Sima Qian felt the atmosphere was stagnant.
But he was a little puzzled. Although the Luo family was a great noble with the surname Ji, and although the Yin Shang was destroyed by Bang Zhou himself, even Bang Zhou had been destroyed for more than a hundred years. What is there to record the history of the Yin Shang now?
Luo Bai asked in a deep voice: "Tai Shigong, how much do you know about the history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties?"
Sima Qian had served as the Taishi Ling for many years, and the Sima family also had a family background, so he told the lineage of the ancestors of the Yin and Shang Dynasties one by one. He also said that Shang Tang attacked Xia Jie, and that the Shang Dynasty was reviving. Finally, he said that King Zhou was cruel and was overthrown by King Wu.
Luo Bai and Luo Qing looked at each other. What Sima Qian said was very consistent with the world's imagination of the Yin Shang. After King Su trampled on the Yin Shang, after a thousand years of development, the world already believed that the difference between the Yin Shang and Bangzhou was not too big. , just changed to a royal family.
But this is not the case!
Luo Bai said in a deep voice: "Tai Shigong, the drastic changes in Zhou's death and Qin's rise are not far away from you, so you can see the drastic changes.
But you don’t know that the Yin and Shang Dynasties fell and the Zhou Dynasty prospered. The drastic changes during this period were even far greater than the death of Zhou Dynasty and the rise of Qin Dynasty! "
Sima Qian's whole body couldn't help but feel numb.
During the dramatic changes between the fall of the Zhou Dynasty and the Qin and Han Dynasties, the old aristocracy was almost completely destroyed, the feudal system existed in name only, prefectures and counties were completely spread out, the royal power was unprecedentedly powerful, and the changes were countless.
Prince Bai actually said that the changes between Shang and Zhou were even greater!
Sima Qian felt that he might be about to learn a secret buried deep in history.
Because Emperor Su Wang trampled on the Yin Shang and destroyed the Yin Shang culture extremely completely, the world can only get a glimpse of the face of that era from the sporadic news.
He was able to tell the complete story of the Yin and Shang lineage. In this era, he already belongs to the type of person who knows a lot. Without this level, it would be impossible for him to start writing a history book.
But the only one who truly knows the history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties is the Luo family. With the style of King Su and the Luo family, even if the Yin and Shang culture is completely destroyed, some backups will definitely be left behind.
Luo Bai and Luo Qing looked at each other, and then Luo Bai said: "Tai Shigong, please come with me to see the ancient relics left by the Yin and Shang Dynasties. They were all left by King Su when he followed King Wu to conquer the Yin and Shang Dynasties. object."
Only a few people know that there is a house in Luo Family that is specially used to store objects from the Yin and Shang Dynasties. In modern terms, it can be said to be the Yin and Shang Cultural Museum.
Sima Qian followed Luo Bai and Luo Qing to a dark place in the deepest part of Luo Palace. As soon as he got here, Sima Qian felt as if he was being stared at by wild beasts. He vaguely saw many warriors guarding them with sharp swords. Looking at this, his eyes are as sharp as a physical sword.
Luo Qing comforted him and said, "This is one of the family's forbidden areas, and the guards are relatively tight. Don't worry, Mr. Taishi."
"Brother!"
The gatekeeper turned out to be a Luo family member!
Luo Bai responded: "A Xi, are you on duty today? Brother, bring someone over to see the ancient artifacts of the Yin and Shang Dynasties."
The Luo family took turns guarding the site of Yin and Shang antiquities. Luo Xi opened the door and said, "Brother, please come in."
Luo Bai and others walked in, and Luo Xi sat in the room again and started reading.
A few people walked within ten meters, and a cold air came out, making people shiver. Wang Wenjun has been here before. She will most likely be the mistress of the house in the future, so she still needs to know something. thing.
Luo Bai felt his arms being hugged tightly for an instant, and a soft and delicate body soaked in a faint fragrance pressed up against him. The warm and jade-like body leaned against him. He patted Wang Wenjun's catkin and whispered : "Don't be afraid, Qian'er, your husband is here."
Wang Wenjun looked at Sima Qian, who still had a confused look on his face, and couldn't help but shudder when he thought about the scene he was going to see next.
She even sympathized with Sima Qian, who still didn't know anything, especially since Sima Qian's description of the Yin Shang Dynasty just now was quite positive. There were saint kings, virtuous ministers, and the masters of the ZTE, but they finally perished because of a tyrant.
I wonder what Sima Qian will do after meeting the real Yin Shang?
Wang Wenjun looks like a cold flower on the high mountain, but deep down he is a bit sinister. He wants others to experience the suffering he suffered.
Then a few people walked into it completely.
The first thing that caught Sima Qian's eyes was the rows of bookshelves. Compared with the historical materials of the Bang and Zhou Dynasty, the historical materials here were much less, even only one percent at most.
But this was completely beyond Sima Qian's expectations. After all, his family didn't even have a single volume of historical materials about the Yin and Shang Dynasties. He opened his mouth in shock and couldn't help but murmured: "There are so many."
Then Sima Qian saw that behind the bookshelf, there seemed to be a lot of metal, and it seemed to be bronze. Luo Bai and the others walked straight forward, Sima Qian followed, and then directly saw a cylindrical bronze vessel.
One word flashed through his mind almost instantly - torture by burning!
Paolao is so famous. As one of the symbols of the cruelty of King Zhou of Shang, it appears in almost every classic of various schools of thought.
This kind of punishment has even been completely associated with tyrants, and no king in later generations would dare to use this kind of punishment.
Then Sima Qian saw all kinds of objects that he had never heard of or seen before.
"This stone plate once carried an ancestor of my Zhou clan, Boyikao!"
Luo Bai pointed to a stone plate, and Sima Qian looked over. It was a stone plate, and next to it was a bronze thing used to pound medicine.
Zhou clan.
It was a name that I had not heard for many years, and it seemed to instantly bring people back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The two major ethnic groups fought on the land of Zhuxia, and in the end the Zhou tribe won.
To this day, the Luo clan is probably the last ethnic group that still retains the memory of the Zhou clan, and everyone else has become Han Chinese.
Carrying the ancestors of the Zhou clan?
Sima Qian was a little confused, but Boyi Kao knew that he was the brother of King Wu of Zhou.
"Does Mr. Taishi know how Boyikao died?"
Tai Shigong pondered: "It is said that he was killed by King Zhou of Shang."
Luo Qing gritted his teeth and said: "He was killed by King Zhou of Shang, but the way of killing was completely different. This is not a story about a minister being killed by a king.
But a sacrifice! "
Since ancient times, there are countless ministers killed by kings. It is so normal for Boyi Kao to die at the hands of a tyrant like King Zhou of Shang Dynasty. Sima Qian never thought about it at all. This is just the unpopularity of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty. Just an assistant.
King Zhou of Shang even killed his uncle Bigan, so what does it mean to kill Boyikao?
But sacrifice?
Sima Qian didn't understand. Boyikao was the prince of the Zhou clan, and Zhou was a great nobleman in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Who could sacrifice him, and who was qualified to sacrifice him?
Could it be King Zhou of Shang Dynasty?
Sima Qian knew that during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, it was customary to use people to offer sacrifices, but using nobles was a bit too sensational, right?
How could the nobles agree to sacrifice a high-ranking noble?
Luo Qing reached out and took down a book from the bookshelf next to him, and said bitterly: "Tai Shigong, the human sacrifices of the Yin and Shang Dynasties must be completely distinguished from the human sacrifices of Bangzhou.
The scale of human sacrifice is very small, and the system is complicated. Except for foreign countries like Qin and Chu, human sacrifice in Jijiang must strictly follow the etiquette system.
Because the ritual system regarding human sacrifice was too complicated, the number of human sacrifices was greatly reduced.
This was not the case with the human sacrifices of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The frequency of sacrifices by the Shang tribe was too high, and even the prisoners captured through war were not enough.
Then the Shang people asked the surrounding Fang countries to contribute sacrifices to them.
The Zhou people were oppressed by the Shang people before, and Qiang people were captured from the west to serve as sacrifices. If they could not hand over enough sacrifices, they would be punished by the Shang people.
The Shang people also believe that the nobler the person who is offering sacrifices, the more pious they will be, so a large number of Yin and Shang nobles were sacrificed. Boyikao, the crown prince of the Zhou clan, was sent as a sacrifice just because his status was noble enough to show the Zhou clan's loyalty to the Shang clan. On the altar.
History books record the process of Boyikao being sacrificed. After the sacrifice, the merchants cut open the skin and flesh with sharp weapons, then made sacrificial meals and distributed them to the nobles participating in the sacrifice.
Merchants believe that participating in the sharing of food sacrifices will bring good luck and blessings from their ancestors. Tai Shigong, you know very well that in the later period, merchants no longer sacrificed to the natural sky, but only sacrificed to their own ancestors.
These objects are all tools used by merchants to process sacrifices. "
After listening to Luo Qing's story and looking at these objects, Sima Qian couldn't help but shudder. A nauseating feeling instantly rushed into his throat. Almost every object placed in front of him was soaked with flesh and blood. .
"Tai Shigong, do you know why you are not allowed to read the history books of the Yin and Shang Dynasties?
Why did King Su trample on the culture of the Yin and Shang dynasties, confiscate all the information, and then burn it to the ground so that everyone would forget about it? "
Sima Qian nodded numbly. Some crimes should be sealed in history to prevent them from resurrecting.
The extremely horrific human sacrifice should completely disappear from the civilization of Zhuxia. In order to achieve this goal, even destroying some things is worth it. This was probably what King Su thought back then.
"Then how should we record the history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties? It is fair to record the beginning of history!"
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The transition from the Shang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty was a great progress in civilization, especially the formulation of Zhou Rites, which gradually freed the ancestors of the Xia from the bloody and cruel human sacrifices. No matter how cruel human sacrifice was, it was better than human sacrifice. To be advanced, no matter how strict the etiquette system is, it is more civilized than the primitive ghosts and gods.
The greatness of the Zhou Dynasty was in all aspects, unmatched by any other dynasty. Because of the emergence of the Zhou Dynasty, talents were given human meaning, and the Zhuxia civilization completely became a civilization that pursued reality.
The rise of the Suwang Shanghuangtian belief is precisely the continuous pursuit of reality, because this ancestral god who has the characteristics of the natural god Haotian and the pursuit of the holy king is the source of completely transforming all this. Following this In the path of the supreme god, everyone is like a god. ——"The Shang and Zhou Dynasties: Civilization Sets Sail"
Recommend "Jian Shang" and "The Politics of Eastern Jin Dynasty"
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