伊尹

汤死后，伊尹辅佐汤的3个孩子为天子。

After the death of Tang , Yi Yin assisted Tang'three children ruling the country .

伊尹：商汤建朝与伊尹的辅佐是分不开的。

Yi Yin ： The establishment of the Shang Dynasty had a close connection with the assistance of Yi Yin .

伊尹，宰相，曾是汤的妻子陪嫁奴隶，在厨房干活。

Yi Yin , the prime minister , had been a dowry slave of Tang 's wife working in the kitchen .

如今，有关伊尹的纪念性遗迹广布河洛和豫东鲁西南两个区域。

Yi Yins relics can be widely found in Heluo Area and the east of Henan Province and southwest of Shandong Province .

太甲在桐宫住了3年，终于悔过自新，伊尹又把政权交给他。

Living in the Tonggong Palace for three years , Tai Jia eventually regretted and went straight . Then , Yi Yin restored him .

汤还采纳伊尹的建议，停止朝贡夏朝以试夏桀的实力。

Tang adopted Yi Yin 's suggestions to stop paying tribute to the Xia Dynasty in order to sound out the strength of Jie .

伊尹很有才能，为了让汤发现自己，故意有时把菜做得很可口，有时却或咸或淡。

He was very capable . In order to have Tang notice his ability , he sometimes cooked the meal delicious , sometimes salty or tasteless deliberately .

伊尹活了100多岁，当了20年国相，为商王朝的稳定打下了坚实的基础，成为我国历史上第一个著名的贤相。

Living for more than a hundred years , Yi Yin had been the prime minister for twenty years , laying a solid foundation for the stabilization of the Shang Dynasty . He became the first capable official in Chinese history .

太甲在位3年期间，不遵守商汤立下的法令，伊尹多次劝告无效，于是，伊尹把太甲关进桐宫，希望他反省，自己亲自执政。

King Tai Jia did not obey the decree made by Tang in his three-year reign , and Yi Yin persuaded him for many times , but failed . Consequently , Yi Yin shut him in Tonggong Palace , hoping him to have a self-reflection , and governed the state himself .

汤和伊尹见时机成熟，就由汤召集部众，出兵伐夏，在鸣条（今河南封丘东）一举攻灭了夏桀，建立了中国历史上第二个奴隶制王朝——商朝，定都亳。

Tang and Yi Yin took the opportunity of it , calling on all tribes to crusade against Jie . Consequently , Jie was defeated at the battle of Mingtiao ( East of the present-day Fengqiu in Henan ) . Tang established the second slave dynasty - the Shang Dynasty , and the capital was Bo .