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What is a hero? Heroes generally refer to people who have abilities beyond ordinary people, or people who have led ordinary people to make significant contributions by virtue of courage and wisdom, or people who have made great achievements with their own strength for the cause of justice. In short, smart show, called Ying; Courage, called heroic. "Heaven and earth are heroic, and the autumn is still awe-inspiring." Such people often stand up at the critical juncture of the country, have the courage to take responsibility for the interests of the nation, and do not flinch even if they throw their heads and spill their blood, and such people can be called heroes.
Heroes, with the ambition of Lingyun, the momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers, the amount of Kyushu, and the mind of the four seas! They carried justice on their shoulders, saved the people from fire and water, and relieved the people from hanging upside down. In the twenty-first chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Cao said: "Do you know the changes of the dragon?" Xuande said: "I don't know the details. Cao said: "The dragon can be big and small, and it can rise and hide; The big one is the clouds and the fog, and the small one is hidden and hidden; The rising is soaring between the universe, and the hidden is lurking in the waves. Fang is deep in this spring, the dragon changes when the time comes, and the Jews have the ambition to cross the seas. Dragons are things, comparable to the heroes of the world. β
Heroes possess the ability to defy all and the power of the universe, and the world is not only in awe of them, but also elusive. In ancient and modern times, heroes are often like stars in the sky, looking up and out of reach. However, there are very few of the most special ones. "Zaijingtang Collection: The People Say": "The prosperity of the country, thieves make meritorious contributions with heroes; The defeat of the country, the officials and scoundrels despise the law. "The intention of Wenzong is related to this spirit.
Therefore, Mencius admired the ancient sages very much, and praised the heroes and wise men who rose from difficulties and difficulties, and at the same time praised their outstanding character and extraordinary spiritual strength, they also valued the role of adversity in motivating them to become talents. All he sang loudly: "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they are tempted to endure and benefit what they cannot." He also said: "If you want to rule the world peacefully, who can you do in this world?" "That's the call to heroes. However, heroes are big and small. The greatest heroes of ancient times were tribal leaders, emperors and generals, great leaders, sages and sages, and national elites, who either led tribes and states to rise in a corner, enjoy independence, freedom and dignity, and protect their country from foreign invasion and bullying, or they raised their voices and used their thoughts, words and deeds to awaken the people of that time and in later generations, so as to liberate their bodies and souls. As the saying goes: Daigo empowerment, drink as a head. The times create heroes, and heroes create the times.
The ancients were unable to explain some phenomena and said that some great people were born saints. Like in "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong is known as a natural saint. However, some people say that he was born without falsehood, how can he be a saint? As everyone knows, the so-called saints of the ancients do not all refer to those who are highly knowledgeable, have reached a certain state of thought, or have reached a certain height of moral cultivation, but contain the meaning of heroes. Wu Chengen's meaning is: a big hero born by God. Born gods, saints are. The words of "Zhou Yi β’ Department of Words": "Divine Object" refers to the yarrow turtle. "Then", "Guangya Interpretation": "Then, the law also." "Heaven gave birth to a miraculous yarrow and a miraculous spirit turtle, and the saints created divination and divination according to it. A saint here refers to a person with a special creative ability. But how can Heaven give birth to heroes? This is to make people understand that as long as they can follow the way of heaven, or conform to the way of heaven, they can also create heroes. This Heavenly Dao actually refers to the laws of nature. The ancients attached great importance to the induction of heaven and man, and they believed that the human world could sense the heavens, and the heavens could also show images to the world. As long as people can make significant achievements according to the hints of the Divine, they can become heroes.
However, the intelligent Chinese combined this mysterious celestial phenomenon with the ancient Yili, thus forming a unique phenomenon of Chinese civilization. For example, the ancients believed that China's vast territory could correspond to the division of heaven, and this theory that celestial phenomena correspond to personnel and can sense each other comes from the "Hetu" and "Luoshu", which is also the source of all Chinese philosophical thoughts. In this way, the ancients divided the human region into five parts, namely the west, the east, the south, the north, and the center, and the heaven corresponding to each direction was ruled by a leader in the sky, they were the emperor of heaven, respectively, the white emperor of the west, the green emperor of the east, the red emperor of the south, the black emperor of the north, and the yellow emperor of the center. And these five heavenly emperors are ordained by God, this God is the master of the universe in the Chinese concept, and it is also commonly known as heaven.
The ancient Chinese divided everything in the universe into five categories, which are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and these five categories are mutually reinforcing. It is precisely because of the principle of restraint between them that the balance, harmony and operation of the great space of the universe are constituted. Therefore, "Guanzi Xinshu" says: "The Tao is between heaven and earth, its big is outside, and its small is inside." "We applied the principle of restraint between the five categories of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth to the corresponding regions of the country, and a miracle occurred.
In the year of the Western Weekend, King Xuan of Zhou eventually lost the country because of the nursery rhyme of "Arc Keifu", and later King Ping moved east and set the capital in Luoyi (Luoyang). From then on, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty began to decline, and the Qin State rose. The ancients believed that it was the will of heaven, but in fact, it can be seen from the principle of the five elements: the Zhou Dynasty will inevitably decline, and the Qin State will inevitably rise. Because Luoyang is geographically analyzed, it belongs to the central soil, and the soil can produce gold, that is to say, the Zhou Dynasty helped the rise of the Qin State. Because after King Ping moved the capital, he gave the land west of Kushan to Qin Xianggong. The state of Qin was subsequently made a vassal state, and since then it has slowly grown stronger, which is completely consistent with historical facts.
However, the Qin State unified the world, and because of excessive killing, it must suffer ominousness, and it is bound to be retributed, so there is a new proverb: "Hu Ye, the one who died in Qin." "The demise of the Qin State seems inevitable again. Looking at it this way, because Qin and Chu had too deep a grudge, the important thing was that Qin deceived Chu Huai Wang Ke Qin, and later died in Qin State. Imagine that a country deceives the head of another country to death, which will inevitably arouse the national anger of the victim country, so the Chu State has a bitter tooth for the Qin State, which is a great hatred for the country. Later, when the Qin State attacked the Chu State, it invested the most troops and took the longest time. Therefore, the prophecy master Nan Gong said a terrible proverb: "Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu." This proverb is still like a spell, always haunting the minds of the Chu people. But who can accomplish this great mission? In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng died on his fifth and final tour, which led to another remarkable figure, Liu Bang. How is this person great? Just look at his birth.
In 259 BC, two years after Ying Zheng was born, a strange thing happened in Zhongyangli in Fengyi, Pei County, Surabaya County, Western Zhou. One day, a mother went to a bridge over the Paoshui River to take shelter from the rain because she was out in the rain. It happened that her husband was also looking for her, and suddenly he saw a thick fog on the bridge, thunder and lightning. When I looked closely, I saw a dragon hovering and churning in the thick fog. After a burst of clouds and rain, the dragon disappeared. The husband hurried to look and saw that his wife seemed to wake up from a nightmare, and she felt as if she was pregnant. Ten months later, she really gave birth to a boy, Liu Bang, who later founded the foundation of the Han Dynasty. "Historical Records", "Hanshu" and the successive compilation of "Fengxian Chronicles", "Xuzhou Mansion Chronicles" have such records, and later generations will call this bridge Longwu Bridge, and build a temple and set up a monument. Until the third year of Song Shaosheng, because of the severe drought, Du County of Feng County also went to Longwu Bridge to pray for rain, and Jiaolong appeared because of this, and it rained again. People rebuilt the Longwu Bridge and the Longwu Temple in the north of the bridge, and recorded this incident on the inscription, and the monuments still exist today.
Whether it is Qin Shi Huang or the later famous Liu Peigong, they are all the same generation that came out of the decline of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which seems to have been destined in the dark: when Qin Shi Huang died at the age of fifty, the forty-seven-year-old Liu Bang was about to take over the great mission given to him by God to manage and govern this great empire, so he raised troops from the post of Surabaya Pavilion Chief. When Liu Bang was the pavilion chief of Pei County, he escorted a group of strong men to Lishan to repair the tomb for the county. Most of the people fled on the way. Liu Bang himself measured that even if he arrived in Lishan, he would be killed according to the crime, so he went to the dry area in the west of Fengxian County and simply let all the strong men go, and said to them: "You all go, I will disappear from now on!" Among these people, there are more than a dozen strong men who are willing to follow, just because they are like-minded, they get drunk, and then prepare to go to Mangdang Mountain to fall into the grass to avoid disaster. A person went to the front to explore the way, and suddenly ran back and said: "Liu Tingchang, there is a big snake in front of you, it is scared to death, let's change the route?" Liu Bang took advantage of the wine and said: "The husband is alone in the world, what insects and snakes are you afraid of?" So he went to the front, drew his sword, and cut the serpent in two, and then kicked it fourteen inches away, and walked through the middle. They walked for a while, and then went to the front to rest. At this time, there was a man walking behind in the procession, and after a while he ran to Liu Bang and said that he saw an old lady crying on the side of the road. I asked her why she was so sad. She said, "My son was killed!" So he asked her what her son was doing and who killed him. She replied: "My son is the White Emperor, turned into a snake and blocked the road, and was killed by the Red Emperor, so he is very sad?" The listener thought she was talking nonsense, so he broke a branch and prepared to beat her. The old lady suddenly disappeared.
People were shocked when they heard such a thing, but Liu Bang, who woke up, didn't know anything. At that time, people heard that the First Emperor said: "There is a son of heaven in the southeast". So he often went out on patrol to suppress it. Liu Bang suspected that this matter had something to do with him, so he hurriedly ran towards Mangdang Mountain. Since then, people have become more and more in awe of Liu Bang. Xuzhou Feng County cut snake ditch, ancient name "Feng Xize". "Three Families Note Historical Records" recorded: "Including the land of Zhiyun: the source of the snake ditch is out of the middle flat land of Feng County, Xuzhou, so the old Yun Gaozu cut the snake place, to the west of the county fifteen miles into the water also. "Yuanhe County Atlas" records: "Feng Xize, in the west of (Feng) County fifteen miles. Han Gaozu slashed the white snake here. LΓΌ Pheasant and the others later searched for her husband and found him off the beaten track. Liu Bang felt strange and asked what was going on. Lu Pheasant said: "There is always a cloud condensing above the place where you live, so we can always find you." After the people of Pei County heard about it, more and more people joined it. Later, Liu Bang entered the customs and destroyed the Qin Dynasty, which was in response to the prophecy of the Red Emperor and the White Emperor. However, the big snake could not be cut in vain, and later Wang Mang (python) broke the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty fourteen years later. A good dynasty was divided into the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty, which corresponded to Liu Bang's retribution for killing the snake.
The first great hero of the Six Kingdoms to oppose Qin should be Zhang Liang first. Zhang Liang was born in an aristocratic family, and his grandfather Zhang Kaidi was re-elected as the prime minister of the three Korean dynasties during the Warring States period. His father, Zhang Ping, also succeeded as the prime minister of the Second Korean Dynasty. Zhang Liang first went to the east to meet Canghaijun, found a strong man, and made a sledgehammer weighing one hundred and twenty pounds for him. After careful planning, they made a shocking blow in Bolangsha. It's a pity that he hit the passenger car by mistake and attempted to assassinate, which caused the heroic plan to be shattered. Zhang Liang escaped from Bolangsha and came to Xiapi. One day I went out to the bridge and met a white-haired old man. The old man asked him to meet him for the third time, and then gave him three volumes of military books, and told him that the situation must change in ten years, and there will be kings in the abundant area, and Zhang Liang should choose a wise monarch to assist.
The consequences of the past ten years have been as they have been said, and the rebels have been surging in various places. Zhang Liang, who was determined to resist Qin, also gathered a group of people and raised the banner of anti-Qin. But because of the situation, he was alone, so he went to Jingju, the king of Chu, and met Liu Bang halfway. From then on, Zhang Liang gave advice to Liu Bang, and finally entered Guanzhong and eliminated the Qin State. Therefore, Su Dongpo said: "The so-called heroes of the ancient times must have a festival of excellence." If there is a human affection that cannot be forgiven, the husband sees the humiliation, draws his sword and rises, and stands up to fight, which is not enough to be brave. There are brave people in the world, who come suddenly and are not surprised, and do not get angry for no reason...... The reason why Guanfu Gaozu won and the reason why Xiang Ji lost was between being able to endure and not being able to bear it. Xiang Ji can only not bear it, and he uses his edge lightly to win a hundred battles; Gaozu endures it, raises its full edge and treats its disadvantages, and this son teaches it. "Zhang Liang is worthy of being the first strategist in ancient and modern times.
Qin Shi Huang died, and his youngest son, Hu Hai, succeeded to the throne. Hu Hai is also very virtuous, which can be seen from what Zhao Gao said when he usurped power. Li Silie's biography records: "Zhao Gao therefore withheld the edict given by the first emperor to Fusu, and said to his son Hu Hai: "The emperor has died, and there is no edict to crown the sons as kings, but only to give the eldest son Fusu an edict." When the eldest son arrives, he ascends the throne as emperor, and you don't even have a fief of size, what should you do? Hu Hai said: "That's how it is. I have heard that the sovereign of the Holy Ming knows the courtier best, and the father of the Holy Ming knows the son best. My father did not give an order on his deathbed to divide the sons, so what else is there to say? Zhao Gao said: "Not really. Today's power, no matter whose life or death is in the hands of you, me and Li Si! I hope you think about it. What's more, can it be the same to control the ministers and to call others a subordinate, to rule over others and to be ruled by others? Hu Hai said: "It is unrighteous to abolish a brother and establish a brother; It is unfilial piety to disobey one's father's edict and fear death; It is incompetent to be shallow in one's own talents, relying on the help of others and barely ascending to the throne. These three things are all rebellious, and if they are done, and the people of the world do not obey me, I will suffer disaster myself, and the country will perish. From these words, it can be judged that Qin II Hu Hai was also a sage. And he eventually became a generation of tyrants, which is entirely related to his teacher Zhao Gao.
Zhao Gao came from a humble background, and when Qin Shi Huang heard that he was diligent and proficient in law, he promoted him to the rank of Zhongche Fu, in charge of the emperor's chariot, and made him Hu Hai's teacher. Because Zhao Gao is good at observing words and feelings, and flattering him, he quickly won the appreciation and trust of Hu Hai's mother. When Zhao Gao committed a capital crime, Meng Yi did not dare to violate the law and sentenced Zhao Gao to death according to the law. Zhao Gao was clever in his words, and finally Qin Shi Huang pardoned him and reinstated him, and since then he has been married to the Montessori family. After Hu Hai ascended the throne, the second emperor created a series of horrific murders at the extreme instigation of Zhao Gao, resulting in the annihilation of all the children of the Qin clan, which was also the result of Qin Shi Huang's large-scale recruitment of boys and girls to go to sea to seek immortals.
In the "Book of Songs", there is: "Sweep God, and the people will be opened." Mighty God, his life is many. Born with a people, his fate is a traitor. There is no beginning, and there is an end. This poem was originally a satirical poem of King Zhou, and it is also the best to satirize Qin II here. The second pampered and pampered, only cared about eating, drinking and having fun, and handed over all state affairs to Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao was like the culprit sent by God to destroy the Qin State, and he spared no effort to complete his historical mission. Later generations also wrote poems praising Zhao Gao and said: "Zhao Gao, the kings and grandsons of Zhao State, begged for the Qin thief to be mutilated." Zhao Gao's name is in the legend of the immortals, and the immortal family is indiscriminately selected. The index is quite argumentative, and the deer and horses plan to win the long war. In the middle of the day, the white rainbow disappeared, and Wang Sun was originally a guest of Handan. There are no heroes in the dead and wasted, and there is nothing to do in the mountains and rivers. Subverting Xianyang Zhi has been rewarded, and the group of Itozi baby Will. Also: "Back then, the whole world wanted to punish Qin, which was for fame and killing." First go to Fusu and then Hu Hai, Zhao Gaogong crowned the ministers of the Han Dynasty. Dajia wiped out the woman and plotted to prosper Xiao Cao. The marquis cone iron Jingqing dagger is not as high as Zhao Gao of the Qin Palace. "It is pure nonsense to call him a hero who avenged the Six Kingdoms. Even if Zhao Gao is a native of Zhao State, it has been a matter of eighteen generations of ancestors and grandchildren since the founding of his ancestors. How did Zhao Gao's ancestors come to Qin? There is no way to test, how can it be said that Zhao Gao is avenging Zhao Guo? If you push it like this, the surname Ying and the surname Zhao were originally the same family, because they are both descendants of Lian, and Zhao Gao died in Qin, is this the same clan cannibalism? At best, Zhao Gao is a sinister villain and villain who plays with intrigue and trickery, and is purely a sinister villain and villain such as Yi Ya, Ji Diao, and Kai Fang, and is finally nailed to the pillar of historical shame.
The Qin State sent Wang Jian to lead an army of 600,000 to destroy Chu, and it was Xiang Yan, a famous general of the Chu State, who led the Chu army to resist the Qin army. Although the Chu army put up a hard resistance, it was finally defeated, and Xiang Yan also committed suicide in defeat. But his heroism will always be celebrated in Chudi. As the son of Xiang Yan, Xiang Liang naturally has a deep hatred for the Qin State, and has always been plotting how to take revenge. After more than ten years, Chen Sheng suddenly attacked, and since then he has ignited the flame of revenge of the Six Kingdoms, and also ignited the fire of Xiang Liang's revenge, so he and his nephew Xiang Yu launched a military mutiny, brazenly raising the banner of rebellion. Later, Fan Zeng, a man who lived in the nest, was invited to be a military advisor, and Fan Zeng suggested that the queen of Chu should be the king, so as to have appeal. Xiang Liang found Xiong Xin, the grandson of King Chu Huai, among the people, and still established himself as King Chu Huai. Since then, the people of Chu have been very encouraged, and the wave of uprisings has surged.
However, the Chu people's hatred of Qin is deep, as well as the propaganda and infiltration of its culture, which makes the Chu people's patriotic spirit and national consciousness unprecedentedly high, that is, Qu Yuan, who strongly admonishes King Chu Huai to resolutely not be a guest of Qin. Qu Yuan is a descendant of Qu Bian, the son of Xiong Tong, the king of Chuwu. Because he was excluded and slandered by the nobles, he was exiled to the northern Han and Yuanxiang valleys. After the state of Chu was defeated by the Qin army, he was extremely sad and angry, and he sank into the Miluo River and was martyred. His poetry is full of a strong patriotic spirit, as a great patriot, his spirit, character and literary contributions are admired by the people of Chu and later generations, and his patriotic spirit of pursuing truth and unyielding will always affect the hearts of every Chu person and his descendants. Li Bai also sighed: "Qu Ping's words are endowed with the sun and the moon, and the overlord Taixie is empty on the hills. Therefore, under the influence and influence of such culture, the Chu people naturally have no respect for the Qin people, which means that unless the great human king, the First Emperor, is always alive and at the helm, no one dares to rebel, otherwise the heroes covet and move.
In short, Qin Shi Huang unified China, but the Great Qin Empire he established was a great success, and Ze was used by future generations. People of insight now generally believe that without Qin Shi Huang, there would be no 9.6 million square kilometers of great power; Some people also compare the current European Union with the European Union, saying that if Europe had a Qin Shi Huang like China a long time ago, it would not be divided today. From this comparison, the greatness of Qin Shi Huang can be better set off, which shows how important the Great Qin Empire is to the prototype model of the great unification of the Chinese nation. Unfortunately, this empire did not last long, with the first emperor Yan driving, the successor was mediocre, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang suddenly attacked, they ignited what Professor Li Kaiyuan called the post-Warring States era, and the empire fell back into a fragmented and chaotic situation.
Later, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu joined forces, Qin Shi was defeated, Qin Guan fell, and the emperor collapsed, which laid the groundwork for Liu and Xiang to compete for the world later. At the same time, it also laid a solid foundation for Liu Bang to establish the next Han Dynasty that lasted for 400 years. Sun Haohui said: "The Great Qin Empire is the source of Chinese civilization. "The Great Qin Empire is indeed one of the most important periods in the history of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, because this period is very short, only fifteen years, it was broken by the army of Chu, and the empire was wiped out. This was destined for Liu Bang to complete the reunification of the empire, so he followed the trend of history, raised troops from Pengcheng, and pointed his sword at Guanzhong. The way of heaven wants to destroy Qin, and the same is true for the five elements. Pei Gong raised troops from the south, and after more than a year, he finally attacked Wuguan, and the Qin State was completely destroyed, which also just verified the theory of the five elements principle of fire energy and gold. The following is a story about the heroes and sages who were not afraid of violence in the face of suffering, rose up to fight, and finally defeated evil and eliminated violence.