and the first imperial master in history.
Legend has it that Yi Yin's mother was a mulberry picker, one day she and her sister-in-law came to the Yi River to wash clothes, saw a bright red peach floating down from the upper reaches of the Yi River, the sang woman quickly picked up this bright peach from the water, handed it to her sister-in-law to eat, and her sister-in-law smiled and said: "You picked up the peach, or did your sister eat it." Seeing that her sister-in-law insisted on not eating, the kind mulberry picker had to eat this peach herself. Unexpectedly, since eating this peach, she has become pregnant. When the family learned of this, they were very angry, believing that the mulberry girl had misbehaved and corrupted the door, and her cruel father had driven the poor mulberry girl out of the house one night before giving birth.
Taking advantage of the darkness under the old locust tree outside the village, the sangsang girl gave birth to a baby boy and named it Yi Zhi. In the eleventh year of Emperor Xia (1655 BC), YiShui flooded, flooded many villages and fields, many people died tragically in the flood, Yi Zhi was just born, the great flood came, postpartum weak, breathless Cai Sang woman knew that her life was not long, in a hurry, she put Yi Zhi in a wooden basin, bit her finger and wrote a blood book, crying and saying to the child: "Although the mother gave birth to you, she could not raise you, but I hope that the well-meaning people will take you away and raise you." After pushing the wooden basin into the water, I saw the wooden basin drifting with the waves to a long downstream and disappearing into the vast water.
Suddenly, the sky was dark, the earth shook, the landslides cracked, the wind was fierce, the sand flew away, and the poor mulberry girl was "buried" in a ditch, forming a tomb. The ditch of "Heavenly Burial" is the place where the mulberry girl's foothold is located, so posterity calls it "Falling Ditch", and the tomb is called "Yigu Tomb" and "Girl's Tomb". After Yi Yin made the Yin Shang Shengxiang, he made a special trip to worship and rebuild the "Yigu Tomb", which was later called the "Tomb of the Virgin".
Yi Zhi drifted with the waves in the wooden basin to a far place, was rescued by a cook, adopted as a righteous son, and named Baoheng, also known as Ah Heng. Later, the chef took Yoshiko to Xinhou, and Xinhou saw that the child was well-behaved and clever, so he changed his name to Yi Yin. Yi Yin, talented and studious, likes him very much and keeps him as a personal follower.
Although Yi Yin grew up cultivating in Xinguo, he learned a lot of cooking techniques from his father, and was diligent and studious around Xinhou, and learned the way of governing the country by Yao Shun. In the State of Youxin, Yi Yin worked as a cook for the slave-owning nobility and a "master servant" for the children of the nobility, and he was famous for his research on the governance methods of the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" and "Yao Shunyu" from an early age.
After shang tang, the founding emperor of the Shang Dynasty, succeeded to the throne, he was talented and thirsty for talents. During a private visit to Qinzhuang in the northwest of the XinGuo, Zuo Xiangzhong discovered Yi Yin's talents and strongly recommended him to the King of Shang Tang, saying: "Yi Yin is a very extraordinary person, who can be a person who can be used by our businessmen." After Shang Tang heard about it, he knew that people were good at their duties, so he recruited Yi Yin to assist the government. When Shang Tang first came to Yi Yin's house, he saw that Yi Yin was combing the old mother's hair and makeup, and King Tang was very touched, went to the front to pray, explained his intentions, and invited Yi Yin to join the dynasty as an official, Yi Yin refused on the grounds that "there is an octogenarian mother in the church, and no one is filial piety".
Two years later, Shang Tang heard that Yi Mu had been ill for a year, and he pretended to be private and came to invite Yi Yin, seeing that Yi Yin not only had the talent to rule the world, but also had a good godson. King Tang expressed his sincere intention and said: "Follow me into Beijing and show my talents." Yi Yin refused Shang Tang again on the grounds that "the death of the mother was not enough to serve filial piety and could not move".
Three years later, Shang Tang once again invited Yi Yin to personally drive Qin Zhuang in Xindi, and Yi Yin had led the villagers to greet him under the big tree outside the village, and King Tang was touched by Yi Yin's sincerity, and his heart was overjoyed, saying: "Words have faith, and true gentlemen are also."
Yi Yin followed King Tang to Shangdu, and made Yi Yin the Right Xiang, and the King of Shang Tang, with the assistance of Zuo Xiang Zhongyu and Right Xiang Yi Yin, successively destroyed the neighboring Ge State (present-day Ningling, Henan), as well as the Xia Dynasty's Fang Guowei (present-day Hua County, Henan), Gu Guo (present-day Fan County, Henan), Kunwu (present-day Xuchang, Henan), etc., and became invincible to the world in the eleventh march, becoming a powerful country at that time.
In the year B.C. (1600), the Xia King was absurd and tyrannical, the internal affairs of the Xia King's palace were not repaired, external troubles were continuous, and the people did not have a good life. The class shield became increasingly sharp, and the Xia Dynasty was in crisis. Yi Yin assisted the King of Shang Tang in raising an army to cut down Xia, taking the opportunity to destroy the neighboring State of Ge, ensuring the safety of the Shang capital "Nan Bo", and then raising troops to destroy the wings of the Xia Dynasty, and each breaking the Fang Wei and Gu States between the Xia shang and the Shang, leaving the Xia King alone and helpless. Yi Yin also led 70 chariots and 6,000 elite soldiers to attack the capital of Xia Wangdu, and Xia Wangjie was defeated by Ming tiao, which was a military tactic in history that Yi Yin "won more with less".
After the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, Yi Yin guided Shang Tang to follow Yao Shun's example in ruling the world with virtue and prospering to save the people. King Shang Tang honored Yi Yin as a "master", becoming the first emperor in Chinese history.
The "History of Yin Benji" records: "Yin", Zhengye, Wei Tang made the world straight. To be the world is to lead by example, to be a model in the world, and to teach the world.
"Shang Shu Yin Shuang" Yun: "Yi Yin Ge Yu Huang Tian", is on behalf of heaven, his words are Providence, so Yi Yin is Taishang's teacher. In the Shang Dynasty, in addition to the appearance of political power and the master of the emperor, there was also an important identity of the wizard, and the wizard himself had the function of medicine, such as the famous Wu Peng, Wu Xian and other good medical skills.
After the death of Shang Tang, Yi Yin went through five generations of monarchs such as Wai Bing, Zhongren, Tai Jia, and Wo Ding, that is, he became their prime minister, and also served as the shibao of The Tang King's eldest grandson Tai Jia, assisting the government for more than fifty years, making great contributions to the strength of the Shang Dynasty, and even willingly enslaving and suffering humiliation for the prosperity of the Shang Dynasty.
In assisting the five generations of monarchs in the government, Yi Yin used the cooking theory of "using Ding to adjust beauty and reconcile the five tastes" to govern the world, actively rectify the historical governance, gain insight into the people's hearts and conditions, and promote economic development, so that the politics of the five dynasties of the Shang Dynasty were clear and prosperous.
After the death of King Zhongren of Shang, Shang Tang's eldest grandson Taijia succeeded to the throne, and Yi Yin, the elder of the Four Dynasties, taught Taijia to abide by the legal system and kingdom of the previous king Shang Tang, and to be a benevolent and fraternal Dao Ming Jun. Taijia began to act according to the teachings of his father, Yi Yin, and the government was relatively stable. In the third year, Tai Jia listened to the rumors of the villains around him, and he forgot about it, did not listen to his father's advice, and actually learned the appearance of Xia Jie, tyrannical and chaotic, absurd and unscrupulous. Father Yi Yin tried his best to advise Tai Jia to ignore the government and politics. Yi Yin consulted with the chancellor and put Taijia under house arrest in the Tong Palace, so that he could meditate.
Taijia was expelled from the Tong Palace for three years, and his youthfulness was exhausted. The old man who guarded the tomb told Taijia the story of the pioneering business of the former king Shangtang, and Taijia was deeply moved, reflected on his mistakes, and changed his past wrongs. Xiang Father Yi Yin saw the change in Taijia, and his heart was overjoyed, and he took the civil and military officials to welcome Taijia back to the city and returned the government to Taijia. From then on, Taijia was loyal and benevolent, and selected talents to make the Shang Dynasty gradually stronger.
Wodin eight years, Yi Yin died. Wodin solemnly buried Yi Yin, the Sage of Heaven, with the ceremony of "Heavenly Son", and personally served Yi Yin for three years to repay the contribution of Yi Yin to the Shang Dynasty.
In the long history of destroying the Xia Jianshang, the sage Yi Yin can be described as a highly hard worker, especially after the death of Shang Tang, Yi Yin assisted the four kings of Wai Bing, Zhongren, Taijia and Woding for more than thirty years, had the courage to advise, devoted himself to assisting the government, and did his best, which played a role in turning the tide for the rise of the Shang Dynasty.
Yi Yin, a generation of famous people. It can be said that bowing down to exhaustion, dying and then having died, loyal and righteous ministers.
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