"This, could this be the Nine Dings of Dayu and the Twelve Golden Men of Qin?" The dozen items that were taller than one person in front of him really scared Yang Jing, but then he realized that something was wrong.

"No, this is not the Nine Tripods of Dayu and the Twelve Golden Men of Qin. This should be a copy by Wu Zetian. The genuine Nine Tripods have long disappeared, and even Wu Zetian cannot find the real Nine Tripods." Yang Jing stared at these dozens of big guys with his eyes tightly, and finally said with certainty.

Yang Jing has no intention of paying attention to the twelve golden men on the periphery now, and his mind is all attracted by the nine large cauldrons.

This is the legendary Nine Cauldrons. If it is a genuine product, it is even a supreme artifact that is even more awesome than the imperial jade seal!

In the history of China, the Nine Dayu Cauldrons are recognized as the symbol of the Nine Provinces of China, and the imperial seal is the representative of imperial power. In other words, the Nine Cauldrons symbolize the country of China, while the imperial seal is the symbol of the orthodox Chinese.

It is difficult to compare which one is more noble between the two, but there is no doubt that if the nine great tripods in front of you are genuine Dayu Nine Tributes, it will definitely be a super item.

But the Holy Ring did not respond to the nine great tripods, which directly proved that these nine great tripods were not the true product of the legendary Dayu Nine Degrees.

It’s no wonder that long before Qin Shihuang unified the entire China, the Nine Dayu Cauldrons symbolizing the Nine Prefectures of China had disappeared. Later, whether it was Qin Shihuang or the emperor of the Han Dynasty, they searched for a long time, but the Nine Dayu Cauldrons were missing. Even the size, weight, and shape of the Nine Dayu Cauldrons were unknown. Why could Wu Zetian find the authentic product of the Nine Prefectures of the Nine Prefectures?

Even if these nine tripods are not genuine, they are also extremely beautiful. In the middle is a round tripod that is nearly one person tall, and this round tripod is also the largest. Yang Jing knew that even if it was the imitation of the Dayu Nine Triads, the round tripod in the middle should be the Yuzhou Triad.

In the four directions of the Yuzhou tripod, there are four round tripods that are mostly half a person tall, and in the four corners, there are four square tripods that are mostly half a person tall.

Yang Jing knew that the placement of the Nine Tripods was also given particular attention. If we looked at the placement of the Nine Tripods of Dayu, the round tripod at the top should be the Jingzhou Tripods, and then counted down in a clockwise direction. The square tripod on the right side of the Jingzhou Tripod should be the Liangzhou Tripod, then the round Yongzhou Tripod, the square Jizhou Tripod, the round Yanzhou Tripod, the square Qingzhou Tripod, the round Xuzhou Tripod and the square Yangzhou Tripod.

The Nine Cauldrons are round and square, and they are placed in this way. One represents the position of the ancient Jiuzhou, and the other is to mean "The sky is round and the place is smooth, and the yin and yang are smooth. There is a position of the right and slant, and the Jiuzhou is Taikang."

Since Dayu made great contributions to governing the Yellow River, Shun abdicated Emperor in Dayu, and Dayu created the first dynasty in China, the Xia Dynasty. Dayu was the founder of the Xia Dynasty.

According to legend, after Dayu founded the Xia Dynasty, he divided the world into nine states and ordered the governors of Jiuzhou to contribute bronze to cast nine tripods to symbolize the nine states. He engraved the famous mountains and rivers of Jiuzhou in the country and the strange things on the body of the Jiuzhou, and used one tripod to symbolize a state, and concentrated the nine tripods in Yangcheng, the capital of the Xia Dynasty.

From the time of casting of the Nine Cauldrons, these nine bronze cauldrons became synonymous with China, and a symbol of supreme royal power and prosperity of the country. The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties were regarded as treasures for the national transmission of the country symbolizing the state power.

During the Warring States Period, Qin and Chu all raised troops to Luoyi, the city of Zhou, to seek a tripod.

During the reign of King Xian of Zhou, it was said that the Nine Cauldrons were destroyed under the Si River, and the whereabouts of the Nine Cauldrons were unknown. Later emperors attached great importance to the symbol and significance of the Nine Cauldrons, and they also recast the Nine Cauldrons repeatedly. Wu Zetian and Song Huizong also cast the Nine Cauldrons.

The nine big tripods in front of you are obviously the nine tripods recast by Wu Zetian!

However, the nine tripods cast by Wu Zetian recorded in history have long been gone. It is estimated that few people know that Wu Zetian finally regarded the nine tripods she recast as burial objects.

In Chinese history, the importance of the Nine Tripods is beyond doubt. There is even a famous idiom around the Nine Tripods, which is "Seeking the Central Plains".

The allusion of "Ask for the Central Plains" is that in 606 BC, King Zhuang of Chu sent troops to attack the Rong people living in Luhun. Luhun was in the north of Song County, Henan, not far from Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Of course, Lu Hunrong was not an opponent, and the Chu army won a great victory. However, King Zhuang of Chu did not stop, but waved his hand and directed the army to the north, entered the territory of the Emperor of Zhou, and came to the Luoshui River.

King Ding of Zhou was very panicked and asked Wang Sunman to explore the truth and truth in the name of hard work. After the emperor's envoy Wang Sunman came to the Chu camp, King Zhuang of Chu asked Wang Sunman: How big is the cauldron of the Zhou emperor and how heavy is it?

Wang Sunman, who was a doctor of the Great Zhou Dynasty at that time, was a very smart person. He knew what King Zhuang of Chu meant, so he responded very cleverly: "The size and weight of the tripod lies in virtue, not in the tripod itself. In the past, when the Xia Dynasty had virtue, he drew images of ghosts and gods from afar, let the chiefs of Jiuzhou pay tribute to bronze ware, cast nine tripods and cast images on the tripod, and all the objects were on it, so that the people could know the divine objects and monsters.

Therefore, when people enter the Sichuan, Ze, forests, they will not encounter anything that is not conducive to themselves. They will not encounter ghosts, monsters, and so they can make the upper and lower levels harmonious and bear the blessings of heaven.

Jie of Xia was in chaos and moved the tripod to the Shang Dynasty for six hundred years. Zhou Zhou of Shang was tyrannical and moved the tripod to the Zhou Dynasty. If his virtue was beautiful, good and bright, even if his cauldron was small, it would be heavy. If his evil was in chaos, even if his cauldron was large, it would be light.

God blesses people with virtue for a certain period of time. King Cheng fixed the nine tripods in Jiajie. The result of divination was passed down for thirty generations and lived in the country for seven hundred years. This was ordered by God. Although the virtues of the Zhou Dynasty declined, the destiny of heaven did not change. The importance of the tripod cannot be asked about."

After hearing this, King Zhuang of Chu was speechless and did not force it. Soon after, he left the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

This is the source of "Seeking the Central Plains".

Of course, King Zhuang of Chu was not a simple curious baby, but just wanted to understand the size and weight of the Nine Tripods. It is not difficult to see from Wang Sunman's answer that the Nine Tripods are a symbol of the country, and their migration represents the transfer of the regime. Therefore, King Zhuang of Chu's bidding revealed his ambition to take over the Zhou Dynasty.

After entering the Warring States Period, the vassal states sought the Nine Tripods from the Zhou emperor more and more frequently. Not only did Qin launch a army to Zhou and seek the Nine Tripods, Qi, Wei, Chu and others also thought about the Nine Tripods day and night, wishing they could monopolize themselves. The Zhou emperor traveled around the various countries and used their conflicts to protect the country's important weapon.

From this we can see how important the Nine Cauldrons are in the minds of emperors and princes of China in history.

It’s a pity that the Nine Tripods were lost during the reign of King Xian of Zhou, the third-last king of the Zhou Dynasty, and in the end even Qin Shihuang did not find the whereabouts of the Nine Tripods. Perhaps because the Nine Tripods were not found, Qin Shihuang felt that his throne was not orthodox, so he ordered Li Si to create the imperial seal.

From a certain perspective, the imperial seal is considered the successor of the Nine Cauldrons. If the Nine Cauldrons of Dayu were not lost in history, there would probably be nothing about the imperial seal.

The Nine Cauldrons of Dayu have been passed down for two thousand years and have been lost for more than two thousand years. So no one can tell what the Nine Cauldrons of Dayu are like? Is it square or round? Is it four-legged or three-legged? What inscriptions and patterns are there inside and outside the tripod?

However, there are only records about Dayu's Nine Cauldrons, Volume 2 of "Shiyi Ji" says: "Yu casts nine cauldrons, five uses the method of responding to the yang, and four uses the number of yin.

From what is recorded in "Shiyi Ji", it can be judged that five of the nine tripods of Dayu should be three-legged round tripods, and four tripods are four-legged square tripods, which just corresponds to the saying "the sky is round and the place".

The nine tripods in front of you are exactly this shape. Although this is imitated by Wu Zetian, it can provide a great proof for the real Dayu Nine Tripods.

Although these nine tripods are imitated, their value is absolutely incalculable. However, Yang Jing still sighed a little greedy, wishing that the nine tripods in front of him were the real Dayu Nine Dayu...

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