During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou royal family had no money to mourn and begged for the end

Eastern Zhou) King Xiang (Ji Zheng).

King Xiang of Zhou, named Ji Zheng (BC?) 619 BC). Prince Zhou Hui. King Hui succeeded to the throne after his illness and death. He reigned for 33 years, died of illness, and his burial place is unknown.

King Xiang of Zhou belongs to the normal death, the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is relatively happy, although the actual right is not but this position is rarely seen by anyone, the life is passable, only 25 emperors have been changed in 500 years, an average of 20 years of reign is considered to be relatively long and stable, of which King Zhou Yu reigned for 59 years, second only to Emperor Kangxi. King Xiang of Zhou also reigned for 33 years, although he experienced several turmoil, but also had the support of major powers, and the situation was okay.

The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was divided into two eras, "Spring and Autumn" and "Warring States", with a total of 26 emperors. After Zhou Tianzi moved east to Luoyi, the western territory was basically occupied by the Qin state.

In 256 years before (59 years of King Zhen, 51 years of King Zhaoxiang of Qin), Qin soldiers attacked the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty was afraid, and the sixteen cities of the West Wednesday were surrendered to Qin, Qin received all its dedication, returned to the Western Zhou Duke in Zhou, the King of Zhou Xun died of grief and indignation, Qin did not establish a new son of heaven, took Jiuding and placed it in Xianyang (a tripod fell in Surabaya on the way), moved the Western Zhou Duke to regret the fox, the first year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang (249 years ago), the Eastern Zhou Dynasty wanted to take advantage of Qin's funeral Zhaoxiang and Xiaowen two kings to attack Qin, Qin Zhuang Xiang King took Lü Buwei as the general, raised 100,000 troops, and returned to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and collected Gongcheng and other seven provinces. Moved to the east of the Zhou Dynasty in the land of the Yang people, but the princes also have Korea, Wei, Wei, Yan, Chu, Zhao, Qi, Korea, the Zhou Dynasty Shangdi perished, to 221 BC Qin successively destroyed Han, Wei, Zhao, Chu, Yan, Qi six countries, thinking that the world was unified. It was not until 194 BC that the Western Han Dynasty, Yan Guowei Manchu, destroyed the last vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty in the Pyongyang area, and the Korean Zhou Dynasty completely collapsed.

After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty moved eastward, power fell. However, the vassal system was still implemented in the small Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the two princes of the Eastern Zhou State and the Western Zhou Kingdom were abandoned. During the reign of King Zhou, all the vassal states were called kings, and then the capital "Chengzhou City" was moved to the "Wangcheng" of the Western Zhou State.

Later, during the reign of King Zhao of Qin, the Qin army attacked the Western Zhou Kingdom, and the King of Zhou and the Duke of Western Zhou surrendered, and the two died in the same year. King Zhou was the last king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, so his death also represented the demise of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

During the reign of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, the Duke of Eastern Zhou secretly united with the princes of the Warring States to attack the Qin State. However, it was wiped out in one fell swoop by the army led by Lü Buwei of the Qin State, and it was completely destroyed in this Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

After the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the royal family moved eastward and began the Eastern Zhou period. Due to the great weakening of the power of the royal family, powerful princes became the protagonists of history, and this period is usually divided into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States. The chronology of the Spring and Autumn Period is related to the book "Spring and Autumn" revised by Confucius, which was written by Confucius by intercepting the history of the Lu State, and should be compared with the beginning and end years of this book, but considering some other factors, it is generally believed that the Spring and Autumn Period:

770 BC - 476 BC; Warring States: 475 BC – 221 BC. That is, the Spring and Autumn Period began with the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou royal family moved eastward (770 BC), and ended when the three families were divided into Jin and Tian clans; The Warring States period ended with Qin's destruction of the Six Kingdoms (221 BC), and it is also said to end with Qin's destruction of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (249 BC).

This statement is based on Sima Qian's "Historical Records".

Historical Records Preface to the Chronology of the Six Kingdoms": "Tian often killed Jian Gong and Qi Qi, the princes Yan Ran was discouraged, and the sea fought for war achievements. The Three Kingdoms finally died and were divided, and Tian He was also destroyed.

The prosperity of the Six Nations began here. He also said: "Qin has the ambition to burn the world's poetry and books, especially the princes' "Historical Records", and it is ...... to ridicule it."unique "The Legend of Qin"; It does not contain the moon and the day, and its text is omitted.

However, the power changes of the Warring States are also quite ......Yu then because of the "Qin Ji", after the "Spring and Autumn Period", the king of Zhou Yuan, the current affairs of the six countries, and the second. ”

The first year of King Yuan of Zhou (475 BC) was chosen as the beginning of the Warring States period because Zhou Tianzi was still the nominal co-lord of the world, to show respect, but also for convenience.

In the field of historiography, the division of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period is basically based on the beginning of the canonization of the Three Jin Dynasty (Han Dynasty Wei), that is, in the winter of 403 AD, King Weilie of Zhou officially granted the three major families of the Jin State (Han Dynasty Wei) as vassal states. This kind of "bestowal" is helpless for Zhou Tianzi, because at this time in the development of history, it is no longer Zhou Tianzi who has the final say, but the strength that has the final say, and thus the Warring States period kicked off.

It is a matter of internal strife, and it is the eunuchs who persecute certain people

Eldest brother... You are really speechless to ask this question, do you know how big the little land of the Zhou royal family was during the Spring and Autumn Period? ? It's just the size of a medium-sized city in other countries...

Want to grow?? Dream on, and there are thousands of troops outside... How to develop?

During the Warring States Period, the Zhou royal family still existed, and it was not until Lü Buwei defeated the Eastern Zhou monarch that the Zhou royal family was completely destroyed!

It did not exist in the late Spring and Autumn period.

The main reason for the gradual decline of the Zhou royal family during the Spring and Autumn Period was the rise of the princes, and the Zhou royal family was difficult to control; population and land have plummeted, and economic hardship has occurred; King Zhou Ping won the country unjustly.

1) The rise of the princes made it difficult for the Zhou royal family to dominate. Eastern Zhou.

After the beginning, Zheng Wugong and Zheng Zhuang Gong of Zheng Guo controlled the major politics of the dynasty. In order to publicize the power of Zheng Zhuanggong, King Ping of Zhou gradually used the Duke of Yu, which caused strong dissatisfaction of Zheng Zhuanggong. And King Zhou Ping had to rely on Zheng Zhuanggong for many things, so he had to explain to Zheng Zhuanggong, so the incident of Zhou Zheng confronting happened.

Zuo Chuan strongly criticized this incident, believing that the exchange of hostages between the Zhou royal family and the princes was their own demotion and endless troubles. Later, during the Spring and Autumn period from 770 BC to 476 BC, some of the larger vassal states engaged in annexation wars for land, population, and dominance over other vassal states. Whoever prevails will convene a meeting of the vassal states to force everyone to recognize his "overlord" status, directly ignoring the existence of the Zhou royal family.

2) Population and land have declined sharply. After the Zhou royal family moved eastward, its land in Gyeonggi was reduced from a thousand miles in the Western Zhou Dynasty to only 600 li, and what was even more pitiful was to King Zhou Xun.

Surrender to Qin. At that time, there were only seven counties with a population of 30,000. In ancient times, there were two main indicators to measure the strength of a country, one was the size of the population, and the other was the amount of land, and because the Eastern Zhou royal family had very few of both, it was often in an economic difficult situation.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou royal family went to the Lu State three times.

Asking for help, the Zhou royal family could not protect itself, and it was even more unable to raise soldiers.

3) King Zhou Ping's kingdom is not right. Although King Zhou Ping used to be the crown prince, his maternal grandfather Shenhou, for his daughter, united with the alien race of Inurong and entered Haojing.

Killed King Zhou You.

In the Zhou Dynasty, which attached great importance to the system of etiquette and law, killing the monarch and killing the father was a major crime, and of course it was despised. Therefore, when King Zhou Ping died, Lu did not go to mourn filial piety. King Ping of Zhou colluded with Dog Rong to kill his father King Zhou You, and colluded with Marquis Wen of Jin to kill his younger brother, of course, this kind of behavior was not tolerated by Qingliu, so the prestige of the royal family declined even more.