On the word "Wu":
The original meaning of the word "Wu" refers to a person shouting while running and turning around, which means the call of the original pig hunter. The primitive hieroglyphics of Wu characters: run, turn and shout. "Wu" is a knowing word, which consists of two parts: vector and mouth. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chinese characters were standardized. The "vector" department has begun to be changed to "day". In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a scholar named Wu Ping. He and Yuan Kang wrote a famous book called Yue Jue Shu. In the last chapter of the book, he used the method of dividing words and said his name in argot. The book says: "Words are determined by words, and the country is virtuous. Bangxian takes his mouth as his surname and is sincere; Chu Xiang Qu Yuan, with the same name. " Today, when people who are surnamed Wu introduce their surnames to people they meet for the first time, they often say their surnames-"Kou Tian Wu" consists of two components of the word "Wu", and "Kou" means to shout and shout, while "Ya" looks back from time to time like a person running. These two components combine to form a "thing". Its original meaning refers to a person shouting while running and turning around. This situation is no stranger to us today, even a worldwide theme in the original murals, because it actually depicts a picture of hunting life in human childhood. When the hunter found the monster, he ran and shouted, and looked back from time to time. This kind of shouting action is called Wu, and this kind of person is called Wu Ren. Primitive humans often wear tiger skins when hunting, which can still be seen from the hunting life and primitive dance of primitive tribes in contemporary Africa. In the Water Margin, when Song Wu killed the tiger, we also saw this kind of hunter in tiger skin. Therefore, in ancient times, the word "Yu" was often added before the word "Wu", so Wu people were called Yu people. In pre-Qin literature, there are often people who keep calm in times of crisis, referring to officials in charge of hunting.
From the pronunciation point of view, Wu's pronunciation is similar to onomatopoeia words such as "Woo", "Wow", "Oh" and "Hello", which is probably the voice that primitive people shouted when hunting. The word "Wu" is not only unexpected, but also a phonetic word. Although the word "Wu" can be used as a symbol of language and can be used with words such as "Yu", "Tiger-Several+Fish-Generation" and "I-Generation", as a symbol of the origin of human blood, the name "Wu" is never used with "Tiger-Several+Fish-Generation". In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was no distinction between "Wu" and "Yu". Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the surnames of Wu and Yu have been clearly distinguished. Except for a few cases, such as Wu Zhuo, he also wrote it at the beginning. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, Wu Heyu's surname has become more and more obvious.
Wu ren
As the totem and ancestor god of Wu people, "Tianwu" is closely related to the hunting life of Wu people.
Overseas East longitude records in Shan Hai Jing: "In Chaoyang Valley, God said' Tian Wu' because of water." There is a similar record in the wild east longitude. According to the book, this is a huge monster with eight heads, eight legs, eight tails, a face and the body of a tiger. We can get a glimpse of its mysterious and weird style by copying the illustrations in the ancient version of Shan Hai Jing.
This half-man, half-beast monster is the totem and ancestor god of Wu people, an ancient primitive hunting clan. "Heaven" means "great" and "the death of heaven" means great death.
Tianwu has a tiger face, which is closely related to the hunting life of Wu people. Wu people make a living by hunting, and "the tiger is the king of all animals". Therefore, Wu people worship an animal similar to a tiger, which may have become rare and extinct in the pre-Qin period. Wu people regard danger as their totem, and the prototype of "Tian Wu" is danger. In the previous explanation of Wu characters, we pointed out that hunters often use tiger skin as dance clothes when harvesting prey to disguise and celebrate the imitation of animal movements. Therefore, just like Wu Changjia's "production" is "worry", Tianwu is not only like a tiger, but also called "Tianyu" in Nanshan Classic and Wild West Classic.
"Li Yu" is characterized by running very fast, which is closely related to the word "Wu" and is the same as the hunting life of Wu people. But "Tian Wu" is human.
Wu people belong to the Yanhuang clan and originally lived in Shanxi and Shaanxi. People leave their names, geese leave their voices, and Wu people have left many place names named after Wu or Yu in this area, such as Wu Shan, Yushan and Yucheng. Around Yanhuang, with the eastward expansion of clans and Huangdi tribes, Wu people were forced to move eastward on a large scale. By the time of Yaoshun, many branches of Wu people had moved to the Yangtze River Delta in the southeast coast. It turned out that the clan god "Tianwu" blessed the descendants when hunting. At this time, of course, it is necessary to become a "water uncle" to protect the descendants of the Wu people from a safe harvest when dealing with the rivers and lakes. Because of this, sometimes the Wu word of the Wu family is associated with fish. Nowadays, Wu Can's "Wu" is usually used as "(tiger-several+fish-year-old)". Even the word Wu is sometimes written as "holy", like a fish.
Wu has three origins.
First, from the perspective of Ji's surname, the country is the surname, and it is the descendant of Xuanyuan of the Yellow Emperor.
Wu's characters existed as early as the Yanhuang period. One of Emperor Yan's ministers was Wu Quan, and his descendants were the inventors of China music.
The primitive clan "Wu" is brave and good at hunting. The activities before Yao Shun are not recorded in classic historical books such as Shangshu, Chunqiu, Guoyu and Shiji. Only in Lu Shi Guo Ji, the Wu Quan family, a famous and complicated poet in Song Dynasty, was the first Wu family. The History of Taoism says that Wu Quan was the minister of Emperor Yan. It can be seen that the Wu people originally belonged to the Yellow Emperor tribe. Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Jing records an interesting and strange story: Wu Quan's wife is A Nv Fu Yuan. She and Yan Di's grandson, then the minister of the Yellow Emperor, committed adultery and got pregnant. Three years later, they gave birth to three children, named drum, delay and death respectively. The legend of drum and delay is the inventor of clock and the earliest inventor of music. Feng Boling is the ancestor of Jiang surname and Qi surname.
Wu Quan belongs to the ancient Wu family. The history of this road has shown this. In fact, Wu Quan is not only a name, but also the name of a clan. Because of this, some books say that Wu Quan came from Zhuan Xu, and there are different legends, so there is no need to delve into it. Chen Mingyuan's "Chinese Surnames" said: The descendants of Wu Quan took Wu as their surname and became a branch of Wu.
The Chinese nation regards the Yellow Emperor as the common ancestor god. According to the History of Lu Country Names, the mother of the Yellow Emperor was a female surname of the ancient Wu people.
When I arrived in Zhuan Xu, there was another man named Ng Wui. He and his brother Li Zhong successively served as fire officers-Zhu Rong. Ng Wui is another outstanding demigod among the ancient Wu people. He is the great-grandson of Zhuan Xu Levin, the son of a old boys. When he arrived in Di Ku, Wu was called because he moved to Wudi. Wu Hui's younger brother, Li Zhong, once served as the fire officer of Gao Xin's family, named Zhu Rong, but was later eliminated by Gao Xin's Di Ku because of his lack of ability. In this way, Ng Wui succeeded Li Zhong as the fire officer of Gao Xin's home in Di Ku, and was appointed as Zhu Rong. Officer Zhu Rong's duty is to observe the Martian fire in the sky and take charge of the fire used by the tribe for lighting, heating and cooked food. This is a very sacred thing in the age of ignorance and barbarism. Because of this, Ng Wui gained a great reputation as Zhu Rong and was honored as the God of Zhu Rong after his death. Classics listed him as one of the ancient Huang San in China. Zhu Rong dealt with fire and became Vulcan after his death, also known as "Zhu Tian Bodhisattva", a rural folk custom. In case of fire, he would shout "Zhu Tian Bodhisattva Bless Peace" and kneel down to worship. In the five elements theory, fire is in harmony with the south, so Zhu Rong, the god of fire, became the god of the south among the five emperors.
After Ng Wui became the leader of the southern military tribes, the Wu family continued to grow and gradually divided into eight families, among which Kunwu was one. Wu Zhong and Lu Zhong married a girl named Nu Wa, the sister of the Southwest Ghost Party, and gave birth to a child by caesarean section. Six sons were born in one breath: Kunwu, Shenhu, Peng Zu, Huiren, Cao and Ji Lian. These six sons became the leader of a clan, each with his own surname and surname. Kunwu's surname is Lv Zhong's eldest son, and his real name is Fan. After his family split, he lived in Kunwu, near Anyi, Shanxi Province today. The clan takes "Ji" as its surname and is named "Kunwu's" after the place name. Later, Kunwu moved eastward to Xuchang, Henan. Legend has it that Kunwu is the inventor of pottery manufacturing. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, "Kunwu is also an instrument", and Kunwu itself is another name for the pot. The descendants of Kunwu's family developed and produced the surnames Kunwu, Fan, Kun and us. The ancient sound of the word "Wu" is connected with "Wu", so some parts of the Wu family were changed to "Wu" and became a branch of the Wu family in later generations. The History of Daoism and the Later Ages: Kunwu bet: There is Wu in the book. If Wu Hui assimilated from Wu surname to Li Zhu Rong's family and differentiated into Zhu Rong's eight surnames, it was a divorce of the ancient Wu people, then the change from Kunwu family to Wu Jiazhi was a small return of Wu Jiazhi. However, this is a historical saying. So far, no one surnamed Wu has claimed to be a descendant of Kunwu.
In the remnant Rong tribe, there is a brave and warrior leader named Wu. When the Wu people were here, one of them joined the western dog-Rong tribe and took dogs as their totem. An outstanding figure in the Wu clan became the leader of the remnant Rong tribe with bravery and good fighting, and was called "General Wu" in history. General Wu Can is good at fighting with the Huaxia tribe in the Central Plains led by Gao Xin. The enemy is helpless, so he has to pay a lot of money to seek wisdom: whoever can cut off General Wu's head will promise to marry his two beautiful princesses. No one applied after the imperial edict was issued. Later, a dog beside him killed General Wu and married the princess.
In Shao Kang in the Xia Dynasty, there was a man named Vuch, who was famous for being good at shooting. He was once compared with the archer Hou Yi at that time, and his story was recorded in Descendants of the Emperor. "The Complete Collection of Surnames in China" said: "According to legend, Wang Shaokang in Xia Dynasty had Wu He, followed by Wu". Vuch, once compared to Yi, was seen in the imperial century. In fact, Wu He was one of the ancient Wu people. The clan regime established by Wu people, that is, Wu, has always existed in Xia and Shang Dynasties. "History of Road and Country Names" says: "There was Wu Bo in the (Shang) period."
Huangdi is the human ancestor of the Chinese nation and the earliest ancestor of Wu surname recorded in history. He lives in the Jishui River valley (about today's northern Shaanxi) and takes Ji as his surname. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor married four virtuous wives and gave birth to 25 sons, of whom the surname was 14, and later he was divided into 14 tribe. The two sons, Xuantao and Changyi, born to Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor, inherited the original surname of the Yellow Emperor, and the surname Wu was handed down by Xuantao. Di Ku, the fourth generation of Gao Xin, the grandson of Xuantao, became the leader of the tribal alliance at that time. He married the daughter of the Tai family, not the matriarchal ancestor of the Zhou clan. The Book of Songs records the legend of the leader who was born in the Zhou Dynasty and died. Legend has it that Jiang Kun went out to play one day and saw the footprints of a giant. Out of curiosity, he stepped on it and got pregnant when he got home. Later, he gave birth to a boy. Jiang Kun was surprised and afraid of this and threw the child into the wilderness as a monster. However, a more strange phenomenon happened. Cattle and sheep came to feed him, the woodcutter came to save him, and the big bird warmed him with its wings, so that the child would not die if he abandoned his child. Jiang (the hostess) thought there must be a god to bless him and decided to take him back to raise him, so she named him an abandoned child. Abandoned children are very smart when they are young, and they like to imitate adults to grow crops such as hemp and beans. When he became an adult, he was very good at farming. He knew at a glance what crops a piece of land was suitable for growing. So people in the neighborhood follow his example and respect him as an agricultural teacher.
Abandoned children were regarded as ancestors by Zhou tribes in later generations, and the world called them abandoned children in the turn of Zhou. Zhou abandoned the contract and lived in the Shunyu era. He helped Dayu control water, so he was called Hou Ji. After Zhou died, he was regarded as Hou Ji, the god of agriculture. In the last summer, Zhou abandoned his descendants as agricultural officials in the Xia Dynasty. By the end of the Xia Dynasty, Historical Records Zhou Benji recorded: "Political decline, defecting to Ji's surname, not only lost his official position, but also ran between Rong and Di." At the end of the Xia Dynasty, the political situation was chaotic, and the leader of Zhou was no longer an agricultural official in the Xia Dynasty. He led the tribe to migrate to the northwest region where ethnic minorities such as Rong and Di lived together. The Zhou tribe lived between Rongdi and was often harassed by Rongdi. From the thirties to more than ten generations, Zhou tribes have been constantly running and migrating, but they can still inherit from their father and son, and their bloodlines still maintain order. During the Gongliu period, the Zhou tribe moved to Jian 'an (now Binxian County, Shaanxi Province) to avoid the invasion of Rong and Di. The land is fertile, Zhou people restored their ancestors' farming tradition, agriculture was developed, and people's lives were rich. Zhou people began to revive under the leadership of the leader Gong Liu. "Historical Records of Zhou Benji" describes the rich social scene of Zhou people at that time: "The traveler has money, the dweller has money, and the people live in peace." People gave birth to it, and they migrated back. "Because of Gong Liu's great contribution in the development history of Zhou nationality, Zhou people wrote a song Gong Liu to praise and commemorate him.
By the time Gongliu was handed down from generation to generation to the father of the ancient duke, the Central Plains had entered the Shang Dynasty. At this time, Zhou people were harassed by Rong and Di, and were forced to leave the land and continue to migrate under the leadership of Gu Gongfu. Zhou people went south all the way. They climbed Liangshan, crossed Qishui and Qushui, and reached Joo Won? (now Qishan County, Shaanxi Province) under Qishan. Joo Won? is the ancestral home of Zhou people, where the land is fertile and suitable for the growth of various crops. Gu's father changed the living habits of the nomadic people in Rongdi infected by Zhou people, established cities and villages, and let the people live a settled life. On the basis of the clan system of Zhou people, he set up official positions and established an administrative management system similar to state functions. The names of Zhou people and Zhou people come from the ancient duke who announced that his father and his tribe had settled in Joo Won?.
Gu's father was an important leader of the Zhou people. He carried forward the struggle of Zhou people from generation to generation, laying a preliminary foundation for Zhou people to replace Shang and establish Zhou state. Later generations Zhou Wenwang called him King Tai, and there was a poem praising him in The Book of Songs Migong: "The grandson of Hou Ji is really Wang Wei, the grandson of Qi, and he started to be a businessman." Mencius, a thinker in the Warring States period, praised him as the king of benevolent government. In some genealogies of Wu, honoring the father of the ancient post is the latest ancestor in ancient times. Zhou people have entered a period of stable development since ancient times.
Gu's father has three sons, the eldest son Taibo, the second son and the third son, all of whom are very talented. His third son, Ji Li, married Tairen, the daughter of the Shang Dynasty. Tairen's wife, Taisi, was recognized as a good wife and mother in ancient China and played an important role in the prosperity of the Zhou family. Tairen gave birth to the Zhou family, and often laid a solid foundation for the demise of the Zhou Dynasty. According to legend, Tairen was born with auspicious signs. Often talented and virtuous since childhood, he was deeply loved by his grandfather. Gu's father even pinned the ideal of revitalizing the Zhou family on his grandson, and sometimes he couldn't help saying in front of everyone, "When I am a prosperous person, is it a prosperous time?"
According to the social tradition of the Zhou Dynasty, after the death of Gu Gong's father, the eldest son Taibo should inherit the throne. If Taibo dies young, his successor should be Zhong Yong, who ranks third in history and has no chance to inherit the throne. Often as a son of the calendar, there is no chance to inherit the throne.
Gu's father was ill, so Taber and his excuse went out to get medicine for his father and left. According to historical records, the two brothers set out from Qishan, Shaanxi, and came to wuyue, Man Jing (now in Jiangsu and Zhejiang), where primitive and backward ethnic minorities lived, and their customs and habits were quite different from those of the Central Plains. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, and the two brothers got tattoos and lost their hair. In the eyes of Zhou people, the two brothers have become barbarians and disabled, and they are no longer qualified to inherit the throne.
After Taibo and Wu defected, they succeeded to the throne smoothly, and then passed it on to Chang. Zhou Wenwang Chang lived up to his grandfather Gu Gongqi's high hopes, and worked hard to destroy the Shang Dynasty and revitalize the Zhou family. Although he failed to destroy the Shang Dynasty before his death, he was divided into three parts, and Zhou was the second part. After his son Wu succeeded to the throne, he attacked the Shang Dynasty on a large scale. Four years later, he destroyed the Shang Dynasty in one fell swoop, established the Zhou Dynasty, and finally completed the great cause of reviving the Zhou family. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, Taibo and Zhong Yong were commended by the Zhou Dynasty, and their descendants were sealed in the State of Wu, establishing a powerful State of Wu. The descendants of Wu regarded Taibo as their ancestors.
According to ancient records, Taibo and Zhong Yong arrived in Man Jing, which is Wuxi and Suzhou in the Taihu Lake basin in southern Jiangsu today. A branch of Taibohe is one of Zhuji recorded in ancient books (a branch of Zhou people on the north bank of Hanshui River in ancient times). They are adjacent to the State of Chu and were built for the descendants of Zhuan Xu, one of the five emperors. After Chu became strong, Hanyang's wives were threatened by Chu people and forced to migrate. Among them, Taibo and Zhong Yongdong moved to Wudi, Jiangsu, conquered the local aborigines and established the State of Wu. "Historical Records of Wu Taibo Family" said: "Since Taibo became Wu, Wang Yin was the fifth and second letter. First, danger, in China; Second, Wu, in barbarians. " After the King of Wu negotiated with the Shang Dynasty, he enfeoffed the descendants of Taibohe, one of whom was enfeoffed to the place where Taibohe moved, that is, Shaanxi, and the other remained in the undeveloped southeastern Wu State at that time. No matter how many explanations later generations have for this migration process, it is not controversial that Zhou Taibo and Ji's family finally arrived in the ancient Wu area of Jiangsu Province.
Taibo sword dance
After Taber and Zhong Yong arrived in Wudi, Jiangsu Province, they brought advanced agricultural production technology in the Central Plains and promoted the development of local economy. Widely welcomed by the local indigenous Wu people, they defected one after another. More than 1000 people from Wu quickly gathered around Taber and his brothers. Influenced by the noble character and virtue of kindness and righteousness of Taber and Zhong Yong brothers, they voluntarily made Taber the monarch. Because Taibo lives in Wu, the country of Ji surname established by Taibo here is called "Juwu" (the sentence is a prefix that sounds meaningless), which is called Wu for short.
When Taibo founded Wu, it was the last years of Yin and Shang Dynasties, when the vassal states of the Central Plains scuffled. Taibo was afraid that the war would affect the lives of the people of Wu, so he built a city in Meili, southeast of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. According to legend, the inner city of this city is 300 steps long and the outer city is more than 300 miles long. People living in it are like living in a paradise, farming and growing crops, self-sufficient and free from external interference. Taber has no children. After his death, he became Wu Jun. He buried his younger brother Taibo in Wuxi Meili, and later generations built Zhide Temple in front of his grave to commemorate this ancestor named Wu.
There are many Taibo relics in Suzhou and Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Up to now, Hongshan (also known as Meilishan) in the east of Wuxi still has Taibo Tomb, which is one of the key cultural protection units in Jiangsu Province. The tomb is blue marble, surrounded by green grass all the year round, and the tombstone is square, engraved with three simple and elegant Chinese characters of "Taibo Tomb".
According to legend, after Taibo's death, the people of Wu were all heartbroken. On the day of Taibo's burial, the people of Wu went to see him off. Because Taber liked to grow hemp before his death, everyone picked a bunch of pockmarked seeds at his waist to express his memory and condolences to Taber. Since then, this custom has spread among the people for thousands of years. Today, wrapping hemp for the deceased elders in Dai Xiao is still a funeral custom in some areas of the Chinese nation.
Taibo had no descendants, and later Wu called him Kai's ancestor and his brother Wu's ancestor. After Zhong Yong succeeded to the throne, he continued to develop the foundation laid by his brother. In the history of Wu's development, Zhong Yong is the second sage after Taibo. After Zhong Yong's death, the Wu people buried him in Yushan Mountain, Wu. Zhong Yong's Tomb is located at the waist of Yushan Mountain in the northwest of Changshu City, Jiangsu Province today. The entrance to Zhong Yong's tomb is at the foot of the mountain, facing Beimen Street. The archway in front of it was built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, which read "Building the entrance to the tomb of Saint Zhong Yong". After entering the tomb gate, you can see a second archway with the words "Gongyou in the South" inscribed by Cao Xiuxian, the governor of Jiangnan. There is a third memorial arch in front of the tomb. On the front, there is a banner of "Tomb of Saint Yu Zhong". On the stone pillars on both sides, there is a couplet: "It is a national disaster for the first time, and the famous mountains are still in danger for a thousand years." There are four tombstones on the tomb, one of which was erected during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The stone tablet is well preserved and engraved with the inscription "Tomb of Duke Zhou of Shang Zhou and Yuzhong". Up to now, it is still admired by Changshu people, and Yushan, the burial place, has also become the place where the descendants of Wu at home and abroad seek their roots and worship their ancestors.
Zhong Yong, the inheritor of IV, occupies an important position in the history of Jiwu. He never forgot that he was a descendant of Zhou people, so he named it. When Zhang Zhou succeeded to the throne and became Wu Jun, Wu Wang had destroyed commerce and established the Zhou Dynasty. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the system of enfeoffment was implemented, and the relatives of Zhou Wang, the heroes who destroyed the commerce, and the descendants of the sages of previous dynasties were sent to various places to be princes. The Zhou Dynasty sought the descendants of Taibo and Zhong Yong to seal Hou. Because it has become, he officially named it a sentence. Zhong, his younger brother, was sealed in nearby Yu (now Pinglu County, Shaanxi Province) and listed as a vassal, establishing Yu State. Later generations took danger as their surname. Therefore, Zhong, like his ancestors, is called Yuzhong.
The kingdom of Wu and Yu brothers went through the whole Western Zhou Dynasty and spread to the country for more than ten generations until the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, great changes have taken place in China society. The Emperor of Zhou lost the authority to order the princes of the world, and people no longer followed the traditional etiquette. The vassals launched a merger war, expanded their territory, and caused chaos. Yuguo was a small country at that time, but its territory is only a county in Pinglu, Shanxi Province today, and it is adjacent to the powerful Jin State in the north. Jin is the fief of his younger brother. With Wu, Yu and Guo, they belong to Ji's fief. At first, it was only a small country in Fiona Fang, but after several generations of management by the monarch of Jin State, its territory expanded day by day, and it became a vassal state in the early Spring and Autumn Period. Jin Xiangong, the monarch of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period, was an ambitious monarch. He was bent on expanding the territory of the state of Jin and dominating the princes.
Yuzhou and Guo (now Shaanxi County, Henan Province) are located in the south of Jin State, which controls the access of Jin State to dominate the south of the Central Plains, so they became the first targets of Jin State's annexation. Guo and Jin are separated by Guo Yu. In order to prevent the joint resistance with Jin Guo, Jin Guo adopted the strategy of divide and conquer, destroying Guo first and then breaking it. In the spring of 658 BC, Xun He, the minister of the State of Jin, plotted a plot of "attacking the enemy with fake soldiers". Xun, the minister of the Jin Dynasty, bribed a famous horse made in Jin and a jade jade jade made from hanging thorns, so that he could attack the State of Guo by way of Jin. Yugong was really fooled. He not only promised to build a road to the State of Jin, but also promised to send troops to help the State of Jin attack Guo. Gong is a famous sage in Yuzhou, which is deeply taboo in Jin State. According to historical records, "the public is in danger and stays up all night." Hearing this, he hurried to see him and advised him to take the opportunity of promotion to attack the adverse consequences of Guo Guo, but he did not listen. Previously, Dunyi, an important town in the border area of Yu State, was invaded by her neighbor in the west. Seeing that the development of the situation was unfavorable to Jin, Jin sent troops to crusade against Ji and lifted the crisis of Yu. In Yu Gong's view, Guo Yu should help Jin attack Guo this time. Minister Xun finally persuaded him, so the allied forces attacked Guo Si. Although it did not destroy Guo, it greatly weakened its strength. Three years later, the state of Jin saw that the time was ripe to destroy Yu and Guo, and did the same thing again. The minister was very scared when he heard this. He thinks that this time, the state of Jin will destroy Yu on the way back to Li, and he will protest to him.
The foolish old man refused to listen and agreed to lend money. Gong is very helpless. He predicted that the state of Yu would perish, so he led his people to leave the state of Yu. Before leaving, he sighed and said, "I'm afraid Yu Can can't even wait for the twelfth lunar month to worship his ancestors." Three months later, the Jin army destroyed Guo and on the way back to Li, destroyed Yuzhou. Since his younger brother Yu, the state of Yu lasted for 12 June. After the demise of the state of Yu, later generations took Yu as their surname to commemorate the old country, and Yu's surname has continued to this day. This is an early branch, after Wu, belonging to Taibo and.
Wu State and Wu surname
The kingdom in the north perished, but the kingdom of Wu in the south prospered and became a big country in the Spring and Autumn Period, which once ruled the Central Plains. It has been fifteen generations since the Zhou title was accepted and spread to Shoumeng. When Shoumeng became Wu Jun, history has entered the Spring and Autumn Period. The economy of Wu, centered on Taihu Lake basin, has developed greatly, and the national strength of Wu has increased, and it dares to compete with the powerful countries in the Central Plains. During the Shoumeng period, Chu and Jin fought for hegemony in the Central Plains, and there was a war between the two countries. Although Chu was defeated in this war, but his strength was not damaged, he made a comeback and made an alliance with wuyue to jointly fight against Jin, a great power in the Central Plains. After that, the Chu army went north to fight with Jin, which was the second world war since Chu and Jin fought for hegemony. Chu defeated Jin in the Battle of Tai and pushed the hegemony of Chu to the peak. Small countries such as Chen, Cai, Zheng and Song in Huai-Si Valley all surrendered to the State of Chu. After the defeat, Jin has been looking for opportunities to defeat Chu, so the small-scale war between them continued. In order to mediate the dispute between Jin and Chu and avoid the intervention of other countries, in 579 BC, Hua Yun, a doctor of the Song Dynasty, initiated a "military alliance" to resolve the dispute between Chu and Jin, but it soon broke down and the two countries were still in infighting. Later, there was a power struggle in Chu. The minister, a witch of Chu, fought with the son of Ling Yin (equivalent to the prime minister) of Chu and fled to Jin, the enemy of Chu. He deliberately retaliated and advised the state of Jin to weaken Chu. The State of Jin adopted the suggestion that Shen Gong and Chen Wu contact the emerging State of Wu to contain the powerful State of Chu, and sent Shen Gong and Chen Wu to the State of Wu on behalf of the State of Jin. Fight with those who teach Wu, train Wu to fight with chariots in the Central Plains, and encourage Wu to crusade against Chu. Wu sent troops several times in a year to make trouble at the border. Chu was weakened, its national strength weakened, and Wu became stronger.
Wu Wangshou dreamed of having four sons, the eldest son Zhu Fan, the second son Yu Ji, the third son Yu Mei and the fourth son Ji Zha. Among them, Giza is proficient in Central Plains culture, wise and kind, and has the legacy of distant ancestors Taibo and Zhong Yong. Shou dreamed of passing on the throne to him. Jiza believes that this will destroy the eldest son inheritance system and cause civil strife, so he will not resign. Shoumeng had to make his eldest son Zhu Fan a prince. When Shoumeng died, he left an edict that he must pass the throne to Ji Zha in the future, and the people of Wu also demanded that Ji Zha be king. In order to escape from the throne, Giza ran away from home and fled to the wilderness. Zhu Fan had no choice but to become a prince and made rules. A hundred years later, he succeeded to the throne as a brother, and he had to pass it on to Ji Zha. King Wu and all the fans are determined to pass the throne to their younger brother Ji Zha, so they don't cherish themselves. When fighting, they take the lead. In 508 BC, Zhu Fan led an army to attack Chu, which matched the border town of Chaoyi (now Chaohu City, Anhui Province). Niu Chen, the commander of Chu Chaocheng, said to his soldiers, "The King of Wu is brave and reckless. If he opens the gate, he will be the first to rush into the city. I will ambush at the gate and shoot him. As soon as he died, the border of Chu was stable. " Chu pawn commanded, open the gate, the fans rushed into the gate first, was hiding in the dark cow minister an arrow shot to death. /kloc-ascended the throne in 0/3, and was transferred to Yu festival as agreed. After Yu died and acceded to the throne, he sealed his fourth brother in Yanling, so he was also named Yan Ji Ling. During the reign, because he was familiar with Zhou Li, he once represented Wu in the Central Plains. Yu Ji reigned for 4 years, and after his death, he was transferred to his third brother Yumei, who reigned for 17 years. At this time, Wu's hegemony began to take shape. When I died, I passed my life on to Ji Zha, realizing the wishes of my father and brother. The people of Wu also asked Ji Zha to succeed to the throne, but Ji Zha remained humble. Later, it was hard to escape, and he escaped again.
After leaving, Wu Renli's son Liao became the monarch, which caused the dissatisfaction of Fan's son Gongziguang. Childe just thinks he is the son of all fans. After his uncle Ji Zha ascended the throne, he should succeed to the throne in the order of succession. So the son of light "wants to attack the present by accepting the wise men" and wants to seize the throne. At this time, King Chu Ping listened to the slanderers, so he killed General Wu She of Chu. Wu Zixu, the son of Wushe, fled to the State of Wu, and was later taken in by Gongziguang. Wu Zixu is brave and resourceful. After learning the intention of Gongziguang, he recommended to Gongziguang Zhuan Xu, a brave man he met during his escape. Zhuan Xu was highly valued by GongSunGuang and was willing to work for GongSunGuang to assassinate Wu Wangliao.
In 5 15 BC, Wu Wangliao sent his younger brothers Gai Yu and Zhu Yong to attack Chu, and at the same time sent Ji Zha to the State of Jin to observe the movements of the Central Plains countries. Chu had already made preparations and sent troops to cut off Wu Jun's retreat. Wu Jun is in a dilemma. Wu Wangliao's two younger brothers, Gai Yu and Zhu Yong, were on pins and needles because they could not return to Wu. Seeing that the time was right, Childe pretended to entertain Liao and let Zhuan Xu wait for an opportunity to assassinate Liao. According to Records of Historical Records, in order to prevent accidents, Wu Wangliao set up guards and non-commissioned officers on the way from the Palace to Gongzi Optics Valley, and even Gongzi Optics Valley had guards with knives in front of the hall, on the steps and beside the seats. The son just said that his foot disease deliberately left the scene, but he put a knife with a blade in the cave. Zhuan Xu hid the dagger in the belly of the grilled fish, and offered the grilled fish, so he could get close to Wu Wangliao. Zhuan Xu suddenly pulled out the dagger in the fish's stomach and stabbed the water. This dagger is the fish intestine sword that will be handed down from generation to generation. In the chaos, Zhuan Xu, the assassin, was hacked to death by the guards in Wu Wangliao, and the son led the soldiers to kill the scattered guards in the cave. Childe light self-reliance as king, is for the prince He Lv. To thank Zhuan Xu for his bravery, He Lv named Zhuan Xu's son Zhu Qing and put Wu Zixu in charge of state affairs. Wu Wangliao's younger brothers, Gai Yu and Zhu Yong, were fighting in Chu. Feeling that the tide was running out, they abandoned the army and fled. Later, the two brothers defected to the State of Chu, and the State of Chu enfeoffed Yeung Yi (now Shenqiu, Henan) to them. Since then, the descendants of Wu Wang Yumei have thrived in Shenqiu, Henan Province. Their descendants took the names of their two sons, Gaiyu and Zhu Yong, as surnames and became two branches of Wu Ji.
After returning to China, he didn't want to see another civil strife in Wu, so he admitted the legitimacy of He Lv as your monarch. According to Records of Historical Records, Ji Zha said: "Gou Xianjun did not abolish the sacrifice, the people did not abolish the Lord, and the country has served. It is my monarch. Who dares to complain? Mourn for death and live for fate. If I don't mess, I will follow the chaos, and my ancestors will follow the chaos. "
After He Lv, the king of Wu, ascended the throne, he implemented the technology that made Qiang Bing a rich country. He built city walls, established armaments, managed granaries, and ruled military houses. According to legend, Suzhou (called Gusu in ancient times) is the capital that Wu Zixu helped He Lv build. Gusu City imitates the construction of the wall of the Central Plains and also has the characteristics of a southern water town. It has a circumference of 47 miles, eight land gates and eight sluices. This is a well-designed capital with both offensive and defensive capabilities, and its completion has improved the military strength of Wu. On the recommendation of Wu Zixu, Sun Wu, a famous strategist, defected from Qi to Wu and dedicated his famous 13 articles on the art of war to He Lv. In order to test Sun Wu's art of war, He Lu chose a beautiful woman of 180 to be a soldier in the palace, with two caring princesses as the leader, and let Sun Wu audition. During the exercise, the two love princesses took Sun Wu's formation as a joke, and they still talked and laughed under Sun Wu's repeated orders. According to military orders, Sun Wu killed He Lv's two beloved princesses. According to historical records, after losing two beloved princesses, He Lv ate tasteless and slept uneasily. However, He Lu saw that Sun Wu really had the ability to fight, so he didn't blame Sun Wu. He appointed Wu Zixu as the mastermind and Sun Wu as the general, and trained to prepare for the attack on neighboring Chu. In 506 BC, the kings of Wu, He Lv, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, led a massive attack on Chu. Under the leadership of the Tang and Cai armies, Wu Jun won all five wars and invaded Ying, the capital of Chu, and King Zhao of Chu fled in a hurry. Wu Zixu couldn't find the King of Chu, so he dug the tomb of King Kaiping and whipped the corpse for 300 to avenge his father. Shen, a loyal minister of Chu, accused Wu Zixu of flogging the body of the king of Chu. Wu Zixu explained, "My grave is far away, so I do it backwards." Later, not far from Wan Li, Shen came to Qin for help. Shen felt sorry for the sufferings of the motherland and the people, and cried outside Qin Gong for 7 days and 7 nights, finally touching the king of Qin. Qin promised to send troops to save Chu. Qin Chu's allied forces defeated Wu Jun, and in the war,