What is Zhou Wenwang's life like, especially his private life? We may be looking for original materials, and the relatively reliable original materials are of course The Book of Songs, because these poems are the products of the Zhou Dynasty.
Looking through the Book of Songs, there are poems related to Zhou Wenwang's love and marriage history. The poems with obvious traces are "Daya Daming" and "Daya Siqi", in which the marriage of the monarch in the Zhou Dynasty is explained by name. In black and white, this is inescapable historical evidence. For example, "King Wen was born early, a match made in heaven" and "Mother of King Wen" are all about his marriage. Will there be more romantic plots in love?
To this end, we should turn our attention to Guan Yu, the head of the Book of Songs, which is almost a household name. Even if you haven't read the Book of Songs, you will know the phrase "My Fair Lady, Gentleman, Good Temper", which has almost become the standard for men to choose a spouse for thousands of years. "Guanju" is about the love between men and women, which has not been controversial since ancient times, but the question is, which pair of handsome guys and beautiful women are it about? Some people say that the hero and heroine in this poem are actually the famous Zhou Wenwang Ji Chang and his wife Tess.
It was not a passerby who said this, but Mao Heng and Li Mao, the research authorities of the Book of Songs in Han Dynasty. They made a preface to the Book of Songs, called Preface to Mao Poetry, and gave hints to each poem for readers to understand and experience. The two Mao teachers' interpretations of The Book of Songs have been regarded as the highest authority in all previous dynasties, so their statements are still very convincing. They think that Guan Ju is talking about "the virtue of empresses". Kong and Zhu Du, who later annotated the Book of Songs, raised their hands and agreed. They are also very authoritative.
This statement may not be correct, but it has been accepted by everyone for at least two thousand years, and it can be regarded as a certain truth.
According to this understanding, let's look at how "Gao Fushuai" and Ji Chang pursued "white". Tess's maiden name is Shen. There are three statements about her maiden name, so I won't go into them here. One of them is that it is near the Weihe River, not far from Zhou's territory. In this case, it will create an opportunity for the young man in Jichang to know Tess Meimei.
It is said that one day more than 3,000 years ago, waterfowl were singing along the Wei River, and Mr. Ji Chang suddenly met a beautiful woman. Of course, he may have observed it for a long time. In short, the prince met the princess. At that time, the beauty may be collecting aquatic plants by the river. What are you doing here? Sacrifice the ancestral temple. This attractive young lady with a good face was deeply fascinated by Ji Chang, and I couldn't help admiring the girl by the river as my good spouse in Ji Chang. She is a "gentleman" and should be married like this.
The other side is "white" and this side is "Gao Fushuai", so it is very suitable. Why not just propose? Otherwise, Zhou Wenwang is a young man, a little young, so it is boring to speak directly. It seems that he still has to be unrequited in love for some time before he can conform to the aesthetic principle of love which is subtle, lingering and euphemistic.
Therefore, Ji Chang became ill, thinking about waking up, thinking about how to pursue the goddess in his heart, "welcome" and "unexpected". At that time, Ji Chang had no confidence in herself, and felt that the goddess was so far away that she couldn't sleep, tossing and turning.
In the process of suffering from acacia, Ji Yun showed his literary and aristocratic demeanor more and more. He doesn't want to buy flowers for beautiful women, and he doesn't want to invite Mei Mei to a ball game or an opera. Instead, he wants to hold a concert to please her, play the harp, ring the bell and drum, and maybe even choose a big stadium and invite several performers.
This can prove that the suitor is a nobleman. If he were a civilian, he might jump into the river to catch the girl. How can he be qualified to hold an expensive chime for a concert?
These scene descriptions and psychological descriptions, especially the seemingly unrequited psychology, are difficult for modern people to associate with the love of noble men and women. How easy it is for the prince to propose. Why harm the secret love? Personally, I am skeptical. But from the point of view of human nature, we might as well see that Ji Chang's marriage is not just a family marriage, but that he really fell in love with too much, resulting in a real love psychology, which has nothing to do with the family, and is shared by nobles and civilians. Perhaps Guan Ju intercepted this kind of psychology and made an in-depth description.
Poetry has no definite solution. Let's understand it this way. With the development of the times, the interpretation will be more and more extensive. It makes sense to take Ji Chang and Taiyi as one of the elements.
According to the understanding of Preface to Mao Shi, the hero in Guan Ju finally found beauty without hurting it in vain. After tossing and turning, he had a comedy result and happily married Bai back.
The Book of Songs Daming describes the process and scene of Zhou Wenwang Ji Chang marrying Tess. Although there are not many words, they are vivid and can make people feel the festive atmosphere more than 3,000 years ago.
Zhou people are deeply honored and happy that Ji Chang can marry this beautiful princess from a big country. How beautiful is this princess? Like a fairy, "Sister of Heaven". So friends praised this marriage as God's wonderful arrangement: "A match made in heaven". Please note that the idiom "a match made in heaven" comes from the description of Zhou Wenwang's wedding. How old was Zhou Wenwang when she won The Harvest of Love? The statement in The Book of Songs is that the king of Zhou was born, that is, he just stood on his own feet and was in his early twenties, which cannot be understood as "standing at the age of 30".
Where can I get married? It's just north of QIA water, on the bank of Wei water.
The wedding is not only a grand occasion, but also a tall musical concert like "Friends of the Hare" or "Music of the Bells and Drums". There are also long rows of boats, which are connected with each other. As a floating bridge, it is both spectacular and romantic, which shows Ji Chang's strength and literary talent. Ji Chang also personally came to marry the beautiful princess, "kissing", which made Zhou people feel even more honored.
Zhou Wenwang's romantic intention of connecting ships to build a pontoon bridge is not a personal guess. Zheng Xuan, the authority of the Book of Songs in the Eastern Han Dynasty, holds this view. In Mao Shijian, he said that the reason why Ji Chang wanted to build a new bridge on the Weihe River to marry the bride was to make the wedding particularly grand. "I want to be famous", of course, to make future generations pay attention to marriage, but it also included his love for the bride-I have love for you.
Needless to say, the young couple love each other. Of course, there are some sad episodes. For example, their eldest son Boyi died in the exam. Anyone who has seen Deification knows that he was killed by Zhou Wang. Fortunately, they also had Ji Fa, a clever boy who later became Zhou Wuwang. I won't repeat the story of attacking Zhou in the future.
Of course, in order to take care of the academic diversity and authority, another point cannot be ignored here: some people think that the princess of Shang Dynasty was married on a pontoon bridge. As for the scene of marrying Tess, a word has passed lightly, focusing on several promising sons she gave birth to.
Nowadays, married women generally call their wives, which is related to the third daughter-in-law of the Zhou royal family. Let's take a look at the names of three noble mothers on Wednesday: Zhou Wenwang's mother's name is Taipregnancy; King Wen's grandmother, Gu's father's daughter-in-law, is called Tai Jiang; King Wen's daughter-in-law is Taisi. Three virtuous daughters-in-law formed the "Three Tais". This is recorded in the Four Wonders of the Book of Songs, and their characteristics are defined: Zhou Wenwang's mother is dignified, "Four Wonders are great leaders"; Zhou Wenwang's grandmother has a good personality, "four sisters Zhou Jiang"; As for Wang Wen's daughter-in-law, Tess, one of her characteristics is that she can inherit the virtues of the above two outstanding women, and at the same time she is particularly fertile. "Then she is a hundred men." This "hundred" means many things.
It can be seen that the title "madam" contains profound historical implications, and it is not that simple.
Reading The Book of Songs, from My Fair Lady to Madam, from tossing and turning to lovesickness, and then to bridging the bridge to greet the bride, even if Guanju is not about Ji Chang's love, it does not prevent us from seeing a complete history of ancestral love and marriage.