"The Book of Songs·Zhou Song·Heaven's Work": The emperor's sky has thick soil, and every step is a camp
The sky makes high mountains, and the king's wilderness is there. He did it, King Wen Kangzhi. They are in Qi, and there are barbarians going there, and their descendants will protect them.
"The Book of Songs·Zhou Song·Tianzuo" can be regarded as the Zhou Emperor's worship of Qishan. From the "Book of Songs·Zhou Song·Qing Temple" onwards, the Emperor of Zhou used the name of offering sacrifices to King Wen, thanking God and thanking his ancestors, and it can be said that he did everything possible. When it came to "The Book of Songs·Zhou Song·Li Wen", King Zhou Cheng simply beat half a dozen times to the princes who were assisting the sacrifice, and at the same time indirectly thanked their ancestors. This poem "The Book of Songs·Zhou Song·Tianzuo" can be regarded as a special thank you to Qishan Mountain where the King Tai moved to. Now, even the land where he once lived is also thanked.
The emperor of the Zhou family has a bit of a meaning of "if I love you, I must say it loudly". This poem "The Book of Songs·Zhou Song·Heavenly Work" is the "lingering" words of the Zhou Emperor when he offered sacrifices to Qishan Mountain. . There are only seven sentences in this poem, which express three levels of meaning.
1. King Tai’s rule to desolate Qishan Mountain made Qishan a prosperous land given by heaven to the people of Zhou
The so-called “Great King’s Desolation” was after King Tai moved the tribe to Qishan Mountain. He led his people to manage the land in Qishan Mountain and turned it into a fertile field. The ancestors of the Zhou people, from Gong Liu to Hou Ji, were all relatively creative masters in agricultural production. The reason why Taiwang wanted to lead his people to migrate was partly because the place they originally lived in was not suitable for agricultural production, and partly because he was avoiding the surrounding mountain warriors. Regarding this, we can find concrete confirmation from other works in the Book of Songs.
"Heaven is a high mountain, and the king is in the wilderness." At first glance, these two sentences seem to be a set of contradictions. Today we talk about "a match made in heaven", which describes a particularly suitable pair of men and women. This one is particularly suitable. It is both "the dog gnaws the bones, the cat eats the meat, and Ultraman fights the little monster", and it is also the "bastard looking at the mung bean" looking at each other. The saying here that "the sky is higher than the mountains" also means this. The Taiwang fell in love with the blessed land of Qishan given to him and his people by God. As for whether this land was truly a blessed land that could produce hundreds of kilograms per acre, that was another matter.
In the 1940s and 1950s, farmers who had cultivated land in Henan fled westward. Once they passed Sanmenxia, ??many people were shocked by the land there. Wheat is sown on the ground without tools, and can produce large and plump ears without management. It is estimated that the Taiwang at that time probably felt this way when he led his people to migrate to Qishan.
Judging from the "Great King's Wilderness" that follows, Qishan, this blessed land, is not so fertile that it does not require management. King Tai led his people to effectively manage this land.
From this, we can also vaguely see the Zhou people’s tradition of being particularly grateful. Not only did later generations know how to thank heaven and thank the princes, but the ancestors of the Zhou people could always attribute the tribe's prosperity to the heaven, earth and nature. This may be the reason why God favored this tribe so much.
2. King Wen’s contribution to stability
Don’t forget that King Tai moved, firstly, for land suitable for farming, and secondly, to avoid the intrusion of Shanrong. Qishan was managed into land suitable for farming in the hands of King Tai. After years of farming - Wen Wang Kangzhi. "Kang" here means stability, which means that in the hands of King Wen, the clansmen have settled down on the fertile soil of Qishan and have the capital to run the world.
3. Life-long management
"The other side is in Qi, and there are barbarians who have traveled, and their descendants will protect them" is the most controversial line in this poem. In particular, "He is the Qi". In the "Book of the Later Han·Biography of the Southwest Yi", there is the sentence "He is the Qi, there is the journey of the barbarians", and Shen Kuo recorded it as "He is the Qi". Of course, we cannot use the later "Book of the Later Han" to correct the "Book of Songs" that came out earlier. At least we can vaguely feel that "the other people came to Qishan" is by no means as simple as the Zhou people going to Qishan. "娲" expresses the feeling of "impediment and longness" of the obstacles on the mountain road, which seems to be the original intention of the poem.
Precisely because "the road to Qishan is long and obstructed", it is more meaningful to say that "when barbarians travel, descendants will protect them". It took the generations of Zhou people’s efforts for generations to reflect, and formed the basis of Zhou people’s infinite gratitude to the land of Qishan.
According to the "Manuscript of Qing History", after the Manchus entered the customs, they quickly established the tradition of forbidden areas. The area north of Shanhaiguan, where they prospered that year, was listed as a forbidden area, and people inside the customs were strictly prohibited from entering at will. Although many years have passed since the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong, the Qing people still did not feel much sense of security. They were always planning to return to the pass, so they would never allow the Han people to get involved in that land.
If "Da Wang Huangzhi" and "Wen Wang Kangzhi" are typical pioneering operations, the later Zhou people "were going to Qi, and there were barbarians, and the descendants protected it" are more A different look at conservatism. Including the Emperor Zhou's sacrifice to Qishan, it also has such a meaning.
Qishan has long become a cultural symbol and the foundation of the Zhou family.