Confucius and the king of Shang are so far apart, but there is still a connection? What's going on here?
During this period, the Shang Dynasty once again became a hot topic of discussion, and this historical figure thousands of years ago also aroused our great interest. But perhaps we think that what does the great Confucian Confucius have to do with what people often call the Shang King today? One was a famous tyrant in ancient China, and the other was a famous Confucian in ancient China. How far are they from each other and what is the relationship? Today, Xiaogong will talk to you about this interesting topic.
According to Chinese historical records and traditions, the Shang Dynasty fell in 1046 BC and the Spring and Autumn Period ended in 476 BC. This is almost equivalent to the gap between Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period and King Xu, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty.
But when it comes to the relationship between Confucius and King Xu, I'm afraid many people are surprised; Confucius was a few hundred years later than King Zhou, but if there is any relationship between these two people, there is a relationship between the founders of Confucianism who influenced China for two thousand years, it is really unexpected.
In fact, they come from the same family. That's right, don't look at the fact that they are separated by a hundred years, but after all, they are still related by blood.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, people used surnames to distinguish between the noble and the low in marriage. However, Confucius did not have the surname Kong. holes"Just his last name,"Confucius"of"sub"It's his honorific title, and his last name is"sub"。Confucius was a native of Lu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, but his ancestors were actually from the Song Dynasty. We know that the Zhou Dynasty practiced a feudal system, and the Song State was also a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty. The Song Kingdom took Shangqiu as its capital, and its founder was Wei Ziqi, the younger brother of King Xu.
At that time, after the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, it began to divide the world, and the descendants and orphans of the Shang Dynasty all got their own fiefs.
During the Shang Dynasty, the surname of the country was"sub", Shang Wang's original name was Zishou, so the surname Song was"sub", the son is Song. Here, we have to mention another person - Kong Fujia. He was a nobleman of the Song State, while another person, Confucius Jia, was affected by the internal strife of the Song Dynasty and fled to the Lu State. In other words, if it weren't for the ancestors of Confucius Jiajia who changed the city, he would have been born in the Song Kingdom, grew up in the Song Kingdom, and became a subject of the Song Kingdom.
You must know that in ancient times, the five suits did not represent the five generations, in fact, the real one service was only the five generations, and the five suits were twenty-five generations, so there was no relationship between Wei Ziqi and Confucius that surpassed the five suits.
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