Seeing this topic, do some friends think that the person I want to introduce today is the Shunzhi Emperor? If you think that, you'd be sorely mistaken. From the time of Qin Shi Huang to the last emperor Puyi, a total of 422 emperors appeared in Chinese history. This is not much to say in the course of thousands of years of civilization, and it is not much to say less. Among these people, we may be most familiar with TangZong, Song Zu, Qin Emperor Han Wu, and we all know that among those relatively unfamiliar characters, there is also a different kind of legendary life. Today we will introduce an emperor - Zhao Xian, the Gong Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Portrait of Zhao Xian
Zhao Xian, the seventh emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, was only four years old when he succeeded to the throne, a small doll who knew nothing, and above him there was a slightly older brother, who was supposed to be unable to succeed him. Could it be that he is a genius? Of course not. After Emperor Duzong's death, the traitor Jia Xiangdao controlled the government, and if he wanted to continue to hold power, then of course he had to choose an emperor who could be at his mercy, and the young Zhao Xian became the best candidate in his mind.
Therefore, under the manipulation of Jia Xiangdao, Zhao Xian, a child who did not even speak unfavorably at that time, thus ascended to the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, and it was from then on that Zhao Xian who became a veritable puppet. However, such a day did not last long, because due to Jia Rudao's weakness and greed for life, two years later, the Southern Song Dynasty was forced to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty. And Jia Rudao, the culprit, was also killed by the angry officers and soldiers. Since then, Zhao Xian has become a prisoner of the order.
Portrait of Jia Rudao
Because of his status as a prisoner, he could not continue to live in Lin'anju, but to go north to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Dadu, Where Kublai Khan saw that he was young, he made him the Duke of Yingguo, and finally moved to Shangdu, which is today's Inner Mongolia. From Wu Nong's soft-spoken Jiangnan water town to the northern winds of the Inner Mongolian steppe, as an emperor of a subjugated country, who can imagine the arduous rush along the way?
But this four-year-old child persevered, spent his childhood in Inner Mongolia far away from his homeland, and he gradually knew the supreme position he had in the past, compared with the situation under the fence now, he couldn't help but feel sad, and the resentment was difficult to say, but what political achievements could he make alone? As the years passed, Zhao Xianyi also reached the age of eighteen in the blink of an eye. As the saying goes, wildfires burn endlessly, and spring winds blow again. Yuan Shizu felt more and more that keeping Zhao Xian was a disaster, what if one day the Southern Song Dynasty was restored?
Portrait of Kublai Khan
Therefore, Kublai Khan wanted to do nothing and kill Zhao Xian directly. However, after Zhao Xian knew, in order to dispel the suspicion of the Yuan Dynasty, he himself asked to leave the world and become a monk, and Yuan Shizu also agreed to his request. The author is sometimes very curious, is it true that the people who were emperors in the Song Dynasty only regarded the work of the emperor as a part-time job? Why is there such a question? Let's hear what I have to say. The most famous song dynasty is the Song Huizong Zhao Yao, who has achieved thousands of generations of calligraphy and painting and governed the country for ten thousand years.
Song Gong Emperor Zhao Xian was not much different from him, as a subjugated emperor, he could actually immerse himself in the study of Buddhism, live in the temple for a long time, and have his own Dharma name, after years of painstaking study, he knew the Tibetan language very well, and also had his own unique views on Buddhism. Finally, he also served as the chief abbot of the Great Monastery of Sakya. Not only that, the Buddhist scriptures he translated were highly praised by Tibetan masters as soon as they came out, and they were recognized by everyone as a master of translation.
All in all, the author believes that even if Zhao Xian is not a subjugated emperor, his ability to govern the country is still vulnerable compared with The Dharma. However, if you look at it on the other hand, Zhao Xian has also played a very great role in promoting the exchange and integration of national cultures. During the years when he entered Tibet, he also brought Han Culture to the past, and also spread mongolian and Tibetan culture. However, when Zhao Xian was fifty-three years old, he was killed because of the incident in the literal prison, and the entire Buddhist community was shocked, and the departure of such a dazzling Buddhist master was the sadness of the entire Buddhist community.
From being an emperor at an early age, to the king of the subjugated country, and then unexpectedly becoming a generation of Buddhist masters, even his death is so legendary. Such a life of ups and downs, such a confusing trajectory of fate, and such a crooked historical achievement are probably unique among all the emperors of all generations. The author describes his life as a legendary blockbuster, which is not an exaggeration at all, right?
Sometimes we read history not only to read history, but to understand the truth of life from it, and from Zhao Xian's body, we can understand how great the value of a person's life is, not depending on others but on himself. Although he is the king of the fallen country, he can also make some achievements in other fields, all roads lead to Rome, as long as his life is done, not in vain, is not exactly what we ourselves want to see? I don't know what you have learned from this legendary emperor and a high-ranking monk?