Some time ago, some fans privately sent me a private message to "greet" me - greeting me why I "smeared" Yuan Chonghuan and denigrated the Chongzhen Emperor. In fact, I never shy away from my identity as a "bright fan". But this sense of identity lies in the fact that the history of the Ming Dynasty is more like the epitome of the history of the great China, thousands of years. And its glory and darkness are what every one of us history lovers should know and accept.
So why do we like the Ming Dynasty?
The First Ming Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty ruled by the Han Chinese.
In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, defeated Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng and others, and finally realized his dream and established the Ming Dynasty. When the Battle of Yashan was fought, Lu Xiufu carried the little emperor to the sea, and there was no China after Yashan, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor born of beggars, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and ended the rule of the Mongols.
The second way to get the righteousness of the country is to be clear
In the tradition of paying attention to Zhengshuo, Zhu Yuanzhang did not choose to survive like the Song Dynasty established by Zhao Kuangyin, but took the initiative to attack. In 1368, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he immediately ordered Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to carry out the Northern Expedition with the slogan of "expelling Hu Yu, restoring China, establishing the Chen Ji, and relieving Si Min's "Zhongyuan Yuan" (檄) as the slogan, and in the more than three hundred years after the Later Jin Emperor Shi Jingyao ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Khitans, "Yi Yu gained inches and made concessions step by step in the Middle Xia... The humiliation of the Han people for three hundred years has won this snow! ”
The 30,000th kingdom came to the Dynasty
If we talk about the two most influential dynasties in history, we may first think of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, one of which has played out the national character of the iron backbone of the "Han" and "Han people"; the other has achieved the feat of submission of all the "Heavenly Khans". But if you say that the country with the most tribute in history is the Ming Dynasty.
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's eight Northern Expeditions and Zhu Di's five Northern Expeditions, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty were basically wiped out, and in the subsequent Zheng He's voyage to the West, it was even more fierce, which also made nearly thirty kingdoms pay tribute.
"In the year of his season, Wei De was subdued, the four parties were obeyed, and those who were ordered by the dynasty to pay tribute to the Thirty Kingdoms" - Ming Shi Chengzu Benji
Fourth, Yu Qian, Wang Yangming, Qi Jiguang, Zhang Juzheng...
Yu Qian was not a loyal vassal in the traditional sense, when Emperor Mingying's Zhu Qizhen was reduced to a prisoner of the ranks during a change of civil fort, Daming was in danger, and if according to Zhengshuo, he should support Zhu Jianshen who was within the swaddling, but he instead supported Zhu Qiyu to ascend to the great treasure. Turning the tide, pulling the building to the top, is what he looks like.
When the change of the gate was seized, he held great power, but instead of preventing the restoration of Zhu Qizhen for emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty, he chose to "go with the flow". He was for daming, and he was a loyal vassal of the Ming dynasty.
Finally, he made a footnote to his life with one of his own poems—a thousand hammers chiseled out of the mountains, and the fire burned like idleness. Don't be afraid of crushing your bones, and leave your innocence in the human world.
As for Mr. Wang Yangming, the beginning of the idea of "mind study". He was a scholar or a soldier who wiped out king Ning, and he set an example for the unity of knowledge and action, the use of the world, and the knowledge of the qualities.
Qi Jiguang, when faced with the increasingly rampant plague of Wokou, he made the choice from a hereditary officer to the heart of fist and fist to serve the country, training standardization, examination standardization, military rules and civilization, he gave the Japanese Kou more than a dozen battles of failure, but also the Daming Haiboping.
Zhang Juzheng is not a perfect person, he is exclusive, and he has all the advantages and disadvantages of people and people in power. As Hai Rui said, "Work for the country, clumsy for the body." However, in the face of the crisis of the country, he used reform, the elimination of maladministration, a whip law, and the examination law to save the world.
The fifth Chongzhen Emperor's solar terms
The principle of prosperity and decline is a common thing. We do not deny that many of the measures taken by the Chongzhen Emperor are divorced from reality, and although they are diligent, they are dimwitted. But in terms of solar terms, his choice is to die unyieldingly and hang himself in martyrdom. A sentence "Remove the crown from the crown, cover the face with hair, let the thief split the corpse, and do not hurt the people alone." "It's sad but even more proud. On the other hand, the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty only escaped twice; Empress Dowager Cixi only ran to Xi'an.
The heyday of the sixth culture
"Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Peony Pavilion", "West Chamber" and other great works are all from the Ming Dynasty.
In the 276-year Ming Dynasty, it has splendor like many dynasties, and it cannot escape the fixed number of historical cycle laws, but what it leaves us with is the epitome of almost the entire history, it is not like Mr. Gao Xiaosong said, "The Ming Dynasty is a three-no-dynasty, the so-called Ming Dynasty has no ming jun, no famous generals, and no literary heroes." It is a dynasty of flesh and blood, full of bright kings, loyal subjects, and good generals, and what we have to do is to face up to its good, and not to hide its "evil." And history moves forward in the midst of such contradictions.
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, etc