Chapter 627: What is the Tang Dynasty (3)
Then the fourth level is the Spring and Autumn Period, the Han Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, which can already be regarded as a very powerful and balanced dynasty, and there is no shortage of Ming monarchs and virtuous ministers.
First of all, the Spring and Autumn Period, culturally speaking, there are the most splendid and prosperous 'hundred schools of thought' in the history of our country, and the most awesome saints such as Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Mozi, Sun Tzu, and Zhuangzi were all born in this era, which has laid a solid foundation for the civilization of our entire Chinese history, not to mention these big guys, even if they are worse than them, such as Sun Wu, Wu Qi, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Pang Juan, Shang Ying, etc., they can shock a large piece of it to future generations.
Then from the military and political top, there are the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, and the more arrogant and domineering Warring States Seven Heroes are different, the Spring and Autumn Period is still more important to etiquette and humility, everyone values their reputation and face, take the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons in the most awesome Qi Huan Gong and Jin Wen Gong for example, their goals are also to support the Zhou Dynasty royal family to become famous in the world, Qi Huan Gong and Guan Zhong are the princes of Jiuhe to fight against the surrounding barbarians, so that our Han people firmly occupy the orthodox position of Chinese civilization.
Then there is the Qing Dynasty, everyone knows that the Qing Dynasty was founded by the Manchus, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, many bloody things were done, such as the famous 'keep your hair without leaving your head, keep your head without leaving your hair', and 'Jiading Three Massacres', killing a lot of Han people, but fortunately, the next few emperors still attached great importance to Sinology, and also took the lead in reading Chinese books, writing Chinese characters, learning Chinese, etc., such as Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, and several emperors were all masters of Sinology, and the calligraphy was more beautiful than the vast majority of Han scholars.
In addition, they also learned the lessons of the dark rule of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, they firmly controlled the power of the eunuchs, and did not organize any spies in the south and north factories, on the other hand, they also lightly dismissed the thin endowment, and the people's livelihood, which led to the prosperity of Kangqian for more than 100 years, and the common people finally lived a long time of peace, This situation is not a prosperous era is absolutely impossible, and it is estimated that these people in the Yuan Dynasty died of hard work at the age of forty.
Finally, there is the Han Dynasty, which is also what our Chinese sons and daughters are most proud of. One of the two dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty also gave this title to the founding of the country, during the founding of the country, there was Gaozu Liu Bang to overthrow the tyrannical Qin, three chapters of the law, and defeated the glorious deeds of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, although he was bullied by the Xiongnu in the north, but his descendant Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, helped him get this breath out, and even escaped back with profits, Changping Hou Weiqing and the champion Hou Huo went to the sick and took turns to attack, so that the Huns could not stay in their hometown, and could only go all the way west to scourge Europe.
Here again feel sorry for Europe for three seconds, don't look at Europe now is the first world, the economy and culture are very strong, but at that time, all the nomads who were defeated by us and couldn't stay in our north could only run to where they were, but they couldn't beat it, who is strong and who is weak, needless to say, right?
As for the later Guangwu Zhongxing, it also added a lot of color to the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu has always been an emperor who has been underestimated a lot, everyone says that the emperors are Tang Dynasty Song Zu, Qin Emperor Han Wu, Kangxi Qianlong, Spring and Autumn Five Tyrants, 'Make Jun and Cao', etc., and even losers like the overlord of Western Chu have a lot of supporters, but in fact, Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu is really good, good at employing people and has no obvious defects, but because of the relatively low-key and no romance to publicize, the emperors are not known.
Of course, the only drawback of the Han Dynasty is in the culture, the most famous culture of the Han Dynasty is 'Fu', which is a style that is greater in form than in content, it can only be said to be distinctive, but it is not a status with Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuan Qu, Ming and Qing dynasties, and now it has basically been lost, and Dong Zhongshu's one' Depose the Hundred Schools of Confucianism', forcibly wiped out ninety percent of our gorgeous and colorful Zhuzi Hundred Schools of Culture, and the only remaining Confucian culture was also castrated, becoming neither male nor female, which may be the fundamental reason for the countless sissies in later generations, and it is precisely because of this reason that it lost its qualification to compete with the Tang Dynasty.
For the last level, there is only one candidate left, and that is Sheng Tang.
There is no reason, just because of its balance and tolerance, in terms of culture, she has the greatest poets Da Li Du, Xiao Li Du, Bai Juyi, Wang Majie and so on a string of shining names, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Yan Gu Liugu, Tang Xuanzang; In terms of martial arts, she has the Heavenly Khan, Tang Taizong, the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and other fortresses established in the homes of the surrounding ethnic minorities (everyone look at the US military garrison in Okinawa, Japan - I eat you, drink, your flowers, yours also soak your female college students, and finally you have to bow and thank you to understand); On the emperor, there are Tang Taizong (the first emperor in my mind), Tang Xuanzong, and the only female emperor Wu Zetian (although her personal character is problematic, her political achievements cannot be denied, and Cixi's old bitch is a scum in front of her).
These people of later generations are familiar with them, and maybe their ears have been cocooned, so let's talk about it from the enemy's side from a different angle, who is the biggest enemy of our country? I believe that nine out of ten people will say that it is Japan, yes, our neighbors across the sea have never been at ease with us, and the last century has brought us great harm, but this nation has a very strange characteristic, that is, whoever is strong, I will kneel and lick whom, even if you whip me, beat me, soak me, kill me, I will greet me with a smile; And if you're weaker than me, even if you're polite and respectful, I'll still bully you.
But there are only two countries that this country worships, the modern is the United States, the past is the Tang Dynasty, and Nara City is completely imitated by Chang'an at that time, and it is more thorough than the goose enterprise, and it is not even mentioned in micro-creation, it is the whole picture of the cat and the tiger (speaking of this, I have to sigh, our own country has already lost these almost, and now if we want to find the most original Tang culture, we have to go to Japan, I have to say that it is a shame), and they have always regarded themselves as the descendants of the Tang Dynasty, When we invaded China, we used this as a slogan, saying that we Chinese are not worthy of being the descendants of the Tang Dynasty...
And the evaluation of the enemy is often more telling, just like Jordan is called the god of the NBA not because of how many fans and supporters he has, but because he has conquered all opponents; And no one can do it before or since.
And the Tang Dynasty was the same, Chang'an was the political, economic, and cultural center of the entire global village at that time, and there was no one, at that time, foreigners were proud to be able to come to China, and if they could be an official here, they could go back to blow for a lifetime, but they couldn't get rid of it, and they were a hundred times more resolute than the attitude of some people in our country to go to the United States to get a green card - this is heaven, and they want me to go back to the original village, don't even think about it, I will die here!
Therefore, the glorious image of the Tang Dynasty and the coming dynasty of all countries has always been in Du Jia's heart, and at this time he did not hesitate to choose 'Tang' for his future country name, which is not a historical regression, but a tribute to the most dazzling era in China.
(End of chapter)