#古人说 "more life is insulting", how to understand #
The ancients often said that a long life is a humiliation, in ancient society, medical conditions are not developed, probably only a few people can do it, no disease and no disaster, the end of life, in the middle of which to ensure the filial piety of children, do not cause trouble for themselves and many other factors.
For most ordinary people in ancient times, it was right to live longer and insult, but for most emperors, this was not the case, as a person who monopolized power in ancient China, the emperor would always feel that he had lived too short.
But there are really not many long-lived emperors in history, Qianlong is a super lucky one, not only longevity, but also the country under his governance, but also barely called a prosperous world, to achieve ten complete martial arts, whether in terms of age, or in terms of enjoyment of the treatment, Qianling is considered to be the happiest among the ancient emperors.
The reason why Qianlong is called lucky is because immediately after him, there is another emperor who is also very high-lived, he is Emperor Wu of Liang, this emperor's life, typical like a roller coaster, and finally also responded to the old saying, longevity is humiliating, if you die a few years early, maybe there will not be so much pain.
Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu was the founding monarch of Liang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of China, the Southern Dynasty was four dynasties, Song Qi Liang Chen, starting from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the replacement mode of these five dynasties was all usurpation of power by internal generals.
Xiao Yan, who founded the Liang Dynasty, was essentially the same as the imperial family of the Qi Dynasty, but in the face of imperial power and power, these were nothing, and at the beginning of the reign, Xiao Yan gave people the feeling that this was a talented and benevolent emperor, which was simply a model for the emperor in the context of that time.
To say that Xiao Yan has culture is not to say casually, he is one of the famous Eight Friends of Jinling, this eight people are a small group of literary lovers, they discuss pure literature together, and invented the ultimate mystery of poetry, that is, the knowledge of musical rhythm, popularly speaking, why poetry can be catchy, what kind of poetry can be read out with the beauty of rhyme, it can be said that without their pioneering work, it is impossible to have the glory of later Tang poetry and Song poetry.
This Xiao Yan is not a figure like Li Yu who can only write poems and fill in words, he is very diligent in political affairs, sorting out internal affairs and actively carrying out the Northern Expedition, just in time for the northern Wei split period, when there were Eastern Wei, Western Wei and Liang, the three kingdoms of the country, the new Three Kingdoms era, on the territory and strength, the Liang state is the strongest, but unfortunately the south always seems to lack the arrogance of unification, although Emperor Liangwu himself is very diligent, but in the end he still missed the opportunity for the north to possibly unify the north.
But in the face of such territory and strength, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu turned to another field, Buddhism, and his faith and reverence for Buddhism far exceeded that of ordinary people, and he even became a monk.
Four hundred and eighty temples in the southern dynasty, how many buildings in the smoke and rain, most of them are built by Xiao Yan, waste a little thing is nothing, the key is that after Emperor Liangwu believed in Buddhism, the whole person's thinking changed, began to uphold an extreme atmosphere of leniency, treating the clan office, no matter what kind of mistakes made, never gave punishment, and even some even defected, and continued to reuse after returning, this so-called compassion, too much will eventually cause serious consequences.
Xiao Yan's time as emperor was really too long, he lived for 86 years, reigned for 48 years, such a high life, to the later stage of behavior decision-making, there will definitely be problems, Hou Jing is he lured the wolf into the room, and eventually led to the Hou Jing rebellion.
An 86-year-old man, even if he was shrewd and capable when he was young, this time is not enough, Hou Jing's rebellion was not originally a fatal injury, but the daily tolerance policy, at this time there were finally bad consequences, the clan army of the Qin King everywhere, there was no reason to save Xiao Yan, everyone even had the hope that he would die early.
The most popular Xiao Yan, at the age of 86, watched Hou Jing attack Jiankang, and what was even more tragic was that instead of being killed with a knife, the one who opened the last gate was Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe, who was forgiven later after he surrendered to the enemy.
Hou Jing came in in the name of killing the chancellor, so he could not blatantly kill Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan, who was controlled by others, was actually better than killing with a knife in the neck, and living was endless humiliation.
Such an elderly emperor, in the face of such a situation, can not afford to be sick, but seeing a doctor has become a luxury, at the time of death, want to drink honey is not, the last moment of life, can only make two sounds, hehe.
Xiao Yan believed in Buddhism, in fact, in the end, he became a demon, because because he, the great rivers and mountains were buried, and countless people died tragically on the battlefield, which may be the best example of longevity and humiliation.