What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
There were many dynasties in ancient Chinese history, and almost every dynasty had one or two bastard emperors who made the people miserable and caused the people to complain, which led to a result: a peasant uprising. For example, the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang at the end of qin, the uprising of Li Zicheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and so on. However, there is a dynasty in history that has not broken out a peasant uprising in the two hundred years since its founding, and it has won the hearts of the people, and this dynasty is: the Western Han Dynasty.
Han Gao Zu Liu Bang
Why did the Western Han Dynasty achieve such great achievements? First of all, we can look at it from the title of the Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. In the 212th year of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, there were twelve emperors, and among the twelve emperors were The Good Emperors were Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Emperor Wen Liu Heng, Jing Emperor Liu Qi, Wu Emperor Liu Che, Zhao Emperor Liu Fuling, and Xuan Emperor Liu Qing. None of the six emperors' titles are pejorative, and they reigned for a combined period of 150 years, accounting for three-quarters of the Western Han Dynasty. The rest of the emperors were either young emperors or deposed emperors, and although they were useless, they were also blameless.
The most outstanding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che
Moreover, the Western Han Dynasty truly achieved people's livelihood and prosperity. Speaking of people's livelihood and prosperity, the Tang Dynasty also achieved it, but Xiao Hou felt that the people's livelihood of the Han Dynasty was even more precious, because the Sui Dynasty left a rich foundation for the Tang Dynasty when it fell, and what was left to the Han Dynasty when the Qin Dynasty fell was a mess. Moreover, the emperors of the Han Dynasty were not only diligent, but also self-disciplined and very frugal. For example, during the reign of Wenjing in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, from the empress dowager to the chancellor never abused money, it is said that at that time, even the rope tied to the copper coin was rotten, which was the wealth saved by thrift. There is also the usurpation of power Wang Mang also rose to the throne because of frugality. The prosperity of the people's livelihood in the Western Han Dynasty is inseparable from the high-level advocacy of frugality.
Liu Qi, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty
The last and most important point is that the Western Han Dynasty achieved true ideological unity and the people's hearts returned to the Han. To tell the truth, the Western Han Dynasty was one of the most politically chaotic dynasties among the feudal dynasties, and political struggles at its upper levels were not uncommon. From the dictatorship of Lü Hou, to the later succession of Liu Heng, to the later deposed emperor Liu He, the Xuan Emperor Liu Qian, and finally Wang Mang usurping Han, during this period the regime of the Western Han Dynasty was constantly changing, and the successor emperor was no longer Gao Zu's concubine bloodline, but the country was still stable, and the people only identified the "Han" regime. The emperor can be changed, the dynasty cannot be changed, and the people's hearts and minds are returned to the Han, which is the greatest degree of ideological unity.
The cultural totem of the Han Dynasty
The people's recognition of a dynasty is reflected in two aspects: one is that the dynasty wants to make the people's lives rich, and the other is that the dynasty wants the people to get unprecedented dignity in their thinking. But the recognition of these two aspects required the emperors to be diligent, self-disciplined, and achieve great achievements.