In the Mencius Li Lou Zhang sentence, it is said: "The gentleman's Ze, the fifth generation and the beheading." "What do you mean?" That is to say, a person who has worked hard to make a career will be defeated after several generations. In layman's terms, this is called "prosperity and decline". Many large families in the world have not escaped the historical law of "prosperity and decline".
Cao Xueqin wrote in "Dream of the Red Chamber" that "Jia Shi Wang Xue" 4 major families, these 4 families were once the rich and noble "Zhong Ming Ding Food Home", and later fell to "a white expanse of the earth is really clean". It turns out that if a large family wants to continue its prestige and fame for a long time, money alone cannot be done.
But there are indeed 4 prominent families in the world that have maintained their strength for a long time, the first of which is the famous Saudi family (that is, Saudi Arabia). Saudi Arabia is already one of the richest countries in the world, rich in oil, and the Saudi family's status as the ruling royal family is self-evident.
The founder of the Saudi dynasty was Abdullah Aziz ibn Saud, who reigned for a total of 21 years (1932-1953), not long after the fall of China's Qing Dynasty. Since then, the Saudi family has established a theocratic model of governance, making Saudi Arabia the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula.
The second is the Rothschilds. The family is famous in Europe and around the world, and their family motto goes like this: "Once money is heard, all bad words come to an abrupt end." "The founder of the family, Meyer Rothschild, was born in 1744 (when China was in the ninth year of Qianlong) and was the father of international finance.
We are no stranger to the concept of multinational corporations, which were 37,000 in the world as early as 1993. So who was the first person to eat crabs? Or Meyer Rothschild. Of course, the Rothschilds are no longer what they used to be, but that doesn't stop them from creating a wealth legend that lasts for about 200 years.
The third is the Japanese royal family, or the emperor's family. China has a large number of dynasties such as xia, shang, zhou, qin, han, two jin, northern, and southern dynasties, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, but Japan has only had one "chrysanthemum dynasty" from ancient times to the present, and the pattern on the royal family crest is chrysanthemum. According to legend, the 1st Emperor of Japan (Emperor Shinmu) was born in 660 BC.
At this time, China was in the Spring and Autumn Period. Of course, archaeologists can find evidence that the emperor began with the 10th emperor (98 bc to 30 BC), so the history of this royal family lasted about 2100 years. As for the status of the royal family in Japan, everyone is relatively clear.
The last one is the Confucius family in China. Compared with the previous three families, the Confucius family has lasted the longest and is the most famous in the cultural world. If you count from the birth year of the first sage Confucius (551 BC), this family has been passed down for 2571 years.
Because Confucianism was regarded as orthodox in ancient times, the Confucius family was also highly respected, no matter which dynasty was changed, the title of Confucius family was as stable as Mount Tai, and the title of "Yan Sheng Gong" of Confucius's descendants lasted for 880 years, while the canonization of Confucius's descendants by successive emperors lasted for 2130 years. In China, the miracle of Confucius's lineage of more than 2,500 years is well known to everyone.