The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu wrote in his poem: "If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, will you kill and injure more?" "During the Shang Dynasty, Jiang Shang assisted King Wen of Zhou in governing political affairs, which played a great role in strengthening Zhou and destroying shang, and after that, King Wu of Zhou ascended the throne, Jiang Shang still wholeheartedly assisted and advised King Wu, who trusted Jiang Shang very much, attacked decisively, and finally successfully defeated the Shang Dynasty.
There are many cross-over dramas in the TV series, such as the heroine of the twenty-first century who crossed to various dynasties and taught the plot of the ancients what they knew in modern times, then the ancients thought that this was a strange woman, she would not be able to do it, not only that, the heroine also dared to compete with the royal family with her own courage, the woman attracted the attention of the emperor or the prince, and slowly liked her, this type of TV series emerges endlessly.
It's all just plot, not real. But strangely enough, it is said that wang mang, the emperor of the new dynasty, is a modern person who travels through the past. In China's feudal period, many people have "Han room plot", the Han Dynasty, as the second largest unified dynasty after the Qin Dynasty, gave many Han people a sense of belonging, experienced two usurps, the emergence of the Eastern Han and the Western Han, but the Eastern Han was usurped, the usurper is Wang Mang, so Wang Mang was insulted by posterity for many years.
The modern history writer Hu Shi rehabilitated him and said that he was the first socialist in China. From the perspective of the people, Wang Mang implemented measures of nationalizing land, equalizing production, and abolishing slavery, cracking down on rampant land annexation, so that peasants had their own land, rather than being forced to cultivate land for landlords; formulating equal production to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, and smoothing the contradictions for a time; and abolishing slavery also promoted humanistic care.
To a large extent, the image of Wang Mang, a "giant traitor", was reversed and became objective and factual. In the Battle of Kunyang by the Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, many things could not be explained, and with the help of the "vision", Liu Xiu relied on an army of more than 3,000 people to crush the army of more than 400,000 Xinmang, and historians were amazed by this, and various evaluations surged up.
It is enough to see that Liu Xiu's "son of the plane" and Wang Mang's "crosser" identity are not unfounded, and there may be many suspicions about Liu Xiu's identity as "son of the plane", but for Wang Mang's "crosser" there is evidence in history, so what is the evidence?
In 1992, Ganquan Town, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, found an early Eastern Han Dynasty brick chamber tomb, which unearthed a bronze caliper, which is almost the same as the modern vernier ruler, can be used to measure depth, length, width, thickness can also be used to measure diameter, but there is no vernier ruler accurate, to a certain extent there are still some flaws, can only measure a rough approximation. What does this ruler have to do with Wang Mang?
According to historical records, Wang Mang paid great attention to the development of science and technology in the first year of the new dynasty, so he invented this caliper, he has a great interest in science, for example, he also made a flying machine that can glide, the invention of bronze caliper is more than a thousand years ahead of the West, how big is the difference between the bronze caliper invented by Wang Mang and the current one? The claim that Wang Mang is a "crosser" still makes sense.
Next is the short skirt, which is recorded in the "Hanshu Wang Mang Biography": "The mother is ill, the princess of the marquis asks for the disease, the wife of mang greets her, the clothes are not dragged, and the cloth covers the knees." Those who saw it thought they were servants, and when they asked about his wife, they were all shocked. "When Wang Mang's mother was ill, many princes came to visit, and it was Wang Mang's wife who went out to greet her, and she was wearing a skirt that covered her knees, which looked like an apron and could not be worn alone.
And Wang Mang did not let his wife wear only at home, when there were guests coming, he also let his wife wear this way, the guests are unknown, so I thought which slave dared to dress like this, after inquiry, I knew that it was Wang Mang's wife, everyone could not believe it. I don't understand why Wang Mang can be so open? Then again, Wang Mang's aesthetic is still very avant-garde, this kind of skirt is similar to the pleated skirt of modern society, the short skirts are not knee-high design, wearing it in line with modern aesthetics.
Wang Sunqing, a subordinate of the rebel army Zhai Yi, was captured by the Xinmang army, but Wang Mang somehow ordered the Taiyi to use the three people of the Imperial Artifacts Department as a butcher, and did an experiment for Wang Sunqing, which was to use utensils to dry the various organs of Wang Sunqing's body, and use bamboo strips to know the final end of the blood vessels along the flow of blood veins, which seemed to be a medical experiment, and the results obtained in it also made Wang Mang very satisfied, in this experiment he got the principle, which could be used to treat diseases.
If you only rely on the ruler, the short skirt is a bit unbelievable, but Wang Mang's experiment proves that the blood vessel is not the meridian of the legend, in that era when there was only one meridian, Wang Mang's behavior really made people feel advanced, and meridian science has become a metaphysics, which is enough to see that Wang Mang is a very intelligent person.
His thinking is indeed very advanced, others can not think, can not do what he can come out early, in the current society can be said to be a science enthusiast. All this evidence makes people suspect that Wang Mang "traveled" through the past, although he can't fully believe it, but there is also a hint of doubt. His political thought, scientific culture, and even medicine have a shadow of today's society, which is rare in ancient times.
Resources
"History Books: The Biography of Wang Mang"
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