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Read the history of the fall of the Golden Kingdom in one breath
Whenever we talk about the siege of Beijing and the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, we will think of the most humiliating page of the Northern Song Dynasty. But the Mongols and Songs joined forces to strangle Jin Guo, which seemed too vague and even insignificant. Zhou Sicheng's "Three Capitals" leads readers to review the whole process of the prosperity and decline of the Golden Kingdom until its final collapse, and outlines the tragedy and tragedy that is not inferior to "The Siege of Beijing" for us today with a picture-like presentation method.
The biography of the Archery Hero begins with a fictional southern Song Dynasty envoy Wang Daoqian, who betrayed the interests of the country and made peace with Jin Guo. It was this little man who coveted glory and wealth that led to the great changes in the Guo and Yang families, and then rewrote the future historical process.
Jin Yong's old master wrote brilliantly and wrote about the strength of the Jin Dynasty and the humility of the Envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty under the obscene power of the other side. However, the historical truth is diametrically opposed to the novel, and the attitude of the Envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Jin regime, in addition to disobedience and indignation, also defeated the Jin State again and again in terms of bow and arrow wrestling, and even made the other party lose face and feel pressure.
What happened to the Jin regime that besieged Beijing and forced the Second Emperor Hui Qin to move north? What did the Jin Dynasty, which haunted the White Mountains and Black Water, defeat the Northern Song Dynasty with equestrian bows and arrows, go through? What happened to the Jin court that once forced the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty to go out on a cruise of the sea and could hardly even defend half of the country?
"The Three Capitals" will definitely give you a reasonable, satisfactory, and historically true answer.
In this book, we see a decaying empire that resembles the law of cause and effect and is caught in a historical cycle. The former glory is fading with the corruption of the regime, from the emperor to the people, all falling into a kind of collective unconscious integration of Han culture, and even assimilation.
The land occupied, the plundered people, the gradual convergence of living habits, the highly Sinicized cultural pursuit, the corrupt way of life of the whole staff, and finally the collapse of the Jin regime from the inside out, the Mongols dominated, the Southern Song Dynasty attacked, and the army was defeated. Wrote a tragic history that belongs to himself, and it seems that he is not only his own.
The biggest feature of this book is to jump out of the traditional concept of the confrontation between the Han people and ethnic minorities, and to use a higher latitude perspective to record the history that took place in this land. A history of The Vicissitudes and Mutual Transformation of Chinese Civilization, not just the confrontation between the Han and ethnic minorities, the farming literature and art and the grassland civilization, or the nomadic civilization.
The book gives a concise and concise description of the corruption of all the members of the jin dynasty in the middle and late period, highly Sinicized, and the loss of self. At the same time, he also used refined pen and ink to bring out the rise of Mongolia, the growth of the westward expansion, and the fierceness of the strange siege route.
With a tragic and abnormal, but emotional tone through the work, let us have both the enemy's happiness, the relatives' pain of grief, and a kind of nowhere to focus, only the sigh of emotion.
Once upon a time, the kidnapped horses that destroyed the decay, the iron floating slaughter disappeared, replaced by poetry and song, wind and snow. The rise of new forces in the northern steppes is greedily learning and annexing everything, including their own old predecessors, at an alarming rate.
The war machine that he was once best at, handed over to others, began to regurgitate himself, and the allies he had betrayed finally betrayed himself and joined the hostile camp, giving himself a fatal blow. External troubles are not false, and internal troubles are even worse.
History is so similar that it is hard to escape.
In the fiery years of war in the Central Plains, we gradually ignored who was orthodox. The weak Southern Song Dynasty, the thunderous Mongolia, and the surviving Jin Dynasty, they all eventually became passers-by in this land.
Stone throwers, gunpowder, weeds that have been dug up, butchers who take lives only for the sake of food in the night, those who have been alive have no life, and those who have no life can take the lives of others. Bloody slaughter achieves conservation of energy in various incredible ways, accelerating the reader's numbness to death.
The cool air behind it has never dissipated.
When we consider only the wars that took place on the front lines of Zhongdu (Beijing) and Nanjing (Kaifeng), the author also takes us leisurely and leisurely to lead us through the footsteps of Genghis Khan and his descendants to travel the West.
This journey to the west with black humor, when returning to the Central Plains, incidentally offers more lethal weapons, tactics and military means, sweeping away the limitations of the cold weapon period due to poor geographical transportation, and then using the song of blood and fire to whisper the darkest music of human civilization.
Cultural and technological exchanges in different dimensions of the world always begin in this form.
Just as we are enjoying the gradual decline of the Jin dynasty regime, often because of the infighting in the lower gram, we suddenly find that they are fighting in a passive but non-giving way, rather than waiting to be killed like the Northern Song Dynasty. Every time he felt that the Second Emperor Hui Qin was unlucky, he also had the protection of his subordinates, but found that Jin Aizong refused to surrender, and the death of Sheji's death at the end of the curtain could better reflect the final dignity of the king.
It is no longer clear which is more important.
Reading through the Three Capitals, the reader can fully perceive the crudeness, evolutionary radicalization, barbaric growth, and degenerate corruption established by the Jin regime. The connection and interaction under the same land, the same battlefield, and the same time and space dimension not only eliminated the sense of alienation between the minority regime and us at that time, but also added an inevitable sense of fatalism in the grand historical background, desolate and lonely.
The tumultuous operation of the Second Emperor Hui Qin brought the Han people a pain that could not be forgotten for hundreds of years, so would the former king of the Jin Dynasty regime also cause unbridgeable psychological wounds to the remnants?
Behind the defeat of the Northern Song Dynasty, behind the succession of tricks was the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu accompanying him to the north, maintaining imperial power until the moment of leaving the city. The Xia Keshang that continued to emerge from Xuanzong to Emperor Aizong may be understood as the lack of stability of the Monarchy of the Jin Dynasty.
As Tao Yuanming famously said: This is also the Son of Man.
No matter what kind of Han Chinese you are, farming and hunting, under the wheel of history, truth and justice can only give an account to future generations, but they cannot save the evil consequences caused by the parties' own problems.
There are people who are destroyed, burned with a torch, tired with white bones, and desolate and lonely. Readers gradually calm down from the "stealing joy" of the Yuan Dynasty's extermination of gold, and are shrouded by a historical dilemma that cannot be escaped, and gradually, "stealing joy" becomes an exclamation, and the sigh becomes a sigh.
Is it huizong who is breathless, and his heart is beating and his life is good? Or did Jin Aizong hang himself and burn himself to the fire? I can't decide this multiple choice question for a long time. If we were in that time, what would we think?
Friends who like this history, highly recommend "The Three Capitals".
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