At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the eight dukes and princes of the Yu Kingdom, Jiao State, Zhu

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-24

The vassal state enclosed by King Wu of the early Zhou Dynasty, surnamed Ji, also known as Beiyu, the duke, was located in the area of Xia County and Pinglubei in the southern part of present-day Shanxi Province. The history of the country dates back to 1046 BC and ended in 655 BC.

During the reign of King Kang of Zhou, Yu Zhong, the great-grandson of Zhong Yong, the second son of King Tai of Zhou, was enshrined in Yu (now north of Pinglu County, Shanxi) to establish the Yu State. However, in 655 BC, Jin Xiangong adopted Xun Xi's strategy of "false Dao to defeat Yu", and Yu Guojun coveted Jin Xiangong's BMW and Zhenyu, and borrowed the road to the Jin ** team that went south to crusade against Qiu. On the way back to the division after the Jin army destroyed the kingdom of Yu, the state of Yu was also eliminated by the way.

After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he looked for the descendants of Taibo and Zhongyong to prepare for the enshrinement and found Zhou Zhang. Since Zhou Zhang had become the monarch of Wu Land, he gave him the Wu Land. At the same time, Zhou Zhang's younger brother Yu Zhong was also sealed on the site of the old summer capital in the north of Cheng Zhou, and the Yu State was established, and Yu Zhong also became one of the princes.

In the nineteenth year of Jin Xiangong (658 BC), Jin Xiangong said: "My ancestors Zhuang Bo and Wu Gong originally crusaded against the Jin civil strife, but the Kingdom of Yu often helped the Jin Jun Office to attack my Quwo and hide the exiled sons of the Jin State, which eventually caused trouble. Therefore, if we do not crusade against the kingdom of Qiu, we will definitely leave hidden dangers for future generations. So he sent Xun Xi to take the famous horses produced by Qu Di to borrow from Yu Guo. The state of Yu lent the road, and the state of Jin sent troops to attack the state of Qiu, and returned after capturing Xiayang.

In 655 B.C., in the twenty-second year of the Jin Dynasty, the Jin State wanted to attack the Kingdom of Yu by virtue of the Daoyu State.

Dead lips and cold teeth. Gong Zhiqi, the doctor of Yu State, admonished the monarch of Yu State: "You can't lend the road to the Jin State, if you lend the road to the Jin State, the Yu State will perish." "The monarch of the Yu State believes that the Jin State has the same surname as the Yu State and should not attack the Yu State. Gong Zhiqi retorted: "The ancestors of Yu Guo, Tai Bo and Yu Zhong, are the sons of the prince, but Tai Bo did not inherit the throne because he fled; Yu Zhong and Uncle Yu are the sons of Wang Ji and the secretaries of King Wen of Zhou, who have contributed to the Zhou Dynasty and have been recorded in history. (The blood relationship between the Kingdom of Yu and the Kingdom of Jin is closer than the blood relationship between the Kingdom of Yu and the Kingdom of Jin) Now that the Kingdom of Jin is going to be destroyed, what kind of pity will there be for the Kingdom of Yu? Besides, can the blood relationship between the Yu State and the Jin monarch exceed that of the Huan Shu and Zhuang Bo families? Uncle Huan and Uncle Zhuang's family were not guilty, but Jin Xiangong killed them. The kingdom of Yu and the kingdom of Yu are like lips and teeth, if the lips are toothless, they will be frozen. ”

But Duke Yu didn't listen, and still agreed to the Jin State to borrow the way. Gong Zhiqi led his family out of Yu Kingdom. In the winter of the same year, the Jin State destroyed the Kingdom of Qiu, and the Duke of Yu fled to Kyoto of the Zhou Dynasty. When the Jin army returned to the division, they took the opportunity to destroy the state of Yu and captured Duke Yu and his doctors Jing Bo and Baili Xi as Qin Muji's dowry attaché. At the same time, the Jin Kingdom also retained the original mountain and river sacrifices of the Yu Kingdom.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was an important vassal state enclosed by the Zhou royal family, and the oldest ancient state in the history of Sanmenxia.

A descendant of the Shennong clan, the first monarch established the country surnamed Jiao Jiang, and the fief was located in Zhongmu, Henan. However, during the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zheng Guo's oppression forced Jiao Guo to move eastward, and finally moved to Shangshui County in eastern Henan. In the early years of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Jiao Guo was forced to move again, this time to what is now Bozhou, Anhui. King Wu of Zhou established the state of Jiao surnamed Jiang after this Shennong was crowned and built Jiaocheng.

Ji surnamed Jiao (whose history is unknown - c. 775 BC) was a feudal state of the Marquis of Zhao, the son of Zhaogong during the Western Zhou Dynasty, and its capital was located in the northeast of present-day Shaanxi. In the early years of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the state of Jiao was wiped out by Duke Wu of Jin, and the descendants of its original royal family took the name of the country as their surname.

After the Battle of Makino in 1046 BC, King Wu defeated the Shang Dynasty and established the Western Zhou Dynasty. In order to consolidate the rule of the Zhou royal family, Zhou Tianzi established Luoyi on the shores of Yi, Luo, Qian, and Jianzhi, and set up Qianli Wangji on the vast land from Baoji in Shaanxi Province in the west to Xingyang in Zhengzhou in the east. In addition, Zhou Tianzi also carried out large-scale feudalization, granting the land and people of strategic places across the country to the princes, and establishing numerous vassal states. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the feudal feud was not only limited to Wangji, but also many vassal states within Wangji, such as Jiao, Dongyu, Xiyu, Mao, Hua, Yuan, Yan, Yong and other states. Jiao Guo was sealed within Wangji and became the object of direct jurisdiction of the Zhou royal family, shouldering the important task of protecting the royal family, following the royal family's expeditions, and assisting Zhou Tianzi to rule the whole country.

According to the literature, there were two Jiao countries in the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty: one was the Jiang surname Jiao Guo after Shennong, and the other was the Ji surname Jiao Guo.

The country named after the surname Qi was founded by Yuyang, a descendant of Yao. The country was located in Zhu, which is now Changqing District of Jinan, Shandong Province. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou divided the descendants of the first queen and the remnants, the descendants of the Shennong clan were sealed in Jiaodi, and the descendants of Yao were sealed in Zhu, which is the source of Zhuguo. In the Spring and Autumn Period (768 BC), the Zhu State was destroyed by the Qi State, and the original Zhu State clan took the name of the country as the surname and became part of the Zhu surname. According to the records of "Yuanhe Surname Compilation", "New Tang Dynasty Book, Prime Minister Lineage Table" and other documents, Yao's descendants were sealed in Zhu by King Wu of Zhou (the ancient city of Zhu'a in the northeast of Changqing, Shandong Province), and later formed the Zhu State, and his descendants took the land as the name, which is one of the origins of the surname Zhu.

A vassal state of China from the Shang Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, located in the north of present-day downtown Beijing. Its national Zuo has lasted for more than 1,000 years, and the monarch is surnamed Qi and a descendant of Yao. The Kingdom of Ji originated in the Shang Dynasty, but the specific history can no longer be verified. In the early years of the Zhou Dynasty, the Kingdom of Ji was divided by Zhou Tianzi, which was rebuilt. However, it was not until the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period that the Ji Kingdom was finally destroyed by the Yan Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Ji is one of the earliest countries formed in the present-day Beijing area, and it is believed that it was a small country naturally formed during the Yin Shang period, or it was built by the descendants of the Yellow Emperor tribe.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Kingdom of Ji became the feudal state of the Zhou State. In 664 BC, after Yan invited the Duke of Qi Huan to defeat Shanrong, by 657 BC, Jicheng, the capital of Shangdu, became the capital of Yan.

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