Speaking of the corrupt and extravagant life of Jiuchi Meat Forest, many people will immediately think of King Yin of the Shang Dynasty. However, a careful study of history reveals this hedonistic life"Inventors"In fact, it was another tyrant of the Xia Dynasty.
According to historical records, both of them were famous tyrants and faint kings in ancient Chinese history, and they ruled the Xia and Shang dynasties respectively, and both dynasties also went to an end under their rule. The degree of their tyranny and immorality is indistinguishable. According to the record of "New Preface: Thorn Luxury", Xia Jian spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a series of buildings for pleasure in order to enjoy himself, including the wine pond dregs, which were used to hold indulgent feasts, and 3,000 people drank at each feast.
In the "Han Poetry Biography", a detailed description of the wine pool of King Ji was made, pointing out that the scale of this wine pool was so large that it could even allow King Ji and his favorite concubine to raft on the pool, and the scene was quite exaggerated. Although the credibility of the Hanshi Gaiden is debatable as an anecdote from history, it is at least certain that the lavish place of the sake pond first appeared in Xia Ji's time.
However, despite the fact that Xia Ji is from the wine pool"Inventors", but why did everyone completely push the image of the wine pond meat forest to the king of the wine? This actually stems from Sima Qian's vivid description of King Yin in the "Historical Records of King Yin": With wine as a pool and county meat as a forest, men and women are naked, and they are in the middle of each other, which is a drink for the long night. Since then, whether it is the ancients or the present, when it comes to the wine pond meat forest, the first thing that comes to mind is the king of the wine. Therefore, even though King Ji is the founder of the wine pond, King Su has become synonymous with this extravagant life.