Who is "Ceng Houyi"? What's his story?

Ceng Houyi was the monarch of Zeng State in southern China during the Warring States Period.

Ceng Houyi should have been born in 475 BC or later. He became a vassal around 463 BC and ruled for about 30 years. Unearthed cultural relics show that Ceng Houyi attaches great importance to musical instrument manufacturing and melody research, and has a wide range of interests. At the same time, he is also a strategist who is good at car fighting.

Ceng Houyi died in 433 BC or later. Through the determination of carbon 14 in his remains, it can be inferred that Ceng Houyi's age of death was between 433 BC and 400 BC, and his age of death was between 42 and 45 years old.

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The mystery of Zeng's age

There is an inscription on Zeng Houyi's chime: "The only king is the first month of the auspicious day of the ecliptic, and Wu Jia said," Bo Yitong, left and right civil and military; The life and peaceful world of slut Yin; The king sent Nangong Lie to camp and bury the soil; You are pregnant with Yi and Jiangxia. "

It means that Ceng Houyi is tracing back to his ancestor Bokuo, that is, Nan Gong. During the Southern Gong Dynasty (inclusive), it was highly valued by the Emperor of Heaven, assisting King Wen and King Wu to complete the mission of attacking merchants and finally pacify the world. Zhou Wang sent Nangong Lie to the south to manage the territory, guard against Huaiyi and monitor the changes in Jiangxia.

Huang's "Bo Shi" refers to the Nangong scholar who was an important official and one of the four friends in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The inscription means that Nangong Stone was reused by the King of Zhou, and with the help of, Yin ruled the world. The King of Zhou enfeoffed Nangong Stone and built a city site in the south.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Ceng Houyi