So on the way back to Beijing, King Wen fished without bait with a straight hook on one side of the river. As we all know, the hook is curved, but Jiang Ziya caught a lot of fish with a straight hook instead of bait.
King Wen saw it and thought it was a strange man (the ancients respected him very much), so he took the initiative to talk to him and found that he was really a useful talent, so he confessed. Later, Jiang Ziya helped King Wen and his son overthrow the rule of Shang and Zhou Dynasties and established the Zhou Dynasty. Two-part allegorical saying: Jiang Taigong is fishing-who wants to take the bait?
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Personality influence:
Jiang Ziya ruled the country and established the policy of "simplicity and courtesy, prosperity in commerce and trade, and profit from fish and salt", which was passed down from generation to generation in the development history of Qi for hundreds of years and had a great influence, laying the historical position of Qi culture.
More than 3,000 years after Taigong's death, people worshipped his noble personality, mourned his great achievements, fabricated many fairy tales and praised him with simple feelings. It is said that he studied Taoism in Kunlun Mountain, then went down the mountain to help Zhou destroy the merchants under the teacher's order, and then made a name for himself under the teacher's order. This made him gradually deified in books such as Taiping Yu Lan and Shen Fengji.
In the Ming Dynasty, Xu's reverence for Taigong was beyond words. He wrote a mythical novel "The Legend of Immortals", which described Taigong as the god in charge of all the gods in the world. The magic and majesty of the squire became the idol of exorcism and strengthening the body. Although these are beyond the historical truth, they reflect the lofty position of Jiang Ziya in people's minds.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiang Taigong Fishing