preface
Forgotten corners of history
-- A judge's view of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Qiu Shan Kai
In the long history of the world, the East and the West have a period of history, which is known as the Dark Age.
The Dark Age of Europe arose in the Middle Ages, when royal power was subordinate to the church, and Europeans were controlled by the church from birth to death. In addition to the high-ranking missionaries who could read and write, even some monarchs were illiterate, and the whole people were ignorant. When the Black Death (bubonic plague), which lasted for six years, broke out, 25 million people fell to the ground in agony shouting God bless, and a third of Europe's population disappeared from the face of the earth forever. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Frankish, Visigothic, Saxon, Gaul and other nation-states emerged one after another.
The dark era of China in the east of the world refers to the Yongjia Rebellion, the Wuhu Invasion of China, and the Shenzhou Land Sinking. Don't doubt too much about the veracity of the appalling "two-legged sheep" incident for which the flow of water was cut off, because the struggle for survival of all ethnic groups always depends on iron and blood. This is a history that has been overlooked, consciously or unconsciously. If it is made into a film and television drama, you can only see the bottomless extravagance and lewdness between the high-ranking families of the scholars, the cannibalism of father and son, the adultery of uncles and sisters-in-law, and the ...... of national vendetta, full of negative energy; Not only that, the frequent replacement of the imperial throne and the rapid change of the king's flag at the head of the city make the main narrative line chaotic and difficult to grasp.
However, we should see that many ethnic groups that depend on each other and live in the land of China with great difficulty have finally completed the great integration in the bloody wind of more than 300 years. This is a positive energy that we should face squarely and deserve to write about.
The alloy is the most corrosion-resistant, the hybrid crops are the fullest, the collision ideas are the wisest, and the fusion nation is the best. The farming culture of the Han nationality, which has been cultivated by etiquette and religion for a long time, has been injected with a kind of heroic spirit of "exploring the tiger's den for thousands of miles, drawing swords and dancing dragon springs with three cups", and the nomadic culture of the Hu nationality, which has been in a barbaric state for a long time, has gradually been injected with a gentle and elegant spiritual connotation of "explaining the infinite hatred of the spring breeze and leaning on the north of Shen Xiangting". The cultural pattern of Confucianism dominating the world was broken, the pretentious, narrow-minded and narcissistic atmosphere was replaced by a new style of simplicity and vigor, inclusiveness and openness, and the second ideological emancipation movement after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period finally broke out, and a new era of inclusiveness and breadth and profundity quietly came.
And all this has to start with the birth of an ugly girl.