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Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

author:Suzhou Garfield
Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

Tabor Ran ran south

Wu Taibo (吴泰伯), surnamed Hime (姫), was the eldest son of the Zhou tribal chief Gu Gongfu and the first monarch of the Zhou Dynasty princely states. Taibo ceded the throne of the Zhou Dynasty to his third brother Ji Li, and then took his second brother Zhongyong all the way to the east, and his high wind and bright festival touched Jingman, thus causing more than a thousand local indigenous people to join him. As a result, Taibo rebuilt the country in the Taihu Lake Basin, and the name of the country was still "Sentence Wu". Taibo Benwu brought the seeds of Central Plains civilization to the backward Jiangdong region. In the new living environment, Taibo and Zhongyong were not afraid of hardships and had the courage to open up, and within a few years, the people were rich, and finally firmly established themselves in the southeast region, which also laid the foundation for the powerful Wu state in later generations, and was regarded as the founding father of Wu culture.

After TaiBo's death, the Wu people were all grief-stricken, and everyone rushed to present flowers to his body, and suddenly the flowers and plants that spread over the mountains disappeared. Many of the latecomers could not bear to go empty-handed, so they gathered a crowd to discuss, tabor liked to grow hemp the most during his lifetime, so everyone collected hemp bundles and tied them around their waists to express people's admiration and mourning. These two customs have been passed down in the folk for thousands of years, and have formed a funeral custom of Phi Ma Dai Filial Piety.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

In the forty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, when Emperor Shengzu (i.e., Kangxi) toured the south, he gave the four characters of "Zhide No Name" in the imperial pen of the Taibo Temple in Suzhou. When Qianlong toured the south in February of the sixteenth year of Qianlong, he wrote the "Three Let High Traces" in the Imperial Pen of the Taibo Temple in Suzhou, which showed the importance of the Taibo Temple in Suzhou.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

Tabor let go

At the end of the Shang Dynasty more than 3,100 years ago, there was a powerful Zhou tribe located in the Qishan region of northwestern Shaanxi. The chieftain, King Gu of Zhou, had three sons, Taibo, Zhongyong, and Ji Li, all of whom were intelligent and capable.

When Ji Li's son Ji Chang (姬昌), the future King Wen of Zhou, was born, Xiangrui appeared. As a grandfather, King Taiwang of Zhou happily said to everyone: "I should be a prosperous person in the world, and he is in Changhu. The words were filled with fervent expectations for this newborn grandchild.

As the eldest son, Taibo immediately understood the meaning of his father's words, and his father had the intention of passing on the family business and the position of the leader to the third brother Ji Li, and then to Ji Chang. So Tabor automatically withdrew and conceded the throne.

But when the father really makes a decision, he feels very embarrassed. In order to take care of the overall situation, Tabor decided to leave the tribe with his second brother Zhongyong. In the name of going to Hengshan to collect herbs for his father to cure diseases, he took some subordinates with him and fled to Jiangnan, which was still a barbaric land at that time.

Taibo and Zhongyong came to the shore of Taihu Lake in Jiangnan, near Meili in Wuxi, to live in harmony with the local indigenous people, tattooed and broken hair; pioneered cultivated land, opened up water, "using stone as paper, charcoal as pen, and song as teaching", spreading the advanced production technology and culture of the Central Plains.

The local residents admired his virtue and righteousness, and more than a thousand families returned to him and embraced him as "Wu Taibo". In order to resist foreign insults, Taibo led everyone to build the city of Taibo and the state of Wu, bringing advanced rules and management methods to Jiangnan. Since then, Wudi has broken away from primitiveness, stepped into civilization, and gradually became stronger.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

Tabor II Jean

King Tai of Zhou died of illness, Taibo and Zhongyong were mourned, and Ji Li and his courtiers asked Taibo to succeed him. Tai Bo was not affected, but returned to Jiangnan after the funeral, and the King of Zhou was succeeded by Ji Li.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

Tabor Three Jeans

After Ji Li sat on the throne, he reorganized the state administration, conquered Rong Di, and expanded his territory. As a result, he was jealous of the Shang Dynasty and was assassinated by the Shang and died. Tabor returned to Qishan again, and the courtiers again asked him to take over. Taibo still refused to accept it, and returned to Jiangnan after the funeral, and the throne was succeeded by his nephew Ji Chang.

Ji Chang, the later King Wen of Zhou, was prominent for a time, and China entered the Zhou Dynasty, which lasted for eight hundred years. Shi called this matter the three concessions of the world.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)
Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

To the Temple of Virtue. Wide three rooms, 14 meters wide, 10 meters deep, hard top, front plus roll shed.

Zhide Hall is the main hall of Taibo Temple, and the main contents of the exhibition are three statues of Taibo, Zhongyong and Ji Li, and are also equipped with offering tables, sacrifice vessels, offerings, and plaques of "Zhide No Name" and "Three High Traces" inscribed by Kangxi and Qianlong.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

In the hall, three colorful statues are enshrined, the middle one is the ancestor of the Wu kingdom, Taibo, the right one is Zhongyong, the left one is Ji Jian, the son of Zhongyong, the three ancestors are dressed in long robes, their heads are wrapped in buns, and they have long hair, Taibo is holding a tooth plate, Zhongyong's hands are half-held, naturally placed in front of the abdomen, Ji Jian's left hand is placed on his left leg, and his right hand stands on the chest in the form of an orchid hand.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

The two floors of the East Pavilion mainly exhibit the genealogical table and related inscriptions of the monarchs of the Wu Dynasty from Taibo and Zhongyong to Fucha, as well as the related series of contents of the Taibo Temple and the Zhidezhi.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

The two galleries are exhibition rooms that display inscriptions of the monarchs and important descendants of the Wu Dynasty.

Tabor Zhongyong Ji Jian Shu Da Zhou Zhang Xiong Sui Ke Xiang Qiang Jiu Yi Yu Qiao Suspicious Wu Ke Lu Zhou Xuan Qu Yu Yi Wu Bird Turn Quite high sentence Humble

Go to Qi Shou Meng Zhu Fan Yu Sacrifice Yu Qiu Zhi Fu Cha

Taibo was childless, and after his death in old age, his brother Zhongyong came to Meili from Changshu to succeed to the throne, and the "Jurchen Wu" country was very lifelike and admired by people.

After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, Zhou Zhang, the fifth grandson of Feng Zhongyong, was made Wu Jun, founded the state of Wu, and was a prince of the column, which was passed down from generation to generation.

By 585 BC, Sun Shoumeng, the 19th emperor of Wu Taibo, was in charge of the kingdom and was initially called King Wu. Shou Meng actively studied the production, culture, etiquette, military, and diplomacy of the Central Plains, and the State of Wu gradually strengthened, began to expand outward, and its territory continued to expand.

Shou Meng's son Zhu Fan took the throne, and the old capital that was too small was no longer commensurate with the national situation. In 560 BC, Zhu fan migrated to the south of Qionglong Mountain, now Wuzhong District, Suzhou. After Zhu Fan's death, his younger brothers Yu Ji (余祭), Yu Ming (余昧), and Yu Fan (余昧) were successively made King of Wu.

In 515 BC, Zhu Fan's son Ji Guang launched a palace coup d'état, causing warriors to assassinate Wu and seize the throne. Ji Guang was the King of Wu. He was a very accomplished monarch. He loved his people and enabled him; he hired Wu Zixu, a former minister of the Chu state, as his general, and sun Wu, a military officer; and heeded Wu Zixu's advice to rule the people, "establish a city, set up a garrison, persuade Nongsang, and govern the arsenal."

In 514 BC, Wu Zixu "tasted the water of the earth, like heaven and earth", and built the great city of Lulu, which is now the ancient city of Suzhou. The ancient State of Wu became increasingly powerful, and its rule gradually expanded to most of Jiangsu and Shanghai, and one part of Zhejiang and Anhui, encompassing a vast area of Jiangnan, becoming a powerful country in the late Spring and Autumn Period.

Later, although the State of Wu was destroyed by the Yue King's practice of "lying down and tasting the guts", the Wu culture with profound roots has always influenced the people of each generation of Wu and bred the civilization of Jiangnan.

Regarding the merits of Taibo three giving up the throne and creating Wu culture, the great sage Confucius gave a very high evaluation: "Taibo can be described as the most virtuous, and the three are the best in the world, and the people are all praised." Since then, Tabor has been enshrined as "the most virtuous" by posterity.

After Taibo's death, he was buried in Wuxi Hongshan (also known as Ancient Emperor Mountain, Wu Wangdun, Imperial Tomb). Taibo Tomb now belongs to the key cultural relics protection unit of Jiangsu Province and one of the tourist attractions of Taihu Lake Scenic Area. "There is the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in the west and the tomb of Tabor in the east", which shows the historical status of Tabor.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

On the second floor, there are historical records and archaeological discoveries about Taber Ben Wu.

Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)
Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)
Ancestor of Wudi - Suzhou Taibo Temple (II)

The imperial stele in the pavilion on the east side records that "Emperor HanHeng enshrined Wu Yuncheng" and occurred on the fifth day of the first month of December in the second year of Yongxing.

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