The real historical background of Jiang Ziya is appalling.

Most people know that Jiang Ziya won the title of God because of his TV series, which tells the story of Jiang Ziya leading the gods to help Zhou Wenwang win the country. Jiang Ziya in the novel and TV series is a disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun of Yuxu Palace in Kunlun Mountain. Later, he was ordered to go down the mountain to help Zhou destroy the merchants. After many hardships, the Shang Dynasty was finally destroyed and the great cause of apotheosis was achieved. But this is a literary work after all, so what kind of person is Jiang Ziya in real history?

Jiang Ziya surnamed Jiang, Lushi, famous businessman, real name Ziya, also known as Lushang, flying bear, posthumous title. His complicated surname is related to his ancestors. Real name Jiang was once one of the four famous mountains. Later, he assisted Dayu in water control, and when Shun and Yu sealed Lu, they took him as their surname. The specific hometown of Jiang Ziya is still controversial, but it is generally considered as Rizhao and Juxian in the east of Shandong.

Although Jiang Ziya was born in a prominent family, by the end of Shang Dynasty, his family had declined. According to relevant documents, Jiang Ziya worked as a butcher and vendor, slaughtered cattle, sang songs and sold spines. Others say that he is the butcher of hymns and the mistress of the spine.

In addition, there is a saying that Jiang Ziya used to be the son-in-law who married her husband's family, but his wife kicked him out because of his poor livelihood, which is also reflected in novels and TV plays.

Some documents also record that Jiang Ziya was a junior official of Shang Dynasty before meeting Zhou Wenwang. Later, because he was dissatisfied with Shang Zhouwang's tyranny, he quit his job and lobbied all over the world, but found nothing, and lived in seclusion by the Wei River. On one occasion, Jichang, a Xibe nationality, divined before hunting, and the inscription read: He got neither dragons nor thorns, nor tigers or insects, but he got the supplement of a bully.

Sure enough, King Wen met fisherman Jiang Ziya on the north bank of Weihe River. Wang Wenxi said, "Because our first monarch, Tai Gong, said," There must be a saint to come to Zhou, so Hui Zhou will prosper. That's you, right? We have been expecting you for a long time. So Jiang Ziya was called King Taigong, and they rode together, and Jiang Ziya was honored as a teacher. Since then, with the help of Jiang Ziya, two-thirds of the governors in the world have turned their hearts to Zhou.

After the death of King Wen, King Wu succeeded to the throne, and Jiang Ziya was honored as the king of the country. After several years of preparation, King Wu decided to take part in war and divination before going out. Bad omen, serious storm. Ministers were afraid, only Jiang Ziya insisted on marching, so King Wu went to war. Since then, after the battle of Makino defeated the army of Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wang set himself on fire in Lutai, the army of King Wu entered the DPRK, and the Shang Dynasty ended.

After Wu Wang pacified the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and became the king of the world, he began to reward meritorious ministers. First, Jiang Ziya was sealed in Dongying and Qi was established. On the way to the Eastern Expedition, Jiang Ziya was told that "although it smells bad, it is hard to lose." The guests are very peaceful, and almost none of them are from China.

Jiang Ziya got dressed and arrived in Qi at dawn. At the right moment, Le Hou led the troops to attack Yingshan. It turns out that Yingqiu is adjacent to Laiguo, and Lairen is Dongyi. They took advantage of the Shang and Zhou chaos. The Zhou Dynasty was just pacified, unable to pacify the distant place, so it competed with Jiang Ziya for land.

When Jiang Ziya arrived in Qi, he decided his own politics. Because of its vulgarity, simplicity, trade and industry, the fisherman benefits. So many people joined Qi, and Qi became a big country among the princes.

After King Wu died of illness, young Zhou Chengwang succeeded to the throne, and Zhou Gongdan helped him. This caused dissatisfaction with King Wu's younger brothers Guan Shu and Cai Shu. They teamed up with Wu Geng, the son of Zhou Wang, and Huaiyi of Lian Dongfang also launched a rebellion.

So the Duke of Zhou sent Kang Gong to inform Jiang Ziya: East to the sea, west to the Yellow River, south to Muling and north to Wudi. The five princes and local officials here will order you to fight if they are guilty. Qi can contribute a lot to this.

Jiang Ziya is a political strategist full of stratagems, and is known as the father of military strategists. His works Liu Tao, also known as Liu Taigong Tao, Taigong Art of War and Su Shu, are representative works of military thoughts in the pre-Qin period, which have a great influence on later military thoughts. In the year of historical records, Sima Qian said the words of later generations, and Zhou said Yin Gong. It's all for the squire.

Because of Jiang Ziya's outstanding political and military talents, Jiang Ziya was admired by the rulers of past dynasties and was known as a warrior sage. In 79, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote to Jiang Ziya for success; In the Song Dynasty, Jiang Ziya's "Six Towers" was included in the "Seven Books of Martial Arts", and he himself was also named posthumous title as Zhao Lie Wang Wucheng. Wu Temple, headed by Jiang Ziya.

During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Jiang Ziya was gradually deified. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Taoist Xu created The Legend of Immortals. From then on, Jiang Ziya changed from man to god, the gods abdicated, and the great master was here. Everything was forgiven and widely circulated among the people.

In the novel, Jiang Ziya's marriage was unsuccessful and there were no children, but according to the literature, there were many children in Jiang Ziya. Besides Ding Gong, who succeeded to the throne, there were many others, many of whom became the source of some surnames today. It is worth mentioning that Jiang Ziya also has a daughter named Jiang Yi in the history books. Married with, gave birth to and, the founding emperor of Jin. Tang Shuyu and Jiang Yi were enshrined in the Jinci Temple in Taiyuan.

Qi, founded by Jiang Ziya, has always been a big country in the East during the Spring and Autumn Period. Especially under the rule of Jiang, it pushed hegemony to the peak. Since then, public power has gradually weakened. Finally, in 386 BC, the noble Tian He proclaimed himself emperor, abolished Qi Kanggong, moved the capital to Yu Haibin, and Jiang Qi officially died here.