Please introduce the capital of Chu and where the capital of Chu is now

The earliest capital of the Chu State was Danyang (now southeast of Zigui, Hubei), and later moved from Danyang to Yingyang due to the competition with other small states for the land of Hanzhong. When the state of Chu moved its capital to Ying, people in later generations argued, and there are probably the following four theories.

First, the thirty-fifth year of King Wu of Chu (7o6 BC) said. According to the time of King Wu of Chu and the time of Emperor Wu of Chu, Song Xiangfeng of the Qing Dynasty concluded that the time of moving the capital should be in the 35th year of King Wu, that is, when Xiongtong, King Wu of Chu, vigorously expanded his territory and expanded his territory, invaded and began to operate the land of eastern Han. This statement is obviously too outdated in concept, and it is difficult to believe that there is no distinction between "Ju Danyang" and "Shibu Ying".

Second, it is said between the thirty-eighth and early forty-second years of King Wu of Chu (7o3-699 BC). Shi Quan's article "When did the Chu capital move to Ying", according to the "Zuo Chuan: The Thirteenth Year of Huan Gong", "Mo Ao was in the barren valley, and the group of marshals were imprisoned in Yefu, in order to listen to the punishment", Liu Zhao's "Reading Hanshu Supplement" quoted in "Jingzhou Ji" (Jiangling) County East Sanliyu, there are three lakes, there are water in the east of the lake, there is a small city, called Yefu" and "Water Jing Note: Water Chapter" "There is Ji Nancheng in the northwest of Jiangling City. ......The three lakes are combined into one water, and the east leads to the barren valley.

On the east bank of the barren valley, there is a record of Yefu Castle", which deduces the above conclusion. However, none of these three materials directly mentions the capital of Ying, and it is difficult to deduce the conclusion that the state of Chu had established the capital at this time.

Third, the first year of King Wen of Chu (689 BC) said. "Historical Records of the Chu Family" contains: "King Wen Xiong is standing and the capital is Ying.

Fan Wenlan also said in the first volume of the General History of Shiguo: "In the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Chu became more and more powerful, and in 7o4 BC, Chu Jun Xiongtong called himself King Wu. Xiong Tongzi, King Wen, moved the capital to Ying, and there were thousands of miles of land.

This statement just does not specify that Du Ying was in the first year of King Wen.

Fourth, in the fifty-first year of King Wu of Chu (69o BC), King Wu collapsed and King Wen ascended the throne. Although in the "Eleventh Year of Duke Huan of Zuo" (the 40th year of King Wu of Chu), there is a record that "the Yunren army is in Pusao, and will fight with Sui, Hang, Zhou, and Xiao Chu Division", and Chu Moao Qu is "second to the suburbs". However, at this time, Ying, was only a base opened up by the Chu people in several battles, and it was not yet the capital of Chu.

Zuo Chuan Zhuang Gong Four Years", in the fifty-first year of King Wu of Chu, King Wu died in the army on behalf of the people, and the people of Chu and the people of Sui "returned to Jiangyou, and then mourned after Ji Han". The place of mourning should be in the area of Yingcheng or the suburbs. King Wen succeeded Wu Wangli at this time, and he may have lived in Yingyang since then, and did not return to Danyang, and Yingzhou officially became the capital of Chu.

At first, it was Danyang, and then the capital was moved to Yingcheng, it seems that it was prosperous at the beginning, and finally it was destroyed by the Qin State.

The details are as follows:

Due to historical reasons, the capital of Chu has been moved several times, and the capital of Chu is located in Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province, Jiangling, Jingzhou, Hubei Province, Yicheng, Hubei Province, Huaiyang, Henan Province, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, and Shou County, Anhui Province. The state of Chu was a vassal state located in the Yangtze River basin in the pre-Qin period, and the Chu people had the habit of naming the capital city Ying.

Chu State, also known as Jing and Jing Chu, was a vassal state located in the Yangtze River basin in the pre-Qin period, and the monarch was surnamed Mi (surnamed Wei in Jin Wen) and Xiong (Yan in Jin Wen). During the reign of King Cheng of Zhou (1042 BC to 1021), Xiong Yi, the leader of the Chu people, was appointed as a viscount and established the state of Chu.

During the period of King Chu Huai, he attacked the Yue country, and the Yue country fell apart because of it. However, because of King Huai's improper employment and Qin Prime Minister Zhang Yi's fraud, the country's power gradually declined. In 223 BC, the Qin army broke through the Chu capital Shouchun, and the state of Chu was officially destroyed.

Chu Chinese Language and Culture:

Chu Chinese belongs to the Chinese language system, which has more regional characteristics in phonetics and vocabulary. The script of the Chu State in the Western Zhou Dynasty was not much different from the script of the Central Plains States. The inscription of the Chu Gongjia bell is similar to the inscription style of the Zong Zhou bell, which is vigorous, regular, and slightly twists and turns.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the middle of the Warring States Period, the shape of the Chu State gradually tended to be slender, the strokes were thin and the end was the same, the arrangement was relatively neat and beautiful, the gestures were round and smooth, and the style was free and unrestrained. From the comparison of the inscription of the prince Wuding unearthed from the No. 2 Chu tomb of Xia Temple and the bell inscription unearthed from the No. 2 tomb of Dadian, Shandong, the characteristics of the Chu character can be found.

After the middle of the Warring States period, bamboo slips and silk script-style handwriting styles were dominant, and bronze inscriptions and inscriptions were influenced by it. The glyph tends to be flattened, the posture is simple, the horizontal pen is raised, the head is thick and the tail is thin, and some of the wave potential picks the method and has the prototype of the later generations of Lishu.

The ancient city of Jingzhou is the capital of Chu.

Yingdu was the capital of the state of Chu, which is now Jingzhou, Hubei.

Specifically, the former site of Yingdu is in Jiangling County, Jingzhou, and the old site of Yingdu is relatively well preserved, which has witnessed the glory of Chu State.

Other national capitals:

1. Yanguo Beijing.

Although the Yan State was destroyed by the Qin State that year, the capital of the Yan State was very tenacious. Because Jicheng, the capital of Yan Kingdom, is now Beijing, feng shui takes turns, and the capital of Yan is still the capital of that year.

2. Zhao Guo Handan.

Handan, the capital of Zhao State, was once one of the five major metropolises. Even in the Song Dynasty, the Daimyo's Mansion was still prestigious. Now Handan is a prefecture-level city in the south of Hebei Province, which is closer to Henan in terms of customs and customs.

3. Wei State Kaifeng.

Daliang, the capital of the Wei State, is now Kaifeng, Henan, which is the ancient capital of the Seven Dynasties of China and the capital of Henan Province in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. But with the rise of Zhengzhou, Kaifeng's status is no longer as important as it used to be.

4. South Korea, Xinzheng.

Xinzheng was the capital of South Korea at the time, but it is now a county-level city under the city of Zhengzhou. But Xinzheng is a very strong county-level city in Henan, and it is definitely the number one in the economy in terms of economy.

Fifth, the state of Qi Linzi.

During the Warring States Period, Qi was a country that could be on an equal footing with the Western Qin, and its capital, Linzi, was also a large and prosperous city with a large population. With the changes of history, the current Linzi is no longer what it used to be, and has become a district under Zibo City.

Sixth, the Qin State Xianyang.

Many people think that Xianyang is Xi'an, but in fact, this is a big misunderstanding. Xianyang is Xianyang, and Xi'an is Xi'an. Although the two cities are adjacent to each other, Xianyang is also a prefecture-level city, which is really not the same thing as Xi'an.

The capital of Chu is Yingdu.

Extended Information:

1. Due to historical reasons, the capital of Chu has been relocated several times, and the number of capitals it has moved and the frequency of capital relocation are incomparable with other princes in the early Zhou Dynasty.

1. Danyang: Xiong Yi first lived here, in Xichuan County, Henan Province.

2. Yingdu: King Wen of Chu (King Wu of Chu) moved here from Danyang, in the northwest of Jingsha, Hubei Province.

3. Capital: King Zhao of Chu moved here from Ying, in the southeast of Yicheng, Hubei Province.

4. Yandu: King Chu Hui once lived here, in present-day Yicheng, Hubei Province.

5. Chen Du: King Xiang of Chu moved here in the 20th year of Ying, in present-day Huaiyang, Henan.

6. Juyang: King Chu Kaolie moved here in the tenth year, in the north of Fuyang City, Anhui Province.

7. Shouchun: King Chu Kaolie moved here in the 22nd year, in present-day Shou County, Anhui Province.

Second, Ying Shuyan said.

One night, a person in Yingdu, the capital of Chu State, wrote a letter to Yan Xiangguo at home. Because the candle flame was low, the fluctuating candlelight sandwiched the faint shadow of the study utensils, which seemed a little dim, so the Yingren said to the waiter: "Raise the candle."

When the light shines, you can see it clearly when you write a letter. Who knew that when the candlelight was not lit, he was anxious, thinking about "holding a candle" in his mind, and when he was reading "holding a candle" in his mouth, he unconsciously wrote the word "hold a candle" into the letter. After that, he handed the letter to the waiter without checking it.

After Yan Xiangguo received the letter from the Yingren, he read it several times. He always found the word "holding a candle" in the letter very incomprehensible. I have heard for a long time that there are only talents in the four seas, is this a kind of unfathomable profundity?

Yan Xiangguo thought of this, and suddenly had an idea. He said with understanding: "The intention of holding the candle is to worship the light, and those who worship the light will surely promote the bright and outstanding people to take on the important responsibility."

Looking at it this way, Yingren's letter highlights the word 'holding candles', and its intention was to give me advice! ”

Yan Xiangguo told King Yan about this idea, and King Yan was very happy to hear it. He took Xiangguo's political views as the principle and recruited wise men, so that Yan Guo's politics were harmonious and became stronger and stronger.

Because the state of Chu has moved its capital several times, its capital is multiple. Its earliest capital was Danyang, which is now Zhijiang City, Hubei; After that, the capital was moved to Yanying, which is now Yicheng, Hubei; Later, the capital was moved to Yingdu, which is now Jingzhou, Hubei; Then the capital was moved to Chendi and Juyang, which is now Huaiyang, Henan and Fuyang, Anhui, and the last capital was moved to Shouchun, which is now Shou County, Anhui.

The return to Chu can also be called Jing Chu, which was a vassal state located in the Yangtze River basin during the pre-Qin period, and established the Chu state during the period of Zhou Chengzheng's high hunger king. After hundreds of years of development, the state of Chu began to rise in the Spring and Autumn Period, and its continuous annexation of the small states of Zhounian Dongwei reached its heyday, and its territory occupied almost half of the world.

In 704 B.C., Xiong Tong was proclaimed king, and he was the king of Chuwu. During the reign of King Wu of Chu, the state of Chu was even stronger under the governance of Ling Yin Ziwen, and in the Spring and Autumn period, the state of Chu competed for hegemony with the state of Qi and the state of Jin, and it was one of the four great powers of the Spring and Autumn period.

The capital of Chu during the Warring States Period was the northwest of Jingzhou District (formerly Jiangling) of Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. Yingdu is the capital of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chu people have the habit of naming the capital city Ying, due to historical reasons, the capital of the Chu State has migrated several times, and the capital of the city moved is many and frequent, which is incomparable with other princes in the early Zhou Dynasty.