宋國
宋微子,名啓,世稱微
子啓(“微”是國號,“子”是爵位),是商王帝乙的長子,紂王的庶兄(《呂氏春秋》稱微子與紂王同母,但是微子出生時,其母尚未成為妃,所以是庶子),宋國開國遠祖。
紂王在位時,微
子啓曾經數次勸諫他,紂王沒有接納。
周武王滅商後,微
子啓持祭器來到周軍的軍門,襢肉面伏,左牽羊右把茅,膝行而前,武王釋放了他。周朝平定三監之亂後,封商朝王族微
子啓於宋地(今河南商丘),建立宋國,代替被殺的紂王之子武庚祭祀商朝祖先。微
子啓死後,其弟衍立,是為微仲。
《史記》為了避漢景帝劉啓諱,把微
子啓改稱為“微子開”。
King Wu of destruction operators, the micro sub-Kai Zhou Jun, holding ceremonial vessels to the military gate, their faces bare flesh, the left leading a sheep and the right to Mao, Xi Xing while ago, King Wu released him. Zhou Zhaoping be three supervisors from the chaos after the closure of Kai Shang royal family in the Song to micro-son (now Shangqiu), the establishment of Song, instead of killing the son of King Zhou Wu Geng Shang ancestor worship. Micro son Kai's death, his brother Yan Li, is a micro-Chung.