Zujia
Zu Jia, year of birth and death unknown, also known as Jia, Di Jia, surname, name Zai, son of King Wuding of Shang, brother of King Zu Geng of Shang, twenty-fifth monarch of the Shang Dynasty, Zu Geng took the throne after his death, "The Chronicle of the Present Bamboo Book" says that he reigned for thirty-three years, he conquered Xi rong, he was still able to take care of the general public in the early days of his reign, and the Shang Dynasty was prosperous. After Zu Jia's death, he was succeeded by his son Liu Xin.
Chinese name
Subload
Foreign name
for jia
alias
ZuJia, Andjia, Dijia
nationality
Chinese Shang Dynasty
ethnic group
Han Chinese
Brief introduction
At the height of the Shang Dynasty, Emperor Wuding of Gaozong favored his youngest son Zu Jia and planned to depose the crown prince Zu Geng and establish Zu Jia instead. Zu Jia believed that this was a violation of etiquette and could not be forcibly abolished, otherwise the situation of the "Ninth Dynasty Rebellion" might be repeated, so he followed Wu Ding's example and left the capital and lived among the commoners. After Wu Ding's death, he was succeeded to the throne by Crown Prince Zu Geng. This made Zu Geng very moved, so he established Zu Jia as the heir to the throne, Zu Geng died of illness after about 7 years on the throne, and Zu Jia returned to Wang Du to inherit the throne.
sacrifice
In order to repay the merits of the ancestors, merchants were popular for sacrifice, but the objects and order of sacrifices were very chaotic, and there were no certain rules. After Zu Jia ascended the throne, he created the method of "weekly sacrifice", the specific method is: starting from the first day of the first ten years of each year, according to the order of the Shang King and his legal spouse, the temple number of the heavenly stem, with the feather, the yan, the three main ritual methods throughout the week. The weekly sacrifice is based on the unit of ten days, and every ten days is in the order of the heavenly stem of the king and the temple number, and the heavenly stem of the day of the sacrifice must be consistent with the temple number. For example, the first tenth day A sacrifice A, B day sacrifice B, C day sacrifice C, until the decoction day sacrifice show decoction; the second thirtieth B day sacrifice Tai Yi (soup), Ding day sacrifice Tai Ding; the third tenth day A day sacrifice Tai Jia, C day sacrifice outer C. This sacrifice was made until Zu Geng, the brother of Zu Jia. It takes ninety years to use a method of sacrifice to sacrifice the first kings from Shangjia to Zu Geng. After the sacrifice is completed, the other two sacrifices are used separately until all the sacrifices are made. The method of Zhou Sacrifice made the sacrifice system of the Yin people more rigorous and standardized, so it prevailed in the second half of the Shang Dynasty and gradually reached its peak. The Zhou Ritual Method founded by Zu Jia is the best embodiment of ancestor worship and religious system. In the ancient civilization, each major ethnic group had its own sacrifice system, and the method of Zhou Sacrifice and the ancient Babylonian and ancient Egyptian sacrifice methods were different, which was a unique sacrifice system in ancient China.
Conquest of Sijong
In the later period of the reign of The Shang Dynasty king Zu Jia, the Silkworm Cong tribe did not submit to the control of the Shang Dynasty, led the tribe to resist, the result was weak and strong, killed in the battle of Minshan, the tribesmen fled everywhere, one of their tribes, "from the east of the Maowen Basin over the Yulei Mountains connected to the Min Mountains into the northwest edge of the Sichuan Basin", intent on waiting for an opportunity to fight again.