Tai Si

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Tai Si ( Chinese  太 姒 , around 12th - 11th centuries BC) was the wife of King Wen of Zhou and is revered as a highly respected woman in ancient China . She was a descendant of Yu the Great - founder of the Xia dynasty - and mother of ten sons, including King Wu of Zhou - founder of the Zhou dynasty - and his younger brother, the Duke of Zhou .

Revered in particular by Wu Zetian , China's only imperial regent, Tai Si and King Wen were given the temple names "Shizu" ( Chinese  始祖 ) in 690 .

Life

Tai Si is said to have been born in the Youxin clan ( Chinese  有 莘 氏 ) with the lineage name Si in today's Heyang. The Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian wrote in Shiji that it originally came from the older state of Qi or Zeng , both of which were in and around today's Henan .

The traditional story of Tai Si's ascent to queen has it that the future King Wen of Zhou, née Chang, was walking along the banks of the Wei River one day and met Tai Si for the first time. Chang was so captivated by her beauty that at first he thought she was a goddess or an angel. Tai Si turned out to be a woman of kindness, wisdom, and simple aspirations, and Chang decided to take her as his wife. Because the Wei River did not have a bridge, Chang had one built by tying a number of boats together to create a floating path across the river. Tai Si was impressed and they got married.

After Tai Si was accepted into her husband's family, she is said to have quickly won the favor of the other women in the royal family through diligence, ethics and demeanor. She and the king had ten sons together, and Tai Si is said to have been an exceptional teacher and mother, so that all of the sons became upright and wise men.

reception

Guan Ju , the opening song of the Chinese Book of Songs , with its opening description of a beautiful maiden who picks plants on a river bank and is loved by a young prince, is said to describe the first meeting of Tai Si and the prince on the Wei River.

literature

  • Joachim Hengstl, Ulrich Sick: Current Issues in the Analysis od Semitic Grammar and Lexicon II: Oslo-Goteborg Cooperation 4th-5th November 2005 . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05387-7 , p. 166 ff . ( books.google.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 合 阳 政府 公众 信息 网 - 太 姒. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2006 ; Retrieved November 10, 2016 (Chinese).
  2. ^ Edwin G. Pulleyblank: Ji 姬 and Jiang 姜: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organization of the Zhou Polity . In: Sarah Allan (Ed.): Early China Journal . tape 25 , 2000, ISSN  2325-2324 , pp. 1–27 , doi : 10.1017 / S0362502800004259 (English, online [PDF; 497 kB ]).
  3. ↑ a b 蔡振 绅 , Cai zhen shen , 陈 燮 枢 校 , Chen xie shu : 得 育 课本 , De yu ke ben . Hua yi chu ban she, Beijing 2009, ISBN 978-7-80142-733-5 (Chinese).
  4. ^ Book of Poetry. Lessons from the states. Odes Of Zhou And The South. In: Chinese Text Project. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Tai Si
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 太 姒 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese royal wife and queen mother
DATE OF BIRTH between 12th century BC BC and 11th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 12th century BC BC and 11th century BC Chr.