This dynasty existed only for 38 years, but left 4 majestic buildings, which are still in use today
For thousands of years, people often talk about the "Zhou Qin, Han and Tang" prosperous dynasties, but they inadvertently ignore the Sui Dynasty, a great unified dynasty in Chinese history that inherited the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Qi Tang Dynasty. When it comes to the Sui Dynasty, the first impression left on many people is that it is tyrannical and brutal to the people, especially the reputation of the Sui Emperor has been heard in the history books, so this dynasty only existed for 38 years before it collapsed, becoming a typical short-lived dynasty in China. However, when we look back at this history today, we find that the Sui Dynasty was not what we imagined, and many of its administrative reforms had a profound impact on future generations.
Although the Sui Dynasty, like the Qin Dynasty, was a historically "short-lived" dynasty, it was precisely these two short-lived dynasties that completed two epoch-making unifications in Chinese history. One ended the great turmoil since the Spring and Autumn Warring States, and the other ended the 300-year-long division since the Wei and Jin dynasties.
The contribution of the Sui Dynasty in the construction of the system is also unmatched by other dynasties, the central government established a three-province and six-part system to consolidate the emperor's centralization; the local official implementation of the examination system, the examination and selection of talents is still used by many countries. It can be said that the historical status of the Sui Dynasty cannot be ignored, and to some extent, the prosperity of the Sheng Tang Dynasty is also an extension of the Sui. In addition to the many great achievements of the Sui Dynasty, the short reign also left 4 majestic buildings for future generations, which are still in use!
Many people say that many of the buildings built by the Sui Dynasty were bought by the people to work hard and hurt their money, and the blood and sweat of the common people were exchanged, and the Sui Emperor forced the people to build huge projects for his own preferences, and the labor was unremitting, and the abuse of people's strength was brought an immeasurable burden to the people's lives. However, in ancient times, when science and technology were not developed, which building was not built in exchange for the blood and sweat of the common people? What ingenious art is not the result of the painstaking efforts of countless skilled craftsmen?
1, the construction of Chang'an City
At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the capital was Han Chang'an City, but Chang'an at that time was in tatters after years of war, coupled with disrepair and serious pollution, it was no longer suitable for people to live. Therefore, Emperor Wen of Sui chose to build a new capital southeast of Chang'an City. The newly built Daxing City was the largest city in the world at that time, the area at that time was 1.4 times that of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Beijing City, and 2.4 times that of the Han Chang'an City, and the entire Chang'an City was uniform, very majestic, laying the foundation for the later Tang Dynasty. The Daxing City built by Emperor Wen of Sui was ready to be built in such a regular atmosphere for the continuation of future generations, and the Sui Emperor built Luoyang as a supplementary capital, also considering that the cooperation with the Grand Canal could be better operated, and the construction of Luoyang also became the center of political economy and culture at that time.
Second, Cangcheng
According to statistics, from the Sui Wen Emperor to the Sui Emperor period, a total of six large granaries were established, of which the Huiluo Warehouse in the northeast of "Luoyang Sui and Tang City" was the largest granary in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. According to the Book of Sui, "When Emperor Jue ascended the throne, it was a lesson for the removal of women and slaves. Men with twenty-two dice. The Eastern Capital was founded, with Shang Shuling Yang Su as the battalion superintendent, serving two million people per month. The Guo Nei people of Luo Prefecture and the rich merchants of the world's states have tens of thousands of families to realize it. New Xingluo and Huiluo warehouse. ”
The third project is the Sui and Tang Dynasty Grand Canal. When Emperor Wen of Sui was unified, more than 300 years of turmoil had just ended, and everything was in ruins to be rebuilt. The situation in which the north is strong and the south is weak has never had a qualitative breakthrough. The backwardness of transportation is the root cause of the backwardness of the south. Coupled with the many problems left over from the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, many industries in the south have been monopolized by some family members for a long time.
At that time, the construction of land transportation was expensive, difficult, and the distance between north and south was long, so Emperor Wen of Sui decided to inherit the traditional road from south to north since the Qin and Han Dynasties: the waterway. The advantage of water transport is that some waterway passages have been built to a greater or lesser extent throughout the dynasties. For example, the Yellow Ditch opened by Wu Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Spirit Canal dug by the Qin Dynasty, and the White Ditch dug by Cao Wei,
The New River, as well as the Huan Gong Ditch dug by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, laid the foundation for Emperor Wen of Sui to dig a canal that ran through the north and south. During the sui wendi and sui dynasty periods, after the development of the Sui dynasty, the main framework of the Sui and Tang Grand Canals was basically connected, and only some discontinuities still needed to be overland transportation. After that, successive dynasties continued to expand on the basis of the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty. To this day, the Sui-Tang Grand Canal, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the Zhejiang East Grand Canal are still in use.
The Sui Dynasty built the Chi Dao, the Sui Emperor built the Chi Dao to better facilitate transportation, this Road from Yulin in Shaanxi to Beijing is 3,000 kilometers long, although the project is huge, it effectively improves the situation of inconvenient transportation in the north. And facilitated the north-south transportation, promoted economic and cultural exchanges throughout the country, and also laid a good foundation for the Sui Dynasty to recover Goryeo!
Although the Sui Dynasty period only existed for less than 40 years, the existence of its great architecture has solved many disadvantages for our descendants, and the most important thing is that from these buildings, we can also roughly imagine that the people in the Sui Dynasty period were also quite intelligent.