In recent years, with the continuous development of Internet technology and the increasing number of users, more and more marketing numbers have begun to rearrange some historical figures and events. There are smears and weakenings on some positive figures, such as describing Yue Fei as only understanding military and not understanding politics, and Zhuge Liang as only understanding politics and not understanding military affairs.
There are also whitewashing and touting of some negative characters, such as Wang Mang is a reformer, Liu Xiu is just lucky, etc., in short, it is various. Among them, there are also many arrangements for ancient emperors, especially the phenomenon of collectively praising monarchs with bad reputations in history, such as the Shang Dynasty King, Qin Shi Huang, and the Sui Dynasty Emperor, so what are some of the reasons for this?
First, attract traffic and obtain business value
As we all know, today's society is full of all kinds of network marketing, all of their marketing means must be based on traffic as the premise, only with enough traffic, there is a chance to bring greater commercial value. One of the ways to obtain network traffic is to put forward views other than public perception or contrary to general cognition to win attention.
Under such circumstances, it is undoubtedly one of the good ways to whitewash some emperors who were once defined as tyrants and emperors to put forward rebellious views, which are mixed with some wild history and interpretation of the material, which is even more breeding soil for these "new" arguments. In a word, commercial value gives rise to this phenomenon of touting the discredited emperor.
Second, the emperor with a bad reputation has merit
In addition to commercial value, some emperors with bad reputations are not useless, such as Qin Shi Huang, who, as the first feudal emperor in Chinese history, is admittedly wrong to abuse the people's power to cause harm to the people, and it is also wrong for his cultivation and improper inheritance to let society return to war again.
But he wants to unify the world and end the war; measures such as unifying the currency and weights and measures are another kind of improvement to the people's livelihood; moreover, his harsh punishment law is indeed effective in the chaotic world, and after reunification, it has become a harsh government, which is obviously a contradictory thing, and cannot be generalized, of course, his tyranny is unpopular and leads to a bad reputation, and it is also a fact that there are desirable points.
For example, the Sui Emperor, who also led to the death of the second emperor of the dynasty, also made the mistake of abusing the people's power, and he was also a victim of the struggle of the gate valve forces in the environment at that time. And looking at the Tang Emperor after the Sui Dynasty who continued to become a world power under the sui system, it can be seen that the Emperor Zhao was not useless.
The king of the fallen country is more or less like this, the bad reputation is inevitable, and it is also a fact that the people are unpopular, but the interpretation of the king of the fallen country is not all killed with a stick, and the real details can always dig up some valuable historical materials, which means that the emperors with bad reputation are sought after and have a lot to do with their own merits.
Third, this is not a historical truth
Moreover, when we study historical figures now, we are mainly based on the correct historical records, which is naturally correct. Using canonical records to supplement archaeological relics and documents to restore historical truth as much as possible is the ultimate goal of scholars and experts who study history.
But everyone should know a fact, that is, the historical truth can only be approached, and the correct history is not the historical truth. Because the history of zhengshi also has historical limitations, Sima Qian's historical records use other non-orthodox historical materials in the records of Xia, Shang, and Zhou, which are even more ancient than the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are occasional contradictions in the records.
In addition, at present, many historical materials have demonstrated that Tang Taizong Li Shimin has the suspicion of subjectively tampering with history, after all, the history books are compiled by the victors, and the History of the Ming Dynasty has many plots to suppress and vilify the Ming Dynasty, the most intuitive thing is about the appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming History of the Qing Dynasty depicts Zhu Yuanzhang as "shoehorn face, roe-headed rat eyes", and the portraits of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are basically "full of heaven and square face", which is obviously unexplainable in a history book.
There should be many more inaccuracies in some canonical history like this. Therefore, we say that some of the actions of the Shang Dynasty, the Sui Emperor, and the First Emperor of Qin are also responding to the fact that the history of the king of the fallen country is written by the descendants who have a hostile position with him, and there are falsehoods and fictions that need to be analyzed and interpreted by future generations.
Conclusion: In summary, the author and you briefly analyzed the reasons for the collective praise of the shang and the king, the first emperor of Qin, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty and other monarchs with bad reputation in history, it can be seen that history is like a fog, and people continue to add peripheral fog wrapping to it, which makes people want to understand more deeply, which is the charm of history.
When we modern people study historical knowledge, in addition to pursuing the truth, we should also take history as a mirror and carry forward positive energy. For some ancient emperors recognized as unpopular behavior should be resolutely criticized, no matter how much the marketing number of the pursuit of whitewashing can not change these facts, as for some distortion of facts, deliberately promote the ugly face of the ancients should be resisted and eliminated, and finally let it disappear completely.