Today, we say that "Han", "Han", "Chinese characters", etc. are inseparable from the Han Dynasty. When it comes to the history of the Han Dynasty, I think Luo Guanzhong said it very concisely in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. "The Han Dynasty revolted since Gaozu beheaded the White Snake and unified the world." Luo Guanzhong mythologized Liu Bang as the Red Emperor, which was another matter, the key was that he made the matter of Liu Bang's founding of the country simple and clear. Then Luo Guanzhong said: "Later, Guangwu Zhongxing was passed on to Emperor Xian, and it was divided into three kingdoms. ”
Yes, the time of the 407 years of the Han Dynasty was only Liu Bang establishing the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiuguang restoring the Han Dynasty and Cao Pi usurping the Han Dynasty, leading to the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In 202 BC, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, was proclaimed emperor and established the Han Dynasty, which was called the Western Han Dynasty. In 25 AD, the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiuzhongxing Han Dynasty established the capital in Luoyang. In order to distinguish it from the Western Han dynasty established by Liu Bang in Chang'an, it is known as the Eastern Han Dynasty.
People praised Liu Bang like a wave, and in the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming emperor, Liu Bang was generous and generous, and He jia Hai Nei had both the great virtue of governing the world and the merits of opening up the world. Similarly, history also highly recognizes Liu Xiu. In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, Liu Xiuyan won the world's heroes, worked hard to govern, and the world was stable.
Liu Bang opened the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiuxing Han Room. And is Liu Xiu a descendant of Liu Bang?
We're going to talk about that today.
Regarding Liu Xiu's identity, according to Ban Gu in the Book of Later Han, in the first year of Han Jianping (5 BC), Liu Xiu was born in Caiyang County, Nanyang County, which is today's Zaoyang City, Hubei Province. He was the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and his direct ancestor was Liu Fa, the son of Liu Qi, the Emperor of Han Jing.
The Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi and his father Liu Heng, the Han Wen Emperor, jointly founded the "Rule of Wen Jing". However, due to the advice of The Imperial Master Chao, he carried out the removal of the king of the domain, and carried out a drastic reform of the local management pattern, which intensified the relationship between the central government and the princes. Fearing that their position would be shaken, the seven princes colluded to launch the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" in the third year of Emperor Jing's reign (154 BC).
In the face of this war, Liu Qi, the Emperor of Hanjing, arranged for the general Zhou Yafu to be pacified, and three months later, the war was basically over, the princes and kings were silenced, and their power was greatly weakened.
The Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi, while cutting the domain, also made his sons princes, thus greatly improving the ability to control the local government. At this time, his sixth son Liu Fa was made the King of Changsha.
Liu Fa was a prince from a humble origin, and his birth has a very dramatic story. Liu Qi, who was then the crown prince, summoned his concubine Cheng Ji to bed after a drunken drink, and Cheng Ji was inconvenient at the time, but did not dare to disobey. What to do? Taking advantage of the prince's drunkenness, Cheng Ji asked his maid Tang Er to take the place. It was a blessing after drinking, and Tang Er became pregnant with Liu Qi's seed and gave birth to a son Liu Fa.
For Liu Fa, Liu Qi is not very important. However, after all, he was his own son, and in order to strengthen the centralized rule, Liu Fa was arranged to Changsha as king.
Although Tang Er was not welcomed by the emperor, Liu Fa was full of love for his mother. Every year, he had people send Changsha rice to Chang'an to honor his mother, and then transport Chang'an's dirt to Changsha. More than ten years have passed, and the dirt transported from Chang'an to Changsha has piled up into a very tall platform. Liu Fa missed his mother and took the stage every day to look at Chang'an.
This matter reached the ears of Liu Qi, the Emperor of HanJing, who felt that this son was very filial and should be entrusted with a heavy responsibility. In 142 BC (the second year after Emperor Jing), Emperor Jing of Han also included the three counties of Wuling, Lingling, and Guiyang near Changsha into his fiefdoms.
Liu Fa performed well during his time in Changsha, and the fiefdom gradually expanded. In 129 BC, in the sixth year of Yuan Guang after Emperor Wu of Han succeeded to the throne, Liu Fa died.
The issue of the division of the princes still plagued the Han Wudi Emperor Liu Che. In 127 BC, at the suggestion of his father, Emperor Wu of Han promulgated the Tui En Order. Simply put, it is to reduce the territory of each prince by setting up more princes, so as to achieve the purpose of weakening the power of the princes and preventing them from sitting on a large seat.
The Tuien Order not only weakened the power of the princes, but also curbed the development of the princely families.
After the death of Liu Fa, the Ding King of Changsha, his domain was inherited by his son Liu Yong. However, according to the requirements of the "Tuien Order", each son of Liu Yong could only inherit the territory of his father in turn. The status of Liu Yong's descendants is becoming lower and lower.
According to the Book of Later Han, after Liu Fa, his son Liu Mai was made the Marquis of Lingling, and Liu Mai's son Liu Wai's status was further weakened, from marquis to Yulin Commandery Taishou, Liu Wai gave birth to Liu Hui, Liu Hui only served as the governor of Julu County, and by the time of Liu Hui's son Liu Qin, Liu Qin was only the county commander of Nandun County.
From The Dingwang of Changsha to the County Order of Nandun County in the district, Liu Xiu's lineage has gone into decline from generation to generation.
When Liu Qin, who had been the nanton county commander, died, his son Liu Xiu was only nine years old. No way, uncle Liu Liang raised Liu Xiu to grow up.
In the last year of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and established a new dynasty, and the world was in chaos. Liu Xiu raised an army in Wancheng as a civilian, and after the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, restored the Han Dynasty and established the Eastern Han Dynasty.
From this point of view, Liu Xiu is indeed a descendant of Liu Bang. They all entered history by force, and then gradually implemented the New Deal to stabilize the regime.