At the end of the Warring States Period, the Emperor Zhou was subjugated. Where did the Jiuding representing the world go?
Shangtang moved away from Xia Jie and moved Jiuding to its capital. Pan Geng set his capital after Yin, and Jiuding moved here.
After Emperor Wu of Zhou extinguished the Shang Dynasty, he once publicly displayed Jiuding in the Song of Shang Dynasty. After King Zhou Cheng came to the throne, Zhou Gongdan created Luoyi and placed the Jiuding in the city, and asked King Cheng to preside over the ritual in person, placing the Jiuding in the Mingtang. (Historical Records in Zhou Benji: Cheng Zaifeng, so that Zhaogong reverted to Luoyi, just like the meaning of the king of Wu. Zhougong regained the inspection, died and built, and lived in Jiudingyan.)
There is Dingding Hall in Zhougong Temple of Luoyang City, and the road outside the temple is called Dingding Road.
At the end of the Warring States Period, the Emperor Zhou was subjugated. Where did the Jiuding representing the world go?
After the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty royal family declined, and the princes began to covet the royal power. When Zhou Ding Wang, Chu Zhuang Wang first "asked the weight" in Luoyi, but was rejected by Zhou Dafu Wang Sunman. The Ling King of Houchu was also tempted to seek the title for a while, but failed because of a domestic rebellion. (In the eighth year, he fought against Lu Hunrong and went to Luo and watched the soldiers in Zhoujiao. The king of Zhou Ding entrusted the king to Sun Manlao the king of Chu. The king of Chu asked for the small and the big, and said: "In virtue is not in the tripod. Although Zhou De is bad, The destiny has not been changed. The weight of the tripod can not be asked. "The king of Chu is home.)
During the time of King Qin Hui, Zhang Yi formulated a strategy, hoping to win the Jiuding to command the princes. King Chu Qingxiang and the King of Qi also hoped to compete for the treasured tripod. The king of Zhou Zhe circulated between the two countries as well as the State of Wei and South Korea, making them restrict each other, so that they could not lose.
Qin Wuwang three years, he entered Luoyang, he looked at the auspicious totems and words engraved on the tripod, he was very fascinated by the culture of the Central Plains, and he wanted to bring the tripod back. King Qin Wu lifted up half a foot with all his strength. Unexpectedly, due to excessive force, the tripod fell off, broke his shin, and fainted. He died that night because of excessive blood loss.
At the end of the Warring States Period, the Emperor Zhou was subjugated. Where did the Jiuding representing the world go?
Xia Yu cast the Jiuding to symbolize the Jiuzhou in the world. It was a symbol of imperial power. Shang defeated Xia and took away the Jiuding, and Zhou also took away the Jiuding. In the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Qin also took away the Jiuding?
However, after Qin unified the world, Jiuding has disappeared. Sima Qian's "Historical Records · Feng Chan Book": "Yu received the gold from the nine animal husbandry and cast the nine tripods. All tasted the gods, ghosts and gods of the prosperous country. The tripod was prospered by the saints, and the tripod moved to Xia and Shang. I'm not seeing you."
At the end of the Warring States Period, the Emperor Zhou was subjugated. Where did the Jiuding representing the world go?
The above is the Jiuding recorded in the literature, at least until the end of the Zhou Dynasty, Jiuding was still in Luoyang City. It is said that Qin moved the Jiuding of the Zhou royal family to Xianyang in the second year after he destroyed Zhou. But when Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, Jiuding had no idea where he was. According to historical records at that time, there are four theories about the whereabouts of Jiuding:
1. Jiuding stayed in Luoyang, Zhou Wang buried Jiuding, or destroyed Jiuding to make money.
Wang Xianqian believed in the "Han Supplementary Notes · Jiao Ba Zhi" that the Eastern Zhou royal family had no power to protect themselves in the process of decline. During the Warring States period, the powerful vassals of the vassal states looked closely at it and tried to unify China and replace it with Zhou. Therefore, Jiuding, which symbolizes kingship and "destiny", has naturally become a rare national treasure that all princes will want to seize; coupled with the financial difficulties of the Zhou royal family at this time, it is unable to make ends meet, so Jiuding was destroyed to make copper coins, and it was falsely claimed that Jiuding had nowhere to go. .
Compared with the Western Zhou Ding, the walls of the Eastern Zhou Ding unearthed in modern times are very thin, which shows that the Eastern Zhou King’s financial resources are tight. In the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wang buried Jiuding in the tomb during his burial, which not only saved the cost of casting Jiuding (the emperor Jiuding), but also prevented Jiuding from being looted.
2. Qin Miezhou transported Jiuding back to Xianyang, and later smelted the Jiuding
Sima Qian stated in the "Historical Records" in the "Benji" of Zhou and Qin that in the 52nd year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (255 BC), King Zhou Yu died and Qin plundered Jiuding from Luoyi into Qin. After Qin Shihuang unified the world, he confiscated the weapons of the world and smelted 12 golden men. By the way, the nine tripods were also smelted.
However, Sima Qian’s historical records "Feng Chan Shu" stated: "Zhou Deshui, Song Zhishe died, the tripod was ruined, and the trip was gone." His own records also contradicted each other.
If the Qin extinguishes the Zhou and takes the Jiuding into the Qin, it must be a major event. The Qin State Council specifically recorded and even built buildings and advertised them. However, there is no record of this.
3. Jiuding sank under Surabaya in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu)
Ban Gu, a famous historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, added a piece of historical data to the whereabouts of Jiuding in his book "Han Shu", saying that it was in the 42nd year of King Zhou Xian, that is, in 327 BC, Jiuding sank in Pengcheng and Surabaya. under. Later, when Qin Shihuang patrolled south, he sent thousands of people to salvage in the swimming water. After all, the river was surging, and there was nowhere to find it, so he had to return in vain.
One question of this kind of statement is how did Jiuding fly to Surabaya thousands of miles away? Another question is that Liu Bang, a pavilion chief from Surabaya, established the Han Dynasty. This is obviously a story made up to beautify Liu Bang's background.
4. When Wang Mang established the new dynasty, because the treasury was empty, he smelted the nine tripods and used them to forge coins. This statement is ridiculous. Sima Qian was from the Western Han Dynasty and Jiuding had disappeared at that time.
At the end of the Warring States Period, the Emperor Zhou was subjugated. Where did the Jiuding representing the world go?
Zhouyi Wang Jiyan (about 336 BC-256 BC), was the last monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, reigned from 315 BC to 256 BC, for a total of 59 years. In 256 BC, the King of Zhou Zhe collapsed, proclaiming the destruction of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the death of Zhou Mindong. Seven years later, King Qin Zhuangxiang destroyed the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Qin Wuwang’s trip to the tripod took place during the Zhou Dynasty. It is conceivable that the Zhou Dynasty’s power was already very weak at this time, and it has been possible to predict the demise of Zhou. The Zhou Dynasty was so poor that he borrowed money from the rich in the territory to fight, and he was weak in defeat. Repaying debts had to hide the debts, and the debts were high.
Therefore, when King Zhou Zhe died, he might not be able to cast a tripod to bury him, and to avoid the Jiuding being looted after the country's subjugation, he would bury him. Jiuding disappeared from then on, never seen again.
