Chapter 62: Changing History

With copper as a mirror, you can be dressed; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. When human beings invented writing, wrote valuable experience into history, and passed on and accumulated from generation to generation, there was a long history of the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves.

Sanzang Pagoda in Jiuhuashan Park, coordinates 114.06455E, 22.54846N, Zhang Haitao and his friends sat in front of the statue of Tang Sanzang and talked about the topic of learning scriptures from the West: "In the process of studying Buddhism, Tang Xuanzang found that Buddhism, as a foreign religion, has many Buddhist scriptures that are incomplete, so he has the idea of repairing these broken Buddhist scriptures. In the third year of Zhenguan (629), due to the famine court allowed the people to survive on their own, Tang Xuanzang set off from Chang'an and arrived at the city of Magadha, the king of Magadha, Central India, to seek the Dharma, and returned for 17 years, a journey of 50,000 miles, bringing back a total of 520 clips and 657 pieces of Theravada Buddhist scriptures, becoming one of the four major translators of Chinese Buddhism and the founder of the Chinese Han Buddhism Enlightenment Sect ......"

Beijing Ancient Observatory, coordinates 114.06455E, 22.54846N, here is one of the oldest remaining astronomical observatories in the world, Li Cheng led the nest friends to visit the large astronomical instruments on the high platform, and then came to the statue to talk about the topic of Western learning to the East: "Xu Guangqi, a scientist of the Ming Dynasty, the first person to introduce the achievements of Western science." After the knowledgeable Xu Guangqi befriended the foreign missionary Matteo Ricci, he followed him to learn Western mathematics, astronomy, calendars and other natural science knowledge, and together they translated many scientific books. Yan Fu, a modern thinker, a highly influential bourgeois enlightenment thinker in the late Qing Dynasty, and one of the 'advanced Chinese' in modern Chinese history who sought truth from Western countries. Yan Fu absorbed the essence of ancient Chinese Buddhist scripture translation thoughts, combined with his own practical experience in translation, put forward the translation principles and standards of 'faith, attainment, and elegance' in the translation example of "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution", translated many Western academic masterpieces, and became a generation of grandmasters who opened up the wisdom of the people in modern China......"

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History, to put it simply, is the recording of time, place, people, and events. As more and more information is recorded, seemingly chaotic information points are twisted into lines and surfaces, and the longer the history, the more complete the rules can be presented. Thus, history, to put it more complicatedly, encompasses all aspects of the natural and social sciences.

When history is tampered with, the trajectory of the future will also change.

Learn about the history of the Three Kingdoms period from the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" written by the Western Jin Dynasty historian Chen Shou, the Three Kingdoms (220-280) is a period of Chinese history after the Han Dynasty and before the Jin Dynasty. As Chen Shou, a courtier of the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty inherited Wei and won the world, so the "Three Kingdoms" respected Wei as orthodox. In order to establish the legitimacy of Sima's Jin Dynasty succeeding Cao Wei, it is necessary to first establish the legitimacy of Cao Wei, and then regard the 220 years of Cao Pi's usurpation of the Han Dynasty as the fall of the Han Dynasty. In April 221, after "it was rumored that Emperor Han (Liu Xie) was killed", Liu Bei, a descendant of Liu Sheng, the son of Emperor Jing of Han, became the emperor of the Han Dynasty, built the capital of Chengdu, and continued to use the name of the Han State, demonstrating the legitimacy of his regime and showing that the Han Dynasty was not over. Therefore, in history, the Han Dynasty (202-220 BC) had a total of 29 emperors, and enjoyed the country for 405 years, missing the two emperors Liu Bei and Liu Chan of the Shu Han Dynasty, and missing 43 years of history (221-263).

In the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by the novelist Luo Guanzhong in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms divided the world into three parts of the world for Wei, Wu, and Shu, and carried out artistic processing of history and characters, exalting Shu and belittling Wei. And because "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is one of the four classical Chinese masterpieces, widely praised, therefore, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has become everyone's historical cognition of the Three Kingdoms period, we will "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a historical record, reconstruct a period of history, reshape the image of the characters, fictional more artistic military strategy, and some imaginary cases compiled into the "Thirty-six Strategies" This military book, which has influenced the social behavior pattern of later generations.

Falsifying history will cause future generations to produce fictitious times, places, people, and events, and make the natural laws and lessons learned by people lose their objectivity, produce wrong thoughts, make wrong actions, form a herd effect, and change the trajectory of the future.

At this time, the proportion of information erosion rose to 44%......