"This starts from the history of the ancient Shu Kingdom..."
Zelan said: "The ancient Shu Kingdom was located in the central Sichuan Basin and was almost isolated from the world. Therefore, its history is obscure and there is an extremely lack of historical materials...
When Sima Qian wrote "Historical Records", there was almost no material on the ancient history of Bashu. The subsequent "Huayang Guozhi" and "The Chronicles of the King of Shu" are full of myths, which is difficult to convince...
I can't even figure out the approximate age of the ancient Shu Kingdom...
Therefore, Li Bai wrote in "The Road to Shu is Difficult": Silkworms and yufu, how confused was the founding of the country? You are forty-eight thousand years old, and you are not in the vicinity of Qin Sai...
It is said that the earliest ancestor tribe in Shu was called the Shushan clan. According to "Huayang Guozhi·Shu Zhi", Changyi, the son of the Yellow Emperor, married Changpu, the daughter of the Shushan clan, and gave birth to a son, Gaoyang.
Shu, born as Hou Bo...
This shows that since the time of Emperor Ku, the Kingdom of Shu has been discovered and recorded by the Central Plains Dynasty...
Later, a man named Cancong established the ancient Shu Kingdom in the capital of Shu and officially became king...
It is said that Cancong has crab-like "vertical eyes". The shape of the bronze longitudinal mask in Sanxingdui should come from the worship of Cancong...
Cancong taught the people how to raise silkworms. After his death, he ordered his descendants to bury his body in a stone coffin and place it in a cave on a high mountain cliff...
Cancong liked to wear Tsing Yi with green cloth wrapped around her head. After her death, she was called the Tsing Yi God by the Shu people...
Shu people built temples on Shushan Mountain to worship Silkworm Cong, and named a river Qingyi River...
To this day, some Shu people in the mountains still have the custom of wrapping their heads with green cloth, just to commemorate Silkworm Cong...
According to my analysis, Cancong should be a Ba person, and his strange legends should all be related to the mysterious sacrificial witchcraft of the Ba people!"
"Isn't the ancient Shu Kingdom dominated by the Shu people? How can we let the Ba people become the king of Shu?" Jiang Chonglou asked curiously.
"In ancient times, Bashu and Bashu were actually one family, and they were not clearly divided. Some Ba people came down the mountain to live with Shu people and intermarried with each other. Some Ba people took control of the political power of Shu." Zelan explained.
"That's right! The Moxian branch is the Ba people who came down from the mountain. They have been intermarrying with the Shu people."
Jiang Zhonglou remembered Mo Xiang Jian Leng's words.
"The Cancong clan was later replaced by the Boguan clan. There are almost no records of this Boguan clan. I guess he probably taught the Shu people to irrigate farmland and develop agricultural planting, and that's why he was respected as the king of Shu..."
Zelan continued: "After the Boguan clan, the Yufu clan ruled the Shu Kingdom. This Yufu clan should have taught the Shu people to use osprey to fish...
The above are the three earliest Shu kings of the ancient Shu Kingdom...
At the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the king of Shu in the ancient Shu Kingdom was ignorant and cruel, and the people of Shu were in dire straits. A god-man descended from the sky, his name was Du Yu...
Du Yu led the Shu people to overthrow the Yufu Dynasty, and became the king of Shu himself, known as the "Wang Emperor". He also fought in all directions and wiped out the Shu land, making the country extremely powerful...
When King Wu of Zhou conquered Zhou, Du Yu led the Bashu warriors to participate in the Mengjin Alliance and defeated the merchant army in the Battle of Muye, making a great show...
"Huayang Guozhi" records the Battle of Muye. It is said that Bashi was brave, sang and danced to dominate the Yin people, and his former disciples turned against him. In ancient times, it was called "King Wu defeated Zhou, and he sang and danced before"...
It can be seen that in Du Yu's era, the Ba people and the Shu people were still one people, regardless of each other...
In the army of Du Yu, King of Shu, there was a group of Ba warriors who could defeat the enemy with singing and dancing. Apparently they used a magical witchcraft...
As for Du Yu himself, since there are many mysterious legends, he should also be of Ba origin...
After King Wu defeated Zhou successfully and established the Shang Dynasty, he officially named Du Yu a viscount. The Kingdom of Shu was also called the Kingdom of Bazi...
When Du Yu was young, he was wise and martial, and worked hard to govern, but in his later years, he was also willful, arbitrary, cruel and easy to kill, which made the people of Shu miserable...
Later, a big flood occurred in the capital of Shu, and the people were in dire straits. Du Yu sent people to block the way, but it had no effect. The flood even reached the palace gate...
Just when everyone was helpless, a giant turtle crawled out of the flood below and turned into a man, saying that he could control the flood...
Everyone quickly took him to see Du Yu. The man said that his name was Turtle Spirit and he could transform into a giant turtle and control floods...
Du Yu then appointed Turtle Ling as the Prime Minister of Shu and asked him to lead people to control floods...
The turtle spirit transformed into a giant turtle, dug through the mountains, used diversion methods to control the floods, and achieved great success...
So, Du Yu handed over all the state affairs to Turtle Ling, while he himself spent all day drinking and indulging in wine and sex...
Du Yu even secretly had an affair with Bieling Ling's wife when Bieling Ling was not at home...
When Turtle Ling found out, he became furious and led his men to fight back to the capital of Shu and surrounded Du Yu's palace...
Du Yu led the palace troops to resist, but Turtle Ling set fire to the Shu capital palace. The fire is said to have burned for seven days and seven nights...
Later, seeing that the situation was over, Du Yu murmured to himself all day long that it was better to go back, so he negotiated with Turtle Ling, ceded the throne to Turtle Ling, and lived in seclusion in a place called Xishan...
Turtle Ling sent people to put Du Yu under house arrest. Du Yu kept saying all day long that it was better to go back, so he died in depression. After his death, his soul turned into a cuckoo bird, constantly shouting that he should go back, and blood started to flow from his mouth.
This is the story of the cuckoo crying blood...
To this day, some Shu people still call the cuckoo bird Emperor Wang...
In Li Shangyin's poem "Jin Se", it is written that Zhuang Sheng was obsessed with butterflies in his dream, and he looked forward to the emperor's spring heart with cuckoos. This is the story..."
"Since this Du Yu is so mysterious, he must be from Ba, so he should also have heat poison in his body. How can he be so lustful and have an affair with the minister's wife?"
Jiang Zhonglou was puzzled.
"History is written by the victors. Du Yu's story must have been written by Turtle Ling's men. Naturally, they want to vilify him and find a just excuse for Turtle Ling to usurp the throne!"
Zelan sighed: "Bie Ling became the queen of Shu and was known as Emperor Cong. His dynasty was called the Enlightenment Dynasty and passed down for many generations until it was destroyed by Qin... The history books of Shu must beautify and vilify Bi Ling.
Du Yu!"
"Uh... you're saying that Du Yu didn't have an affair with Bieling Ling's wife at all, but that Bieling Ling wronged him?"
"Of course, Du Yu's soul turned into a cuckoo after his death. Obviously he was unwilling to do so. It can be seen that he was wrongly accused..."
Zelan sighed: "Moreover, in the legends of the Shu people, there has always been a saying that Du Yu was wronged. The Shu people still sympathize with Du Yu."
"What does the rise and fall of the ancient Shu Kingdom have to do with the split of the Ba people?"
Jiang Zhonglou asked again puzzled.
"This needs to be explained slowly... Before Du Yu, the civilization of the ancient Shu Kingdom had always been higher than that of the Central Plains. They not only had superb bronze and gold smelting technology, but also used mysterious military force to fight with witchcraft..."
Zelan analyzed: "But after Du Yu, the ancient Shu Kingdom gradually declined, and its culture and military force became worse and worse. During the Warring States Period, the King of Shu was stupid enough to let five powerful men carry the golden bull...
In other words, since Turtle Ling replaced Du Yu and founded the Enlightened Dynasty, the civilization of ancient Shu has slowly withered!"
"This...why?"
Jiang Zhonglou asked in confusion.
He has always wondered why the once brilliant and glorious ancient Shu civilization suddenly disappeared...