Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 987
Qingji thought for a while, then said: "After the widow dies, the merits and demerits of the widow will be judged by future generations. The honorary title, posthumous title, and temple name can all be added to the widow."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The officials shouted.

Evaluation of a person's merits and demerits is often not a clear description in just a few words. In order to facilitate the conclusion of historical figures, the ancients chose to use posthumous titles to summarize.

Generally speaking, emperors, generals and ministers have posthumous names, and emperors have temple names.

The appellation of the emperor is often associated with the reign title, posthumous title and temple title.

Tang Gaozu is the temple name, Sui Yangdi is the posthumous name, and Qianlong is the year name.

Generally, the earliest emperors used their posthumous titles more often, and later temple names were used more often. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the reign titles tended to be more popular among the people.

Like Wen, Wu, Ming, Rui, Kang, Jing, Zhuang, Xuan, and Yi are all posthumous posthumous titles, and Emperor Hui is mediocre.

For example, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty were incapable. Emperor Zhi, Emperor Chong, and Emperor Shao (called by later generations, not official posthumous titles) often ascended the throne at a young age and died early.

Li, Ling, and Yang are all bad posthumous titles, and mourning and thinking are not good words, but they also have a sense of sympathy. They are generally used for monarchs in the middle and late dynasties. For example, Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty pursued his posthumous title as Sizong.

Those who were overthrown in the coup were called the abolished emperor (the name of later generations, not the official posthumous title), and the subjugated monarch was called the last emperor.

In addition, Sun Quan is a special case. His posthumous title is Great Emperor, which is unique.

As the founder, Qingji was the first emperor, whose honorific title was "Shihuang", generally referred to as "Wu Shihuang".

As for the posthumous name and temple name, Qingji has already thought about it for himself.

Ancestors have merit and ancestors have virtue.

After the death anniversary, he can be "Wu Wendi", which is the highest posthumous title.

According to Zhou rituals, the Seven Temples of the Son of Heaven, that is, the Son of Heaven only respects seven generations of ancestors, but if there is a temple name, it will be kept from generation to generation, and there is no temple name.

After a certain period of time, it will be "destroyed as close as possible", no longer keeping his temple, but attaching his god master to other temples.

Qingji created the unified Wu Dynasty, and his achievements lasted through the ages, and the temple name can be "Taizu".

Full name: Emperor Wu Taizu Wen, also known as "First Emperor" and "Wu Shihuang".

As for the year name, Qingji didn't care much.

The year he succeeded King Wu was the "First Year of the First Emperor".

At this time, Dazai Wenzhong came out with a wat in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, for the Imperial Great Ceremony, and for the establishment of the etiquette and music customs of our Great Wu, I think that Your Majesty should establish the totem of Great Wu this morning!"

totem?

Qingji remembered that there was indeed such a thing.

The Mysterious Bird of Destiny, descended to give birth to Shang.

The totem of the Shang family is "Xuan Bird".

The people of Qin rose up in Quanqiu and Weishui, and had the virtue of water, so they took "dragon" as their totem.

The people of Chu believed in the nine-headed bird, probably birds such as Suzaku and Phoenix as their totems.

When it's Wu's turn, the totem is quite complicated.

It can be seen from Qingji's exclusive Wu Wang Dazhu.

"Your Majesty, since the founding of Tai Bo, our country of Wu has had quite a variety of totem systems. There are dragons, phoenixes, black birds, black martial arts, etc., too numerous to mention. However, since the state of Wu is unified, a totem belonging to the Wu people should be established! "

Wen Zhong thought for a while, then bowed to Qingji and said, "I think that Wu inherited the Zhou system, but it is different. The ancestor of the Zhou clan is Houji, the son of Emperor Ku, the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and Jiang Yuan, the concubine of the Yuan Dynasty."

"When Houji was a child, he liked to plant hemp and bean."

"After becoming an adult, he is good at planting grains and harvesting, and teaching the people to cultivate. Yao heard that he was promoted as a farmer, and the world benefited from it. He made meritorious deeds and was conferred on Tai. At that time, Houji's totem was 'Xuanwu'. "

"At the time of King Wen of Zhou, the phoenix sang on Mount Qi. The phoenix, the king of all birds, is the holy totem bird of the Zhou family. It is a symbol of joy, auspiciousness, tranquility and nobility. bird."

"The ancestor of my state, Tai Bo, used rosebirds and phoenixes as totems, and folk tribes also had bears, snakes, black birds, dragons and other birds and beasts as totems."

"Flying birds are favored in the south, and beasts are favored in the north. The country of Wu started in the southeast. According to the system, the king can use the phoenix as the totem of my Great Wu!"

The so-called totem means that people in the primitive era regard certain animals, plants or non-living things as their relatives, ancestors or patron saints.

It is believed that they have a supernatural power, will protect themselves, and also have access to their powers and skills.

In the eyes of primitive people, the totem is actually a personified object of worship.

As an object of worship, the totem is not mainly in its natural image itself, but in the blood relationship it embodies.

The significance of totem worship is to confirm the unity of clan members in blood...

Phoenix?
The phoenix is ​​a noble and holy bird. Qingji didn't mind the phoenix as the totem of the Wu Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, I think it's wrong!"

Kong Qiu immediately stood up and retorted, saying: "My Great Wu was established at the beginning of a new dynasty, and Vientiane was renewed. How can we use the same totem as the Zhou Dynasty?"

"The totem of my Wu Dynasty is not the totem of a family, but the totem of the people of the world."

"The so-called totem is a symbol of the birth of a nation and the beginning of culture."

"Tracing back to the source, I believe that the dragon is more suitable as my Great Wu's totem."

"The dragon, with the body of a snake as its main body, receives the four legs of a beast, the hair of a horse, the tail of a gill, the horns of a deer, the claws of a dog, and the scales and whiskers of a fish."

"It means that the ancient Huaxia clans and tribes with snakes as their totems have continuously defeated and merged with other clans and tribes, that is, snakes have continuously merged with other totems and gradually evolved into dragons."

"According to the ancient books, the two myths of 'Gun's death and turning into a yellow dragon' and 'Heaven's mysterious bird (that is, the phoenix) came down to give birth to Shang' prove that the dragon is the totem of the Xia people, and the phoenix is ​​the totem of the Yin people. .”

"The Zhou Dynasty was virtuous, so it took over the world on behalf of the Yin and Shang, and continued the phoenix as its own totem."

After a pause, Confucius quoted the scriptures again, and continued to speak to Qingji: "Dragon, as long as a scale insect, can be dark and bright, big or small, long or short, ascend to the sky at the spring equinox, and enter the abyss at the autumn equinox."

"The four spirits of the sky are used to straighten the four directions. The Canglong and the seven constellations are the horns, the kang, the di, the house, the heart, the tail, and the ji."

"When farming begins in spring, Canglong Qisu begins to rise slowly in the eastern night sky, and the first thing to reveal is the bright dragon head - Spica."

"In summer, the crops grow, and the Canglong Qisu hangs high in the southern night sky; in autumn, when the crops are harvested, the Canglong Qisu also begins to fall in the west; in winter, all things are treasured, and the Canglong Qisu is hidden below the northern horizon."

"The four seasons alternate, and the ruler of all things in the world, isn't it the Canglong?"

"In my land of China, there are actually more people who believe in dragons as totems."

"Now that the great king is in the world and establishes the Wu Dynasty, why not follow the hearts of the people of the country and use the dragon as a totem?"

"good."

Qingji decided to use "dragon" as the totem of Wu and China, and it was officially established.

Generally speaking, both dragon and phoenix are the totems of Wu's faith, and now it's just for Qingji to choose one of the two and make an appropriate choice.

(End of this chapter)