商纣 is the last king of the Shang Dynasty. His name is Xin, the son of Emperor Yi, and he is known as King Zhou, the inventor of chopsticks. Zeng pinged Dongyi and gradually spread the culture of the Central Plains to the Yangtze and Huai rivers, laying the foundation for China's unification. However, when it comes to the Shang Dynasty, people seem to think of the heinous atrocities of the cruel King Shang Zhou. How cruel was King Shang Zhou? Are all his brutal acts true?
Now people describe King Shang Zhou as a murderous, bloodthirsty demon. Excessive licentiousness, for the good of Da, do "the new lewd voice, the dance of Beibei, and the joy of obsession", build the deer platform with the money collected from the people, and fill it with precious treasures; It is Qiu, the wine is the pool, the hanging meat is the forest, making people naked each other", playing with the maids in it day and night; and cruelly tortured to death, burning people to death. .
arrived in the Jin Dynasty, in Huangfu Mi's pen, Zhou had one more charge. Under Daji's instigation, he dissected a pregnant woman to look at the shape of the fetus. And Daji has become a femme fatale step by step, causing harm to the country and the people, so "the theory of women ruining the country" also came out.
The novel "The Romance of the Gods" even pushed Shang Zhou to the pinnacle of cruelty. It’s a fact that King Zhou was keen on sensual entertainment and drinking and eating in his late years, and there are exact records of the killing of Bigan. However, cutting off the feet of people walking barefoot on the ice and cutting the belly of pregnant women is a little unbelievable. In particular, the crime of "only listening to women's words" is simply unrealistic.
Because the merchants are quite superstitious, any major move requires God's questioning to decide good or bad to suspend blame. There is an exact record in the unearthed oracle bone inscriptions. The power that Daji can influence is really minimal.
And these things are not mentioned in the "Shang Shu" and "Zhou Shu" articles of "Jin Wen Shang Shu". In historical materials, there is no such thing as killing innocents and bloodthirsty. Class records.
In fact, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Zi Gong, a student of Confucius, questioned the tyranny of King Shang Zhou. He said: "The improper Zhou is what it is! The gentleman is inferior, and the evil of the world belongs to Yan." It means that Zhou's badness is not as excessive as the later generations say. Zi Gong believes that later generations attributed the world's notoriety to him.
Mencius also thought: When King Zhou was in power, it was not too long since the time of the wise monarch Wuding. At that time, the good folk customs, ancestors’ legacy, and benevolent political traditions were still preserved.
What is the reason why Zhou is demonized step by step? One is the need for political propaganda. "The winner is the king and the loser." Although the Zhou dynasty at that time destroyed Shang, it was not a big country. To consolidate his regime, stabilize and win over his people, he naturally needed some political means.
Zhou Zhu is certainly not without shortcomings, so the Western Zhou monarchs who annihilated the Shang Zhou king, as well as the later imperial literati, arranged the affairs of the dead King Zhou again and again according to political needs. , Finally made him a person who couldn't be worse.
Secondly, there is a Daji beside King Zhou, who can cater to the argument that "women are a disaster" and can smoothly lead the source of evil to women.
In addition, the "Historical Records" not only records the tyranny of King Shang Zhou, but also records: "The emperor's capital distinguishes rapid diseases, and is very sensitive to hearing; It’s enough to play the role of nonsense. People and ministers can use their power and the world to speak up, thinking that they are all under oneself.”
It can be seen that although King Shang Zhou is not a great emperor, he is not as tyrannical as people think now .
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