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Regarding the dynasties in our history, there is a rather famous slip of the tongue, and you may as well recite it with me in front of the screen, "Xia Shang and Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou is divided into two sections." Spring and Autumn and the Warring States, unifying the Qin and Han Dynasties. Three points wei shu wu, two jin before and after the extension. The southern and northern dynasties stood side by side, and the Sui and Tang dynasties were passed down for five generations. After the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the imperial dynasty ended here. ”
There is a very interesting question here, during the two Song Dynasties, how did the Liao and Jin, which were almost in opposition to the Song Dynasty, disappear? For example, Wei Shu Wu during the Three Kingdoms period can be on the list, like the Southern and Northern Dynasties that are chaotic into a pot of porridge, so why can the Song Dynasty squeeze down the Liao and Jin that once suppressed themselves.
There are many reasons for this, I think it is more important to look at whether the dynasty can be listed on the list more importantly to see a social significance for future generations, when it comes to the Song Dynasty, in addition to diplomatic weakness, it is all kinds of inventions, various far-reaching reforms, and even literary works, especially Song Ci, which cannot be ignored, but when it comes to Liao and Jin, most people probably only think of a Song Dynasty pressing on the ground and rubbing, so the strength of military strength cannot be used as a decisive criterion for orthodoxy.
Speaking of orthodoxy, in the past, all the dynasties and dynasties were based on a Central Plains as orthodox, no matter which dynasty was chaotic into a pot of porridge, it was nothing more than concentrated in the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin, so in the Song Dynasty, although the Song Dynasty became weak from strong, but the people always recognized the Song Dynasty as orthodox, and the Liaojin as an aggressor and a villain, under this psychological implication, now we are afraid that we will also take the Song Dynasty as orthodox, for example, we will only regard the Yang family as a hero, but treat Yelü Deguang as a major villain.
Of course, in fact, as an orthodox reason, there is also a succession, from the Spring and Autumn to the Warring States, from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there is a problem of the succession of the regime, in fact, they are closely linked into a story line, there is no blank period, and the era of the two Song and Liaojin, which was the earliest to start with the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin ended the five generations of war and established a unified Northern Song, the Liao was completely destroyed in 1125, the Jin dynasty was destroyed in 1234, and the Southern Song regime was officially subverted until 1279. Therefore, the continuous Liaojin is not as good as the two Song Dynasties, the beginning is earlier than the Northern Song Dynasty, the end is not later than the Southern Song Dynasty, and after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be regarded as the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.
Although we always criticize how the Song Dynasty emphasizes literature over military force, how much military strength is worse, and the Song Emperor is nailed to the pillar of shame, but it is reasonable to say that the Song Dynasty is an orthodox dynasty in history, and some things are really beyond the reach of other dynasties or countries, do you agree?