The purport of Confucianism was restricting the
power of emperor or king in polite or humble way. One of the method was using reputation.
After a person satisfied with all the material life what he cared about should
be reputation. So since the thousand years ago, the ruler of 周Dynasty set three group
of characters to indicate the life of a certain emperor or king. These characters
was called 谥号. The first group was characters
of good meaning, the second group was characters of neutral meaning and the
last group was characters of bad meaning. They stipulated that only after the
emperor died the later generation court could decide which character might
suitable for him. That is to say, during
his life, he didn’t even know what would be his谥号.
The emperor 幽was in fact his谥号 (it was a bad character).
His real name was宮涅.
Now he had died the four nobles taking the helm of state were decided to welcome
the old 太子, 宜臼
who
had been abolished by emperor 幽
and 褒姒as the new emperor.
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