The phrase "history is always strikingly similar" is not out of the ordinary, there are too many similar examples. It's just possible that the same environment, because some individual differences create differences in results.
Ming Jingjun believes that there is nothing most similar in ancient Chinese history than the shame of Yongjia Nandu and Jingkang.
Also in the face of foreign invasions, the Han nationality crossed south, and with the assistance of the civilian generals, was able to be stable and peaceful. After the Yongjia southern crossing, it was the support of the warrior clan to the imperial family; while the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty was mainly dependent on the resistance of the military generals, the brilliant anti-Jin achievements of the four generals of Zhongxing, and finally in the eleventh year of Shaoxing, with war to promote peace and demarcate the boundary, the Song Jindong was bounded by the Huai River, and the west was bounded by the Dashanguan.
Before the southern crossing, it was because of political darkness, and internal fluctuations attracted foreign peoples to covet and spy on the Central Plains. The Northern Song Dynasty was a peasant uprising, and the Western Jin Dynasty was a clan rebellion.
After the founding of the state, it was also the power of the courtiers, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was Wang Dun and Wang Dao, and the Southern Song Dynasty was Qin Juniper. The second generation was all monarchs who turned the tide, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was sima shao, the Ming Emperor, and the Southern Song Dynasty was Song Xiaozong.
After the founding of the state, the basic two dynasties carried out many Northern Expeditions, and the Southern Song Dynasty carried out four Northern Expeditions, including Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, Longxing Northern Expedition, Kaixi Northern Expedition, and Duanping Into Luo.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty took the Northern Expedition as a common thing, and the powerful ministers basically took the Northern Expedition to establish political prestige and seek more benefits for their families, such as Yu Liang, Huan Wen, Xie Xuan, Liu Yu and so on.
More importantly, after the two dynasties crossed the south, there were few bright colors, but the internal economy and culture have always attracted the attention of the world, and the famous Confucian Chen Yinke also said: "The culture of the Chinese nation, which has evolved over thousands of years, was created in the world of Zhao and Song", and the Wei and Jin wind bones are still yearning for by today's people.
These are all highly similar events and historical periods in history, and this is just one of them, others such as the situation of Tang Zhaozong and the Second Emperor Chongzhen; the rise of Liu Yu and Zhu Wen; Zhang Zhu's death guard of Suiyang and Yan Yingyuan's death of Jiangyin, and the list goes on.
So history not only tells us the truth of "striking similarities" with a large number of examples, but most of the lessons learned can be learned all the time. During the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng and Empress Li assisted the government, because Xiao Wanli lost his morality after drinking, Empress Li gave him a copy of "Huo Guang's Biography", and Huo Guang deposed the emperor, Xiao Wanli immediately understood his mother's meaning, which is the experience and lesson of history.
If we do not absorb it, then we can only "mourn and learn from future generations, and also make future generations mourn later generations", losing the basic meaning of historical inheritance.