Legend of Jinci Temple in Taiyuan (II): The First in East Ye Feng

At the foot of Diaoweng Mountain, 25 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, there is a place with beautiful scenery, pines and cypresses, birds and flowers, and pleasant scenery. This is Jinci, a world-famous scenic spot with a long history and rich culture.

Jinci Temple, also known as Tang Shuyu Temple, was named after Yu Ji, the founding father of the State of Jin. Who's Tang Shuyu? Listen to me tell an old story.

? Cecilia Yip Di Feng

When I was a child, I liked to watch the comic book "God List", thinking it was a fairy tale, and the characters in the story were all shaped. Actually, it is not.

At the end of Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wang lived a dissolute life, listened to Fei Zhong's slanderers and married Su Hu's daughter Su Daji in Jizhou. Unexpectedly, da ji has been possessed by a fox demon, lost his mind, and helped others. Zhou Wang killed his wife and children, brutalized the civil and military, and made the people miserable. Xibo Hou Jichang, on the other hand, manages the country well, makes good use of merits, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and their national strength is getting stronger and stronger. From the very beginning, the Buddha decided to send Jiang Ziya out of the mountain to help Ji Chang cut down and rescue the people from the quagmire. Jichang is a famous Zhou Wenwang. During his reign, he was diligent in political affairs, attached importance to agricultural production, and respected the virtuous corporal. Worship Jiang Ziya as a strategist. Smash Zhou Wang. Unfortunately, Zhou Wenwang died before he realized his ambition. After Zhou Wenwang's death, his son Ji Fa inherited his father. He is Zhou Wuwang. After King Wu succeeded to the throne, he was determined to realize his father's wish. Reuse Zhongliang, unite tribes to attack Shang and Zhou Dynasties, King Wu worshipped Jiang Ziya as his father, and Jiang Shang officially assisted King Wu, and set out to crusade against Shang Dynasty under the tyrant. Finally, the Shang Dynasty was defeated and Zhou Wang set himself on fire in Lutai. Yin Shang perished. King Wu became the king of the Zhou Dynasty. Jiang Ziya went to the immortal class.

This story is full of contests between gods and demons, between beauty and evil, between justice and evil. Because it is so old, people think there may be these things, but it is true that the founders of the Zhou Dynasty were Zhou Wenwang and Zhou Wuwang. They fought bloody battles together, overthrew the brutal Shang regime and established the Zhou Dynasty. Jiang Ziya was a real person.

Zhou Wuwang's wife is Jiang Yi. She is Jiang Taigong's daughter. Zhou Wuwang was the pioneer of feudal history in China and the first king of the Zhou Dynasty. This dynasty is also called the Western Zhou Dynasty to distinguish it from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the future.

After Zhou Wuwang won the world, he couldn't sleep at night in order to consolidate his political power. In addition, after years of fighting, he worked hard and his physical strength gradually faded. After three years of his career, he died.

Zhou Wuwang used people as virtuous people before his death, but he did not shy away from using people as his relatives. When he became a monarch, he valued his younger brother Shuang Shuang because he took a fancy to their ability to govern the country. After Zhou Wuwang's death, he and Jiang Yi's son Zhou Chengwang succeeded to the throne. Because Zhou Chengwang was very young when he acceded to the throne, Zhou Gongdan acted as an agent. He is Zhou Chengwang's uncle.

Because the Duke of Zhou was the founding hero of the Zhou Dynasty and had excellent ability to govern the country, he formulated a set of laws and regulations for the Zhou Dynasty to make the country orderly and obedient.

One day, a teenager was playing in the garden with his mother and brother Uncle Yu. When I was happy, I climbed down a plane tree leaf, cut it into the shape of jade, and gave it to my brother Uncle Yu, casually saying, "I use this to make you the Tang Hou." Yu Shu followed the example of the ministers, kneeling on the ground, holding tung leaves in his hands and saying, "Thanks, brother." In this way, Zhou Chengwang sealed the Tang Guo Opera House to Yu Shu. The two brothers were having a good time, but a historian recorded Zhou Chengwang's words and deeds. Uncle Yu took the leaves and told it to Uncle Zhou happily. Duke Zhou thinks that "the son of heaven can recall a word." If it is true, it is serious and cannot be taken for granted. So he asked Zhou Chengwang, but Zhou Chengwang disagreed, saying that I was just joking with my brother. Hearing this, the Duke of Zhou said seriously, "The son of heaven is joking, and his words become a constitution. Moreover, according to historical records, musicians praised it and scholars praised it. How can you just talk about it? " Wang Cheng felt reasonable and said, "Well, just do as my uncle says." "Ordered a conferring ceremony for Yu Shu.

On this day, the palace was decorated with lanterns, gongs and drums, and a grand ceremony was held to grant land to the people. Uncle Yu was dressed in a solemn vassal suit and won the prize. The Duke of Zhou read the imperial edict and conferred the title of Yu Shu as the Hou of the Tang Dynasty, in charge of the Tang State in Fiona Fang, east of Fenhe River. From then on, people called him Tang Shuyu.

The Emperor of Zhou gave Yu Shu all kinds of important and valuable gifts and articles. Yu Shu bowed as a gift from the king to accept the congratulations from the officials.

After the ceremony, Yu Shu left the capital with his entourage, the prince, horses and chariots and precious ritual vessels. When he left, Cheng Wang took his brother by the hand and said, You should take good care of the land and people in the Tang Dynasty for your brother. "Uncle Yu is very grateful for his brother's trust in himself and deeply feels that he has a great responsibility. He is determined to live up to his brother and do something great.

After Yu Shu came to power, he managed the country well. He led the people to build water conservancy and develop agriculture. So that one side of the people live and work in peace and contentment, deeply loved by the people. To commemorate Yu Shu's achievements, later generations built an ancestral temple, namely Tang Shuyu Temple. After his son Xie acceded to the throne, he changed the state of Tang to the state of Jin. Because the ancestral temple is located at the source of Jinjiang and Shuyu is the founder of Jin State, Shuyu Temple is also called Jinci Temple.

Therefore, in Shaanxi Provincial Museum, the opening ceremony of the exhibition with the theme of "Hegemony of Jin State" is "Emperor of East Ye Feng", which shows us the true meaning of your joke.

Zhou Wenwang

Zhou Wuwang

Cecilia Yip Di Feng

Note: Zhou Wenwang Yi Jichang

Zhou Wuwang-Ji Fa

Zhou Chengwang-Song Ji

Zhou Chengwang's younger brother Yu Ji (because he is a younger brother? Gu said