Why is Cao Cao called "Wei"? Instead of "Cao"?

Cao Cao called "Wei" instead of "Cao", which fully shows that Cao Cao is a smart man and a propagandist. The title of "Wei" is by no means as simple as Cao Cao's title.

1. Many friends say that the name of Cao Wei’s country is just from Cao Cao’s titles, Duke Wei and King Wei. Is it really that simple?

In order to prove this statement, some friends pointed out that the later title of the Jin Dynasty came from the title of the Sima family, the title of the Tang Dynasty came from the title of Li Yuan, and the title of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian was originally the title of the duke. , why did he change it to Sui? It can be seen that it is completely okay for the founding emperor to change his country's title, and it does not have to be based on his own title.

The name of the Jin Dynasty, from its original meaning, also means to move forward one step further. The so-called "Jin people advance". The name of the Tang Dynasty not only has a beautiful and grand meaning, but also is closely connected with the ancient sage Emperor Yao. Therefore, Li Yuan's posthumous title after his death included the title of Shen Yao. Yang Jian thought it was not good to follow the characters, so he changed it to Sui.

As for Cao Cao’s title of Duke of Wei and King of Wei, do you think it was given casually by the court of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty? Is it okay without Cao Cao’s approval? You must know that at that time, the Han court was under the control of Cao Cao, and the main decision-making officials of the Han court were actually Cao Cao's trusted ministers. The title of Wei?'s country is by no means a false one.

2. The name of the country "Wei" has at least the following meanings

1. Cao Cao's Duke of Wei and King of Wei. Many friends have mentioned this, but in fact, the effect is the cause. Why did Cao Mengde choose Wei Gong or Wei Wang? There are so many country numbers to choose from. The following points are the real reasons.

2. Cao Cao rose in Wei. Cao Cao was a native of Qiao County, which belonged to the Chu region during the Warring States Period. However, Cao Cao raised troops against Chenliu Jiwu. Chenliu was in Kaifeng, the main beam of the Warring States Period and the capital of the Wei State. Moreover, Dongjun, where Cao Cao was the governor of Dongjun, belonged to Wei, and part of the area near Xuchang also belonged to Wei. Later, it was moved to Yecheng, which was also the accompanying capital of Wei Wenhou.

3. There is a widely circulated prophecy that the Han people of the Han Dynasty should be Tu Gao. This sentence was widely circulated at the time and was used by many careerists because it had a huge impact on people's hearts. Yuan Shu dared to proclaim himself emperor because he truly believed that he was "a great master". According to Cao Wei's explanation, "The one with the highest Tu is Wei". The word "Wei" in ancient times means a tall tower, and the tall one is exactly "Wei".

4. Wei conforms to the Five Elements theory of ancient dynasty circulation. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, it became more and more clear that Han was the virtue of fire, and Wei was the virtue of earth. Fire gave rise to earth, so replacing Han with Wei had the basis for the way of heaven. Friends think where did Cao Pi's reign name after usurping the Han Dynasty come from? Huang Chu? Yellow is the color of earth, and Huangchu is the beginning of earth.

5. What’s more, Wei? originally means tall and tall, and it has been a great and famous country since ancient times. ?Wei, a big country.

In fact, the last four meanings form a logic of dynasty change, at least in line with the logic of people at the time. Generally speaking, Cao Cao arose from Wei, and Wei had the will of heaven to replace the Han, and the Wei that replaced the Han would be glorious and grand.

In this case, do friends still think that the title of Wei Dynasty only comes from Cao Cao’s title? In fact, Cao Cao called himself Duke of Wei and King of Wei (although he was granted a Han title, he actually called himself Wei), and after the establishment of Cao Wei, he called himself Wei. This was just a result.

3. Why didn’t Cao Cao establish the Cao State?

Because there are very few people who take their surname as their country? This is actually unexplainable. Didn’t Chen Baxian create the Chen Dynasty? The famous Lao Ai was even more narcissistic and used his own name to create a state of Lai!

To explain this, we have to go a little further and talk about the origin of surnames. Cao Cao's surname originally came from the surname Ji of the Zhou Dynasty, and he was a prince of the Zhou Dynasty. In this case, Cao Cao can establish Zhou Dynasty, so why bother with a small Cao Kingdom.

The key problem is that Cao State was only a small country with little influence during the Zhou Dynasty, and it also produced ridiculous and funny figures like Duke Cao *** (if you want to see the legendary parallel ribs, take a peek at Duke Wen of Jin Bathing), and Cao Cao does not have the huge advantages of the Wei Dynasty above. Why does Cao Cao have to find trouble on his own and force Cao Cao out?