King Xuan of Qi asked Ai Ziyi, "I have heard that there are badgers in ancient times, but what is it?" Ai Zi said to Yue: "At the time of Yao, there was a divine beast, a badger, who was in the court, discerning the evil ones of the courtiers, and touching and eating them." Ai Zi said to him, "If there is such a beast now, I will not beg for food." - "Ai Zi Zashu"
The translation of this passage means this: King Xuan of Qi asked Ai Zi, "I heard that in ancient times there was a divine beast called the badger, what was that thing?" Ai Zi replied, "The Badger is a divine beast of the Tang Yao Period, who can distinguish between loyalty and adultery, and often eats adulterous villains in the court." After explaining the provenance of the badger, Ai Zishen mended the knife: "If the badger lived to this day, there would certainly be no shortage of food." ”
Although "Ai Zi Miscellaneous Sayings" may be the work of Su Shi's appendage, we can also see the change of the ancient official hat from the qi Xuan Wang Ai Zi asked right, and some questions arise from this: Why did the badger crown disappear from the Qing Dynasty? Was it that the qing dynasty monarchs were afraid of the divine beast badger, or was the divine beast badger too hungry to eat, and it survived to death in the Qing Dynasty?
Speaking of Ai Zi, there may be many people who don't know, but the person of King Xuan of Qi, everyone should be familiar with - he is Zhong Lichun's husband.
Zhong Lichun is also called Zhong Wuyan, Zhong Wuyan, about her film and television drama no less than ten, Guo Degang said "Ugly Niangniang", the male and female protagonists are Qi Xuan wang Tian Peijiang and Zhong Lichun.
King Xuan of Qi may not be an outstanding Ming Emperor, but his influence on history was great, and the "History of Tian Jingzhong's Complete Family" records: "King Xuan's literary lobbyists, such as Donkey Yan, Chun Yu Jie, Tian Biao, Receiving, Cautious, and Huanyuan Disciples, all gave the seventy-six disciples of Liedi, for the sake of the Shang Dafu, and discussed without rule." It is the revival of the Bachelor of Qi Ji, and hundreds of thousands of people. ”
King Xuanwang of Qi was actually a strong supporter of the hundred schools of thought, and it can also be said that he was the founder of the national university. Mr. Nanguo, who was "indiscriminately counting", was initially mixed with food at King Xuan of Qi (King Qi Tang succeeded to the throne, and Mr. Nanguo fled).
Briefly introduce King Qi Xuan, we should talk about the Divine Beast Badger.
According to Ai Zi, the badger was able to eat enough during the time of King Qi Xuan—although King Qi Xuan was not a dimwit, there were still many corrupt officials and corrupt officials who could be eaten in the court, so there was no shortage of food at all.
This kind of divine beast often appears in ancient history books, and what is even more funny is that the inspector who was violently beaten by Zhang Fei in the classic version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" wore the "badger crown" - all law enforcement officials in the Han Dynasty wore the badger crown, the unknown beating of the inspector could wear it, the famous inspector Li Hui who persuaded Ma Chao to surrender could wear it, and even Zhang Fei, who was also a lieutenant of the division, and Zhao Yun, who was also a lieutenant in the Middle Guard, could also wear it.
In the Han Dynasty, it was imitated as an official hat, which can be found in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Zhi 30 Under the Costume of Public Opinion: "The Crown of the Law, after a pillar." Five inches high, with a ribbon as an exhibition tube, an iron pillar scroll, the law enforcers obey it, and the imperial attendant and the court lieutenant are supervising Pingye. Or the crown of the badger. The badger god sheep can not be straight, and the king of Chu tasted it, so he thought it was a crown. ”
The badger crown became the standard for ancient law enforcement officials, until the Ming Dynasty, the hats of officials, and the shadow of many badger crowns, which we can see from the more serious Ming Dynasty TV series.
If the TV series cannot be used as a voucher, we can also check the portraits of famous ming courtiers. For example, the most famous Yan Song and Xu Jie, they have all served as the first assistants of the cabinet, whether they are traitors or loyal ministers, and whether they have ever been a royal historian, their hats have traces of the badgers- this is to show their impartiality, honesty and selflessness.
In the Qing Dynasty, whether it was a courtier or a slave, the red ribbon hat was worn with a flower plume, and the badger crown was completely withdrawn from the stage of history. Therefore, some people said that if the badger lived to the Qing Dynasty, it would definitely be propped to death: there were too many corrupt officials in the court to rape and rape the villains, and the badgers could not eat them to death -- because the badgers were propped to death, so the law enforcement officials of the Qing Dynasty did not wear the badger crown, and they were afraid that they would be propped to death like the badgers.
It is difficult to conclude whether the badger will be propped to death in the Qing Dynasty, whether the badger will only be propped up in the Qing Dynasty, this is still not discussed as well, we want to discuss both safe and interesting topics: If the badger that existed during the Tang Yao period lived to the Qing Dynasty, did he eat Qianlong first, or did he eat Hezhen first?
The reason why Qianlong and Yan were brought forward to let the badger eat first was because these two people had a common characteristic: they were very good at embezzling donations.
Let's take the simplest example: Qianlong's mother (the Zhen Huan in the TV series) died, and in order to show his filial piety, Qianlong decided to cast a blonde tower to preserve the hair that fell from his mother's life.
Qianlong was very good at spending money, and when he wanted to cast the Golden Hair Pagoda, he had already spent the tens of millions of taels of silver that Yongzheng had left for him. Without money or doing the right thing, Qianlong decided to collect donations from his courtiers and slaves, and the initiators of the fundraising were Hezhen and Zhizhai.
According to Hezhen's initiative, Qian Long approved that all officials and slaves should donate at least one month's worth of money—some officials were forced to go to pawnshops and show loyalty to the emperor.
But what did all this money do after it was raised? Of course, not all of them were used to cast the Golden Hair Pagoda, not even a tenth of it, but were divided between Qianlong and Yan.
Compared with the "one foot six feet, with gold eleven thousand eleven hundred and nineteen twenty-nine dollars" Gold Pagoda minted gold pagoda, now weighed a weight, only three thousand two, and it is only 60% gold. At that time, hundreds of thousands of gold and silver were collected from courtiers and slaves, that is to say, more than 90% of the donations were diverted by Qianlong and Yan for other purposes or embezzled.
If the badger is still there, you say that it is not allowed to open its mouth and swallow this two of them in one bite?
If you think that Hezhen Qianlong only embezzled money in the project of casting the Jinfa Pagoda, it would be too small to underestimate their appetite and ability to be corrupt.
The "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty and The Hundred and SixteenThirties of The Chronicles" records: "He was in charge of the government for a long time, and those who paid bribes were to maneuver or slow down their affairs, so as to get angry." The great staff is arrogant and exploits them for as much as they want. Salt administration, river workers Su Li Xue, in order to solicit tirelessly and increasingly poor. ”
He Yan's greed was unscrupulous, whether it was to repair the river or to help the disaster victims, there was no charity money that He Yan did not dare to move, and the reason why He Yan was moved by any money was because he was "covered by the Qianlong Emperor"," and he Yan was more or less fine, but the officials who impeached He Yan fell one by one.
The so-called "Ji Xiaolan Zhidou and Yan" and "Liu Luo pot wisdom fighting and Yan" simply could not have happened in history, because Ji Xiaolan and Liu Yong themselves were not clean.
Ji Xiaolan is not greedy, and it is not recorded in the official history, but he shielded corrupt officials and was charged with military distribution, but it was a matter of certainty, and it could not be washed white, nor could it be erased: "The first two Huai salt transports made Lu Jian once offended, Yun was an in-law, omitted to take office, and killed Urumqi." ”
When Liu Yong was the prefect, his subordinates did not embezzle the public funds, and Liu Yong was also dismissed from his post and filled the army, because he was Liu Tongxun's son, so every long time he was reinstated and promoted step by step: "When the official prefect was unaware of the invasion of the subordinates, he sent the army to serve." After more than a year of release, he was ordered to walk in the study place. The order was still used as a prefect, granted the prefect of Jiangning, Jiangsu, and then moved to Shaanxi according to the envoy. Draft History of the Qing Dynasty: Eighty-Nine Chronicles"
From this point of view, if the badger eats Qianlong and Yan, and then bites Liu Yong Ji Xiaolan twice by the way, it is also a natural thing.
"Qing officials" and "Qingtian" like Liu Yongji Xiaolan are among the badgers to eat, and readers can imagine that among the Officials of the Qing Dynasty, there is still one that cannot be eaten? Born in the Qing Dynasty, wouldn't the badger be held to death?
Since the Qing Dynasty, there has been no badger, or it has been propped up, or it has been beaten to death, and Qianlong has also been beautified as "There is a Dao Ming Jun", the HE Yan in the TV series, looking at it is not hateful at all, in the "Qianlong Dynasty", He Yan has even become a positive character, just like the second elder of Huashan who besieged the top of the light, as long as he can speak the Tao, how much he is greedy, no one has asked.
He yan was not eaten by the badger as a traitor, but was eaten by the Jiaqing Emperor as a fat duck, and several years after Qianlong's death, even the grave was planed. In their lifetime, they were greedy and caty, and although they escaped the mouth of the badger, they did not escape the heavenly reason.
At the end of the article, as usual, I would like to ask the readers: If the badger has been alive, in which dynasty did it eat the most? In which dynasty was there a risk of death? Which characters do you know that should be eaten by a badger?