3 Gong Liu Qianfeng established the first Fang state of the Zhou people

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-07

Dugong Liu, bandit living in gangsters. It is a territory, and it is a warehouse; It is wrapped in grain, and it is in the bag. Thinking with light, bows and arrows; Fight and fight, and the party will set off. Dugong Liu, Yu Xu Siyuan. It is both complicated, obedient and proclaimed, and there is no eternal sigh. 陟 is in the top, and the return is in the original. Why? Wei Yu and Yao, the sword of the Yan Rong. Dugong Liu, passed away from Baiquan, and looked at Puyuan; Nai Zhi Nangang, Nai Yu Beijing. The wilderness of the Beijing Division, in the time and place, in the time of the Lu Brigade, in the time of words, in the words of the times. Dugong Liu, Yu Jing Siyi. Staggering and stumbling, a feast. If you ascend to it, you will make it. Stick to the prison and use it as you please. The food and drink are the king's sect. Dugong Liu, both Pu and long, both Jing Naixun, its yin and yang, and its flowing spring. Its army has three orders, and it is the plain, and the fields are grain. Spend its sunset, and live in the wilderness. Dugong Liu, Yu Si Pavilion. Involved in chaos is chaos, take hard forging, stop the foundation, and fight for the public. Sandwich its imperial stream, and cross its stream. Stopping the journey is a secret, Rui's sword. - The Book of Poetry, Daya, Gong Liu

After Chengtang destroyed Xia, the Xia people were forced to retreat north to Tu (Yanmen Pass area), which the merchants called Tufang. Later, during the reign of Shang King Wuding, he cut down the earthwork and established a large city in the Tang Dynasty to monitor the earthwork.

At the same time, the Zhou people were also forced by the merchants, and their living space was squeezed, so they had to migrate. This migration happened to Gong Liu.

Gong Liu was the fourth grandson of Houji, and he was a hard-working man who led the Zhou people to move from Taidi in Linfen, Shanxi Province to Fengdi in Xunyi County, Shaanxi. Before leaving, he divided the fields vacated by the people who moved away from Tai Di and distributed them to the other tribesmen who stayed behind, and also determined the boundaries with the surrounding clan neighbors to prevent them from being bullied in the future.

He also left plenty of food for the people who were left behind, and his own people who were about to migrate also filled their bags with dry food, gathered all the carts, drew bows and arrows, waved their axes and shields, and began to set out for the land.

Gong Liu and the other Zhou people finally arrived at Fengdi, where they wanted to choose a piece of land as their home to build. Seeing that the mountains were full of happy clansmen, Gongliu also accelerated the progress of the investigation, hoping to help the clansmen choose a satisfactory place to live. I saw a treasure knife inlaid with jewels and jade on the scabbard hanging on Gong Liu's belt, and with Gong Liu going up the mountain and down the plain, it flew in all directions under the sun.

The site selection should first meet the needs of agricultural production and the construction of the capital residence, there are many springs in the middle of this vast grassland, and there is a high hill in the south of the spring, and the highland of this southern hill is very suitable for building a Beijing division; Seeing such a perfect place, Gong Liu and other Zhou people decided to settle here. Soon the Jingshi was established, and many houses and dwellings were built in the suburbs of the capital at night, and people were noisy and noisy in the midst of it, and there was a joyful scene of people.

The people politely invited the lord of the land to the meeting place of the Kyoshi "Yidi", and after the guests were seated, the people took the pig out of the pigsty and offered sacrifices to the pig god. Fill the bowl with wine and drink as you eat. The person on the seat is none other than the king of the land, Gong Liu.

The land is very wide, and the sun's rays shine on the Jingshi, flickering and darkening, giving people a lot of sacred feelings. From the high post of the Beijing Division, you can see the flowing spring in the distance, the three armies stationed in the suburbs, and people in the low and humid land, sowing seeds, hoping to eat abundant food next year. The inhabited gap is very large, stretching to the west where the sun sets.

At that time, Gongliu built a house in the land of Fengdi, crossed the Weishui, took local materials by the river, and used the stone materials by the river to build the foundation. So the population and wealth slowly gathered here, and lived on the opposite side of the bank and the river of the imperial stream; Slowly, more and more people gathered, and the inner and outer curves of the river were full of people.

The above is based on the simple restoration of the scene described in the "Book of Songs, Daya, Gongliu", which shows that the Zhou people have made a big change after moving to Fengdi. The first is that there is the concept of Jingshi, that is, the capital; Yi was also established in the capital, that is, the place where the various nobles of the Zhou people gathered for meetings. Second, there is a full-time army, that is, "its army three Zen". Third, there is the king of the Zhou people, that is, Gong Liu.

From the perspective of the lineage of the Zhou people, Gongliu was the first king to be called Gong, followed by Gongfei, Gongshu, Gu Gong, and later Gongji or Wang Ji; Gong or Wang is the title of the king of a country in the original Zhou people. In this way, Gong Liu was a Ren Guojun of the Zhou people at that time.

The capital built by Gong Liu was located in the west and facing the east, close to the spring, and there was moist land for cultivation; and a place where the people may assemble for their meetings; Full-time armed forces were also stationed in the suburbs. The prototype of such a country has appeared, or since Gongliu, the Zhou people began to build the country, of course, this country is only a Fang country in ancient times.

The history of the Western Zhou Dynasty depends on the "Book of Songs", and the interpretation of the "Book of Songs" should look at the "Analysis and Reading of the Book of Songs" by Mr. Li Fang of Beijing Normal University.

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