Fu Cha is the wife of Wu Ding, the king of Shang Dynasty. Why is she in charge of the army?

Now, if you visit the Yin Ruins Museum, you can also see the statue of Fu Hao. On the statue, the woman holds two bronze cymbals with tiger heads, which were dug up from the woman's tomb. One weighs 8.5 kilograms and the other weighs 9 kilograms. In ancient times, brass cymbals represented the military power, which was precisely the symbol that a woman mastered the military power.

Fu Hao is the wife of Wu Ding, the Shang king, and also a female general. We always feel that ancient women have low status and can only sit in boudoir. How can they lead troops to fight? But this is not the case. China was also a matriarchal society at first, and then it transitioned to a paternal society. Shang dynasty was a slave society, and the matriarchal system still had some influence. Although men are in power, women's status is not so low. Being a good woman, capable and able to fight, can win the battle for her husband and consolidate the political power, which Wu Ding would like to see. Moreover, Fu Hao is the wife of the Shang king, with a noble position, who can represent the Shang king and be in charge of the military power.

Of course, the most important thing is that women have enough ability. She has been at war with more than 20 countries all her life, all of which are uncivilized barbarian tribes with strong fighting capacity. At that time, Fu Haozhu paid attention to the earth and ghost face. The earth was the Yi Rong tribe at that time, and the ghost side was the later Xiongnu. It is precisely because Fu Hao defeated the Turkish side and the ghost side that Chinese civilization has always stood behind. She has fought in more than 20 countries and won many victories, which is admirable.

Therefore, as the first female general in China, Fu Hao completely relied on her own strength to reassure the king, make the soldiers admire her, and then took power as a woman. A real heroine is enough to go down in history.