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"Nanxiangzi Ancient Imperial State": "The past is leisurely and gentle, don't ask, look back." The Yangtze River flows empty of its own streams outside the sills. "The rise and fall of dynasties can be described as endless in China's history, and people have long been accustomed to the change of dynasties. However, it can be said that in the world, this phenomenon of regime change as frequently as in china is rare, and the royal families in many countries are all millennium-old and almost never waver, as are Japan, Britain, and Thailand.
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Although these countries have now come out of the stage of feudal imperial rule, and the royal nobility has long lost real power, the royal family is still regarded as a symbol and authority of the state. In some European countries with constitutional monarchies, members of the royal family still enjoy a supreme position, and even words and deeds will become the focus of media and public attention and hot discussion. For example, the British royal family, their queen is the most respected person in the hearts of the British people. In contrast, China, where the feudal monarchy has been preserved for the longest time, has overthrown the feudal monarchy in several generations of revolutions, leaving no royal family behind, which western countries and the people feel very incomprehensible, so experts explain: This is all a lesson of blood.
▲ Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
In China's history of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese people were deeply poisoned by the feudal imperial system, and the exploitation and oppression of the commoners by the privileged aristocratic class were the root causes of the final overthrow. Chinese's patience with the feudal royal system has reached its limit, and will definitely not accept such a social system, in addition, the constant bloody suppression of progressives by the royal power has made the people hate feudal rule to the bone, so under the leadership of many progressive people in modern times, Chinese people have revolted to overthrow the aristocratic regime that is trying to override people's rights and interests, so the royal system can never recur in China.
▲ Qianlong Throne of the Imperial Pole Hall
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As we all know, China is vast and vast, the composition of state personnel is very complicated, and fifty-six nationalities are in full bloom on this land and grow together, which also brings certain difficulties to the management of the country. No one can force all peoples and peoples to believe in the same faith. In addition, there are many nationalities, which makes it even more difficult for each nation to compete for the royal family, and it is even more difficult to reach an agreement. In contrast, countries like Japan and the United Kingdom have relatively single ethnic groups, small territories, and almost all people are of the same faith, so it is relatively easy to establish a royal family. After all, if people believe in unity, they will not have a strong sense of disgust and resistance to the ruling class.
▲Taiping Rebellion
Westerners are very confused that China, which has a history of thousands of dynasties, has not been able to retain the royal family in the end, because they do not know how many human, material, and financial resources Chinese spent to overthrow the feudal monarchy in China's ancient history, and how many people lost their lives on this road. As it is written in the "Records of History", "The prince will be a general, and Ning has a kind of hu? "The rise and fall of dynasties is a process of royal decline and rise, and people who are constantly oppressed never pin their hopes on a surviving dynasty, they know that only by rising up is the best way out for the people.
▲Qin Shi Huang stills
During the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, wars were frequent, and Shang Martin made the Qin state the strongest country through the change of law, and the Qin King swept through the six kingdoms and unified the Chinese jiangshan. But what followed was the action of eliminating the remnants of the previous dynasty in order to consolidate their monarchy, and the nobles of the other six countries were destroyed one after another. It can be seen that the "preservation period" of China's imperial family in history is very short, as long as there are people who can shake its rule, then it will inevitably go to the road of destruction. After the peasant revolt overthrew the rule of the tyrant, it would also kill the royal family in order to consolidate the fruits of victory and prevent the restoration of its power. For example, when Li Zicheng revolted, regardless of whether the noble families of the former dynasty were willing to surrender or not, he was killed all the time, so it was difficult for the members of the royal family to survive under such circumstances.
▲Qing Imperial Palace (Forbidden City)
There is a Chinese saying, "One man attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven." This means that as long as one person in the family has a career, then the entire family behind him will benefit immensely. This is the product of China's deep concept of clans, so if someone sits on the throne of emperor, his people will not even have to struggle to enjoy the glory and wealth. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, the most famous "grassroots emperor" in history, after his meritorious deeds, those relatives who were related to him were naturally stained and allowed to enjoy the treatment of nobility, even if they did not contribute anything, they would be favored by the state. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants had exceeded millions, and the consequences of supporting these "imperial relatives and state relatives" were bound to be a huge deficit in the state's finances.
epilogue
Full of lust and lust, these members of the royal family, after obtaining a fully honorable and prominent status, are no longer satisfied with material pursuits, and they even want to grab more rights for themselves, often colluding with officials to oppress the people and plunder the people's fat and people's anointing, in order to maintain their extravagant and lavish aristocratic life. The people who were deeply persecuted by these nobles naturally had a grudge in their hearts, so after the Chinese people overthrew them, they would not let them recover again.
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