There is 1 Han Dynasty in Chinese history, divided into the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty. Comparing the existence of the 2 Han Dynasties, we find that the existence of the Eastern Han Dynasty is far inferior to that of the Western Han Dynasty. Many people think that it is because the Eastern Han Dynasty is very weak, but in fact, it is not. So, the Eastern Han Dynasty is not weak, why is its sense of existence in history far less than that of the Western Han Dynasty?
Liu Zhao
The Second Emperor of Ming Zhang created the rule of Ming Zhang, Yu Min recuperated, the peak of the Eastern Han Dynasty, yongyuan era, its strength and prosperity even compared with the Han Wu shengshi, Kaiyuan shengshi and Yongle shengshi, can also compete with each other, during the Yongyuan period Dou Xian is to create the Chinese martial generals lifelong pursuit of the two peaks of the "Le Shi Yanran", becoming the second veritable champion Hou.
The Eastern Han Dynasty was not weak, so why was its sense of existence in history far inferior to that of the Western Han Dynasty? First of all, the first four emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty were all promising kings, since the Han and the emperor, the successors were either young or instigated, caught in the strange circle of eunuchs and foreign relatives taking turns to fight for power, coupled with successive years of natural disasters, so the Eastern Han Dynasty did have problems, and it is not strange that the visibility was poor.
Secondly, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty is the Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, in history is also a glorious emperor, in the memory of most people, the entire Eastern Han Dynasty can not find a comparable, although the 4th Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty Han and Emperor Liu Zhao created the Peak of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Yongyuan Long", but few people really know him.
Liu Che
Again, there was the Western Han Dynasty before and the Three Kingdoms in the back, so the Eastern Han Dynasty sandwiched in the middle was very embarrassing. In particular, the Western Han Dynasty had a Han Wu Emperor who counterattacked the Xiongnu with strong force, and the famous Wei Huo, which was very in line with the image of strength in the hearts of the Chinese people. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was divided into three kingdoms, and the influence of the three kingdoms was so great, the opening chapter was to talk about the corruption and incompetence of the Eastern Han court, no wonder the Eastern Han Dynasty had a low sense of existence.
Mawangdui
Finally, there are modern archaeological excavations and research. In the Western Han Dynasty, there are large tombs such as Yangjiawan, Haiduhou, Mawangdui, etc. that have been preserved to this day, and the excavated artifacts show the world the grandeur and glitz of the Western Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty was influenced by the concept of thin burial, and most of the funerary utensils were pottery products (such as the famous drumming and rap figurines), which were naturally not as gorgeous as those of the Western Han Dynasty.
Drumming rap figurines
The pottery tiles presented in front of the People of the Eastern Han Dynasty today are not as shocking as the various jade and gold objects that survived in the Western Han Dynasty, even if it is not as shocking as the fact that due to the negligence of protection and rampant tomb robbery, many exquisite murals in the ruins of the Eastern Han Dynasty were destroyed, and some exquisite handmade works were lost overseas, which led to more limited research materials in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
This is why the Eastern Han Dynasty was not weak, but its sense of existence in history was far inferior to that of the Western Han. However, it is believed that with the research and development of archaeology, the Eastern Han Dynasty will become more and more known, and its sense of existence will become stronger and stronger.
The Eastern Han Dynasty is not weak, so why is its sense of existence in history far inferior to that of the Western Han Dynasty?