Zujia

Zujia

Zujia (?)? -He was the son of King Wuding of Shang Dynasty, the younger brother of King Zugeng of Shang Dynasty, and the 24th monarch of Shang Dynasty. According to the Bamboo Annals, he had been in power for 33 years and had conquered Xirong. In the early days of his reign, he was able to take care of the people and prospered in the Shang Dynasty. After the death of Zujia, his son Linxin ascended the throne.

brief introduction

Wuding, king of Shang Dynasty, preferred Zujia, the youngest son. He planned to abolish Zugeng, the prince, and set up Zujia instead. Zujia believed that this was a violation of propriety and should not be abolished by force, otherwise the situation of "the rebellion of the Ninth World" might be repeated. Therefore, he followed Wuding's example and left the capital to live among the common people. After the death of Wuding, the crown prince Zugeng inherited the throne. This made Zugeng very moved, so he made Zujia the heir to the throne. About seven years after Zugeng ascended the throne, he died, and then Zujia returned to the throne.

political and military achievements

sacrifice

In order to serve the ancestors' merits, sacrifice was popular among merchants, but the objects and order of sacrifice were very disordered, and there were no certain rules. After Zujia ascended the throne, he created the method of "Zhou sacrifice". The specific method is: from the first ten days of each year, according to the order of the heavenly stems of the Shang king and his legal spouse, and the temple name, he used feather, delivery and three main sacrifice methods to worship for one week. Zhou sacrifice takes ten days as a unit, and every ten days is in the order of the heavenly stems of the temple names of Wang and he. The heavenly stems on the day of sacrifice must be consistent with the temple names. For example: the first ten days a day sacrifice to Shangjia, b day sacrifice to B, C day sacrifice to C, until Kui day sacrifice to Shigui; the second ten days b day sacrifice to Taiyi (soup), d day sacrifice to TAIDING; the third ten days a day sacrifice to Taijia, C day sacrifice to waic. In this way, the sacrifice lasted until Zugeng, the elder brother of Zujia. It takes 90 days to offer sacrifices to the first workers and kings from Shangjia to Zugeng. At the end of the sacrifice, the other two kinds of sacrificial methods were used to sacrifice until all the sacrificial methods were used. The method of Zhou sacrifice made the sacrificial system of Yin people more strict and standardized, so it prevailed in the second half of the Shang Dynasty and gradually reached the peak. The method of Zhou sacrifice founded by Zujia is the best embodiment of ancestor worship and religious system. In ancient civilization, every nation had its own sacrificial system. The sacrificial system of Zhou Dynasty was different from that of ancient Babylon and Egypt. It was a unique sacrificial system in ancient China.

Expedition to Xirong

In the later period of the reign of Wang Zujia, the king of Shang Dynasty, the Xirong tribe did not yield to the control of the Shang Dynasty and led the tribe to rise up to resist. As a result, the tribe was too weak to be strong. The tribe fled everywhere. One of them "crossed the Yulei mountains connected with the Minshan mountains from the east of Maowen basin and entered the northwest edge of Sichuan Basin", hoping to fight again.

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Chinese PinYin : Zu Jia