What was the population of the Three Kingdoms period?

The Three Kingdoms period should be a low point for the Chinese population.

In the database, we learned that the population of the Eastern Han Dynasty reached more than 56 million in 157 AD, and after the great turmoil, in 260-28O AD, the total population of Wei, Shu and Wu may be only more than 760 thousand, less than one-seventh of the original. However, some people believe that although the population of the Three Kingdoms period has dropped sharply, it should not fall below 10 million.

How did the population plummet?

It is recognized in the history books that Cao Cao alone broke through Xuzhou and killed tens of thousands of Jianghuai refugees, so that "the Jianghuai is empty, and the people cannibalize each other".

In 192, Dong Zhuo's generals Li Arc (隺hú) and Guo Pan (汜 fa

Breaking through Chang'an, "when the three auxiliary people were still hundreds of thousands of households, the arc (隺hú) and other troops were robbed, attacking the city, the people were hungry, and they ate a little bit in two years." In the past two years, hundreds of thousands of households have lived in a prosperous area, and there is very little left of it, and it is desolate.

After Liu Xie escaped from Chang'an, his residence was a portal made of thorns, and the palace maids lacked food and clothing, and many starved to death on the way. Officials accompanying the driver often die on the side of the road when they go out to collect firewood.

Yuan Shao's army was in Hebei and sometimes relied on mulberries for food.

Yuan Shujun was in Jianghuai and had to feed his hunger with clams.

What's more, Kong Rong once created a theoretical basis for cannibalism. He said that eating people he didn't know was like eating an orangutan and eating a parrot.

Cheng Yu provided Cao Cao with a lot of dried human flesh in the military rations. All over the country are ten rooms and nine empty.

Even if we had a population of 10 million during the Three Kingdoms period, with a 1:1 ratio of men to women, then there would be 5 million men and 5 million women. But we see that how many women are there in Honghong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?

Is it just "war, let the women go away"?

Mrs. Zhurong is the only woman written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" who has actually been on the battlefield.

However, Mrs. Zhurong is a fictional character in Luo Guanzhong, which is not recorded in the official history. According to legend, she is a descendant of the fire god Zhurong and the wife of Meng Shu, the king of the Southern Barbarians.

This woman is strong in martial arts, good at flying knives, and once resisted the Shu army with Meng Shu.

There is a large passage in the description of her in the book:

When Meng Huo was discussing with his generals about defeating the Shu army, a person behind the screen suddenly laughed and said: "Since you are a man, why is there no wisdom?" Though I am a woman, I will fight with you. "It is regarded as Mrs. Zhurong. Mrs. lives in Nanban, after Zhu Rong; Good at flying knives, 100 shots.

Meng was agreed, and his wife Xin Ran got on the horse, and led hundreds of generals and 50,000 Shengli Cave soldiers to go out of the Yinkeng Palace to fight against the Shu soldiers.

Just turned the entrance of the cave, and a Biao army stopped him: for the head of the Shu general, it is Zhang Yu (嶷

ì)。

When the brute saw it, he set it off two ways early.

Mrs. Zhurong stuck five flying knives in her back, held eight long marks in her hands, and sat down on the curly-haired red rabbit horse. Zhang Yi (嶷

ì) Seeing it, secretly surprised. The two clashed. After the battle was not counted, the lady turned the horse and left. Zhang Yi (嶷

ì) rushed to it, and a throwing knife fell in the air. In a hurry, he separated his hand, hit his left arm, turned over and fell off the horse. The brute soldier shouted and will hide Zhang (嶷

ì) Bondage is gone.

Ma Zhong listened to Zhang Wei (嶷

ì) was held and rushed out to save.

Ma Zhong came to the front of the battle, and saw that Mrs. Zhurong stood tall and stood on her horse, and Zhong went forward to fight angrily, sat down on the horse, tripped and was captured.

They all went into the cave to see Meng Shu.

Celebratory banquets.

The lady slashes the axe hand out of Zhang Cheng (嶷

ì), Ma Zhong wants to be beheaded.

He was stopped and said: "Zhuge Liang let me go five times, if he kills him this time, it will be unjust." and imprisoned in the cave, waiting to capture Zhuge Liang, it is not too late to kill him. ”

Madame laughed and drank merry from her words.

Mrs. Zhurong has clear grievances, excellent martial arts, and stunning appearance, she should have a place on the list of beauties of the Three Kingdoms, and is called by fans of the Three Kingdoms: Thorn Beauty

However, after another battle, Mrs. Zhurong was captured alive by Zhao Yun in front of the two armies.

Later, after Zhuge Liang captured Meng Shu seven times, he surrendered to Shu Han with Meng Shu.

In addition, there is no such woman on the battlefield in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" makes you feel that it is a man's world, and only men are doing things - how is this possible?

Since the beginning of human beings, it has always been a woman behind a man (whether a man is successful or not, there is no woman behind him, and if he is not a pervert, he has to commit a crime, that is certain). Therefore, each of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms has one, or N women.

Save this careful thought, pay attention to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Three Kingdoms" and all the chronicles, records, local chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, as well as legends, operas, and even epitaphs and the Internet, widely collected, specifically sorted out the deeds of the women of the Three Kingdoms, after more than three years, intermittently wrote such a book, and enjoyed and tasted it with relatives.

Is there a theme?

Yes.

Throw a strong pill:

It justifies the women who were overwhelmed by war and patriarchal ideas during the Three Kingdoms period, and the indispensable role of women in this period of history.

"Role" has always been positive, negative and even negative, and the author does not make historical and moral judgments. It's like this, judge it however you want, that's your business.

In short, there were women during the Three Kingdoms period, and women were the hand that promoted the process of the Three Kingdoms.

- So, it's not pretending to be P, is it?

Zi said: Don't pretend to P, pretend to be P and be struck by lightning.

But what is such a thing?

Politics, certainly not;

Historical? Neither is it.

Historical records are mostly non-fictional. Luo Guanzhong's "Mrs. Zhurong" is a fictional character in itself, and I attracted it to become a fictional quadratic, how can it be called "Historical Records"?

Moreover, in the process of writing, there may be other fictions (too realistic, jammed, and lacking color).

Do you think historians are not fiction? Chen Shou is not fictional? Then, there are some secrets between the three kingdoms, and he doesn't look at people until he dies, how does he know? Sima Qian is not fictional, he knows how far Fan Xu's eyes are staring in "Hongmen Banquet", as if he has seen it. He didn't participate in the Hongmen banquet either, he wasn't fictional, how did he know?

There are all fictions, and the Sprinkle family is no exception.

So, "fiction" is the quality of fiction, am I writing fiction?

Even if it's a novel.

As for what constitutes a "novel", there has been endless debate since the Republic of China. Mr. Lu Xun has written about this.

The Sprinkle family thinks that any article that is not a political commentary, a historical record, has a character story, and does not rhyme, can be called a "novel".

Novels, not big talk, no need to groan, after tea and dinner, casually pull a few handfuls of eggs, can always be classified as "novels" (do not debate with anyone about this, with the theory of sprinkling the family as the conclusion).

- After saying this, it is much easier (you are a good person; You are a magnanimous gentleman [Lan]).

Then there is the problem of variant characters.

There are many variant characters in the names of people and places in the Three Kingdoms that cannot be found in our modern character plate. If you don't do some homework, it is very likely that this situation will occur: this variant word cannot be found in the network word disk, so it is empty, such as Cai Mao, the word "Mao" cannot be found, it is likely to become "Cai □", friends don't know what it is, causing dyslexia.

Therefore, in the text, when I encounter this kind of personal name, I turn that variant character into a similar character that can be found in the modern character plate, such as "Cai Mao", I write "Cai Mao", and the following note (碁mào) is like this: "Cai Mao (碁mào)".

Meaning, the original "mào" is this "碁", pronounced "mào". If there is really no "碁" character in the online word plate, at most this situation will occur, that is: "Cai Mao (□ mào)". Buddies will understand what I mean, you can't say that I'm fooled, or that I'm uneducated - really, uneducated people are most afraid of others saying that they are uneducated.

Of course, I'm just giving an example here, we have this "瑁" character in the word plate.

Yes, yes, no. There is a buddy of the Three Kingdoms, he gave birth to five or six sons, and specially gave his son a variant of the ancient period, the purpose is not to have the same name as others. Because, in addition to the compound surname during the Three Kingdoms period, the male name was two words, in this case, it is too likely to have the same name.

It was only in the Jin Dynasty that this phenomenon improved, and it was only then that we could see that there were gay men with three-character names.

There are no words in the word plate, or they are quite obscure, and there are many in "Three Kingdoms". For example, we rarely see "sage", we all say "death", "death", at most "sacrifice", so when I read it, I was dizzy. I think that children like me may also get dizzy, so I put a parenthetical pinyin note after "薨", like this: "薨 (hō

g）”。

My Love

After reading it, he said, "You've got a preschool book!" ”

It doesn't matter what kind of book it is, there is no dyslexia, and anyone who reads it can understand it, and this is my humble purpose.

Next, there is the question of the system: from where?

Grandpa Mao, well-read, Honghongru. He said that watching "Three Kingdoms" is more interesting than watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". So, for a while, there was an idea to write it down in the order of "Three Kingdoms". However, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", some are dry, and some places are not easy to understand, for fear of showing timidity, how can it be compared with Honghongru?

Write it according to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it's too cumbersome, needless to say that it's hard to write, and it reads like wearing a space hat on your head.

Just for this, I rubbed it for months, and I couldn't hit the keyboard.

Among them, there is one thing that I have nothing to write, so I copy the existing materials into the manuscript, delete and revise them, write a few sections, look okay, and write them down like this.

That's how I read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was written.

Anyway, this article and that article are not so related, like the matter of Da Qiao and her sister Xiao Qiao, after all, it is a minority (Da Qiao is Sun Ce's concubine, Xiao Qiao is Zhou Yu's wife, and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are the relationship between monarchs and ministers).

Brothers, sisters, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, you should read it as a collection of short stories or materials about the Three Kingdoms collected on the Internet.

I know that this kind of text is difficult to pick up and not likable, but who asked me to call myself "Sprinkler"?

Dear friends, bear with me, bear with me......