[1] Cao Cao liked other people's things
Cao Cao loved his wife and accidentally lost the life of his eldest son.
Whether Sun Quan also loved his wife, it is not written in the history books. But Sun Quan and Cao Cao have a common hobby that can be confirmed - digging treasure!
Digging treasure is digging graves!
Some people may wonder, is it not that Cao Cao set up military ranks such as General Fa Qiu Zhonglang and Lieutenant Colonel Jin, stole Han tombs in the official name, and used all kinds of rare treasures buried in them to subsidize military salaries.
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Regarding the various things about Cao Cao's digging of treasures, the history books say that they originated from Chen Lin's "Yuzhou for Yuan Shao" written by Chen Lin in the Han Dynasty, but from the later Cao Cao did not deny that he dug a grave, there are probably still some. From another point of view, the Western Han Dynasty advocates thick burial, although the Eastern Han Dynasty is not as extravagant as the Western Han Dynasty, but the luxury of the tombs of dignitaries and dignitaries is still quite heartwarming.
There is a way that gold and silver treasures are buried in the soil, either today's you dig or tomorrow's he digs.
In the chaotic era of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, in the struggle for world domination, there were not only soldiers, but also money. Warlords cannot pay their salaries, and the army may mutiny in minutes. That is the reality.
However, what I did not expect was that Sun Quan also had a history of digging graves.
In other words, after Sun Quan sat on the throne of supreme power in Jiangnan, he was ready to build memorial buildings such as ancestral halls (or temples) for his own father Sun Jian in various places. What is good on the top will be greeted at the bottom, and the officials of Wudi and the big and small will respond one after another.
Then, in the process of searching for the address and construction of the nearby guangzhou today, officials accidentally found the tombs of several princes and nobles in the South Vietnamese state.
The State of Nanyue (204 BC – 111 BC) was a regime located in the Lingnan region of China from the late Qin to the Western Han Dynasty, which is probably today's Liangguang. Because it is far away from the Central Plains, the South Vietnamese kingdom has a sense of paradise in the cracks of the chaotic world. The founder of the country was the former Nanhai Commandery Zhao Tuo, under his administration, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the country's strength rose steadily.
The successors after Zhao Tuo were not too powerful, and coupled with the ambitions of the later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for "great unification", the State of Nanyue was officially incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty in 111 BC.
Although the national strength of The South Vietnamese state declined in the later period, but the prosperous period also belonged to the "not very bad money", the princes and nobles naturally followed the burial customs of the time, and placed a large number of symbolic status funerary products in the tomb.
At that time, it was all a family cemetery, and digging out one could often dig out a bunch, so officials in the Guangzhou area sent the excavated treasures to Jiankang. As soon as Sun Quan saw it, he moved his mind - this money is underground, not digging white, digging can also enhance national strength.
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At Sun Quan's behest, a three-foot digging trend arose in the Guangzhou area, and almost all the graves of the dignitaries and dignitaries of the South Vietnamese state were excavated, but the cemetery of Zhao Tuo, the founding prince who theoretically buried the most wealth, was not found (and has not been found so far).
In any case, Sun Quan, like Cao Cao, made a windfall with such ease.
[2] The meaning of religion
The above contents are all from the book titled "History of Yuenan Greater China" (volume 1 and 1), and I put my comprehensive evaluation of this book at the end. Here's a look at some of the thoughts I've had about the spread of Buddhism in chapter 10 of the book.
I personally know very little about Buddhism, and when I was ignorant, I foolishly donated a lot of change. I grew up and realized that what the individual did not understand or had already figured out was considered a being, rather than a spiritual pillar.
The process of Buddhism's entry into China is also (seemingly) legendary, and unlike Christianity (formerly known as Jingjiao), Buddhism was first "imported" by the Ming Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The story probably says that Emperor Hanming dreamed of the Jin people one day, so he sent Tianzhu to the west to find the Dharma. Finally, two Western monks were found, one named Gaya Moteng (Remoten) and the other named Zhu Fa Lan. They copied some Buddhist scriptures, carried them on white horses, and returned to the Han Dynasty.
Later, Gaya Moteng (Semoteng) and Zhu Fa Lan translated the forty-two Chapters Sutra, the first surviving Chinese Buddhist scripture in China, at the White Horse Temple. If you have seen "Deer Ding", this name should not be too unfamiliar.
Personally, I don't believe in the legend of "feeling dreams and seeking the law", and as for the reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty introduced foreign religions, I speculate that it is probably that the ruling class of the Eastern Han Dynasty needs a religious belief to let the people keep to themselves. But the Ideas (or Propositions) of Taoism (Taoism)—the common rule of inaction—were clearly not suited to the political needs of the time.
Compared with Christianity and Buddhism, the teachings have such contents as the rebirth of the present life from the good to the next life (going to heaven after death), and even have a sense of "equivalent exchange" - the suffering of this life is for a better life in the future.
Although it was difficult for me at first to understand the spiritual influence of religion on people, I thought that all kinds of emotional cheaters can now make countless men and women dedicate themselves and lose money. The core is to "make you believe", you believe, you will self-hypnotize.
Of course, for some of the ancients (rulers) of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, they chose to promote religion (whether it was Buddhism, Confucianism or Taoism), not always out of the consideration of making ordinary people "not to make trouble", but they themselves had a "religious fanaticism".
The treasures hidden in the underground palace and the treasures of Famen Temple are more like derivatives of the "religious fanaticism" of the late Tang Dynasty. Reading the history of the Tang Dynasty, especially Tang Yizong, Tang Yizong and others did not consider revitalizing the national strength in the face of powerful feudal towns, but prayed for a kind of religious protection - in this way, Tang did not die.
Here again comes the thought of "relics".
When I was a child, I [really] thought that there would be all kinds of "artifacts" in the bones of the monks! However, it was later realized that there should be no naked burns during cremation. So, isn't the so-called "relic" all kinds of things that have not been burned inside and outside the "shouyi" (or all kinds of strange things that believers throw into the fire).
Therefore, it is also quite humorous to think that a group of people in ancient times worshipped some "belief objects" that they thought were .
Another book I read recently was Lippmann's Public Opinion. The views on how public opinion affect people's thoughts and behaviors have made me more aware of the importance of religion as a spiritual placebo. From some fiscal point of view, the existence of religion can even be a hidden fiscal revenue, especially when secular power and religious power are in parallel (such as the Medici family in Italy), which can produce unexpected "superpowers".
But why, in modern times, there are still billions of people around the world who have an unshakable belief in religion, and even some people have an extreme fanaticism. This shows that even after "five thousand years", human nature has not changed.
For some people with ulterior motives, "the people's wisdom is not open" means "a wide source of wealth", and it is easy to "dress up as a pig and eat a tiger" in the guise of religion.
Some people need a faith, some people need a faith to make money, eternity is profit, this is one of the meanings of the existence of religion.
[3] The reading of "Yuenan GreatEr China History" refers to the north
First of all, the content of this "History of Yuenan Greater China" is not strictly speaking new, because the author Yue Nan had published a set of "Archaeological China" more than ten years ago (I remember that I had read it in the library), and "Yuenan Great China History" is a condensed summary of the content of the original 10 books, let alone a condensed version.
At the same time, readers should not be deceived by the title of "History of Yuenan GreatEr China", because this first and second volumes are not "general history" at all, but only twelve archaeological stories that run through ancient China, and are presented with a table of contents for reference-
Chapter One From Ape to Man - The Story of Finding the "Peking Man" Chapter Two The Morning of Asian Civilization Chapter Three The Declassification of the Historical Chronology of Xia Shang Zhou Chapter Four The Legend of Sanxingdui Chapter Five Deciphering the Art of War of Sun Tzu Chapter Six The Mystery of the Annihilated Zeng Guo Chapter Seven The Mystery of the Terracotta Warriors of the Great Qin Empire Chapter Eight The Terrifying Horse King's Pile Chapter Nine The Rise and Fall of the South Vietnamese Kingdom Chapter Ten The Light of Famen Chapter Eleven The Ming Dynasty Those Things Chapter Twelve The Search for the Qing Tombs
Among the twelve archaeological "stories", some chapters have more content related to archaeology, and some chapters have more content related to history (such as "deciphering Sun Tzu's Art of War"), and the content of large paragraphs is talking about history, not bamboo matters). This means that if the reader is directed at the point of interest of [archaeological excavation] (tomb robbery), he may be disappointed.
If you look at it as an archaeological story (focusing on the interestingness of the story rather than the professionalism of the content), the overall look and feel may be much better. At the same time, in my opinion, the narrative style of this set of books is similar to Yue Nan's previous set of "South Crossing and North Return", the macroscopic context is real, but the details such as the microscopic dialogue have artistic processing.
In short, if readers prefer the "hard-core humanities" series of "Khan Qingtang" and "Republic", then this "History of Yuenan GreatEr China", which is more like a "story meeting", is definitely not for your appetite. If the reader is only interested in archaeological excavations and other [stories] and wants to understand the historical materials corresponding to the excavation stories of each cultural relic, this set of thick books with many color pictures is still worth reading before going to bed.
Happy reading!