?King Mu of Zhou: The emperor who pushed the Western Zhou Dynasty to its peak in Chinese history

I recently read the book "500 Mysterious Cases in Cultural History", which talked about King Mu of Zhou, and mentioned the book "The Biography of Emperor Mu" by the way. According to this book and the pre-Qin "Zuo Zhuan" and other books, According to the description, King Mu of Zhou was the first person to arrive in the Western Regions according to historical records. > I am therefore very curious about King Mu of Zhou. Du Niang Encyclopedia says that King Mu of Zhou is one of the most legendary emperors. Because he had been to the Western Regions and met the Queen Mother of the West. > King Mu of Zhou meets the Queen Mother of the West (the Queen Mother in Journey to the West) > Well, at this time, what comes to my mind is whether King Mu of Zhou and the Queen Mother of the West will have a relationship, but after reading the description of the Queen Mother of the West in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", I guess Zhou Mu King Mu only went to expand Zhou's strength. > "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" describes the Queen Mother of the West in this way: > The Queen Mother of the West looks like a human, has a leopard tail and tiger teeth, is good at roaring, and has a fluffy hair and a hoopoe. In short, the Queen Mother of the West has not completely escaped the aura of wild beasts. In the Zhou Dynasty, the relatively backward peoples around her were always referred to with terms like animals. The Queen Mother of the West was, in comparison, a nation in the Western Regions. Symbolize it! > In history, King Mu of Zhou conquered the east and west, and fought in the south and north. Based on the four generations of Zhou kings, King Wen, King Wu, King Cheng, and King Kang, he successfully developed the rule of the Zhou Dynasty to its peak. > As for the story in "The Biography of Emperor Mu" that King Mu of Zhou once visited the Western Regions, this matter is controversial, but this book cannot be concluded to be a forgery, and the story of Emperor Mu's travels to the Western Regions can be found in pre-Qin classics. For example, "Liezi", "Zuo Zhuan", and even Sima Qian, who was not the pre-Qin Dynasty, also recorded the story of King Mu of Zhou's western tour in "Historical Records". >Although the content of "The Biography of Emperor Mu" is somewhat mythical and fictitious, "the basic facts should be affirmed. It has a great influence on the development of Chinese geography, and it has a place in the history of geography and cannot be obliterated." (Du Niang Encyclopedia) And this shows the power of power, which has spread to the West. > King Mu of Zhou in history was the monarch who pushed the rule of Zhou to its peak, and the traditional posthumous system was established in . The word "Mu" in King Mu of Zhou was the posthumous title of King Ji Man of Zhou Mu. There is a saying in the posthumous law: "Bu De Zhiyi is called Mu, and Zhongqing sees appearance and is called Mu." It can be seen that "Mu" is a posthumous title of praise, and the Western Zhou Dynasty, unlike later emperors, only allowed posthumous titles of praise. >