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"Bi" means "Bi Yuan", which is located on the north and south banks of Weihe River near Xianyang City and Xi City in Shaanxi Province, with a vast area. According to legend, the cemeteries of Zhou Wenwang, King Wu and Duke Zhou are all located in the south bank of Weishui, the capital of southeast Haojing (now southeast of Xi).

Twelve biographies of Zhou Benji, which comes from Historical Records written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty.

Excerpts from the original text:

Taishi Gong said: Scholars all said that Zhou cut Zhou and lived in Luoyi, but generally speaking, they were not. In Wu Wang's camp, the king got the call to announce his residence and lived in Jiuding, while Zhou Fu and pickaxe. When the dog defeated the king, Zhou Naidong moved to Luoyi. The so-called "Duke of Zhou's burial place" is in pickaxe in the southeast of Du Zhong. Qin destroyed Zhou. There are still 90 years left in the Han Dynasty, and the Emperor of Heaven will seal Mount Tai, patrol Henan in the east, look for the descendants of Zhou Miao, and seal the Hou family's land for 30 miles, nicknamed Zhou Zinanjun and Biliehou, so as to offer sacrifices first.

Translation:

Taishigong said: Scholars all say that Zhou attacked Shang Zhou and made its capital in Luoyi, but this is not the case in general. Although it was planned, Cheng Wang was also sent to divine Jiuding's position, but Zhou still took Feng He's pickaxe as the capital. It was not until the dog defeated the king that Cai Zhou moved to Luoyi. The so-called "Duke Zhou was buried in Bi", and Bi was in Haojing in the southeast. It was Qin who perished Zhou. For more than 90 years since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Tiandi had to hold a meditation ceremony in Mount Tai, and went hunting in Henan County in the east, visited Zhou's descendants and gave them a piece of land called "Zhou Zinan County" to maintain the sacrifice to their ancestors.

Extended data

Zhou Benji is a classical Chinese written by Sima Qian, which generally describes the history of the rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, outlines a huge and powerful slavery kingdom, and the different political styles of different kings at different stages, such as loving the people, hurting the people, and abusing the people, as well as the different political atmosphere in which Qi Xin, the monarch and minister, worked together to help each other achieve great things or conflict with each other.

In this Chronicle of Zhou Wenwang, Sima Qian clearly viewed the history of the Zhou Dynasty from the Confucian point of view, and preached the truth of benevolence and rejuvenating the country. This is prominently reflected in the narratives of King Wen, King Cheng and Duke Zhou. These people are all models of Confucian ideals, and the situation of the trip of monarch, minister and interpreter in the early Zhou Dynasty is also the political environment in Confucian ideals.

This article describes the intention of King Wu. After describing the process of his suppression of Yin, he also described his policies and strategies of eating and drinking day after day, staying out at night, establishing the country, revising the new moon, implementing the policy of enfeoffment and controlling Yin with Yin, showing readers the image of an ancient politician with grand planning and management skills.

Historical Records is a biographical general history of China. It took Sima Qian 18 years to finish it. There are 520,000 words in volume 130, including biographies 12, tables 10, 8 books, 30 families and 70 biographies, with a total of about 526,500 words. It records the period from the legendary Huangdi era in ancient China (about 3000 BC) to the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (BC).

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