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Chapter 32 This one is also like a doctor

Jin Zhangzong was the Tude established in the second year of Taihe, but only four years later, his gravediggers appeared in the territory of the Jin Kingdom——In 1206 AD, Temujin of the Mongolian nationality was in the grassland of the Onan River. , claiming to be "Genghis Khan".From then on, Mongolia broke through the Eurasian continent with iron hooves and established a huge empire. Whether it was the Jin Dynasty, which had just changed Tude, or the Southern Song Dynasty, which still continued Huode, they were all wiped out by Mongolia in the end. In 1271 AD, when the Southern Song Dynasty was still lingering, Kublai Khan, the grandson of Temujin, was the Mongolian Khan.However, his profuse khan is hypocritical. The grassland tribe in his hometown and the four khanates established successively in the west are not very obedient. The territory he can really control is the Han land in the Central Plains.That being the case, Kublai Khan thought, why don't we change the name of the country to a Chinese style and become a Chinese dynasty, and Lao Tzu might as well be the emperor of China.

So, what kind of Han-style country name should we choose?Kublai Khan asked Liu Bingzhong, his chief of staff, for advice.This Liu Bingzhong is amazing. He has a good knowledge of astronomy and geography, and is knowledgeable. He is a senior postdoctoral fellow of the "Shunde School". "Shunde School", also known as "Xingzhou School", is an academic group formed spontaneously by a group of Han scholars, including Liu Bingzhong, Zhang Wenqian, Zhang Yi, Wang Xun, Guo Shoujing, etc. Different from traditional Confucian scholars, they like Research science and technology, and have achieved many major achievements in astronomy, mathematics, hydraulic engineering, and civil engineering.Guo Shoujing measured the meridians, compiled the "Shoushi Calendar", and dug canals. This is something everyone knows; Liu Bingzhong, he helped Kublai Khan build the metropolis.

Let’s say that Liu Bingzhong took Kublai Khan’s subject, went back and rummaged through ancient books, and finally found a sentence in "Zhouyi", which means that the way of heaven is so vast and boundless. I think this sentence is great and the meaning is super auspicious, so I suggest Let's take the word "Yuan" and name the country "Yuan"—that's how the Yuan Dynasty was established. In fact, in addition to "Dazai Qianyuan", the title of "Yuan" has a more far-reaching meaning, which is also related to the theory of five virtues.You must know that the Jin Dynasty was conquered by the Mongol Empire, the predecessor of the Yuan Dynasty. Metal earth virtues, the five elements inter-grow, and earth-born gold, so the Yuan Dynasty should be Jin De.The eight trigrams are matched with the five elements, Qian and Dui belong to gold, Zhen and Sunda belong to wood, Kun and Gen belong to earth, Li belongs to fire, and Kan belongs to water, so this new dynasty that favors gold will use "Dazai Qianyuan" as an auspicious saying.When Kublai Khan, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty, changed his country name, there was a sentence in the imperial edict "holding the talisman and raising Shuotu", which meant exactly this.

——The Shunde school is the most concerned with science, but at that time science was mixed with superstition. For example, architecture was like glue with Feng Shui, and astronomy and calendar did not run away.If you can look at the sky and stars, but you can't tell who or what it corresponds to, everyone will think you are Yehu Zen.So the group of Shunde School, including Liu Bingzhong and Guo Shoujing, were all talking about it, and Kublai Khan basically used them as national teachers. When the Mongolian Empire changed its name to Yuan, the Southern Song Dynasty was in the seventh year of Xianchun, and it was still struggling to support it. Therefore, in terms of the five virtues of the two dynasties, no one could give birth to the other, and no one could overcome the other.However, eight years later, Yuan general Zhang Hongfan exterminated Song in Yazhou, and the problem immediately became apparent—Song was Huode, Huo conquered gold, and the reality was just in tune.Later, the Yuan Dynasty vigorously banned the theory of picture prophecy, and I don't know if it was because they were afraid that people would see this flaw.

This matter has to be postponed to other dynasties, and it is time to hold a meeting to study the reform of virtue, but the Mongols are all stubborn, and they will not change their lives-what happened to Jin De?What happened to Jin being beaten by fire?Didn't Huode's Song Dynasty be crushed by me?In 1294 AD, Kublai Khan died and passed the throne to his grandson Tie Muer, that is, Yuan Chengzong. Just after Yuan Chengzong succeeded to the throne, a southerner named Hong Youxue jumped out to make a fuss and was beaten violently. What exactly Wei Hongyouxue said is not recorded in the history books. He only said that he "falsely talked about the five fortunes", and he probably suggested reforming morality, and then failed shamefully.

It's a pity that those "Beijing Yuan people" who lived in Yuan Dadu could guess the beginning, but they couldn't guess the ending. When they were still beautiful, the fire virtue that really restrained them emerged quietly-that is the Ming Dynasty . The Yuan Dynasty never changed morality, but virtue is golden, so Kublai Khan yelled at that moment, and no one mentioned it again after that.why?Because unlike Khitan Liao and Jurchen Jin, the Mongols entered the Central Plains without thinking about Sinicization at all. Kublai Khan once had plans, but since the post-doctorates of the Shunde School and the very Sinicized prince they taught were really Sinicized When the money was gone, Kublai Khan was surrounded by a group of seductive tax collectors all day long, and he never mentioned Sinicization again.The Five Virtues are the doctrine of the Han people. Except for the name of the dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty did not intend to sinicize other aspects. Who has the time to talk about the Five Virtues?

So when the Ming Dynasty was established and Huode was promoted, and then they went to study the virtues of the Yuan Dynasty, most people were blinded and couldn't understand it at all.People in the Ming Dynasty even thought that the Yuan Dynasty had the virtue of water—how could it be possible to destroy the virtue of fire in the Song Dynasty?That must be water conquering fire.In the mid-Ming Dynasty, a poet named He Qiaoxin insisted on this statement. According to him, he once heard the elders mention that when Kublai Khan attacked and destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a prophecy that the water was exhausted and the fire was born. Because "the Yuan Dynasty was the virtue of water, and the Song Dynasty was the virtue of fire, so it is the descendants of Zhao Song who inherited the Yuan Dynasty's water virtue and prospered."

This is the opposite, you can say that the Yuan Dynasty succeeded Zhao and Song and prospered, but how can you say that the descendants of Zhao and Song inherited the Yuan Dynasty?This brings up another extremely unreliable legend.Let's say that in 1274 AD, Song Duzong died and passed the throne to his second son, who was later Emperor Song Gong.This Emperor Song Gong had just succeeded to the throne for a little over a year, and at the age of 6, the Yuan army killed Lin'an City, so his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Xie, embraced him and surrendered—the Southern Song Dynasty was not yet dead, and ministers Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Xiaojie, Lu Xiufu and others supported other emperors and resisted for another three years.Emperor Song Gong was not executed by Kublai Khan, but he was named Duke Ying, and he was raised well until he was 19 years old. Kublai Khan suddenly found that the child was very interested in Buddhism, so he sent him to Tibet. Jia Temple, ordained as a monk, dharma name and respect.

The above is the official history, and the following is the story-it is said that there was a Huihui princess in the northwest of the Yuan Dynasty. His surname was Hanlulu, and his name was Mailaidi. The original Song Gongdi and Ying Guogong met with the current monk, so he ignored the Dharma and the precepts.Not long after, a prince of the Yuan Dynasty named Tutiemuer went hunting in the northwest, and fell in love with Princess Mailaidi at a glance, and married him as his wife. The princess gave birth to a son, named Tuohuantie. mur.A few years later, Tutiemu'er became emperor, known as Yuan Wenzong; and after a few years, Tutiemu'er also became emperor, known as Yuan Shundi, the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, in fact, Emperor Yuan Shun was not a Mongol at all, but a Han-Hui mixed blood, and he was not a serious descendant of Temujin. In fact, the blood of the Zhao and Song royal families flowed in his veins! This is unreliable enough. It is probably a rumor created by the adherents of the Southern Song Dynasty, but this is only the source.Another way of saying it is that Duke Ying Guo hasn’t gone to Tibet yet, and he is staying in a small temple in Ganzhou for the time being. Suddenly, a King Zhao (according to the age, it should be Alutu, I don’t know if it’s right), look at this The little monk was quite lonely, so he left a Huihui woman to serve him.Later, this time, the woman was pregnant in October and had just given birth. When she caught up with Tutiemuer, she saw five-color auspicious clouds on the temple, which looked like dragons, so she inquired, "Are there any good things in this temple?" He didn't, and Duke Ying's concubine had just given birth to a child.Tutiemuer didn't know why he was mentally disabled for a while, but he was "overjoyed", and immediately recognized the child as his adopted son, and even took away the child and his mother...

It is said (again, it is said) that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there was a time when Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, looked at the statues of the emperors of the past dynasties. They look like those imperial physicians here.” Looking at the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, one tall and one tall, Zhu Di commented: “They all eat sheep.” But when he finally saw the portrait of Emperor Yuan Shun, he was amazed and asked People around: "Why does this one also look like an imperial physician?" Who told this last story?It was the guy who claimed to have been questioned by Zhu Di. His name was Yuan Zhongche, and he was the second most famous face-face master in the early Ming Dynasty—his father Yuan Gong and Yuan Liuzhuang ranked first.The fortune-teller of this family, can they really believe what they say? But don't tell me, many Ming Dynasty people believed it.Not only did the people of the Ming Dynasty believe it, but even the historians Wan Sitong and Zhao Yi of the Qing Dynasty, and the modern university scholar Wang Guowei all believed it. However, the fire broke out, and the country of the Yuan Dynasty finally fell back into the hands of the Zhao family. In the first tune, there is "a dragon and a snake straddling a horse in a mess, but Khan is in Xijiang Temple".The following sentence may have been written by Yun Taibao Liu Bingzhong, so it should be Yuner.According to history, Ying Guogong descended to the Yuan Dynasty with the blessing of Bingzi. He was six years old at the time, and in the next ten or two years, he became Wuzi of the Zhiyuan Dynasty. Ying Guogong studied Buddhism in Tubo.In another twenty-eight years, for Yanyou Bingchen, Renzong sent Mingzong out of the town of Yunnan. Mingzong refused to order and fled to Mobei. It was at this time that he established diplomatic relations with Ying Guogong.Tuo Huan Tie Mu'er came to the throne with Yuantong Guiyou as Emperor Shun. He was fourteen years old and was born in Gengshen, Yanyou, forty-four years away from Bingzifan.However, the year of the Duke of Yingguo was fifty years old, and the poems that should be written may have signs.Shi Youyun: Wen Zong made a slip of the tongue on the basis of his nursing mother, Ming Zong was in Japan, and Su said that he was not his son. He deposed him in the south of the Yangtze River, summoned Yu Ji, a scholar from Kuizhang Pavilion, and spread the imperial edict at home and abroad. He did not say who the emperor Shun was. .At 20 o'clock in the year of Yu, I went to Jiangxi for the rural examination. I saw a copy of the old Yuefu in the library, which contained an article "The Lord of the Desert", written by Yun Yang Lianfu.Yu Fang was engaged in the imperial examination business and had no time to record it, but he remembered the last sentence of his article: "It's a pity that the phoenix is ​​a dove, and the dragon is a fish; for three hundred years, the descendants of dragons and phoenixes have fallen into the left lapel and are called Shanyu." Yun: "The virtue of the Taizu of the Song Dynasty is perfect. He created the emperor's career and passed it on to his younger brothers instead of passing it on to his sons. Taizong broke the promise, the disaster of the Jin people, and the whole family moved north, and the last grandson of the Taizu returned to Shao Datong. There are hundreds of people in the south of the Yangtze River. In Yu Nian, it was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty. And the son of the Duke of Ying, who compiled the Yuanxu in the dark, and the world is the Lord of Mobei, how generous is the repayment of the Taizu!" Is this article out of false Toye?Xin'an Cheng Keqin recorded this poem and showed it to you, because it is so sparse that it can be heard and seen by those who have heard it.
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