In ancient China, the emperor can be described as the most enviable existence, and even now, there are still many people who want to cross back to experience the feeling of being an emperor. In their eyes, the emperor had supreme power and status, lived a life of gold and jade food, and could also enjoy the three palaces and six courtyards. Therefore, in this ordinary life, it seems that there should be no worries. But in fact, even as emperors, they still have many troubles, and the short life span is one of them.
As we all know, in the past dynasties, there have always been a few emperors who will use the power of the whole country for the illusory desire of immortality, in order to seek immortality, but in the end they have found nothing. However, the reason why these emperors are so eager for immortality is actually understandable. After all, in ancient China, as emperors, they rarely survived forty, and this is related to three reasons.
First of all, the first reason is because his status is too high, and this is easy to cause others to covet, after all, since being an emperor has so many benefits, who does not want to give it a go?
Therefore, among all the emperors in our country, the number of unnatural deaths accounts for half of their total data, and this shows how dangerous the profession of emperor is, and it is easy to be killed by others. Especially in the chaotic world, there are often a few unlucky princes who are only supported to the throne today, and tomorrow they are killed by another force, and for them, the dragon chair symbolizes not power, but a hypnotic charm.
Secondly, the second reason is because the emperor has to deal with a lot of political affairs, after all, at that time, the emperor monopolized the power of the whole country, and in order to ensure the concentration of imperial power, he refused to entrust these major matters to others, so he often had to correct the music until late at night before he could sleep. Even for some of them, their lives must always be recorded, and this also gives them great mental pressure, making them worry all the time about whether they will have a name for eternity.
The third and most ironic reason for this is that the reason why the emperors had such a short life, most of them died before the age of forty, was because they had too many concubines and wanted to hurt themselves. But in fact, this is also no way, after all, the emperor sits on so many concubines, in fact, in addition to satisfying his own selfish desires, more to continue the bloodline of a family.
You must know that in ancient China, it was very important to attach great importance to family power, and there were many large families who often worked hard in order to spread their branches and leaves, not to mention the royal family that was the most honorable family in the country? So for an emperor, after he sat on the dragon chair, he had only two obligations. One is to deal with the daily recitals presented by the courtiers and make a decision. The other is to ensure that their bloodline can be inherited, so as to consolidate their rule over the country and ensure that they can have future generations.