Although the plot of the recent popular TV series "Knife Line in the Snow" is fictional, its story background is based on a real history of ancient China.
At the beginning of the TV series, Xu Fengnian drew a circle on the ground with a branch, and then said, "In that year, the world was in chaos, the Nine Kingdoms were divided, and then the princes were in chaos." So we can't help but wonder, what year is the "year" he refers to? Or which period of history is it referring to?
Then look, Xu Fengnian said "away from yang, break the situation, sweep away the eight kingdoms, achieve the trend of unification", leaving yang and a name very similar to "Xianyang", where is Xianyang? Sweeping away the Eight Kingdoms, we have all heard of the Qin Dynasty sweeping away the Six Kingdoms, then this is very close to the truth.
Looking further down, Xu Fengnian immediately said, "Especially the Northern Starling Iron Horse of the Yang Dynasty, it is even more invincible, swinging the wind and clouds, leveling the world, and destroying the Six Kingdoms with one army." It can be seen from this that the Northern Starling Iron Horse is the army of the Yang Dynasty, and it is unstoppable, almost invincible steel troops.
The historical background of this play is very simple, depicted through the oral form of Xu Fengnian alone. Friends who love history often like to dig deep, which dynasty is the story of the author written? Or is it based on which historical period it was copied?
Listen to me in detail.
During the feudal period of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the place where we were in China at that time, the ancients called it "Tianxia".
After king Wu of Zhou established the country, he crowned many princes, some of whom were his relatives, and the other part was to help him destroy the heroes of the King of Shang, and then divided the world among these princes, each of whom established an independent and sovereign state, also known as a princely state.
Therefore, at that time, the world was actually a national alliance composed of many princely states, and the head of this national alliance was called "Tianzi", that is, King Wu of Zhou and the rulers of the Zhou Dynasty in later generations.
The princes then divided their own country among Qing Dafu, and the territory under Qing Dafu's jurisdiction was called "home".
At that time, the whole world was actually divided into three layers of structure, home, country, and world.
Immediately after that, came the Spring and Autumn Period, and although the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States are now connected together, they are actually two historical periods. They all belonged to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which was divided into Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, and after the fall of the Western Zhou, it entered the Spring and Autumn Period.
At this time, the situation changed. Because the zhou dynasty's regime was declining more and more, the authority of Zhou Tianzi was getting weaker and weaker.
We must know that after Zhou Tianzi distributed the country to the princes at that time, he actually did not have many places in charge of himself. The princely states all have independent sovereignty, and the administrative affairs of the country are the sole responsibility of the princes, and Zhou Tianzi is not interfered with. Zhou Tianzi had a country of his own, called the Kingdom of Zhou.
So why could Zhou Tianzi order the princes? He relied on the army, and in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Tianzi was in charge of a large number of troops.
But later, the Zhou Dynasty continued to fight with foreign tribes, such as the Rong in the west and some ethnic groups in the south, and lost a lot of troops.
Therefore, Zhou Tianzi couldn't control this world. In order to compete for land and treasures between the princely states, the contradictions became more and more intense, and wars began to occur continuously, and the wars continued for many years, and the people could be said to be unhappy with their livelihood, and they lived in the depths of the water every day.
It was also during this period, in such a general environment, that Confucians, Taoists, Dharmas, Yin and Yang schools and other schools emerged. This is what later generations called "the sons of the pre-Qin Dynasty".
Between the princely states, you beat me, I beat you, Zhou Tianzi can't manage, then there must be a powerful princely state to come out and maintain order, the monarch of this powerful princely state, it is called "overlord", such as Qi Huan Gong, Jin Wen Gong, have all served as this hegemon, known in history as the "Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons".
At this time, there are actually two leaders in the world, one is Zhou Tianzi, who has the highest status in reputation, and the other is the overlord, whose strength is the most powerful.
The more powerful princely states have rushed to become this hegemon, and this period is also called "the struggle for hegemony among the princes".
After further development, it came to the Warring States period. After the contest in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were only seven powerful princely states left in the world, in fact, the number of princely states was far more than these seven, because there were still some small princely states with weak strength and few people.
These seven princely states are the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States" in history, and at this time, their monarchs have also established themselves as kings, and they are no longer calling themselves princes, but kings.
At this stage of development, then, there must be a most powerful superpower, which will break the situation, annex all the princely states, and then move towards the road of unifying the country.
Among the seven heroes of the Warring States, the strongest is the Qin State, who is the overlord of the last years of the Warring States. At that time, the Qin state was mainly in the Guanzhong region in the west, in present-day Gansu, and in shaanxi. In the east, there were the six kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei, and the four kingdoms bordering the Qin state were Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, and these four kingdoms.
The Battle of Western Chu and the Battle of Jinghe corresponded to the battle in which the Qin State attacked the Chu State in history, which was fought very tragically, the Chu State died hundreds of thousands of people, and a river at that time was full of corpses, which were soaked in water and the sun was sunburned again, and the whole river stinked, known as the stinky pool.
Later in the story, we all know that the Qin King destroyed the Six Kingdoms, unified the world, ended the years of war and strife, and let the people live a peaceful life.
The capital of the Qin State is in Xianyang, and the TV series "Sword Line in the Snow" says that the Yang Dynasty seems to have borrowed the name xianyang to change.
The purpose of mentioning these things above is to clearly explain the ins and outs of history.
Combined with the beginning of the TV series, the account is explained that "the world was in chaos that year, the nine kingdoms were divided, and then the princes were in chaos." "We can know that the author actually created it against the background of this history at the end of the Warring States period.
The play says: "The Northern Starling Iron Horse of the Yang Dynasty, the world is invincible, one army, destroy the Six Kingdoms", which is actually written according to the army of the Qin State. In the last years of the Warring States, the army of the Qin State was called the "Tiger and Wolf Division" by the other six countries, and the generals and soldiers of the Qin State were all red in the eyes as soon as they went to the battlefield, and they were fierce and fierce, just like wild beasts.
In the last years of the Warring States, the combat effectiveness of the Qin army was unprecedentedly strong, and the combat enthusiasm of the generals was also unprecedentedly high, which was actually due to the fact that one person was Shang Martingale.
In the Shang martingale transformation law, there is a reform that implements the "military merit knighthood system", and the history books record that "the Shang jun is the law of qin, fighting, beheading a head and giving a knighthood of the first rank", which is simply "exchanging people's heads for riches".
Soldiers of the Qin State, on the battlefield, every time they kill an enemy, they will cut off his head, and after cutting off a person's head and returning home, they will give you a knighthood of a rank. At the same time, enjoy the treatment of this title, not only rewarding, but also fiefdom.
Moreover, the soldiers of the Qin State are mainly ordinary people, all of whom are from poor families, fed up with the hard days of not being able to eat or drink, and now as long as they kill more people, they can exchange for a rich and noble life, and all of a sudden they can change from the bottom of society to a big landlord, or even directly promoted, they naturally do their best.
After introducing the historical background of the play, let's introduce the origin of the original author's name. The author of the original book is called "Beacon Theatre Princes".
This is actually a very famous historical allusion. The dynasty in which it occurred was the period of transition from the Western Zhou to the Eastern Zhou.
Speaking of this allusion, we have to mention a person, he was the culprit who caused the demise of Western Zhou, he was the King of Zhou You.
King Zhou You was very fond of a woman, and this woman was a famous woman in history, who belonged to the type of laughing at the city and laughing at the country. However, she has a problem, although she looks back and smiles, she does not like to laugh, and she has a face all day.
In order to make her laugh, King Zhou Youwang thought of many ways. Finally, a minister gave him an idea and said, "King, do you want to light the beacon?" ”
Beacon towers, which we can now occasionally see in some historical sites, were tools built in ancient times to convey information. A beacon is built at a certain distance, and once a crisis occurs, the first beacon is immediately lit, and then the second one is lit as soon as it sees smoke, and it is passed on forever.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the beacon tower showed that the Zhou Dynasty had foreign enemies coming, zhou tianzi was in danger, and all the princes must immediately lead a large army to rescue.
King Zhou You, listening to the minister's advice, ordered someone to light the beacon tower, and in this way, the princes led the troops non-stop, and the wind and dust came to the capital city, a large area of WuyangYang.
She had never seen so many troops before, and she was very curious, so she asked King Zhou You, "What are they doing?" ”
King Zhou You explained to her that I lit the beacon and made them think that there was an enemy coming to attack us, so I brought troops to the rescue, in fact, I was teasing them.
After listening to it, she laughed, clapped her hands and said, "It's so fun."
When King Zhou Youwang looked at it, he was also happy, and it turned out that this was the way to make the beauty laugh.
However, as soon as the princes saw that there was no enemy, they returned with their troops, and They began to stretch their faces all day again, so what to do? We order it often. From then on, King Zhou Youwang lit the beacon at both ends of the three days, lit it once, the princes came once, and praised and laughed once.
This is the story of the famous "Princes of Zhou Youwang Beacon Drama" in history.
The author uses this allusion as his pen name, thinking that there is a certain intention. If he is not very fond of the Western Zhou, the Spring and Autumn And Warring States period, that period of ups and downs in history, is to borrow this to describe his relationship with the reader, then as readers, are we the king of Zhou You or the princes?