According to "Records of the Grand Historian", King You of Zhou favors Baosi , but Baosi does not like to laugh and is depressed all day long. In order to win the smile of a beautiful woman, King You of Zhou tried every means. Beacon towers and drums were set up in the royal city where King You of Zhou lived. Once there was an enemy situation, the beacon fire would be lit to summon reinforcements. Once, King You of Zhou lit the beacon fire, and the princes led their troops to come. After the reinforcements arrived, they found that there were no enemies. Bao Si really laughed when she saw the princes panic. King You of Zhou was very happy, so he ignited the beacon many times to make him happy. After repeated igniting smoke and lied about military information, the princes no longer believed it and gradually refused to respond. Later, the State of Shen joined forces with the State of Hua and the Quanrong of the Western Yi to attack King You of Zhou. King You of Zhou ignited the beacon fire and summoned the princes to rescue him, but the princes did not come to rescue him. In the end, King You of Zhou was killed, Bao Si's whereabouts were unknown, and Western Zhou was destroyed.
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This allusion is the widely circulated "Beijing Fireshowing the Lords". At first glance, this story of the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty because of pleasing beauty seems very reasonable, but was the Western Zhou Dynasty really dead due to the "beauty of beauty"?
The most questionable among them is Fenghuo. When did the method of applying Fenghuo to convey military information originate, it is no longer verified, but according to research, it first appeared in Han Dynasty .
In the era of feudal dynasties, the decline of each dynasty will always appear those peerless beauties who harm the country and the people and charm the monarchs, and are often filled with the theory of guilt of beauty. For example, Xia Jie 's beauty, Shang Zhou Daji , etc., under the mainstream ideology of men being superior to women at that time, it was perfect for women to take the blame for the destruction of the country.
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As Chinese scholars' research on history deepens in recent years, some clues have been found in The bamboo slips of the Warring States Period . The fundamental reason for the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty was not "the fire of beacons to play with the princes", but the inheritance of the royal power and the incompetence of King You of Zhou himself.
King Zhou You himself was stupid and indifferent, obsessed with wine and sex, did not ask about political affairs, and even appointed slander ministers Guo Shifu as ministers and took charge of political affairs. As the saying goes, the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is crooked, and this Guo Shifu is not a good person. He is a treacherous and obedient person, greedy and good at flattery. In "Records of the Grand Historian", he is a slander who offers the bad idea of "playing with the princes". Shortly after King You of Zhou succeeded to the throne, many large-scale natural disasters occurred in China. King You of Zhou did not know how to rest with the people, and even appointed treacherous slander to deal with political affairs, which aggravated the exploitation of the people and further aggravated the political turmoil.
Since the end of the Shang Dynasty, it has been determined that the system of inheritance with the eldest son is mainly inherited by the father's death. If the king has no descendants, the brother will end up with the younger brother. If there is no accident, the heirs to the throne will be the eldest son.
Because of his favor, King You of Zhou was crazy about deposing the , Empress Shen, who had been made queen, and also abolished the eldest son of Empress Shen, and changed Baosi's son Bofu to become the crown prince. Prince Yijiu turned to Shen State for help, and this act of abolishing the eldest son and establishing the young man angered the foreign family of Shen State. So the State of Shen and the State of Shen and the State of Qiong and the State of Qiong and the State of Qiong and Quanrong and were sent to the Western Zhou Dynasty. King You of Zhou was defeated and died, Bofu was also killed, and Baosi was unknown.
moved the capital to Luoyi
Then the State of Shen and the princes elected the prince Yijiu as king, known in history as King Ping of Zhou, moved the capital to Luoyi, and Eastern Zhou was established. The demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the formal establishment of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, during which the inheritance of the royal power was turbulent for more than twenty years. Nominally, Yijiu's throne was seized by killing his father and killing his brother, but Yijiu was also abolished because of King You of Zhou's rebellion, and inheriting the throne was also reasonable. According to the "Zuo Zhuan", after King You of Zhou was killed, some princes wanted to use the emperor to order the princes. Among them, the princes led by Guo Gonghan supported the younger brother Yu Chen as the emperor of Zhou, which was known in history as King Hui of Zhou. The situation of two kings coexisting for more than twenty years was initiated, and the Duke of Jin Wen of the army led his army to attack Xiyi and ended in killing Xihui.
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feudal system implemented by the Western Zhou Dynasty with the Zhou emperor as the common ruler. After the establishment of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, it gradually lost its status as the common ruler, giving birth to a new era - the battle for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period.
