The true image of the Shang King interprets the mediocrity and brutality of history
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The King of Shang has recently become the focus again, and in "The First Part of the God List", the stupid and ruthless King Shang is online again. Speaking of this king of business, he is the famous king of black materials in history, and he is also the famous king of bad reviews in history. This may be the impression that most of us have of the Shang King, but was the Shang King in history really so cruel, and what was the real Shang King like?
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King Shang Xuan, whose real name was Di Xin, was also the last monarch of the Shang Dynasty. In ancient times,"纣"Yes"**The right way, destroying the good"meaning,"The King of the Rings"is the vicious evaluation of him by later generations. The crimes recorded in the history books include drunkenness, arrogance and indulgence, and corruption.
We can learn about the ruthlessness of the Emperor from previous plays. It is said that the king liked to drink, so he dug the ground into a pool, filled it with wine, and rowed across the pool. The king and his concubines rowed across the pool while drinking.
The King of Rings even carried out"Incineration of the Soul", that is, the hollow copper pillar is burned with coal fire, and then the beaten person is forced to press the top of the copper pillar hard to burn his flesh to death.
It is said that the king also cruelly dissected the abdomen of a pregnant woman to observe the development of the fetus, causing the pregnant woman to hemorrhage and die of pain. He wondered why a peasant who crossed the river barefoot in winter was not afraid of frost, so he had his legs cut off and crush his bones to examine the bone marrow. There are also some other crimes, such as favoritism, improper use of personnel, killing loyal subjects, disrespecting ancestors, and not believing in religion.
Later, the king lost the hearts of the people, and his kingdom was overthrown. Were the kings of history really so brutal? Actually, it's not, most of the above content comes from **, people regard Di Xin as a warrior of five buckets of rice, and now it seems that he is indeed a very good person, rich, good-looking, smart, and now he is in good health.
As Confucius's **, Zigong has always been skeptical of Di Xin's crimes. On the other hand, Zigong believed that it was his descendants who deliberately blamed the sins of the world on Di Xin. It was only in modern times, after analyzing the sequence of the seventy sins of the Shang kings, that people realized that the sins of the Shang kings were escalating over time. In other words, they were made up by posterity. Authenticity and credibility are largely overlooked.
Although Di Xin is ruthless, he is not as wanton and indiscriminate as in **, but his methods of dealing with the princes and nobles who have gone astray are really cruel. In the Shang Dynasty, there was no comparison"Human sacrifice"More cruel and terrifying, so-called"Human sacrifice", that is, to sacrifice with a living person. So-called'Human sacrifice', that is, to sacrifice a living person. And Dixin thinks the whole"Human sacrifice"There is no need, how good it is for people to live in peace, why do you have to sacrifice human lives, Di Xin tried to suppress it from the system, so the simplest thing is to sacrifice ordinary people and slaves to let people live a normal life.
Some people also say that Di Xin is lustful, but it is not far-fetched. Since ancient times, most emperors have been lustful, and Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River six times to find his dream lover. We all know that Emperor Xin had a young lover named Daji. However, except for Daji, I haven't heard of Di Xin and other girls, after all, people are the kings of a country, isn't it more normal to have a wife?Not only that, Di Xin is also a slave wife, ** really listens to Daji.
Tisin doesn't seem to be a good guy, but he's also not a brutal and petty ruler either. Why did his descendants say this about Di Xin?
The main reason for this was the covert propaganda of their political opponents, the Zhou dynasty.
This extravagance and corruption, tyrannical tyranny, suppression of rebellions, and eradication of dissent were characteristic of all mediocre emperors, not just Shang kings. Why are these anomalies so terrible and terrifying to happen to the king of Shang?It must be said that it was his political enemies who carried out the slander and propaganda"。The Emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty destroyed the King of Shang, and no matter how much the imperial literati of later generations said to the King of Shang, they could only start from the political needs of the Zhou Dynasty at that time and make a reasonable description of the King of Shang. And from the perspective of later dynasties, the description of the king of the Su has become more and more obscure, and the king has become synonymous with mediocrity and unbelief in evil.