In 221 BC, Wang Qi led the Qin state to raise troops and finally destroyed the last princely state, the State of Chu, after which a new term was born in China - the emperor. From the abdication of The Last Emperor Puyi, the first emperor of China, the feudal monarchy existed for 2132 years. In these two thousand years, China has produced more than 400 hundred emperors, of which 92 committed suicide and assassination, 208 emperors died of disease, and their average life expectancy was 39.6 years.
The history of China from the Qin onwards were the Han, the Three Kingdoms, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Sui, the Tang, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. Among these dynasties, the average life expectancy of emperors in the Qin and Han dynasties was as low as 34 years, and the longest life expectancy of Qing emperors was 53 years. On the whole, the life expectancy of Chinese emperors has basically increased slowly according to the progress of history. Of course, it does not count in times of war, because of the ups and downs of the regime and the frequency of wars, the emperor at this time is basically out of an abnormal state of death.
The so-called "Under the pu heavens, can not be the king's land; the coast of the land, can not be the king's subjects." In addition to the emperors who died in the turmoil, the emperors of other periods in China can be said to have the best living conditions at the time, equipped with the best medical services, and access to the best medicines and food. But even so, why did these people who could be called "purple micro stars" have almost less lifespan than ordinary people at that time?
In fact, the reasons for the short life span of these emperors can be summed up in four points.
First: lifestyle
Now everyone knows that lack of exercise and ingestion of food cholesterol will affect the health of the human body, a healthy lifestyle is that there should be seven vegetarian dishes, three meat dishes, more exercise, go to bed early and get up late. But the emperor had the best living material conditions, so the demand for meat was as much as he wanted.
During the Song Dynasty, the most popular delicacy was lamb. Here I will list a menu that Song Xiaozong invited the minister to eat: "Eat two flavors, boiled lamb, pepper vinegar fish eat two flavors, pepper vinegar sheep head pearl powder and Kang sheep cannon rice" A meal consumes five or six lambs, which shows the degree of luxury. But you must know that this emperor is still the Ming Emperor Song Xiaozong, as for the other emperors, it is self-evident.
Lamb is a hot thing, so in Chinese medicine, it is best to eat it in the cold for three or nine days. But in the Song Dynasty, because the emperor loved mutton, it was eaten in all four seasons. As a result, the emperor had already had a certain degree of dry fever, hypertension, and high blood lipids, and high cholesterol levels because of too much supplementation, eating more calories and proteins, causing atherosclerosis, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
At the same time, the Song Dynasty crossed south to the south, and gradually the fish and shrimp in the south also entered the court, and the sashimi that is now known to people is the famous dish of the Song Dynasty. Most of the current sashimi are deep-sea fish, and there are few parasites, but during the Song Dynasty, many of the ingredients for sashimi were ordinary freshwater fish, and there were many parasites, so they were also prone to diseases.
Second: mental torture
The rights of the ancient Chinese emperors were great, and the so-called kings wanted their subjects to die, and the subjects had to die. Grasp the power of life and death in the world, have unlimited power, at the same time, many people wait for different minds to approach the emperor. In the face of unpredictable hearts, many emperors had great psychological pressure.
Guo Moruo, a famous historian in China, once examined that China's first emperor, Yingzheng, had a very serious hypochondriasis, and because he had been placed as a hostage in the Zhao Kingdom since he was a child, his life was precarious, and his spirit was always in a highly tense state and hated society.
Therefore, after growing up, he became the king of Qin and finally sent troops to unify the country. After becoming emperor, from his burning of books and the construction of the Great Wall Mausoleum, it can be seen that this person has an extreme revenge social psychology, and the so-called "little grace and tiger and wolf heart" was born in an extremely harsh living environment. Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also suffered from extreme bipolar disorder and depression, which was also a major reason for his childish death.
Third: Being killed
The main reason why the Japanese always boast that their emperor is a lineage is that the Japanese emperor has power for a short period of time, but at many other times there is almost no right. Without power, naturally no one cares, and those who hold power in Japan are called the Great General of Seiyi, so in japan's history, in order to compete for this position, the fighting and chaos have not stopped.
If the emperor had real power, he would have been finished long ago. China's emperors have too much power and too many temptations, so it is common for them to be coveted by their subordinates, remembered by their sons, and calculated by their wives. Therefore, being assassinated, poisoned, and "difficult" is also very frequent.
Fourth: Poisoning to death
There is an idiom that specifically describes the emperor's noble status, called the Ninety-Five Supreme. It can be said that a natural person can become an emperor has struggled to the end, and the next goal is only to become an immortal. But Cheng Xian had to suffer hardships, and he couldn't make up his mind to give up his glory and wealth, and to eat and drink. What to do? The most direct way is to become a fairy by taking the Dan medicine.
"The Dan of Golden Stone has a great poison, that is, stalactite cinnabar, which can kill people for a long time, cover its dry and fierce nature, be forced by fire, and cannot be sent out, and once it enters the stomach and intestines, it is like lime throwing into the fire."
The emperor also had a specially made elixir, not for the sake of becoming an immortal, but to better satisfy his own sexual affairs. The Guangdi in the history of the Ming Dynasty was because he even counted the number of women in one night, and finally ate the red pill, and finally died of a violent illness.