Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 237
After the dancers retreated, a group of soldiers with weapons such as Gan (shield) and Qi came up to dance.

The dance they danced was jerky and masculine!
In this kind of grand sacrificial ceremony, the sixth generation dance is inevitable.

People regard ancient music as elegant music, which refers to the orthodox music used in ancient times to worship heaven and earth, ancestors, court meetings, and banquets.

Among them, the Six Dynasties Dance is the most famous. They are "Cloud Gate", "Xianchi", "Da Shao", "Da Xia", "Da Sui" and "Da Wu". According to legend, they were created by the Yellow Emperor, Yao and Shun respectively. , Yu, Shang, and Saturday eras.

Six Generations Dance, also known as Dawu, is the music of sacrificial offerings in suburban temples.

In addition, there are six small dances, which are dances for educating noble children, and are sometimes used for sacrifices.

In the past, shortly after King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou Dynasty, he ordered Zhou Gongji Dan to make ceremonies and music, establish various ceremonies and ceremonial music in the lives of nobles, and make music serve his royal rule.

This part of music and dance is the so-called "Ga Yue".

It includes music, dance and sacrificial music in religious activities such as ancient totem and witchcraft, as well as folk music in the early Western Zhou Dynasty.

Among the various aristocratic etiquettes in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period recorded in "Zhou Li", those related to gala music are:
The festival of offering sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth—Jiaoshe;
A ceremony for nobles to offer sacrifices to their ancestors——tasting;
Political and diplomatic banquets, etc., including food feasts such as Daxiang, Yanli, Dajian, Pension, etc.

The gathering of bureaucrats and landlords in the village to compete with each other—Xiangshe;
The triumphal celebration held when the war is won——Wang Shida Xian;
It is used for hunting in the nature of military exercises - marching field service.

As a means of domination and a tool of ritual and music education, the status and role of music and dance art has also been raised to an unprecedented height.

In the etiquette activities of the Zhou Dynasty, it was strictly stipulated that different scenes should use different music.

Its main purpose is to make the nobles participating in the ceremony be influenced by ethics education, creating a solemn, solemn, quiet and harmonious atmosphere.

However, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the nobles gradually became bored with elegant music and began to appreciate vulgar music.

The gag music that matched the ceremony began to have a strong breath of life, and then gradually became solemn, mysterious and dull!

After the necessary music and dancing were over, Qingji on the altar began to read according to the sacrificial text: "Qingji, the heir of the Wei Wu Kingdom, dare to declare to the spirit of Empress Xia with a libation of pure drinking: the great ones of the past Immersed in the horizontal flow, the people of the lower class mourned, but later I got the dream of meteors piercing through the pleura, received the talisman of geographical water, and finally determined Kyushu, and I became five clothes."

"Then God is like the Lord of the Yanqun. He has his own soul, and he is the shepherd of the tree. The catastrophe should not be born in Yao's day, and the diligent man should not be surpassed by Xia Jun..."

"Zhao became a father and son, first gave birth to a monarch and a minister, used the way of heaven, and widely distributed the benefits of the earth, whoo! It's all the work of the future."

"The first king had his heart, and he enjoyed the virtues, and later he was in politics, and he was forbidden to be treacherous. Drink the mirror water to strengthen the cleanliness, help the bamboo arrows to be straight, pray for God's rest, and look forward to the rest of the people..."

An eloquent piece of sacrificial text, as many as [-] words, is somewhat obscure.

As for the ordinary Li Shu, the illiterate would not be able to understand them at all.

On the outskirts of the venue, tens of thousands of Li and Shu from the Yue Kingdom were watching, watching Qing Ji sacrifice to Dayu.

This made their hearts very weird, unspeakably weird!

The State of Yue was established by the descendants of Dayu, but Qingji destroyed the State of Yue, and now they offer sacrifices to Dayu. Is this an apology?

No, no!
This is purely Qingji's gratitude to Dayu's merits and deliberate sacrifice.

The deeper intention of Qingji is to win over people's hearts, so as to tell the people of Yuedi that he is qualified to be the ruler of Yuedi and become their king!

"It's really unheard of! In the past, this altar was used by the kings of the Yue Kingdom to sacrifice to Dayu. Now, King Wu, a king from another country, also worships King Yu's mausoleum?"

"Hehe, why not? Although King Wu's ancestor was not Dayu, why can't he stand shoulder to shoulder with Xuanyuan (Yellow Emperor) and Shennong (Yan Emperor) with Dayu's merits in water control?"

"That's right! In the final analysis, the ancestors of King Wu and Dayu both came from the same family!"

"really?"

Among the crowd, there was a heated discussion.

Li Shu, who was very puzzled, all set their eyes on the more learned scholar.

Seeing so many people's eyes on him, the scholar was quite satisfied, and immediately said loudly: "Can there be fakes?"

"Second and third sons, do you know who the ancestor of King Wu was?"

Hearing this, one of the middle-aged men thought to himself, and said, "The ancestor of King Wu, isn't Wu Taibo?"

"And above Tabor?"

"Above Taibo? Somebody knows, it's Zhou Taiwang!"

"What about Zhou Taiwang?"

"This……"

The surrounding Yue people were very puzzled.

At this time, the scholar held his head up and said loudly: "The king of Zhou is the Yellow Emperor, and he is the ancestor of China!"

In this era, people who have read books basically know the origin of Wu State.

Wu Taibo and Taibo's younger brother Zhongyong are both sons of Zhou Taiwang, and Wang Jili's brother is also.

Ji Li is a virtuous man, and there is a sage named Chang. Tai Wang wanted to establish Ji Li and Chang, so Tai Bo and Zhong Yong went to Jingman, tattooed and cut off their hair, so as to avoid Ji Li.

Jili Guoli is the king of Ji, and Chang is the king of Wen.

The Taibo went to Jingman, and he called himself Wu.Jing Man was righteous, so he returned to more than a thousand families and became Wu Taibo.

That is to say, the Wu State and the Zhou royal family have the same origin, and their ancestors are all Zhou Taiwangs.

Zhou Taiwang is the ancient father and father.

Gu Gong Dan Fu, whose real name is Ji Dan, inherited the careers of Houji and Gong Liu, and earned the love and love of the people for his good deeds and righteous deeds.

King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fajian, honored Ji Dan as Zhou Taiwang after Shang established the Zhou Dynasty.

Later, Mencius once praised the Taiwang Envoy for "there were no resentful women inside, and no husbands outside".

The hereditary origin of Gu Gong and Dan Fu can be traced back to the Yellow Emperor.

From the Yellow Emperor, there was the eldest son Shaohao (named Xuanxiao), then Jiji, Diku, Qi (Houji), Buyu, Ju, Gongliu (Ji Liu), Qingjie, Huangpu, Chafu, Ruiji (Ji Ji), Gongfei (Jifei), Gaoyu, Yayu, and Gongshuzu.

Uncle Zulei is the father of Gugong Danfu, so counting here, Gugong Danfu is the sixteenth grandson of the Yellow Emperor!
Counting to Qingji's generation, from Taibo, Zhongyong to Shoumeng became king, the state of Wu has experienced [-] monarchs successively, for more than [-] years, all of them were succeeded by fathers and sons.

Therefore, King Shoumeng of Wu gave birth to a son Yu Zhen, who had a son Ji Liao, and King Liao of Wu was the father of Qingji.

Counting back and forth, Qingji belongs to the thirty-eighth descendant of the Yellow Emperor, as evidenced by the genealogy!
Going up in this way, Qingji can be traced back to his ancestor being the Yellow Emperor.

"Then how can you say that Wu and Yue are the same ancestor?"

"That's right! The ancestor of the Yue Kingdom was clearly Dayu, so what did he have to do with Gugong Danfu or Wu Taibo? Could it be..."

"The Yue Kingdom is also a descendant of the Yellow Emperor?"

(End of this chapter)