Chapter 52 "Song of Ten Thousand Years": There are rules for the rise and fall of society

In China, another very famous prophetic work that once predicted the rise and fall of society is Jiang Shangjiang Taigong's "Song of Qiankun Wannian". For the general public, Jiang Shang is better known as Jiang Ziya.Jiang Ziya once assisted Zhou Wenwang and Zhou Wuwang to complete the great cause of crusade against Shang Zhou and successfully established the Zhou Dynasty.Therefore, Jiang Ziya is the founding hero of the Zhou Dynasty, and he is also one of the founders of Qilu Culture. Due to his outstanding political achievements, Jiang Ziya has always been honored as "Wu Sheng" by later generations. Tang Suzong named Jiang Ziya "Wucheng King", and Song Zhenzong also named Jiang Ziya "Zhaolie Wucheng King".In the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Ziya's mythological color gradually became stronger, especially after the mythological novel of King Wu's defeat of Zhou was published in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Ziya replaced his master Yuanshi Tianzun in the novel and connected many gods together .So far, an ordinary "martial saint" has finally completed the transformation from man to god.

"Song of Qiankun Wannian" is a puzzle left by Jiang Ziya to later generations. From this, it can be inferred that Jiang Ziya is not only a strategist and strategist, but also a vivid prophet. Jiang Ziya was born in an aristocratic family, and his ancestral fief was called "Lu", so he was also called "Lu Shang".There are many stories about Jiang Ziya's prophecy ability, the most famous of which is the allusion "Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who wish to take the bait". It is rumored that when Jiang Ziya fished, the hooks he used were straight, and there was never any bait on the hooks.He spent most of his life living in seclusion by the Weishui River in Shaanxi, which used to be the territory of Zhou Wenwang Jichang. Jiang Ziya fished here, with the purpose of attracting Wenwang's attention to display his talents and make contributions.

When Jiang Ziya was fishing, the hook was always three feet away from the water.While holding the fishing rod high, he said to himself: "Fish that doesn't want to live, if you want to, just take the bait yourself!" In the eyes of ordinary people, Jiang Ziya's fishing like this is simply a fantasy.One day, a woodcutter passed by and saw Jiang Ziya's strange fishing method, so he said to him, "Old man, if you fish like you, you won't catch a single fish in 100 years!" Jiang Ziya held up the fishing rod. He smiled and said, "Let me tell you the truth! I am not here to catch fish, but to catch kings and lords!"

The news spread like wildfire, and finally reached the ears of King Wen Jichang.Ji Chang wanted to find out, so he sent soldiers to invite Jiang Ziya.I don't think Jiang Ziya ignored the soldier at all, not only that, he still put on his fishing posture and said sarcastic words: "Fishing, fishing, the fish don't take the bait, and the shrimps come to mess around!" When the soldiers heard this, they knew that Jiang Ziya didn't take himself seriously at all. After he went back to report in desperation, King Wen sent another minister.Jiang Ziya still had an expression of ignorance, and he said to himself: "Catch, catch, big fish don't take the bait, and small fish don't mess around!"

At this point, King Wen Jichang realized that Jiang Ziya was implying that he should invite him in person.Ji Chang, eager for love and talent, first ate vegetarian food for three days, then took a bath and changed clothes, and finally came to see Jiang Taigong with a generous gift.So far, Jiang Ziya agreed to work for King Wen to assist him in governing the country and the world. King Wen knew that the grandpa had high morals, so he asked the grandpa to get in the cart and push him back, but it happened to be a sandy land, and King Wen couldn't push him after 800 steps.It is precisely because of these 800 steps that Jiang Ziya said to King Wen: "You will enjoy the country for 800 years." And this is almost the same as the historical length of the Zhou Dynasty's rule.

Jiang Ziya's "Song of Ten Thousand Years of Heaven and Earth" has only 110 sentences and 770 characters in total, but it summarizes the major events in Chinese history for more than 10,000 years.It starts from the chaotic period of the origin of the universe, after the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, it directly talks about various prophecies about the Zhou Dynasty. In the book, it is first predicted that the Zhou Dynasty will only rule the country for 800 years, and then it is mentioned that the Qin Dynasty, which succeeded the Zhou Dynasty's baton, will not sit still for too long, only about 20 years.In the 10,000-year-long prophecy of "The Song of Qiankun Wannian", Jiang Ziya basically presupposed the years of turmoil and succession of the dynasties and the emperor's surname by tearing down and deciphering the characters.However, there are still a large part of the words in this prophecy that predict the trend of historical changes, which have not been interpreted until today.

There are too many specific examples in history to verify the prophecy of the earliest "Song of Qiankun Wannian".In particular, the passages predicting the Han Dynasty are the most wonderful.It is mentioned in the book: "Sitting on a golden head with a straight knife, cut off the heads of wooden sheep in the world. It is even more ominous when one land faces the dynasty, and the next year changes the country to usurp the bed. The lord of light and glory gushes out of the spring, and the revival of the country will last forever. Four In the past hundred years, the world has changed, and the sun has been poisonous. One branch has been exiled to Xichuan, and the three parts of the country have been passed on to two generations. For forty years, it has changed again, and it is said that it will be the same." In just a few short sentences, it is complete It completely tells the history of the 400 years from the founding of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, to the subjugation of Liu Chan, the empress of Shu.

"Mao sits on a golden head with a straight knife, and cuts off all the wooden sheep's heads in the world", a gold character plus a straight knife, which is the traditional writing of "Liu".In other words, it will be a person surnamed Liu who will destroy the Qin Dynasty.According to historical records, Liu Bang was established as the king of Han by Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu in the year of Yiwei. This year was the year of the wooden goat among the five elements, so the last sentence "cut off the heads of wooden goats all over the world" refers to Han Gaozu time to reign.

Later, "It's even more ominous when a country is in the court, and the country is changed in a new year to usurp the bed" refers to the matter of Wang Mang's usurpation of power. The combination of "Yitu" is the word "Wang", and the latter sentence directly refers to the fact that Wang Mang will change his dynasty after usurping power. And "Guanghua Lord gushed out of the spring, and the revival of the country will last forever" refers to the scene of Guangwu Zhongxing that appeared after Wang Mang's rebellion was quelled.The hometown of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu is in Baishui, Nanyang, and the word "Spring" is separated from the word "Baishui".

"In the past four hundred years, the world has changed, and the sun has always been poisonous" is pointing out that the Han Dynasty's country can only be stabilized for about 400 years.From then on, a new epoch will begin.Judging from the historical records, the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty is added up, and the time when Wang Mang was in power is removed in the middle, which happens to be no more than 400 years.After that, the person with the surname "Cao" in "A Song on the Sun" will appear, and he will replace the emperor to order the world.This is the Cao Wei regime at the beginning of the Three Kingdoms.

"One branch was exiled to Xichuan, and three parts of the country were passed on to two generations" shows that even in the hands of Cao Wei, the Han royal family was not completely cut off, and its surviving branch was exiled to the Sichuan and Shu areas.This is Liu Bei and his son who are in a tripartite relationship with Cao Wei and Soochow.But in the situation where the country is divided into three parts, the Liu surname Jiangshan has only been passed down for two generations, and then it went to destruction. The last two sentences, "There has been another change in the past forty years, and it is said that it will be the same soon." It is said that during the 43 years when Liu Bei and Liu Chan tried to help the Han Dynasty, a major coup also occurred in the Cao Wei regime. "Tongwuban" in "Tongwuban" in "It is said that "Tong" is on the left side of "Tong" is a "Si" character, which is combined with the word "Horse" in "Legends are on horses" to form the word "Sima". It refers to the fact that people with the word "Sima" usurped Wei.So far, the period of the Three Kingdoms has come to an end. After the Sima family ruled the world, the subsequent dynasties of the Jin and Jin Dynasties began. Looking at the leopard from the inside, we can conclude that "The Song of Qiankun Wannian" is definitely a masterpiece with accurate prophecy based on the rise and fall of the Han royal family.However, scholars still poured cold water on the obsessives. They believed that this book was compiled by good people of later generations, and it was not written by Jiang Ziya himself, so it is not worthy of being taken so seriously.Moreover, the way of choosing words and constructing sentences in many paragraphs in the book has a strong Song and Yuan style, and the claim that it originated in the Zhou Dynasty seems to be unreliable.However, the method of breaking characters such as "Mao Jin Dao" only appeared after the Han and Jin Dynasties. Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, seal script was the main writing method, and the method of breaking characters passed down to future generations does not appear to be so convincing. Therefore, what is the origin of the "Song of Qiankun Wannian" that has been handed down today has become the biggest mystery in this book.This question can only be answered by history itself.