Ran Min's popular network is actually a very noteworthy thing! This is not a question of history, but a contemporary network phenomenon.
People who really study history, if they can have at least common sense about the history of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they will not be able to elevate Ran Min to such a high level! Ran Min was a Han Chinese, and Ran Min did kill Hu people in the last years of Later Zhao. However, Ran Min's historical role was not a national hero at all, and when he was at the height of his power, he only controlled a small area centered on the city of Yicheng in the southern part of hebei, the western part of Shanxi, the eastern part of Shanxi, and the northern part of Henan. Even if they saved some Han Chinese, the area he could control was pitifully smaller than the whole world. We don't need to say that jiangnan had the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the existence of such an orthodox Han regime. The Western Liang established by Zhang Rail was also a vassal of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Moreover, two years later, Ran Min was killed. This person has basically not played a positive role in history.
A portrait of Ran Min imagined on the Internet
However, such a person is sought after by many people as a national hero! It must be said that this is worth pondering. Ran Min's popularity, in my opinion, is probably related to a forged "Killing Hu Ling". And some narrow nationalists, after seeing this "Order to Kill Hu", were immediately seduced and boiled with blood! In fact, those who tout Ran Min have not read many books at all! Not to mention letting them read works such as the Book of Jin, the Zizhi Tongjian, and the Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
I found that "Ran Chui" is not highly educated, most of them live at the bottom of society, most of them have violent tendencies, and most of them are reluctant to read. They are easily seduced, and simplicity is the biggest characteristic of this group. The more such a person is, the easier it is to find his sense of nobility in the worship of illusory heroes, and at that moment, he feels as if he is not a failed person!
These people want to worship national heroes, so why not worship Zu Ti, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, and Shi Kefa? Because the records of Yue Fei and others are more detailed, there is not much room for them to masturbate. Moreover, Ran Chui generally does not read, and naturally does not worship Zu Ti, Yue Fei and others. You must know that Wen Tianxiang is from the Yuan! Ran Min, on the other hand, is just a reckless man, has no culture at all, and will naturally become the object of worship of those keyboard heroes.
The famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei read a book
What's more, I have always suspected that there is a driving force behind Ran Min's popularity, and some people with ulterior motives deliberately use Ran Min to provoke his extreme nationalism, thereby undermining our national unity. Many people think that only Han Chinese are Chinese, and they think that the Mongols and Manchus are not Chinese. The Yuan Dynasty was not China, and the Qing Dynasty was not China. There are many such people! This is what we should feel vigilant about!
Another reason for Ran Min's popularity is the absence of professional historians! I often tell some scholars who study the history of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties that Ran Min's popular network is a disgrace to the entire wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties historiography circles! I say to them, I don't have an opinion about you personally, I have an opinion about you as a whole! Gong Gong gong, even if you have published many high-level authoritative publications, even if you have done high-level projects and published important works in the national publishing houses, you cannot wash away your shame! Why do I say this, because you have not assumed the minimum social responsibility of a historian, where is your academic conscience? You are facing all kinds of fallacies, shouldn't you make your voice heard? I'm sorry, I didn't see that expert on the history of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties had made some fruitful efforts to this end! A scholar must not only do his own research behind closed doors, but also be able to popularize correct historical knowledge to the public. Although our assessment does not evaluate these things, does your conscience not evaluate you either?
Forget it, finally recommend to you two books of "History of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of Wei and Jin", one is written by Mr. Wang Zhongji, and the other is co-authored by Xu Zhaochang and Yu Wei. Books and shadows are placed on it, if everyone is really interested in Ran Min, the four books I recommended above, go and see it.
Finally, I have recommended books to some people who should read, and those people suspect that I am selling books. This also made me realize how dark the psychology of the Ran Chui group is!