Black Bird's Daughter

It is really difficult to write the story of the Shang Dynasty. When I started writing, I found that there were very few ancient books that I could refer to, and even very few reliable modern books. Those glorious and distant years were shrouded in layers by the thick veil of time and blurred. This difficulty almost stopped me until I stood on the land of Yinxu in Anyang. When I walked into the Yin Ruins site, I stared at the jade phoenix pendant, bronze yue, and owl statue that had been sleeping for thousands of years in Fuhao's tomb... When I leaned over and looked carefully at the carvings on the tortoise shells and animal bones - at that moment, they were silently telling me the rise and fall of a dynasty and the joys and sorrows of a group of ancestors. That kind of shock goes straight to the bottom of my heart! Perhaps we can all enjoy talking about history, including Zhang Juzheng's reforms in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming's philosophy, famous generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong in the Song Dynasty who fought against the Jin Dynasty, Liu, Guan, and Zhang Taoyuan's sworn alliance during the Three Kingdoms period, and even the legendary stories of female figures such as Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Pingyang in the Tang Dynasty. But for the Shang Dynasty, most people only know that Cheng Tang destroyed Xia Jie and established the Shang Dynasty, and King Zhou overturned the foundation of more than 500 years due to his cruelty and debauchery. What few people know is that in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, Shang King Wuding pushed agriculture, military, culture and technology to their peak, making the Shang's territory unprecedentedly vast and becoming the undisputed strongest overlord in East Asia in the Bronze Age. And his queen, Fu Hao, was a ruthless character at the level of a god of war. She once commanded an army of 13,000 men (Da Shang had a total force of about 30,000, and Fu Hao commanded nearly half), and went on more than 90 expeditions in her life. It is a pity that she is hardly mentioned in our textbooks and mainstream film and television works. This may be regarded as a vacuum zone for historical propaganda. Therefore, I must write these stories to let readers know about this dynasty three thousand years ago and the dawn of civilization in this land that is earlier than the Spring and Autumn Warring States and the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties. Get to know this female war goddess of the Shang Dynasty who commanded thousands of armies, presided over the heaven and earth, wielded power over the government and the public, and split the earth and sealed the borders. Many readers are not familiar with the cultural background, technological level, social development, etc. Of the Bronze Age, so each chapter of this book is divided into two parts: the main text and the postscript. After the storyline in the main text, use a "postscript" to supplement the general background at that time, as well as the true situation of certain characters, objects or historical events. Help everyone better understand and understand the era in which the story took place. Such as divination. For everything from toothaches and illnesses to major moves of the capital or conquests, Shang kings and priests would ask God's will through divination, even several times a day. The cracks in the tortoise shell seem to contain the secrets of the universe, which are the gods' responses. You may think that this is just the backwardness and superstition of the ancients, but I want to say that it is much more than that. The mottled cracks and inscriptions on each oracle bone are the magnificent attempt of an ancient nation to understand the vast universe and establish order in the world. This exploration of nature and the pursuit of order were eventually integrated into the philosophy of "The Book of Changes" and became the foundation of Chinese civilization. Purpose: The power and wisdom of women