What kind of person was Wu Zixu in history?

Wu Zixu is a famous minister of Chu, and his father Wu She is the teacher of King Chu Ping. Fu Fei mowgli Jr. entered the slanderers of the Prince in front of King Chu Ping, and Wu She stepped forward to defend the innocent Prince. King Chu Ping was furious and imprisoned Wu She as a hostage. He asked him to kill his two sons, Wu Shang and Wu Yuan. Wu Shang rushed to the scene and was killed by King Chu Ping and his father Wu She. Wu Yuan was unwilling to be killed by the neck and began a long escape journey.

Wu Zixu first defected to the Prince who had fled to Song, and then fled to Zheng with the Prince. The prince was killed by Zheng, and Wu Zixu continued to flee to Wu. On the border of Wu Chu, Wu Zixu was chased by Chu soldiers to the river, and a fisherman crossed the river in Wu Zixu. Wu Zixu took the sword worth 100 gold and thanked the fisherman for saving his life. Unexpectedly, the fisherman turned a deaf ear and said, "The State of Chu offered a reward of 50,000 stone for the man who caught Wu Zixu. I don't even look up at this, why do I want your sword worth 100 gold! " Wu Zixu finally fled to Wu and joined Wu Wangliao.

When he went out to war, Wu Zixu tried to persuade him to attack Chu, but his son just said, "Wu Zixu's father and brother were killed by Chu. Wu Zixu just wanted to avenge himself, not really thinking about Wu, so he couldn't listen to him." Wu Zixu therefore knew that GongSunGuang had different ambitions, so he dedicated a famous assassin, Zhuan Xu, to GongSunGuang. Sun Guang took advantage of Wu Wangliao's invasion of Chu, and the country was empty, so he hosted a banquet for Wu Wangliao. During the dinner, the son made an excuse to leave. Zhuan Xu hid the dagger in the belly of the fish, took it to Wu Wangliao, stabbed Wu Wangliao, and Zhuan Xu was also killed by Wu Wangliao. Childe Guang took the opportunity to send an ambush, killed all the followers of Wu Wangliao, and became king on his own. This is Prince He Lv.

At this time, King Chu Ping was dead and Zhao Chu acceded to the throne. Wu Zixu led Wu Bing into the capital of Chu. Wu Zixu dug up King Chu Ping's grave, dug up his body and whipped him three hundred times in a row. This is the origin of the famous "whipping corpse".

Wu Zixu avenged his father's death and fulfilled his greatest wish in his life. Then he assisted He Lv, the king of Wu, wholeheartedly, and the national strength of Wu gradually grew and occupied a dominant position.

Later, wuyue competed for hegemony, and Wu Zixu assisted Prince He Lu in conquering Vietnam. He Lu was shot in the finger by the Vietnamese army and died. Before he died, he swallowed his anger and told his son Focha not to forget his father's revenge. Three years later, Fu Cha defeated Gou Jian, the King of Yue, and Gou Jian took his wife to Wu as a hostage. Wen Zi and Fan Li, ministers, tried to bribe Ai Bo, the emperor of Wu, and made the whole State of Yue a vassal of Wu. Wu Zixu remonstrated, saying, "Gou Jian is a man who bears the burden of humiliation. If you don't kill him now, your majesty will regret it in the future. " Fu Cha, the prince of Wu, refused to listen, agreed to his uncle's suggestion and made peace with Yue.

Five years later, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, heard that after his death, the princes were fighting for power and profit, and the newly established monarch was very weak, so he set out to cut Qi and wanted to expand the power of Wu to the Central Plains in one fell swoop. Wu Zixu also didn't forget Gou Jian, a big worry, and said, "I heard that Gou Jian wants to eat hard and make a difference. If he doesn't eat well, he will win people's hearts everywhere." . This man will not die, and he will definitely be your enemy in the future. Your Majesty, you didn't destroy the State of Yue first, but you ran so far to attack the State of Qi. Isn't this the end of the story? "The prince didn't listen, cut qi, swept the board. After coming back, Fu Cha became more proud and alienated from Wu Zixu.

Because of making an enemy with Wu Zixu, the traitor Aibo framed Wu Zixu in front of Fu Cha, saying that Wu Zixu sent his son to Qi to prepare for rebellion. Fu Cha listened to Eber's slanderers and sent someone to give Wu Zixu a carved sword, asking him to commit suicide. Before he died, Wu Zixu sighed and said to his master, "You must plant a catalpa tree on my grave and make it my coffin in the future;" Be sure to gouge out my eyes and put them on the east gate of Wu, so that I can see the Vietnamese army invading the capital of Wu! " Wu Zixu gouged out his eyes angrily and pointed to Wu Dongmen, gloating at the soldiers entering the city. Wu Zixu committed suicide. There are still Xumen in Suzhou.

Wu Zixu's dying wish greatly angered Fu Cha. Fu Cha put Wu Zixu in a bag made of "clothes"-horse skin or cowhide, put a stone on it and threw it into the river, so that he would never float, as revenge for Wu Zixu's dying wish.

Fu Cha pardoned Gou Jian. After returning to China, Gou Jian tasted courage and finally conquered Wu in 473 BC. Fu Cha, the prince of Wu, committed suicide and died. When he committed suicide, he buried his face and said, "I have no face to see Wu Zixu." Wu Zixu made a promise.

When Wu Zixu died, it was around 484 BC. People in the state of Wu felt that he died unjustly, and they all sympathized with him. They built a temple for him by the river and named it Xushan. According to folklore, Wu Zixu was thrown into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Therefore, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Wu Dong was originally to commemorate Wu Zixu, not Qu Yuan.

Personality review

On the Dragon Boat Festival, it was actually Wu Zixu, not Qu Yuan, who first offered sacrifices in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Just because Wu Zixu is not as famous as Qu Yuan; Moreover, in the view of orthodox ideology, Wu Zixu rebelled against Chu first and then Wu (gouging out Wu's death), which was an out-and-out rebellion. Besides, Wu Zixu not only committed treason twice, but also pulled out the body of King Chu Ping and whipped it. Such a fierce person, such an extreme person, does not conform to the "golden mean" of saints. Therefore, although Wu Zixu died more than 200 years before Qu Yuan, and although people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have long regarded Wu Zixu as a tide god, Qu Yuan, who compared himself to a vanilla beauty and only felt sorry for himself in the official festival pedigree, was still righted as the protagonist of the Dragon Boat Festival and enjoyed a ceremony that did not belong to him.

Wu Zixu and Qu Yuan, one is a warrior of revenge, and the other is a scholar who is angry but not angry. Originally to commemorate the Dragon Boat Festival for two people, today it has become a simple Zongzi Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. When people eat zongzi, they only think of a totem poet who can write poems, and they are also worried about whether they are eating fake and shoddy black zongzi.

Isn't Korea going to apply for gangneung danoje festival? I think the spirit of the Dragon Boat Festival is more in line with the Korean spirit-tenacity in the Korean spirit, self-esteem, shame, selflessness and altruism in the Korean spirit, and the spring and autumn personality that does not bow to national strength. Isn't the liquidation of power the best inheritance of the Dragon Boat Festival spirit?