Jiang Ziya's wife Ma recently appeared in the hit TV series "The List of Gods". In fact, this character is fictional. The real Mrs. Jiang may be surnamed Ji. Mr. Wang said that Jiang and Ji are a tribal alliance of pairing marriage. Jiang was probably one of the most powerful tribes in ancient China. It is impossible for his members to take a horse surname that had never been known before the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the list of gods, Jiang Ziya's wife is Ma Shi, who was the matchmaker in the Song Dynasty. At first, Jiang Ziya didn't think about making money to support his family, so he went fishing and studying all day. This woman was snobbish and dissatisfied with Jiang Ziya, and offered to divorce. Ziya agreed and never married again. After Ziya became famous, Ma regretted it and hanged himself. Zia's nostalgia made her a jinx.
Jiang Taigong, namely Jiang Shang (historically known as King Taigong; History books are called Lu Shang and Lv Wang; Commonly known as, Jiang Ziya), it was originally named Jiang in the name of Emperor Yan. Because his ancestor Boyi was a four-mountain, he was the rank master at that time and gave me three gifts, which made great contributions to land and water. He was an important official of Emperor Yu, and was named Lu Hou, given the surname Jiang, and sealed in Ludi (located in Dongying Village, Wangcun Township, Wolong District, Nanyang City, Henan Province, where Jiang Ziya was born). It is the ancestor of Lu, and later generations gave it a surname (according to the provisions of men's surnames named after places before and after Qin Dynasty), so it is called Lu Shang. It must be Lu who enjoys the sacrifice of Qi, so according to historical records, the son of Gai Taigong, who died for more than 100 years, is Ding; -In the twenty-sixth year of Kang Gong, Lu refused to worship.
According to legend, the predecessor was a noble, so it was called Lu and Lu Shang. Jiang Ziya's wealth has declined, and Jiang Shangshi has become a pauper. In order to make a living, Jiang Shang slaughtered cattle and sold meat in Shangdu Chao Ge (now Qixian County, Henan Province) and sold wine in Jin Meng (now northeast Mengjin County, Henan Province) when he was young. Although he is poor, he is ambitious, studies hard, and always studies and discusses ways to govern and rejuvenate the country in order to make great achievements and serve the country one day. Until my later years, I finally met the opportunity to display my talents.
At that time, it was the period when the Shang Dynasty, a great eastern country, went into decline. Yin is brutal and dissolute, political affairs are corrupt, society is dark, economy collapses, people are suffering and full of complaints. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Xibe Jichang (later Zhou Wenwang) advocated benevolent policies, developed the economy, and implemented the policy of building the country through thrift and enriching the people. As a result, the society was clear and the people were stable, and the country became stronger and stronger. All the people in the world fell in love with Zhou, and all the governors were looking forward to it. Jiang Shang, full of courage, learned that Ji Chang was recruiting talents in order to govern the country and rejuvenate the country, so he resolutely left the Shang Dynasty and came to live in Panxi River, the territory of the Western Zhou Dynasty on the bank of Wei River, fishing all day and waiting for the change of the world. One day, while fishing in Panxi, Jiang Shang happened to meet Xibe Jichang, a hunter. They met by chance and had a good chat.
Seeing that Jiang Shang was knowledgeable and familiar with history and the current situation, Ji Chang asked him for advice on how to govern and rejuvenate the country. Jiang Shang immediately put forward the "three invariants" and said: "On the one hand, the monarch mainly takes the promotion of sages as the normal state. On the one hand, officials should take Ren Xian as the normal state. On the other hand, scholars should respect sages as the normal state." It means that in order to run the country and secure the country, we must focus on talents and attach importance to discovering and using talents. Ji Chang was very happy after hearing this, and said, "My late father predicted; Zhou can flourish only when there are saints to follow Zhou. Are you a saint? I have been looking forward to it for a long time! So Ji Chang personally helped Jiang Shang get on the bus and went back to the palace together, worshiping him as a surname and calling him a "squire". From then on, heroes have a place to play.
Note: It is said that Jiang Shang, whose ancestral home is Chu Shi, hid by the sea in order to escape the tyranny of Yinzhou. He also said that he had something to do, left because he had no choice, lobbied the governor, and then died in Zhou Wenwang. Others said that he once slaughtered cattle in Chao Ge (now Yinzhou County, Henan Province) and sold them to Jin Meng (now north of Yujin, Henan Province). Or he was old and poor, hiding in Weibin, fishing in Zhou Wenwang, and Wenwangzai returned to his hometown to become a teacher. Although the above-mentioned ways of returning to Zhou are different, the core figure of the event of returning to Zhou is certain. Soon, Shang Zhouwang suspected that Zhou Wenwang wanted to dominate the industry. Zhou Wenwang was arrested in a prison in the capital. So he and Sansheng conquered beautiful women and rare treasures from all over the world, dedicated them to and redeemed King Wen. After King Wen returned to China, he secretly discussed with him how to overthrow the Shang regime. To this end, Jiang Shang planned the strategies of many strategists. Because of this, Jiang Shang was the first to be talked about by later generations and became the ancestor of strategists, or the originator.
During the period of assistance, Jiang Shang formulated a series of correct domestic and foreign policies to strengthen Zhou and destroy business. Internally, the implementation of economic policies such as farmers helping to cultivate public land and paying one-ninth of the land rent tax, and eight households sharing 100 acres of private land, all officials, large and small, have their land, and future generations inherit it as a salary, which promotes the development of production and lays an economic foundation for the demise of business. Insisting on paralyzing Zhou Wang with salutation, secretly pursuing the strategy of wooing neighboring countries, gradually wooing and disintegrating the allies of Shang Dynasty, weakening and isolating Shang Dynasty. Under the active planning, more and more vassal States and tribes joined in, gradually occupying most of the territory of Shang Dynasty, and the situation of "three points of the world, two returns to Zhou" appeared, which created conditions for the final elimination and replacement of Shang Dynasty. After Zhou Wenwang's death, Zhou Wuwang and Ji Fa inherited the throne, worshiping Jiang Shang as a Buddhist and respecting him as a teacher and father. Continue to assist Zhou in handling state affairs.