What are the legendary stories of Zhou ancestors?

There are many interesting legends about the ancestors of Zhou people.

Step on the giant's footprints and get pregnant.

Legend has it that there was a tribe called "You Taishi" in ancient times. There is a woman named Jiang Kun in You Tai Shi. One day, she and her companions went out to play in the wild and saw the footprints of a giant. Jiangzhou is in the embryonic stage of her late teens. She thought, with such a huge footprint, she must be tall and handsome, and her heart is full of love. Out of curiosity, she stepped on the giant's footprint to see how much bigger it was than her own. Unexpectedly, at this step, Jiang Yuan seemed to be hit by a magical force and felt pregnant in her stomach. This strange feeling turned out to be true. 10 pregnant, gave birth to a boy.

It happened so strangely that everyone in the tribe thought that this was an ominous child and should be abandoned. At first, Jiang Yuan abandoned the children on the street. At that time, there were many big animals coming and going in the street. Jiang Yuan thought that the children would be trampled to death by animals. Who knows, the horses and cows passing by in droves all take a detour to avoid stepping on them when they see the baby. After a long time, the child still slept there quietly. Jiang Yuan put the child in the forest again, hoping that wild animals would kill him or eat him. However, many people come to the mountains to cut wood. They saw that the child was lovely. Some came to tease him, and some were afraid that he would be cold, so they covered him with clothes. After a while, the child was still safe and sound. Later, Jiang Yuan came up with another idea: Why not throw the child on the ice in the canal? It was a cold winter, and the north wind roared. Putting the child on the ice will soon freeze to death. Unexpectedly, after the child appeared on the ice, many big birds in the sky flew down together and covered the child with wings to prevent him from freezing. The child is still safe and sound. After all, a mother loves her children, and in these three transgressions of five times, the children have been helped by God. Jiang Yuan brought the child back and decided to raise him. He was named "abandoned" because he was going to be abandoned from the beginning. He is the ancestor of the Zhou clan. From the beginning, the Zhou family abandoned their children, passed down from generation to generation, and continued to grow and develop.

"Lascivious" Wang Tai

The Zhou family was passed on to Qi Gong's father. Under his leadership, the Zhou family took on a new look in all aspects. Zhou people believe that the strength of the Zhou clan can eventually overthrow the Shang Dynasty and rule the world, which is the foundation laid by Qi Gong's father. Therefore, Zhou Wenwang later addressed his father as "King Tai".

It is particularly worth mentioning that our father married a woman named Jiang as his concubine. In those days when Qi Gong's father was harassed by Rong Di and quietly left Joo Won?, and in those days when Joo Won? led the people to build their homes, Jiang Nv accompanied him all the time, and Qi Gong's father's feelings were also very single-minded. Mencius praised "King Tai is lustful". The so-called lewdness here is not philandering, but that the Thai king loves concubines and has no three wives and four concubines. It is precisely because "Wang Tai is lewd", loves one of his concubines, and gets along with Jiang's daughter day and night, that he can put more energy into leading the people to develop production, improve their lives and strengthen political power construction. King Tai set an example for all people. Everyone is monogamous, loving each other and growing old together. In this way, the social atmosphere will naturally be good and harmonious, and there will be no phenomenon that the nobles are full of wives and the poor can't marry wives. According to Mencius, because kings love concubines and don't marry other concubines, "there is no dissatisfied wife inside and no widower outside." There are no forced folk women in the harem complaining, and there are no husbands who can't find their wives outside the palace. This noble sentiment of King Tai on the issue of men and women has been sincerely praised by the people.

Zhou Wang was born in a pigsty.

King Wen's mother is the second daughter of King Zhi. The monarch's surname is Ren, so he is called Tairen. Guo was a vassal state in the east of Yin Dynasty. Tairen married Zhou Guo in the west, which was a long way and not easy, so the wedding ceremony was very grand. She received a good education from an early age, dignified and virtuous. During pregnancy, I don't look at evil colors, don't listen to lewd voices, eat evil taste in my mouth, talk proudly, sleep sideways at night, sit on a stool during the day, and stand without feet.

Tairen knows well the mother's thoughts and feelings when she is pregnant, which is very important for the child's life: feeling good is good, and feeling evil is evil. So I let people tell stories of sages during the day and invite blind musicians to read poems at night to cultivate sentiment. Because Tairen abides by prenatal education, the baby in the womb is also very peaceful and does not bring pain to the mother at all. At that time, in order to accumulate fertilizer and develop agricultural production, urine and urine were all in the pigsty, even the monarch and his wife were no exception. One night, Tairen dreamed that a tall man was very friendly to himself. When I went to the pigsty to pee the next day, I gave birth to a son smoothly. This son's name is Chang.

King Wen is good-looking It is said that he has the face of a dragon and the back of a tiger, nearly two meters high. Most notably, he has four breasts. Some people explain that this is because he is kind by nature: he is in his mother's womb and her mother is carefree; Fu Bao manages his diet and daily life without worrying. The teacher educated him without repeated exhortations; He serves his father and never makes him angry. At home, he is very friendly to his younger brothers Guo Zhong and Guo Shu, especially to his two sons Guan Shu and Cai Shu. After King Wen ascended the throne, he appointed four wise men to discuss the "two Guo" with his brother and Guo Shu. He analyzed the world situation with Tian Hong, a wise man, and worked out a strategy with Nangong, a wise man. He talked with Grandfather Cai Gong and Yuan Gong about ancient and modern times, and visited Xinji and Yi Yin. There are also some talented relatives and ministers, such as Duke Zhou, Zhao Gong, Bi Gong and Rong Gong. Therefore, when King Wen reigned, all gods were at peace and all peoples were at peace.