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Four Idioms and Allusions Related to Shang Zhouwang
1, nine-foot meat forest

Allusion: Zhou Wang ordered the pool on the sand dune platform to be filled with wine, and the meat of various animals was cut into large pieces and hung in the forest. This is the so-called "wine pool meat forest", which allows people to eat and drink at will while playing. At the same time, men and women are asked to chase and play with each other, and their lives are decadent. Therefore, this idiom is to describe an extremely decadent, corrupt and luxurious life.

2. Help others to abuse.

Allusion: Zhou Wang is a famous tyrant in history, but Fei Lian and Alai helped him, so this idiom came into being. Metaphor is to help bad people do bad things.

3, spend things indiscriminately.

Allusion: "Shangshu Wucheng": "Today's Shang kings suffer from stupidity, and squander natural things, which is harmful to the people." Originally, it was to destroy all kinds of creatures; Later it refers to people who don't care about things and destroy them at will.

4, dissolute and heartless

Allusion: From the story of loving da ji and killing Queen Jiang and her two sons.

Extended data:

During Di Xin's reign, he sent troops to attack the tribes in Dongyi many times, by means of building family songs, increasing taxes, strictly implementing the system of weekly sacrifices, changing the employment policy and implementing harsh laws. Its various measures not only caused contradictions within the ruling group, but also shook the ruling foundation of the Shang Dynasty. In the battle of Makino, the army of Shang Dynasty was defeated by the allied forces led by Zhou Wuwang, Di Xin died in battle and Shang Dynasty perished.

In the narrative of traditional historiography, Di Xin indulged in debauchery, used excessive force, imposed heavy penalties and refused to remonstrate. He is a typical tyrant. He was called "unruly" with Xia Jie, and finally abandoned his relatives and left the country. Related allusions include wine pool and forest, burning punishment, chicken beating punishment and so on. Later generations are quite controversial about this.

Di Xin is brilliant, eloquent, agile, receptive and powerful, and can fight wild animals with his bare hands. His wisdom is enough to refuse his advice, and his words are enough to cover up his mistakes. He boasted about his talent in front of the minister and raised his prestige everywhere, thinking that all the people in the world could not compare with him.

He likes drinking, debauchery and doting on women. He dotes on da ji and listens to da ji. He asked musician Juan to compose new folk music, Beili dance and weak songs for him. He raised taxes, piled up the money of Lu Tai Qian Ku, and filled the granary of Giant Bridge with grain.

He collected dogs, horses and exotic playthings in many ways, filled the palace, and expanded the garden terrace of sand dunes to capture a large number of wild animals and birds. He is arrogant and disrespectful to ghosts and gods. He attracted a lot of opera music, gathered on the sand dunes, hung wine as the pool water and meat as the forest, made men and women naked, chased dramas during the period and drank all night for fun.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Di Xin