How can Chinese people call themselves descendants of Yan and Huang?

Judging from the relationship between the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, they are all descendants of the Yellow Emperor, with their roots upright and their seedlings red.

The royal families of Wu and Yue are also descendants of Huangdi Xuanyuan, although one is named Wu and the other is Si.

However, their common first-generation ancestor is Emperor Xuanyuan!

Because Huang Di grew up in Jishui, he took his surname as his.

In the 11th century BC, in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty, when the princes were enfeoffed, there were more than fifty kingdoms with the surname Ji established.

But most of the descendants of these countries with the surname Ji changed the name of the country, the name of the town, and the name of their grandfather into "shi", so they can't even reach distant relatives!

"That's right. The ancestor of Dayu is none other than the Yellow Emperor!"

The scholar said with great ambition: "Yu, Si's surname is the Xiahou family, her given name is Wenming, her courtesy name is Gaomi, her name is Yu. Later generations will honor her as Dayu, and she is the leader of the Xiahou family. She is the great-grandson of Emperor Zhuanxu and the sixth of Huangdi's Xuanyuan family.

Great-great-grandson."

"So, the royal families of Wu and Yue were the same family more than a thousand years ago?"

Hearing that the royal families of Wu and Yue had such a distant relative relationship, the common people of Yue State present could not help but be dumbfounded.

However, after thousands of years of relationship and dozens of generations, Qingji wants to trace the lineage of his ancestors and forcefully recognize Yue as his relatives, which is a bit unsatisfactory, right?

Having said that, Yue people can still accept it in their hearts.

In the future, the State of Wu will offer sacrifices to the tomb of King Yu to ensure that the incense will continue to flow!

Qing Ji's act of offering sacrifices to King Yu's tomb was a masterpiece.

This means that when the Wu Kingdom destroyed Yue, it did not even preserve the ancestral temple sacrifices of its descendants. In the future, the royal family of the Wu Kingdom will also be able to offer sacrifices to Dayu on their behalf!

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Kuaiji Palace.

When Qingji returned to Kuaiji City after paying homage to King Yu's mausoleum, he heard a report from Su Wei that it was Lu Ming, the envoy from the Yue Kingdom, asking for an audience.

Qingji was naturally aware of Lu Ming's intention, but he did not avoid it.

The battle on the front line has reached a stalemate. According to the battle report sent back by Sun Wu, the Yue people resisted tenaciously and relied on the advantage of the terrain to resist, causing the Wu army to suffer heavy casualties.

Although the Wu army had the local Sanyi people as the leading party, they could counterattack the Vietnamese army from time to time and remove their strongholds, but they could not find the main force of the Vietnamese army to fight, and the battle situation was always stalemate.

Therefore, Qing Ji was already hesitating in his heart, should he let the Yue Kingdom survive?

"Foreign minister Lu Ming, please see King Wu! King Wu will live forever!"

In the main hall, the dusty Lu Ming bowed to Qing Ji who was sitting on the throne.

This time Lu Ming's attitude was very humble, and he was no longer neither humble nor arrogant like before.

"You don't have to be polite, Luzi."

Qing Ji smiled calmly and said, "Luzi is here, you think there must be something big going on?"

"King of Wu, it's true that I'm telling you that foreign ministers have come under the king's orders to discuss peace with the king of Wu and eliminate the troops."

Lu Ming lowered his head and said: "Wu and Yue are fighting a war. Although our country, Yue, is at a disadvantage, relying on the strength of the mountainous terrain, we can still mediate with Wu for many years."

"Although King Wu is determined to destroy Yue, can he do it regardless of the cost?"

"Foreign ministers heard that Chu has sent troops to attack Wu?"

Qing Ji nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Lu Zi's information is quite well-informed. Although the Chu army attacked our country of Wu, it was not as serious as ringworm, so it is not worth mentioning!"

Qing Ji openly admitted the fact that the Chu army was attacking Wu.

But, so what?

He didn't take it seriously at all, because Wu Guo could definitely handle it!

"King Wu, please forgive me for speaking frankly."

Lu Ming sighed and said: "Wu and Yue are adjacent to each other, and the two countries are married countries. The queen of King Wu is my sister, Yue, so why are you so aggressive?"

"Now that our country of Wu has lost all its homeland, only the three barbarian lands of Xina are left, and it is no longer able to compete with the country of Wu. What my king wants is only to preserve the ancestral temple of Yue for sacrifices, not to subjugate the country!"

"Does the King of Wu insist on killing them all? No matter how bad my king is, he is still the father-in-law of the King of Wu. No matter how bad the Yue Kingdom is, he is still the mother country of Princess Jikou!"

"King Wu, how pitiful is the heaven! Why does King Wu insist on destroying Yue?"

Hearing this, Qingji shook his head and said slowly: "Lu Zi, God asked me to destroy Yue. If God doesn't take it, you will be punished!"

"As for what you said, keep the Yue Kingdom's ancestral temples for sacrifices. Luzi, I heard that you went to Kuaiji yesterday?"

"Exactly."

"Then Luzi must have heard about the people offering sacrifices to King Yu's tomb."

Qing Ji squinted his eyes and said, "I am the son-in-law of the King of Yue. The ancestors of the royal families of Wu and Yue are both Emperor Xuanyuan. Isn't it reasonable to offer sacrifices to King Yu's tomb?"

"This...is indeed reasonable."

Lu Ming braced himself and agreed.

As the King of Wu, Qing Ji had nothing wrong with offering sacrifices to Dayu.

Not to mention Qing Ji, any king in the world can offer sacrifices to Dayu to express his gratitude for his merits!

However, Qingji said something like this and did such a thing, Lu Ming already secretly thought that something was wrong.

Because Qing Ji was clearly reminding Lu Ming that the existence of the Yue royal family was no longer necessary!

In the future, the state of Wu can completely perform the sacrifices to Dayu!

"Then, why should I go to such lengths to let the king of Yue enjoy the country?"

This really stopped Lu Ming from asking!

Destroying the country does not destroy the sacrifice. This became an unwritten rule in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The ancients believed that gods include gods of nature, gods, ghosts, ancestors, etc.

After the ancestors died, they turned into ghosts and gods. Respecting ancestors and worshiping ancestors is also a manifestation of respecting the gods.

People believe that after their ancestors pass away, their ghosts still need to enjoy sacrifices.

Therefore, in the pre-Qin period, even if the other country destroyed the other country, it was often "destroying the country but not destroying the sacrifices" and setting aside a small piece of land for them to build a place to worship their ancestors. However, the doctor's family may not be so lucky after its demise.

At that time, Ziliang, the younger brother of Yin Ziwen, the king of Chu, gave birth to a son who had the appearance of a bear and tiger but the sound of a jackal.

Ziwen believes that Dou Yuejiao will definitely be the one to destroy the Ruo'ao family in the future.

Therefore, before he died, he cried and said: "Ghosts are still asking for food. If they are Ao's ghosts, why don't they be discouraged?"

This means that the ghosts and gods of Ao's ancestors will starve because there is no one to worship them.

Later, the ruling Ling Yin Dou Yuejiao was defeated by King Chuzhuang because he led his troops to rebel, and the entire family was wiped out.

Ancient sacrificial texts often ended with "Alas, Shang Xi", which meant that after expressing grief, the ghosts were asked to "come out quickly and eat the sacrifices."

Being able to offer sacrifices to ghosts and gods represents the existence of a group, and vice versa.

On this basis, the rule of destroying the country but not destroying the sacrifice was formed.

For example, after King Wu of Zhou Jifa destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he enfeoffed Wu Geng, the son of King Zhou of Shang, as a prince and was responsible for the ancestral temple worship of the Shang Dynasty.

Later, Wu Geng rebelled, triggering the Sanjian Rebellion, and was killed after the rebellion failed.

But even so, the Zhou royal family still did not destroy the ancestral temple sacrifices of the Chengtang lineage.

They also found Wei Ziqi, the brother of King Zhou of Shang, and sealed him in the Song Dynasty to take over the sacrificial responsibility.

Therefore, during the Spring and Autumn Period, many people, although they were mortal enemies, would leave a piece of their opponent's bloodline to sacrifice to their ancestors.
Chapter completed!