{"id":6598,"date":"2019-11-20T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/legends-jiang-taigong-fishes-jiang-tai-gong-diao-yu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:55:34","slug":"legends-jiang-taigong-fishes-jiang-tai-gong-diao-yu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/legends-jiang-taigong-fishes-jiang-tai-gong-diao-yu\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends: Jiang Taigong Fishes \u59dc\u592a\u516c\u9493\u9c7c"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>The last ruler of the Shang dynasty (16th &#8211; 11th  century BC) was a tyrannical and debauched slave owner who spent his  days carousing with his favorite co<em><\/em>ncubine Daji and mercilessly  executing or punishing upright officials and all others who objected to  his ways. Jiang Shang had o<em><\/em>nce served the Shang king and had come to  hate him with all his heart. He was an expert in military affairs and  hoped that someday someone would call on him to help overthrow the king.  He waited and waited till he was 80 years old, co<em><\/em>ntinuing placidly with  his fishing in a tributary of the Weihe River (near today&rsquo;s Xi&#8217;an)  using a barbless hook or even no hook at all, on the theory that the  fish would come to him of their own volition when they were ready.<\/p>\n<p>King Wen of the Zhou state, (central Shaanxi), found Jiang Shang  fishing. King Wen, following the advice of his father and grandfather  before him, was in search of talented people. In fact, he had been told  by his grandfather, the Grand Duke of Zhou, that one day a sage would  appear to help rule the Zhou state.<\/p>\n<p>When King Wen saw Jiang Shang, at first sight he felt that he was an  unusual old man, and began to co<em><\/em>nverse with him. He discovered that this  white-haired fisherman was actually an astute political thinker and  military strategist. This, he felt, must be the man his grandfather was  waiting for. He took Jiang Shang in his coach to the court and appointed  him prime minister and gave him the title Jiang Taigo<em><\/em>ngwang (Hope of  the Duke of Zhou). This was later shortened to Jiang Taigong.<\/p>\n<p>An account of Jiang Taigong&#8217;s life written long after his time says  he held that a country could become powerful o<em><\/em>nly when the people  prospered. If the officials enriched themselves while the people  remained poor, the ruler would not last long. The major principle in  ruling a country should be to love the people; and to love the people  meant to reduce taxes labor. By following these ideas, King Wen is said  to have made the Zhou state proper very rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>After King Wen died, his son King Wu, who inherited the throne,  decided to send troops to overthrow the King of Shang. But Jiang Taigong  stopped him, saying: &quot;While I was fishing at Panxi, I realized one  truth- if you want to succeed you needs to be patient. We must wait for  the appropriate opportunity to eliminate the King of Shang&quot;. Soon it was  reported that the people of Shang were so oppressed that no one dared  speak. King Wu and Jiang Taigong decided this was the time to attack,  for the people had lost faith in the ruler. A bloody battle was fought  at Muye (35 kilometers from the Shang capital Yin, now Anyang in Henan  province).<\/p>\n<p>Jiang Taigong charged at the head of the troops, beat the battle  drums and then with 100 of his men drew the Shang troops to the  southwest. King Wu&#8217;s troops moved quickly and surrounded the capital.  The Shang King had sent relatively untrained slaves to fight. This, plus  the fact that many surrendered or revolted, enabled Zhou to take the  capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Shang King set fire to his palace and perished in it, and King Wu  and his successors as the Zhou dynasty established rule over all of  China. As for Daji, one version has it that she was captured and  executed, another that she took her own life. Jiang Taigong was made  duke of the State of Qi (today&rsquo;s Shandong province), which thrived with  better communications and exploitation of its fish and salt resources  under him.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-643942730\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last ruler of the Shang dynasty (16th &#8211; 11th  century BC) was a tyrannical and debauched slave owner who spent his  days carousing with his favorite concubine Daji and mercilessly  executing or punishing upright officials and all others who objected to  his ways. Jiang Shang had once served the Shang king and had come to  hate him with all his heart. He was an expert in military affairs and  hoped that someday someone would call on him to help overthrow the king.  He waited and waited till he was 80 years old, continuing placidly with  his fishing in a tributary of the Weihe River (near today&rsquo;s Xi&#8217;an)  using a barbless hook or even no hook at all, on the theory that the  fish would come to him of their own volition when they were ready.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2838],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-folktales"],"views":214,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}