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For example, Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Questions" contains: "Wu Wang's three armies, everyone enjoys fighting, and they drive and gallop to the enemy to fight for the first place, singing before singing and dancing after, singing and cheering";

"Shangshu Dazhuan" contains: "King Wu defeated Zhou, and as far as the suburbs of Shang, he stopped sleeping. At night, the soldiers all danced and danced happily to wait for the dawn." ";

"Baihutong Ritual and Music" contains: "Wu Wang raised his troops, singing before and dancing..."

Based on these records, it can be seen that when King Wu of Zhou sent troops, he was accompanied by dances and songs;

When they arrived in Muye, on the night before the war, the soldiers also sang and danced all night to wait for the dawn;

When the battle was charging, there were still singing and dancing, cheering.

Dances and songs generally mean joy and lightheartedness.

A war accompanied by dances and songs from beginning to end, if it is not for the artistic expression in Yinsan's film, it must be an extremely holy and just battle.

But if we look at history with a calm and objective attitude, we will find that it is very unreasonable for "Wu Wang defeated Zhou, singing before singing and then dancing".

Taking off the sacred aura bestowed by later generations, the Battle of Muye is essentially a field battle between the main forces of the two armies.

Fighting with the posture of "singing before dancing" and winning, the only possibility is that the opponent is really weak.

However, the Shang army faced by the army of King Wu of Zhou was by no means a mob.

"The Book of Songs Daya Daming" records: "The journey of the Yin and Shang Dynasties will be like a forest, but lost in the pasture."

Even the Zhou people had to admit in their epics that during the Battle of Muye, the army of the Yin and Shang Dynasties was displayed on the field like a dense forest, and it was a well-organized and powerful force.

This negates the possibility that Yin Shang is a weak chicken.

You know, King Wu's defeat of Zhou was a real revolution.

The earliest use of the word "revolution" was to describe Shang Tang's extermination of Xia and Wu Wang's extermination of Shang. This is the famous "Tang-Wu Revolution".

The founding leader of our country once said: "Revolution is not a dinner party." This is an eternal truth.

Even the revolutionary work of 3000 years ago required bloodshed, sacrifice and fighting bravely. Revolutionaries must plan carefully and act carefully. How could they sing and dance during the war?

Just imagine, when two armies confront each other, one side sings and dances, and the other side takes this opportunity to rush over.

It may be difficult to convince people with reasons such as "winning the hearts of the people" and "high morale".

No matter how popular the people are, no matter how high the morale is, they must not act so frivolously and hastily during the war.

After all, it was "Xiaobangzhou" who fought against "Dayi merchants". It was a war of fighting the big with the small, and fighting the strong with the weak.

It is not enough to be cautious, and to do literary and artistic work in front of the two armies has surpassed Meng Lang.

Therefore, scholars have always been full of doubts about the record of "singing before dancing and dancing later".

And if we look at other historical materials, we will find that King Wu of Zhou, the leader of the Battle of Muye, was not in the mood of singing and dancing, but was extremely cautious.

"Shangshu Mushi" records Zhou Wuwang's words to the troops before the battle of Muye: "Today's affairs, don't make mistakes in six steps or seven steps, but stop and get together. Master Xuzai! Don't make mistakes in four cuts, Five cuts, six cuts, seven cuts, but stop, Qi Yan."

King Wu of Zhou asked his soldiers not to mess up their steps in the battle formation. After walking a few steps and fighting a few rounds, they must align with the surrounding people and not mess up the formation.

With such a rigorous and neat formation, there are strict requirements on footwork and hitting, which shows that King Wu of Zhou was cautious about this battle.

That being the case, how could he send an art troupe to sing and dance on the battlefield where the two armies are fighting?

The solution to this problem should be attributed to the famous ethnologist and historian Wang Ningsheng.

Mr. Wang published a very short article in the early 20s.

This article is "Interpretation of "Wu Wang Sings and Dances Before He Cracks Down on Zhou"", he only used about two or three pages to answer this difficult question.

The Shu people are involved here. Among the coalition forces of King Wu of Zhou were the "Sichuan Army" who immigrated to Xishan.

"Huayang Guozhi · Bazhi" records: "Bashi is brave, singing and dancing to challenge the people of Yin, and his predecessors turned against him."

"Ling" has the meaning of invasion and invasion.

"Singing and dancing to Ling" shows that the Ba army in the coalition army of King Wu charged forward with singing and dancing.

This kind of singing and dancing is a loud and exaggerated fighting style similar to singing and dancing, rather than singing and dancing for the purpose of art and aesthetics.

When Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Ba people still had this custom, they once served as the vanguard of the Han army, "dancing with vigor and joy", and were appreciated by Liu Bang, a dance lover.

Mr. Wang, by observing the war customs of the minority nationalities in the southwest in modern times, came up with the idea of ​​​​explaining "King Wu defeated Zhou, singing first and then dancing".

The Jingpo people in the Dehong area on the south side of the South Cloud, and the Yi people in the Liangshan area of ​​Sichuan Province both had the custom of "singing and dancing" before the war.

Before the battle begins, their vanguard wields a sword in one hand and a shield of horrific designs in radiant colors in the other.

While wielding knives and guns, they roared, creating a tense and terrifying atmosphere, and then led the troops to rush into the enemy's battle formation.

This behavior is essentially a pre-war preparation to boost morale and intimidate the enemy.

It's just that the movements are more exaggerated and the voice is more noisy.

Therefore, people who are not familiar with this custom and culture will think that this is singing and dancing before the battle.

It's like the Chinese nation beat drums before a battle, and its function is to boost morale and unify the pace, but drums can also be used as musical instruments.

Just imagine, if a person who is completely unfamiliar with the customs of the Chinese nation sees this kind of war custom, he will probably think that our ancestors played a drum before the battle.

The suspicion of "singing before dancing" cannot be said to have been completely resolved so far.

But Wang Ningsheng's explanation made by another way can be said to be quite convincing so far.

The Tangwu Revolution is indeed not a treat for dinner, and the Battle of Muye is not a Yinsan movie interspersed with large-scale music and dancing.

If we can go back to the Jiazi Day 3000 years ago, what we see should be quite tense, terrifying, and cruel scenes.

Anyway, Chen Wenzhe, who was watching the movie very relaxedly at the beginning, soon became nervous because he saw the heavy rain and the blood flowing.

For a modern person like him, how could such a scene look like a dinner party?

How festive and funny the previous singing and dancing scenes were, how cruel the war scenes are now.

How cruel the Battle of Muye, or how harmonious the Battle of Muye is, is a question that has troubled our people for thousands of years.

For a long time, because people were willing to believe that King Wu's defeat of Zhou was a just and holy revolution, the Battle of Muye was also described as a battle that was almost bloodless.

For example, "Historical Records Zhou Benji" records: "Although there are many masters of Zhou, none of them have the heart to fight, and they want King Wu to enter urgently. All the masters of Zhou turned their troops to fight to defeat King Wu. King Wu galloped, and all the soldiers of Zhou collapsed. "