Wu Zixu (559 BC-484 BC), a member of the army, also known as Wu Zixu and Shen Xu, was born in Jiaoyi (now Funan, Anhui) in the Chu State, and was a doctor, strategist, and military strategist in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Wu Zixu fled from Chu to Wu, became a major minister of King Wu, built Gusu City (Suzhou City), led the Wu army to break the Chu State, dug the tomb of King Chuping, and whipped 300 corpses to avenge his father and brother. Wu relied on the strategy of Wu Zixu and others, broke through Chu in the west, defeated Xu, Lu and Qi in the north, and became a hegemon of the princes. The husband listened to Dazai's slander, saying that Wu Zixu was conspiring to rely on the Qi State to oppose Wu, and sent someone to send a sword to Wu Zixu and make him commit suicide. Nine years after Wu Zixu's death, the state of Wu was destroyed by a sneak attack by the Yue Kingdom.
Biography of the characterFlee the state of ChuWu Zixu's father, Wu Hao, was the prince of Chu and was responsible for teaching the prince Jian, who was framed by Fei Wuji, and Wu Hao was also implicated. Fei Wuji said to King Chu Ping: "Wu Hao has two sons, both of whom are talented, and if they are not killed, they will become a disaster for the Chu State." They can be summoned as hostages, otherwise they will become a scourge to the Chu State. King Chuping sent an envoy to Wu Hao and said, "If you bring your two sons to save you from death, otherwise your life will not be saved." Wu Hao said: "Wu Shang is kind, and he will definitely come when he is summoned." The soldier is fierce and violent, endures humiliation and burden, and can achieve great things, he expects that he will be captured together after he arrives, and he will definitely not come. When King Ping did not listen, he sent for his two sons, saying, "If you come, I will let your father live."If you don't come, you will kill Wu Hao immediately. Wu Shang was about to go, Wu Zixu said: "The king of Chu called my brother, not to keep my father alive, but for fear that we would become a disaster after we escaped, so he took my father as a hostage and pretended to call my brothers, as soon as my brothers arrived, the father and son would be killed together, what good would it do to my father's life and death?"Besides, if you go, you can't take revenge. It's better to defect to other countries, borrow the power of other countries to snow the shame of your father, and wait for death together. Wu Shang said: I know that I can't save my father's life if I am called, but I only complain that my father called us to survive, and if we don't go, we will not be able to take revenge in the future, and in the end we will not be laughed at by the world. He also said to Wu Zixu: "You can escape, you can avenge the murder of your father, and I will die in peace." "Wu Shang was captured, and the messenger came to arrest Wu Zixu. Wu Zixu held his bow and arrows at the messenger, but the messenger did not dare to step forward, so Wu Zixu fled. When Wu Hao heard that Wu Zixu had fled, he sighed and said, "The monarchs and ministers of the Chu State are going to suffer from the war!.""Wu Shang arrived in the capital of Chu, and the king of Chu killed Wu Hao and Wu Shang together. At this time, Wu Zixu wanted to flee to Wu, but the distance was far away, so he had to give up. Later, because the prince was built in the Song Kingdom, he took refuge in it, but the Song Dynasty was in turmoil, so he had to go to Zheng with the prince. In Zheng State, Prince Jian and Jin State Doctor Zhong Xingyin cooperated to jointly overthrow Zheng Dinggong, and Dinggong knew about it and was killed, and finally Zixu had to defect to Wu State with Prince Jian's son Gongzi Sheng. On the way, Chen Guo wanted to leave Zhaoguan to Wu State, and the Zhaoguan guards were arresting them everywhere, so the two had to flee on foot. Wu Zixu went out of Zhaoguan, afraid that there would be pursuers coming, so he hurriedly ran forward, but encountered a big river blocking the way. While he was in a hurry, an old fisherman on the river came in a small boat and crossed him. After crossing the river, Wu Zixu was very grateful, took off the sword beside him, handed it to the old fisherman, and said, "This sword was given to my grandfather by the king of Chu, and it is worth one hundred taels of gold." I'll give it to you, and I'll talk about it. The old fisherman replied, "In order to hunt you down, the king of Chu gave 50,000 stone of rice grain as a reward, and promised to confer the title of doctor on the informant." I don't covet bounties and titles, so how can I covet your sword?After Wu Zixu escaped from the state of Chu, he hid during the day and hurried at night, and soon became ill. 
Ben Wu for revengeWhen he arrived in the state of Wu, the king of Wu had just succeeded to the throne, and Gongzi Guang was a general. Wu Zixu asked to see King Wu through Gongziguang's relationship. After a long time, King Chu Ping was furious because the border city of Zhongli of Chu and the border city of Wu were raising silkworms, and the two women fought each other for mulberry leaves, so that the two countries raised troops to fight. Wu sent Gongziguang to crusade against the Chu State, and defeated Zhongli and Juchao of the Chu State and returned triumphantly. Wu Zixu persuaded Wu Wangzhi and said: "The state of Chu can be attacked, and I hope to send Gongzi Guang again." Gongziguang said to King Wu: "That Wu Zixu's father and brother were killed by the King of Chu, and he persuaded the king to crusade against the State of Chu in order to avenge his personal revenge." Attacking the state of Chu may not be able to break through. Wu Zixu knew that Gongziguang was ambitious and wanted to kill King Wu and establish himself as king, but he couldn't tell through the matter, so he recommended Zhuzhu to Gongziguang, and he withdrew from the court and worked in the fields with Prince Jian's son. In 516 BC, King Chuping fell ill and died. At the beginning, King Chuping took the son of the Qin daughter born to the crown prince, and after the death of King Chuping, he was enthroned as king, which was King Chu Zhao. Taking advantage of the death of King Chuping, the king of Wu sent two princes to lead troops to attack the state of Chu. The state of Chu sent troops to cut off the back route of the Wu soldiers, so that the Wu soldiers could not return. The country of Wu was empty, and Gongzi Guang sent a special line to assassinate the king of Wu and then set himself up as the king, which was for the king of Wu. After He Lu succeeded to the throne, he was full of ambition, so he summoned Wu Zixu to give officials and pedestrians to discuss state affairs with him. The two princes who had been sent by the Wu royal bureaucracy to lead troops to attack Chu could not return because their retreat was cut off. Later, when he heard that He Lu had killed the king of Wu and established himself as king, he led the army to surrender to the state of Chu, and the state of Chu gave them the land of Shu. After three years on the throne, he raised troops and attacked Chu with Wu Zixu and Bo Yao, seized Shudi, and captured the two generals who surrendered to Wu at the beginning. Wu Jun originally wanted to enter Yingdu, but General Sun Wu said: "The people are too tired to enter the army, so wait for the opportunity for the time being!""Only then did he withdraw to the country. In 511 BC, the state of Wu attacked the state of Chu again and captured the land of Liudi and Qidi. In 509 BC, King Zhao of Chu sent his son Nangwa to lead an army to attack the state of Wu. Wu sent troops to meet the attack, defeated the Chu army at Yuzhang, and captured the nest of Chu. In 506 B.C., King Wu said to Wu Zixu and Sun Wu: "Originally, you said that Yingdu could not be attacked, but now what?"The two replied: "The general of Chu is greedy for money, and Tang and Cai are resentful of him. The king must attack in a big way, and he must first get the help of Tang and Cai. After hearing this, he mobilized all his troops to attack Chu with Tang and Cai, and fought against the Chu ** team on both sides of the Han River. King Wu's younger brother, Fu Xuan, led his troops and asked to follow him. The king of Wu did not listen, so he used his 5,000 men to attack the general of Chu, Zichang, who was defeated and fled to Zheng. So King Wu took advantage of the victory to advance, and after five battles with the Chu army, he attacked Yingdu. On the same day, King Chu Zhao fled. The next day, King Wu entered Yingdu. King Chu Zhao fled to Yundi. Yun Gong's younger brother Huai said: "King Ping killed my father, and I killed his son, isn't it okay?"Yun Gong was worried that his younger brother would kill King Zhao, so he went to the land with King Zhao. 
PerverseThe Wu army surrounded the Sui Di and said to the Sui people: "The descendants of the Zhou Dynasty in the Han River Valley have all been killed by the Chu State. "As the people wanted to kill King Zhao, Prince Qi hid King Zhao and disguised himself as King Zhao to deal with them. Suiren asked whether to hand over King Zhao to Wu to occupy a hexagram, which was unlucky, so he refused Wu Guo and did not hand over King Zhao. At the beginning, Wu Zixu and Shen Baoxu were close friends, and when Wu Zixu escaped, he said to Shen Baoxu: "I must destroy the Chu State." Shen Baoxu said, "I must keep it." "When the Wu soldiers invaded Yingdu, Wu Zixu looked for King Zhao, but when he didn't find it, he dug up the tomb of King Chuping, dug up the body, and whipped three hundred lashes before stopping. Shen Baoxu fled to the mountains and asked people to say to Zixu: "Your means of revenge are too much!."I have heard that many can overcome the heavens, and the heavens can destroy men. You used to be a courtier of King Ping, and you personally surrendered your hands to serve him, and today you have insulted the dead, isn't this contrary to the principles of heaven to the extreme?Wu Zixu said to the visitor: Thank you Shen Baoxu for me, saying that I am like the sun is about to set, but the road is still far away, so I have to go against the grain. So, Shen Baoxu fled to Qin to complain and ask Qin for help. Qin Guo did not agree, Bao Xu stood on the palace of King Qin, crying day and night, seven days and seven nights of mourning. Qin Aigong took pity on him and said: "Although the king of Chu is brutal, but there are courtiers like this, how can he not save the state of Chu?.""He sent five hundred military chariots to save the state of Chu and attack the state of Wu. Soon, he defeated Wu Bing in Jidi. Cheng Wu Bayecoincided with King Wu's long stay in Chu to search for King Zhao, and his brother-in-law took the opportunity to flee back to China and establish himself as king. When he heard the news, he abandoned Chu and returned to Wu to attack his younger brother. The husband was defeated and fled to the state of Chu. When King Zhao of Chu saw that there was a civil strife in Wu, he returned to Yingdu and gave Tang Xi Gu to his husband, and he was generally called Tang Xi Gu. The state of Chu fought with the state of Wu again, defeated the state of Wu, and the king of Wu went back. Two years later, he sent the prince to lead his troops to attack the state of Chu and seize Fandi. The state of Chu was afraid that the state of Wu would be overwhelmed by troops again, so it left the capital of Yingdu and moved the capital to Yancheng. At that time, the king of Wu adopted the strategy of Wu Zixu and Sun Wu to conquer the territory of Chu in the west, Wei Zhen Qi and Jin in the north, and subdued the Yue people in the south. In 496 B.C., He Lu and Yue King Goujian battled, arrow, He Lu injured his toe, and died of serious injuries. And the Wu clan assisted the young monarch, awarded him the highest title, and called the prince of the country. Committed suicideAfter Fucha succeeded to the throne, he defeated the Yue Kingdom, and the Yue King Goujian surrendered, Wu Zixu thought that the Yue Kingdom should be eliminated in one fell swoop, but the Fucha was slandered by Bo Yao and did not listen to the proposition of "Lianqi to destroy Yue", and the villain Wu Zixu sent an envoy to the Qi State. Wu Zixu said to his son: "I have advised the king many times, but the king does not accept my opinion, and I have now seen the end of the kingdom of Wu. You will perish with the state of Wu, there is no good!So he entrusted his son to Bao Mu of Qi and returned to Wu to report to his husband. Bo Yao took the opportunity to slander and frame Wu Zixu for rebellion. In 484 B.C., Fu Cha gave Wu Zixu to death and a sword to make him commit suicide. Wu Zixu looked up to the sky and sighed: "Alas!."The traitorous ministers made a rebellion, but the king killed me. I have made your father a ruler. When you were not yet made the crown prince, several princes were vying to be the crown prince, and I fought with the previous king to the death, and I almost couldn't be made the crown prince. After you were made the crown prince, you wanted to give me half of the Wu Kingdom, but I didn't dare to have such extravagant hopes. But now you have listened to the slander of the traitors and villains, and have killed your elders. Wu Zixu was resentful, and left his last words, asking his family to gouge out his eyes after his death, hang them on the east city gate, and watch the Yue ** team destroy Wu with his own eyes. Wu Wangfu was very angry, on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Wu Zixu's body was wrapped in Yiyi leather and thrown in the Qiantang River, Wu people took pity on him, and set up a shrine on the river for him, named Xu Mountain. Later, the state of Wu was really destroyed by Goujian, the king of Yue, and the husband was ashamed to see Wu Zixu in the underworld, and covered his eyes with a white cloth before he committed suicide with a sword. Wu Zixu had a son who was entrusted to the Bao clan of the Qi State, and later became the Wang Sun clan. 
Wu Zixu turned white overnightWu Zixu fled to another country with the son of Chu Prince Jian, and was chased and killed by Chu soldiers all the way. Wu Zixu and the two rolled to a hill sixty miles away from Zhaoguan, and from here out of Zhaoguan, it was a big river, which led directly to the waterway of Wu. However, this pass was guarded by the troops led by the right Sima Yuanyue, and it was difficult to pass. Bian Que's ** Donggao Gong (Bian Que was born in 407 BC, here it is said that Bian Que's **, the truth of the legend needs to be verified) lives in the mountains, he recognized Wu Zixu from the legend on the reward order, he was very sympathetic to Wu Zixu's grievances and suffering, and decided to help him. Donggao Gong took the two into his residence and kindly entertained them for seven days, but he didn't talk about passing the customs. Wu Zixu really couldn't stand it, and eagerly said to Gao Gong, "I have a big revenge to avenge, and my life is like a year, and if I am delayed here for a few days, it is like dying, what else can I do sir?"Dong Gao Gong said, "I have already planned a feasible plan for you, but I have to wait for someone to come." Wu Zixu hesitated, and at night, he couldn't sleep: he wanted to say goodbye to Gao Gong and go, but he was worried that he wouldn't be able to pass the pass, but he would cause trouble;If you don't leave, I don't know how long you'll have to waitTurning over and over again, his body and mind are like being in the thorns, lying down and rising, going around the house, and not feeling that he will survive until dawn. When Dong Gao Gong saw him, he was shocked, "Why did you turn white overnight?"Wu Zixu looked in the mirror, and sure enough, his head was completely white, and he couldn't help but secretly complain. Gao Gong laughed and said, "My plan is done!."A few days ago, I sent for my friend Huang Fune, who looks like you, and I want him to change places with you in order to get by. If you have gray hair today, you don't need to wear makeup, and others won't recognize you, so it's easier to get through." On the same day, Huangfu arrived as scheduled. Duke Gao dressed Huangfu Ne as Wu Zixu, while Wu Zixu and Gongzisheng dressed as servants, and the four of them went all the way to Zhaoguan. When the customs guards saw Huang Fu from a distance, they thought that Wu Zixu was coming, and ordered all the officers and soldiers to arrest him. Wu Zixu and the others took advantage of the chaos to cross the Zhao Pass, and when the officers and soldiers finally chased after Huangfune, they found that they had caught the wrong one. However, the officers and soldiers all knew Huangfune, and the Duke of Donggao was far from getting along with the chief of the customs, so the matter passed peacefully. Wu Zixu whipped the corpseWu Zixu's father and brother were killed by the king of Chuping, and he vowed to take revenge, fled to the state of Wu, and helped the king of Wu to break through the capital of Yingdu of the state of Chu. When King Chuping was dead, Wu Zixu "dug the tomb of King Chuping, took out his corpse, whipped three hundred, and then already." It is very hard to whip 300 times, and after getting back into the car, Wu Zixu wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead while recalling the scene just now. Although it is not completely decayed, you can still see a little bit of King Chuping's appearance during his lifetime, but after all, the dead body is still very different from the living. On this dead man's face, there is no cruelty at all, there is no domineering arrogance, and a dead man is a dead man. When the whip went down, I didn't hear the screams of pain, nor did I see cracked teeth and open flesh, but only flies flying around and insects crawling. The head was pulled off, and it was just rolled on the ground, there was no wailing or begging for mercy, and some were just bystanders covering their noses with strange expressions. Wu Zixu was thinking: I struggled to beat this rotten and stinky corpse even worse, and what did I get?Yes, thinking that his father and brother were killed by King Chuping and escaped death, the hatred in his heart awakened endless energy and helped King Wu defeat the State of Chu, just to avenge the murder of his father. However, whipping a dead person's body is not the same as torturing a living person. If a living person is whipped, there will inevitably be screams and begs for mercy, and there will inevitably be flesh and blood flying and flesh peeling apart. My hatred will disappear in the screams and wails of others. If not, if King Chu Ping is a tough guy who clenches his teeth and doesn't cry or even insults my family non-stop, then his unyielding willingness to die can stimulate my whipping strength even more!However, none of this happened. If only he could cut King Chu Ping with a thousand knives at the moment when his anger burned the most!But none of this is destined to happen. At the moment when the hatred ignited, I could not kill him;And by the time I could kill him, the hatred had faded. The most helpless thing is that it is impossible for me to take the elite soldiers in front of me to fight the enemy of a few years ago. The perpetrators of the past are not the corpse in front of us, and the victims of the past are not the present me. Don't think about it, Wu Zixu said to himself. The question of hatred and hatred is a bit mysterious, but the physical exertion is very real. In the midst of the shaking of the carriage, this figure who will surely be passed on through the ages soon entered the dream and took a nap. Wu Zixu passed ShaoguanWu Zixu's crossing of the Zhaoguan Pass is an ancient Han folklore story. Wu Zixu is the second son of Wu Hao, the doctor of Chu State. King Chuping ascended the throne and served as the Grand Master. King Houping listened to the slanderous rumors of the young master Fei Wuji and was killed. Zixu fled. King Chuping ordered the drawing of shadow graphics and arrested Zixu everywhere. Zixu first went to the Song State, because the Song State was in turmoil, and then defected to the Wu State, passed through the Chen State, traveled east for a few days, and then arrived at Zhaoguan (now the north of Hanshan County, Anhui Province). Zhaoguan is between the confrontation between the two mountains, the front is the big river, the situation is dangerous, and there are heavy guards, it is really difficult to pass the pass on the blue sky. Legend has it that Wu Zixu passed the Zhao Pass, and his head turned white overnight. Due to the ingenious arrangement of the famous doctor Bian Que ** Donggao Gong, Wu Zixu changed his clothes and clothes, and Wu Zixu passed the Zhaoguan Pass and arrived in Wu State. The story was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Anhui Province. 
Wu Zixu's storySeven Star Dragon AbyssWu Zixu was killed by traitorous ministers, and was chased by the soldiers and horses of Chu all the way. The front blocked the water, there were chasing soldiers behind, when he was anxious, Wu Zixu found that there was a small boat rushing upstream, the fisherman on the boat called him on the boat, after Wu Zixu got on the boat, the boat quickly disappeared into the reeds, disappeared, the chasing soldiers on the shore went away, the fisherman carried Wu Zixu to the shore, and took wine and food for Wu Zixu to have a full meal, Wu Zixu thanked him for his kindness, asked the fisherman's name, the fisherman smiled and said that he was wandering in the waves, what is the use of the name, only called: "fisherman" That is, Wu Zixu thanked him and resigned, walked a few steps, turned around and turned back with concerns, and untied the sword of the ancestral third generation from his waist: Seven Star Longyuan, and wanted to give this sword worth thousands of gold to the fisherman to thank him, and asked the fisherman not to reveal his whereabouts, the fisherman took the sword of the Seven Star Longyuan, looked up to the sky and sighed, and said to Wu Zixu: Rescue you only because you are loyal to the country, and do not want to repay, and now, you still suspect that I am greedy for profit and less faith, so I have to use this sword to show nobility. After speaking, the horizontal sword killed himself. Wu Zixu was inexplicably remorseful. A thousand daughters repay the favorOn the way to escape from the Chu State, Wu Zixu once was hungry and poor, and saw a girl with a silk yarn having food in a bamboo basket, so he stepped forward to beg. The girl suddenly felt compassion and gave it away. After Wu Zixu had a full meal, for security reasons, he asked the other party to keep his behavior secret. The girl felt humiliated, so she picked up a stone and threw herself into the water to die. Seeing this, Wu Zixu was sad. He bit his finger and wrote in blood on the stone: "Erhuansha, I beg;I'm full, and I'm drowning. Ten years later, the daughter repays the virtue!Later, after Wu Zixu avenged his revenge, he thought of repaying the favor, but he didn't know the address of the girl's house, so he threw his daughter into the place where she dived at that time. This is the origin of "Miss Daughter". Origin of the Dragon Boat FestivalSince Wu Zixu's corpse sank into the Qiantang River earlier than Qu Yuan's throwing into the river, some documents suggest that the Xi of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival are related to Wu Zixu rather than Qu Yuan, such as dragon boat rowing and eating rice dumplings. Because of his loyalty to the country, but he was tragically given to death and sunk to the bottom of the water, and later generations respected him as one of the sea gods "Narcissus King". Wang Chong's "On Balance" also said: "Zixu is hateful, drives water into waves, and kills people by drowning." At present, Huiji, Dantu Dajiang, Qiantang Zhejiang, all set up the temple of Zixu. Gai wants to comfort his hatred and stop his fierce waves. ”