How did Ji Chang die?

Fifty years after his death, he collapsed, lived to the age of 97, and was buried at the end of his life. Prince Ji Fa succeeded to the throne of Zhou Wuwang.

After his father died, he inherited the position of Xibohou, so he was called Xibohou. After 42 years in office, he officially became king, known as Zhou Wenwang in history. During Ke Mingde's reign, he was cautious in punishment, diligent in administration and attached importance to agricultural production.

Corporal, talented, worshipped as a strategist, strategized, subdued, conquered Li Guo (now Changzhi City, Shanxi Province), Guo Guo (now Qinyang City, Henan Province) and other countries, making the world three points and the next week. Bianjing Fengjing (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi) laid the foundation for the king of Wu to destroy merchants. The interpretation of Zhouyi and the establishment of Zhou Li were highly praised by later Confucianism, which Confucius called "three generations of English".

Zhou Wenwang died in fifty years (before 1056), enjoying his life at the age of 97, and was buried in Biyuan (the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty is located at the southern foot of Fenghuang Mountain in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province). BC 1046, the second son, Zhou Wuwang Ji Fa, destroyed the Shang Dynasty and made Ji Chang king of literature. In the first year of God's will (690), Wu Zetian claimed to be a descendant of Ji Chang and was honored as the ancestor of Emperor Wen.

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Politically, the Western Zhou regime established by Zhou Wenwang was the forerunner of feudal autocracy in China for thousands of years. The Book of Changes has a profound influence and great changes on the ancient traditional culture of China. It is the source of China culture, which has changed the development track of ancient culture and influenced today's cultural matrix.

In the ancient cultural history of China, there has always been a saying that Fuxi painted eight diagrams, and Wen Wang did sixty-four hexagrams. Historical Records also thinks that the author of Zhouyi is Zhou Wenwang. Of course, some people questioned that the hexagrams in Zhouyi recorded the historical events after Zhou Wenwang, and thought that the hexagrams were deduced by Zhou Wenwang, but the words were written by Duke Zhou or others.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Ji Chang (founder of Zhou Dynasty)