There is an old Saying in China: "The Heavenly Dao is good for reincarnation, but who has the heavens spared?" The word "reincarnation" often appears in various religious legends, sometimes when karma ends, when the past life is fruitful because of this life, and the cycle ends sometimes. Although in the modern concept of scientific materialism, the so-called "reincarnation" seems to be unscientific, and was even once included in the category of feudal superstition, which made people laugh and give up.
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However, many people still have this question: if there is really a so-called "reincarnation" in the world, how should it be verified? - The so-called reincarnation, in a sense, is actually a coincidence that the future echoes the past. It is true that the future is still in an unknown state for our current objective state of existence, but our past timeline is known, and if we use the known past to verify the past future, won't we know the answer to reincarnation?
Six reincarnation sculptures
And this verification knows the behavior of the past timeline, which is what we call "learning from history". Throughout history, there are some things that have really happened, and in the long course of history, there have been some amazing coincidences that make people wonder: the world may really be a reincarnation.
Liu Bang beheaded the white snake, and Wang Mang cut off the Han Dynasty
Liu Bang, a figure that everyone is very familiar with, as the founder of the Han Dynasty, he destroyed Qin and Chu, overthrew the dark rule of the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, forced Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, to be embattled and killed himself in Wujiang, and since then he has unified the world and opened the Han Dynasty of "those who offend me strong han, although they will be punished from afar".
Han dynasty
However, it is such a majestic and strategic king's talent, and his origin is not necessarily very noble and prominent. Liu Bang was born in an ordinary peasant family, relying on the meager income of the family's fields to barely make a living. However, because he was pretentious and idle all day, he did not do the right thing and did not produce, so he was often reprimanded by his father, and people thought that he was a man with no ambition.
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After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang found a small position as the chief of the pavilion and was responsible for escorting criminals. However, Liu Bang was poorly guarded during the process of escorting the criminals to Lishan, causing many criminals to flee. Seeing this, Liu Bang simply laid it out, took advantage of the night to drink, and released all the criminals with the help of wine.
Liu Bang in film and television dramas
And Liu Bang knew that he was not well guarded, and he would face punishment when he returned, so he was also ready to run for his life. Of the prisoners, ten were willing to follow him and flee for their lives. Just as the group was trying to escape from the path, they encountered a huge white snake in the middle of the road. At this time, someone suggested that they return the same way and walk around the snake.
At this time, the drunken Liu Bei could not take care of so much, and with the help of wine, he drank while drinking: "The big husband walks, what is there to be afraid of?" While drawing his sword and cutting the great white snake in two, it didn't take long for him to become drunk and unconscious.
Liu Bang beheaded the white snake
When the people behind them came to the place where the snake was cut, they saw an old woman crouching near the snake corpse crying in the night, and the people asked her why she was weeping here, and the old woman said, "Someone killed my son." My son was the son of the White Emperor, disguised as a snake in the middle of the road, but now he was killed by the son of the Red Emperor, so I am crying here. ”
The crowd did not believe at first, thinking she was lying, but it turned out
Film and television drama Liu Bang
In the blink of an eye, the old woman disappeared. Everyone's hearts palpitated, and when Liu Bang woke up and told him about it, Liu Bang heard that he was the son of the Red Emperor, and he couldn't help but be secretly happy, and he believed even more that he was not an ordinary husband.
The "beheading of the white snake" also enabled Liu Bang to establish his prestige among the masses as the "son of the Red Emperor", and there was a great tendency to "conform to the Mandate of Heaven", and later it was widely circulated in the folk: "Gao Zu beheaded the snake, and Emperor Ping returned the fate". After beheading the white snake, Liu Bang launched an uprising in Pei County, changed the absurd style of doing nothing before, began to make meritorious achievements, soared all the way to the yellow tengda, and finally unified the world and established the Han Dynasty.
Just after Liu Bang became emperor, it is said that one night the white snake gave Liu Bang a dream and said, "You cut me into two pieces, and I will also cut your dynasty into two pieces to avenge this sword." Liu Bang, who woke up, was very dissatisfied, but he did not expect that two hundred years later, a foreign relative named Wang Mang appeared, and after the death of the Hanping Emperor, he took the opportunity to usurp the throne speculatively, control the government, establish himself as emperor, and change the name of the country to "New".
Wang Mang
It is worth noting that Wang Mang, Mang is homophonous with "python", and the python is a snake. Therefore, some people have proposed that Wang Mang is the son of the white snake that Liu Bang killed in the first place: the Python King, and he did the disaster to the Great Han Jiangshan in order to avenge it. It was not until the later outbreak of the Green Forest Chimei Rebellion that Wang Mang was stabbed to death, and the imperial power was returned to the Han Dynasty. And Wang Mang's usurpation happened to divide the Han Dynasty into two Han Dynasties, East and West, two hundred years before and after, which was really "blocking the waist and breaking the waist", which happened to fulfill the prophecy of that year. People can't help but doubt: Liu Bang beheaded the white snake, and Wang Mang judged that the Han Dynasty was really the karma of reincarnation.
"Seven in, seven out" of the Great Song Dynasty
The Song Dynasty originated from Zhao Kuangyin. During the Later Zhou Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Zhao Kuangyin was ordered to serve as an envoy of Jiedushi, holding the lifeblood of Later Zhou's military power. When Chai Rong died, Chai Rong's seven-year-old son Chai Zongxun of Zhou Gong ascended the throne, was still young and did not have the ability to govern independently, so he gave Zhao Kuangyin the opportunity to exploit the loophole.
Little Emperor
Zhao Kuangyin took the opportunity to plan the "Chen Qiao Mutiny", and also instigated everyone to shout long live to force himself to ascend to the throne, and at the same time, he added crazy drama to himself, repeatedly "refusing to ascend the throne" to stage a "yellow robe plus body" drama that was difficult for him, in order to cover up his own "taking advantage of the danger of others and taking advantage of the fire to rob." "Taking advantage of the emperor's young age" to carry out the shameful act of usurping the throne.
After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he changed the name of the country to "Song" and founded the famous Great Song Dynasty.
Yellow robe plus body
At the same time, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes as his own in seizing power and usurping the throne by "supporting the army and respecting themselves," Zhao Kuangyin also deprived the military power in the hands of various military generals with "a cup of wine and release the military power", further strengthening the centralization of power and consolidating the rule. However, the weakening of the military power of military generals has also brought great security risks to the security of the state border, and under Zhao Kuangyin's policy of reducing power, the state military is weak and weak, and it is unable to resist the aggression of foreign nationalities in the north.
Shame on Jing Kang
Soon, in the process of the invasion of the Jin army to the south, after the battle of Jing Kang, the Northern Song Dynasty officially declared its demise. In the same year, the unwilling King Zhao of Kang declared himself emperor in Nanjing, established the Southern Song Dynasty, and lived in a remote corner. However, not long after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was ruthlessly broken by the iron horse of the Mongol army, and when the Mongol soldiers approached the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an, emperor Gong of Song, who was exactly seven years old at the time, succeeded to the throne, young and weak. The emissaries of the Southern Song Dynasty went to ask for peace, but the Yuan general Boyan laughed at them mercilessly: "Your world will be gained by Xiao'er, and it will also be lost to Xiao'er!" ”
Song Dynasty generals resisted Jin
Forced to do so, the seven-year-old Song Gongzong and Empress Xie and Empress Quan, who were orphans and widows, had to issue a surrender edict and surrender to the Yuan, and since then, the Great Song Dynasty has been completely overthrown. Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty began at the age of seven and finally ended at the age of seven, and this coincidence seems to confirm the so-called "reincarnation": those who take advantage of the danger of others must be killed
The Song Dynasty collapsed
People take advantage of the danger.
Interestingly, the two seven-year-old emperors were both known as "Gong": one Zhou Gong Emperor and one Song Gongzong, and the Zen edicts they issued were extremely similar in content. Emperor Gong of Zhou said: "To the last boy, the family is not created, the people's hearts have gone, and the fate of the country has returned." And Song Gongzong said: "The subject is young and young, and it is difficult for the family." ...... Today's fate is returned, and the subject will go to the end." Therefore, later generations often referred to the Song Dynasty as "seven gong in, seven gong out." ”
The second emperor died suddenly after the Unification
There are two more fleeting but very impressive dynasties in history.
The first is the Qin Dynasty, since the "first emperor of the ages" Qin Shi Huang first opened up the situation of great unification, it has set a benchmark for the rule of future generations, and successive dynasties have regarded "unifying the world" as the ultimate goal, and the chaotic situation of division and chaos will not last forever.
Qin Shi Huang
During the reign of Qin Shi Huang, he practiced a high degree of centralization, he unified currency, writing, weights and measures, burned books to pit Confucianism, built the Great Wall to ward off foreign enemies, and even used the harsh punishment of the government to oppress and bind the people's words and deeds, trying to exterminate their rebellious psychology through such means.
Qin Shi Huang film and television drama image
However, at the same time that Qin Shi Huang was so obsessed with stabilizing his power, he never thought that after his death, he would be conspired by the traitor Li Sizhao Gao to tamper with the will, and he would kill fu Su, the eldest son of the emperor who was most capable of inheriting Jiangshan, and put Hu Hai on the throne, known in history as Qin II. Hu Hai also completely buried the Great Qin Dynasty in his own hands, and was later overthrown by Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Liu Bang Xiangyu, and the Qin Dynasty quickly declared its demise.
Qin II Hu Hai
On the other hand, the Sui Dynasty also ended the chaotic division of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, unifying the world, but it was as short-lived as the Qin Dynasty, and it was lost in the long river of history: Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was called emperor by the eight-year-old emperor of northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty. During this period, Yang Jianli made great efforts to govern, straightened out the rule of officials, and founded the imperial examination, creating a prosperous situation.
Yang Jian in film and television dramas
However, in The Later Years of Yang Jian's life, out of suspicion and jealousy, he wanted to depose Yang Guang as crown prince and replace him with his second son Yang Yong. At this time, after being learned by Yang Guang, he was so angry and demoralized that he put Yang Guang under house arrest to death, and was able to succeed to the throne smoothly, becoming known to later generations as the "Sui Emperor", Jiangshan was stirred up in his hands, the people were not happy, and finally collapsed rapidly, and the Sui Dynasty collapsed.
Sui Dynasty Emperor
The Qin and Sui dynasties were all unified situations created by the founding emperor, but because they failed to arrange the heirs to the imperial throne reasonably, they eventually buried jiangshan in the hands of the second emperor, and the collapse of the dynasty was a flash, could it also be a kind of reincarnation?
These historical coincidences, while revealing the return of the wheel, in fact, all show us the philosophy of life that "the prosperity will decline, and the decline will flourish".