Chapter 3 The fetal movement period of Chinese grand events

If there is a history playback machine, we can press the "Back" button to search the history from 265 AD to 589 AD, and we will definitely find many thrilling things in the 315-year period of Chinese history known as the "Two Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties" , Breathtaking and shocking, absurd and bizarre "scenes". Scene 1: In 280 A.D., Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty Sima Yan destroyed the state of Wu and ruled the world.Apart from being in high spirits, this burly and handsome emperor had banquets every day and sang songs every night, and sat on a goat cart all day long, wandering and lingering among the beauties and jade bodies in the Splendid Palace.

Scene 2: In 291 A.D., the black, fat and foolish Emperor Hui of Jin, the son of Emperor Wu of Jin, was arched on the huge dragon chair. few.Emperor Hui rolled his big eyes, thought for a while, and asked, "The common people have no food to eat, so why don't they drink meat porridge to satisfy their hunger?" Scene 3: In 310 A.D., one day at the end of the "Eight Kings Rebellion" in the Western Jin Dynasty, Shi Le's army of the Jie tribe shot and killed more than a dozen princes and concubines of the Western Jin Dynasty who were fleeing on the way in a single day while hunting in Ningping City. million people.The next day, Liu Yuan's Xiongnu generals set fire on all sides again, burning the 200,000 soldiers and civilians of the Jin Dynasty who were lucky enough to survive, and eating "roasted human flesh".

Scene 4: In January 318 A.D., Liu Cong, the emperor of the Xiongnu who occupied the vast area of ​​the Central Plains, ordered the captured Western Jin emperor Jin Mindi to wear a servant in Tsing Yi, wash a cup and serve wine, and ordered the deposed emperor to stand behind him. Executive cover.Several Jin officials in the hall cried bitterly and were dragged out and beheaded.That night, the eighteenth-year-old Jin Mindi was also strangled to death by the Huns. Scene 5: In 306 A.D., Liu Kun, a great writer, was trapped in the sad city of Jinyang.One night, there were many horsemen outside the city, surrounded like barrels.Dressed in white clothes, Liu Kun climbed the building on the moon, making a whistling sound.When the soldiers of the Xiongnu heard about it, they all sighed sadly.In the dead of night, Liu Kun played Hujia again, mourning the bandits, and a large number of Xiongnu cavalry wept and sighed, feeling nostalgic for their hometown, and suddenly abandoned the siege.

Scene 6: In 349 A.D., Ran Min and Li Nong, Shi Hu's former generals, issued a "Killing Hu Order" because they were angry at the rebellion of the Jie people.In one day and one night, the square outside Fengyang Gate in Yecheng was filled with the heads of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Jie nationality.Within a few days, more than 200,000 Jie people were killed by the Han soldiers who had been brutally oppressed for a long time, "using violence for violence", and an oppressive nation disappeared from the world in a very short period of time. Scene 7: In 318 A.D., in Jiankang City, Emperor Sima Rui of the Eastern Jin Dynasty ascended the throne, accompanied by hundreds of officials, and the music was clear. Out of sincere gratitude, the new emperor kept calling the minister Wang Dao to join him Ascension to the throne.In the end, Director Wang resigned and said: "If everything under the sun is the same, why should the common people look up to it!" Even so, "the king and the horse share the world" has been widely known to the world, and the political era of the elites in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties officially began.

Scene 8: On both banks of the Feishui River, 80,000 elite soldiers from the Eastern Jin Dynasty are waiting in formation, and on the other side is the more than 100,000 troops of Emperor Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty.Behind the former Qin army, there is a torrent of hundreds of thousands of steel soldiers who are rushing to the front line from Chang'an and other places.However, at the moment when the Eastern Jin army began to cross the river and the Qin army moved back, neither side expected that Emperor Fu Jian's order to "retreat later" would ruin a great empire.Northern China will once again fall into a sea of ​​blood that is torn apart and killed each other.

Scene 9: In the summer of 420 A.D., Emperor Gong of the Jin Dynasty drafted an edict to promote the country's "Zen throne" to the old hero Liu Yu, and the Southern Dynasty entered a new era-Song Dynasty.More than a year later, the deposed Emperor Gong of Jin was reciting Buddha's name under house arrest. Soldiers sent by Liu Yu entered over the wall and suffocated the former deposed emperor who had "happily" surrendered the country with a quilt.Since then, there has been no one who has followed suit, and the last emperor of the Southern Dynasties has never had a good death.

Scene 10: In 426 A.D., Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty conquered the Tongwan City built by the Great Xia Tyrant Helian. Thousands of walls, Emperor Taiwu sighed: "Small country, so poor, how can it not perish!" Thirteen years later, Tuoba Tao destroyed the last Juqu clan of Beiliang among the separatist regimes of the sixteen countries, and unified northern China. . Scene 11: On the night of Jiazi in the first lunar month in 453 A.D., Emperor Wen of Song Dynasty Liu Yilong, who had just experienced the defeat of the Northern Expedition, was working in his bedroom.Emperor Wen instinctively held up a stool to defend himself, but the rebels cut him down with sharp knives. All five fingers of Emperor Wen fell off, and he was murdered beside his bed at the age of forty-seven.The famous "Yuanjia Prosperity" finally drew a black rest.

Scene 12: In 528 A.D., the empress dowager Hu of the Northern Wei Dynasty who was sexually obscene and poisoned her own son to death was escorted to Er Zhurong, a general of Qihu. He rose up and ordered people to throw Empress Dowager Hu and her new three-year-old little emperor into the turbid flow of the Yellow River and drown them alive. The Northern Wei Dynasty came to an end. Scene 13: In the summer of 549 A.D., after more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians died in Jiankang, Hou Jing, the former general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, invaded Taicheng.The eighty-six-year-old I Yingjie Liang Wudi regretted that he had led wolves into the house. At that time, he had no attendant by his side and was lying alone on the straw mat in the Jingju Hall. He was sick and suffering, and no one agreed.In desolation, he kept saying "hoho" and died with hatred.

Scene 14: In 581 A.D., Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty usurped the throne of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. After killing his ten-year-old grandson, the young emperor Yu Wenyan, he went on to punish the Yuwen family, killing a total of 25 families of the descendants of Emperor Wen of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. , six families of the descendants of Emperor Jiemin and Emperor Ming, twelve families of descendants of Emperor Wu, and thousands of descendants of phoenixes and dragons were slaughtered all at once. Scene 15: In 589 A.D., nearly 100 generals and 520,000 soldiers of the Sui army, under the leadership of King Yang Guang of Jin, invaded Jiankang in a devastating manner.The last literati emperor of the Southern Dynasty, Chen Shubao, and his second concubine rushed into the well and became captives of the Sui army. China re-entered the era of great unification.When hundreds of thousands of Sui troops flocked to cross the river, the Qinhuai River was blocked for a while, which was exactly in line with the forecast master Guo Pu's prediction that "the Huai River will die, and the Wang family will die."As a result, the system of aristocratic clans that has lasted for hundreds of years, like the flowers in the backyard of Yushu, finally "flowers will not last long" and come to an end.

All of the above are like illusions and dreams, but they are all real moments in history! Time has dimmed and it is not wonderful, and many heroes have passed away in the past years, but the undecorated, humanized, non-dramatic and precisely the most dramatic "big drama" of the Chinese big family in the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, we can't help but let us There is endless fascination for that period of magnificent history. For more than three centuries, only the Western Jin Dynasty was fortunate enough to "enjoy" the temporary unification of just thirty-seven years. Small separatist regime.Millions of Hu people flooded into the Central Plains, and countless northern Han people lived in the areas south of the Yangtze River and Huaihe Rivers. Various class relations and ethnic relations achieved a new reorganization.The aristocracy experienced a process from the peak to the bottom, and the flesh and blood of the Chinese nation also climbed to a climax during this period.

The period of the Jin Dynasty (Sixteen Kingdoms) and the Northern and Southern Dynasties was the most painful and darkest period in Chinese history.At the same time, it was also a great heroic era in ancient China, and the collapse of civilization would always bring about the inevitable consequence of "time makes heroes".Although the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty caused the Yellow River Basin to fall into the abyss of the sea of ​​blood, and various ethnic minority regimes appeared on the stage, and the flames of war were everywhere, it finally contributed to the greatest extent the first great national integration in Chinese history.The fresh culture and martial spirit of the Hu people added vigorous vitality to the spiritual blood of the Chinese nation, added an incomparable fresh factor to Chinese culture, and laid a rich national psychological accumulation for the prosperous unification of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the future. In that great turbulent era, Xianbeizi, Hanjiaer, Qiangzhongjie, Dizuxiong, Jiezuhao, Xiongnuying, bowed their bows and walked on horses, sassy and handsome, with profound words and flavors, and flying into the sky, it was really wonderful Absolutely stunning.In such a great era that will hold the breath of future generations, so many heroes, heroes, poets, traitors, cowards, and virtuous women have emerged, and together they have staged a touching drama in the world.Different from the drama on the stage, the drama on the stage is separated first and then reunited, but the drama in the world is reunited first and then separated, full of bitterness and blood. At the same time, during the more than three hundred years full of blood and fire, it was also an era of great harvest for the spirit of the Chinese nation.Thousands of mountains compete for beauty, thousands of valleys compete for stream, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, metaphysics, legalism, famous scholars and other schools of thought compete for beauty and splendor.The literary genres are colorful, and the religious art is full of wonderful flowers.Dance, music, painting, calligraphy, and sculpture have all reached an unprecedented peak. In this aesthetic peak period with the most emancipated mind and the most flamboyant individuality, when people are admiring and envious of this great era, it is colorful and dazzling. The suffocating glamorous beauty had to be overwhelmed. In order to avoid rigidly writing the "chronological account" with boring events in chronological order like ordinary history books, the author tries to bring out the unique method of historical events by describing real individuals that existed in history from a fresh and alternative perspective. Capture the most dramatic figures and historical facts in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and link this period of history together like a string of pearls. At the same time, the author uses novel and unique key points to make the important figures of each dynasty have a clear sense of priority, rational arrangement, and precise combing in the narration, clearly showing the unique context of the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.In addition, because the book covers a wide range of topics: history, humanities, poetry, economy, literature, war history, official position records, appellation records, historical geography, character origins, etc. . What the author wants to present to the readers is a history of dynasties with brand-new content and form that connects history with people and highlights things with characters. This novel and unique way of historical writing can be said to be a new invention of the author so far.This unique method of historical writing can not only avoid unnecessary "fiction" like water-filled pork in general historical novels, but also look more vivid, interesting, and easy to understand than academic historical research works. History is not dead people and things, history is not a dry mixture of years, numbers, names, and noun explanations.If the writer can achieve "exquisite writing" and the readers can "read with interest", we will get a surprise beyond imagination like suddenly discovering treasures in the depths of sleeping history. It is for sequence. Mei Yi (King Helianbobo) [email protected] 2005.9.1