Speaking of well-known female generals in ancient China, I believe that everyone will think of Liang Hongyu, Qin Liangyu, Mu Guiying, Hua Mulan and others for the first time. Some of these women will be real historical figures, some are artistic fictions, but they are all famous in history and admired by future generations. Just as the so-called "from the beginning of the towel is willing, why should the general be a husband", before them, there is a legendary female god of war.
She was the first female general recorded in Chinese history. She had a dual identity, not only one of the many queens of the Shang Dynasty, but also a heroic warrior who dared to lead the army, win the battle, and attack the enemy. If there were no women and good women, perhaps the Chinese civilization would have encountered a fault line long ago, there would be no Five Thousand Years of China, no Hundred Schools of Thought, no Qin Emperor Han Wu, and even less of us today.
Some people may feel that the merits of women are exaggerated, but those who understand the history of the world's four major civilizations and ancient countries will certainly find the commonality of the decline and demise of the other three major civilizations - encountered foreign invasions. The foreign people mentioned here refer to the ancient Indo-Europeans (Aryans), who did not learn to farm early like their Chinese ancestors, and for a long time survived by nomadism and migration.
The ancients and today's people are the same, if you want to survive, you have to eat enough. Around 3300 B.C., the environment in the Eurasian steppes where the ancient Indo-Europeans lived deteriorated rapidly, as the Earth's "Xiaoice Period" arrived. So they began mass migration, then multiplied and waged wars, and their descendants, the Persians, destroyed ancient Babylon, and soon conquered ancient Egypt;
In 1750 BC, the ancient Indo-Europeans invaded the Indus Valley again, defeated the indigenous people of India, and then established a caste system, defining themselves as high people and indigenous people as inferior people, which eventually led to the decline of ancient Indian civilizations earlier than the origin of Chinese civilization; to put it simply, this ancient race moved around and destroyed the three major civilizations.
The ancient Indo-Europeans, who had traveled all the way to the east, suffered unprecedented losses on the land of China. And the person who makes them suffer is the woman who is good as the woman mentioned earlier. According to the situation of the tomb of Nühao excavated from the Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan, Nyuhao liked weapons very much, and after she married Wuding, the Shang King, she did not stay in the harem, but had her own fiefdom, property and army, and often volunteered herself when she encountered war.
The Bamboo Book Chronicle records: "(Wu Ding) thirty-two years, cutting down the ghost fang. "During the reign of King Wuding of the Shang Dynasty, in order to ensure the stability of the Shang Dynasty, there were many wars with foreign tribes, according to the research of modern scholars, the foreign enemies ushered in by the foreign enemies this time were ancient Indo-Europeans - unlike the eclectic chinese civilization, once they conquered a certain place, they demanded that the local area be fully respected by themselves.
The women led the troops to the northwest border and defeated the ancient Indo-Europeans, and now in the tomb area excavated from the Yin Ruins, there are many remains of the ancient Indo-Europeans who have become martyrs because of the defeat. The 273-year history of the Shang Dynasty after the dingdu Yin was stabilized by women. Since then, Chinese civilization has begun to develop vigorously, and after the Shang Dynasty, there was the Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin...
The oracle bone records, "Xin Weibu, Dengnu Hao 3,000, Denglu Wan, Hufa Qiang." "Here we are talking about a foreign war in which the number of troops sent in the history of the Shang Dynasty was the largest number of troops, and the commander of the leading troops was still a good woman. Before her death, she and her husband Wu Ding swept away the foreign enemies around the Shang Dynasty, conquered Tufang, Bafang, Yifang, etc., and was a respectable historical heroine.