History, can no longer let shameless scum tamper with it at will!
(Original title: "Historical Drama" and "Historical View")
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About ten years ago, the author drafted "Commenting on the Historical View of qing palace dramas at the time", a brief analysis of the historical views of a number of TV dramas praising the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, such as "Yongzheng Dynasty": the tyrant Mei was portrayed as a lover of the people and benevolence, and the conspirator Yin Chan, who did his best to behead the same kind, strictly practiced literal prison, and suppressed public opinion, praised Yin Chan as "the one who won the hearts of the people won the world", distorting the historical truth, but this is the most important! Obviously, such historical dramas have reversed themselves from the tradition of social criticism of Chinese and foreign literary masterpieces such as "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Rulin's Foreign History", "Hamlet", "King Lear", and "War and Peace", and have been reduced to imperial supplies that preach the dictatorship of the absolute monarchy, and are poisonous to the minds of today's people.
(The first masterpiece of singing praises and praises for the evil feudal despotic emperors)
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It is worth noting that in the following ten years, similar film and television dramas have been unattainable, and the decibels of the autocratic emperor's praise have become more and more high, which can be described as deafening. For example, in the movie "Hero", the first-class cast and crew were used to praise the murderous one-man thief Qin Wang as a hero of the world, and even the chivalrous warriors who were ready to go to the assassination were also inspired by it, and they completely subverted the image of the Jing Ke hero who was "windy and cold, easy to be cold in the water, and the heroes will not return once they are gone". This is a great wonder in the historical and literary circles!
Surprisingly, after "Hero", a number of long-scroll TV series praising Qin have followed, and the audience has been overwhelmed. Nowadays, CCTV has brought together first-line actors and actresses to launch a seventy-eight-episode giant production of "Great Qin Fu", high-profile praise for Qin Shi Huang, and the "History of History" and other historical books, "On Passing Qin" and other policies, "A fang palace" and other literary endowments, "Meng Jiang Girl Crying on the Great Wall" and other folk tales such as the peerless tyrant, the unprecedented butcher in Chinese history, and the breaker of a hundred schools of thought, lifted to the political peak and moral temple; "The world is bitter for a long time" into "the world hopes that Qin will be in drought for a long time and look forward to the clouds", which is an unprecedented initiative in the historical and literary circles. My generation has seen no strange things, so all kinds of things, there is no need to discuss much, and now I am only trying to analyze one of the crux of the historical view of the play, because the above strange theories are all rooted in this view of history.
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The historical basis of the Great Qin Fu boils down to the following: The King of Qin spent his life going east, sweeping away The Liuhe, and merging the world in order to solve the problem of the people hanging upside down. Since "One Day" is a righteous act of Tianzi No. 1, the successful practitioner Qin Shi Huang is of course the great hero of Tianzi No. 1.
In order to discern, let's first see if the King of Qin swept liuhe and whether it was intended to relieve the people from hanging upside down.
Looking through the historical books and involving archaeological excavation materials, it can be found that although the King of Qin once said such beautiful things as "Qianshou is peaceful and peaceful, no need for military revolution", he "swept the six combinations, one day under the heavens", not for other reasons, but for the sake of being the co-lord of the world - beyond the patriarchal feudal co-lord of the division of power like Zhou Tianzi, but the autocratic centralized co-lord who controls all the military, government, finance, and literature. Just as the Tang Dynasty Liu Zongyuan and Wang Fuzhi said during the Ming and Qing dynasties, what the Qin Emperor did was entirely out of his own selfish desires. To this end, everything can be used and everything can be destroyed. The practice before and after the Qin king became emperor is a bloody history of enslaving the subjects of the Seven Kingdoms.
Several generations of Qin kings have pursued the policy of shang martingale cruel people, weak people, poor people, and foolish people. Chinese culture was originally long in "governing the people" and lacking in "rule by the people", and under the Qin system, the people had no question about the regime, and some just obeyed the king's orders, and the common people were slaughtered by the king. The indiscriminate killing of Li Min was a common occurrence of Qin Zheng, who slaughtered 400,000 Zhao Guo at a time (the degree of brutality of this kind of slaughter of prisoners seems to be the second case in the history of world wars), and Ying Zheng's division captured the Zhao capitals of Handan, Wei, Daliang, and Chu, all slaughtering the city, looting the palace and houses, and all the nobles and cultural relics were moved to Xianyang. It is by no means an exaggeration for the nations to call the Qin army the "division of tigers and wolves." The King of Qin was also extremely cruel to the Qin people of his own country, in addition to expropriating tyranny and sucking the marrow of bones, he also requisitioned hundreds of thousands of Qian chiefs to build the Afang Palace for many years (later Xiang Yu burned this palace, and the fire burned for dozens of days, which showed its vastness), and for decades built the Lishan Mausoleum (the unexhumed Shi Huang Mausoleum is estimated to be the world's largest and richest imperial tomb, only with its annex - the grandeur of the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses regulations, you can infer the great shore of the imperial tomb), after completion, in order to keep the tomb secret, tens of thousands of people killed no matter what. This is also rare in the history of the world.
Looking at all the historical records, we do not see any instances of the Qin King's liberation from the people hanging upside down, but all we see is the bones and bones and the destruction of the city walls. However, the long drama "Great Qin Fu" repeatedly made Ying Zheng claim with emotion that the east and the day were in order to save all the people from water and fire, and there was also a warm scene of the Chu people defecting to the Qin state, which was really unbelievable.
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In the course of the unification war, Qin Shi Huang and Qin II were also extremely harsh and cruel to their own civilian generals and even royal relatives, and Lü Buwei, Han Fei, Li Si, Meng Tian, Qi Shi and other people who had made great contributions to the Qin government all died. The Qin Dynasty began the evil example of the dynasties slaughtering the founding heroes, which shows that China's absolute monarchy is a meat grinder. The Great Qin Fu either downplays this, or gives the meat grinder Ying Zheng a fictitious pulse warmth (such as the heartache of Lü Buwei's death), or beautifies the mutual killing between the conspirators (such as writing that Li Si framed Han Fei as Han Fei mourning his death in Li Si's arms). Almost none of the Qin emperors (including Qin Shi Huang himself), who played an important role in the war of unification, died well, which was the inevitable manifestation of the brutal and ruthless nature of the Qin government. If such historical phenomena can be flogged like Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "King Lear," it will have a great historical educational effect, but "Great Qin Fu" will go the opposite way, distorting the historical facts, smearing grease and powder for the Qin court's monarchs, dressing up the tyrannical and cunning Qin Zheng in disguise, and draping a blood-soaked meat grinder with pink brocade.
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Unifying the nations and uniting the world was the common aspiration of the people in the Warring States period. Mozi said that Mencius had the famous theory that the world was "fixed in one", and Han Feizi had a more explicit and specific design. The State of Qin and the King of Qin are powerful practitioners of this historical trend, and this must be affirmed. In this sense, Li Zhen called Yingzheng "an emperor through the ages", which can be established. But all categories should not be absolutized, but should be evaluated under specific space-time conditions. The same is true of "great unification". Generally speaking, the unification of the country can put an end to the conquest of annexation, which is conducive to the development of economy and culture, so we agree with the words of Liu Zongyuan's "Feudal Theory" and affirm the unified measures of the Qin system, such as the integration of the six kingdoms of the Qin system in the Qin seal, the unification of weights and measures, the abolition of feudalism, the establishment of counties and counties, and so on. This is a historical progress initiated by the King of Qin using the leverage of "evil" and should be affirmed. However, the absolutist monarchical centralized politics established by the Qin Dynasty, which has been passed down for two thousand years and has been continuously strengthened, is a huge double-edged sword in Chinese history, and its positive and negative effects cannot be underestimated. In modern times and even modern times, the negative effect has become increasingly obvious, and the absolute monarchy and centralized power have become a major inertia hindering the modern transformation of Chinese society. Therefore, in the modern era of civilization transformation, it is a great mistake to sing praises for the absolute monarchy, to raise Qin Shi Huang to the position of the three emperors of Deyue and the five emperors, and to let the present people worship him.
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The fundamental symbol of historical progress is not in the division and integration of politics, but in the progress of civilization, including the progress of production methods, social structures, political systems, and conceptual forms. Simply reducing the justice of history to whether or not the state of religion is unified or not, it will fall into falsehood. For example, it cannot be said that Western Europe, where the nations are divided today, lags behind the great unified Russia across Europe and Asia. The unified Imperial Russia, which has long served as the "police of Europe", is a major obstacle to the progress of modern Europe. Some of the small divided countries of Western Europe, such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark, are the higher examples of modern civilization, while the unified power of Russia is still struggling in the middle-income trap. For example, finland suffered greatly when it was "unified" by Russia, and after escaping from the national prison of Russia, it became an advanced country within a few decades.
In terms of medieval history, the great unification achieved the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the great unification was not a panacea for social progress, and the unification of The Mongols and eurasian continents caused great damage to the civilizations of East Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, and the great unification of the Mongol Khans was a historic progress of the Asian and European countries. The Mongol conquest of the Jin and Song dynasties and the establishment of the grand Yuan Dynasty caused a great regression in the Civilization of the Song Dynasty, which "created the pole" in China. The Manchus were once again unified, and the Three Massacres of Ranjiading and the Ten Days of Yangzhou seriously damaged the civilization of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Jiangnan region, where the commodity economy was developed, fell into the abyss of suffering. Although the great unification of the Yuan and Qing dynasties has certainly opened up the territory and expanded the territory, it is a fact that the great regression of civilization has been caused. Therefore, the "unification of the country" must be analyzed in detail and should not be praised in general.
It is worth noting that in the era of cold weapons, it is often the backward crowd with strong hands that complete the great unification. There have been many occurrences in history when backward civilizations have unified the world, and their destruction of advanced civilizations is difficult to describe. In terms of the Qin King's sweeping of the Liuhe, its unified writing, unified weights and measures, the abolition of feudalism, and the establishment of counties and counties are all beneficial to the progress of Chinese civilization and should be affirmed, however, compared with Wei Zhao Qichu, Qin is a backward civilization, Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, to some extent, barbarism defeated civilization, extremely destructive, Han Chu Jia Yi, Chao Que and others vividly show the destructive destruction of the prosperity of the six countries' economy and culture in the process of Qin unification. From the middle of the Warring States period to the century of Qin unification, the population plummeted to one-third, the bustling cities of Handan, Daliang, and Yingdu were destroyed, and the civilization of the area east of Hangu Pass was restored until the reign of Wenjing in the Han Dynasty. It can be seen that the great unification of Qin is not less than the benefit of the disaster brought by the people and the country. The death of Qin II is the shortest unified dynasty that lasted, and it is no accident.
The Tang Dynasty Liu Zongyuan affirmed the unified "system" of the Qin Dynasty, and criticized its tyrannical "government"; At the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu made a specific analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the Qin system of autocratic unification and the weekly system of feudal decentralization, but did not blindly praise Qin; tan Sitong, a modern democrat, more severely rebuked the brutal Qin government, believing that the backwardness of modern China was directly related to it.
Back to the era involved in "Great Qin Fu", the Qin Dynasty II died, and even those who promoted the Qin system ended in tragedy, from Shang Martingale to Han Fei, Li Si, Fu Su, Meng Tian, and even Qin Shi Huang himself, all of whom could not die well, and the cycle of chaos in the qin for more than two thousand years, the rule and chaos were related to the Qin system; as for the modern transformation of Chinese civilization, it was more difficult than Western Europe and Japan, and it was also related to the "Qin political law and law practiced by hundreds of generations". That being the case, one sentence can be left behind:
Advise the king to praise the first emperor of Qin, the rule of the people is stronger than the rule of the king.
On New Year's Day 2021, Feng Tianyu was in Luojia Mountain, Wuchang