Have you found an interesting thing, in the ancient Chinese feudal society, as long as there is an emperor to establish a new dynasty, there will be some legends about the "dragon". For example, Liu Bang was born when his mother dreamed of a big dragon lying on his body, and then he became pregnant and gave birth to Liu Bang. When Li Shimin was born, the whole house shone with a golden light, as if a dragon had been born.
In ancient times, the dragon can almost be said to represent the Son of Heaven, with unique and noble characteristics. Therefore, in order to justify their own names and make the people of the world respect themselves, the rulers of the past generations have compiled these stories. Today is also a story like this, but not one dragon, but two dragons, which has a very special meaning in it?
This should start from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and friends who like to read history should know. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was a period of great division in Chinese history, and because of this, the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was a perennial period of war and chaos. The people had to flee in all directions, and it was difficult to even find a place to live.
Among the many fleeing teams, there was a woman named Du Shi, who was a loving mother, and although she was displaced and plagued by wars for many years, she did not abandon her children to flee for her life alone. Instead, he carried two baskets with a flat shoulder and put his two sons in the baskets to hurry.
Du Shi walked all the way south, wanting to find a place to settle down, afraid of meeting officers and soldiers, so he hurried away quickly. Suddenly, a monk dressed in rags stared straight at the two children in her basket. It immediately aroused Du Shi's vigilance, and he wanted to pretend not to see it and quickly leave the place.
Unexpectedly, the monk did not stop there, he also walked quickly to the front, and then looked at the two children in the basket carefully, and said in shock: "You picked 2 dragons." Du Shi did not understand what the monk was saying, bowed his head and did not pay attention to the monk, and carried the two children in the frame and went straight away.
Suddenly, the monk behind him sang a song: "Mo Dao has no son of heaven today, and he will bear the burden of the son of heaven." Du Shi immediately reacted, isn't the dragon the meaning of the Heavenly Son? And the monk said that the son of heaven was picking on his shoulders, could he be talking about his two sons? Then Du Shi turned his head and looked at the two and a half-year-old children in the basket, and felt more and more different.
They all said that their families did not speak ill of them, and the monk did not lie. The two children in the basket later became emperors. One is the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, and the seagull is the second emperor of the Song Dynasty, zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Song Taizong. Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty was picked up in a basket by Du Shi, and you said that the monks were not surprised.
In the first year of Qianyou (948), Zhao Kuangyin joined the Later Han Privy Councillor Guo Wei and participated in the conquest of Li Shouzhen, the envoy of Hezhong Jiedu, and made many military achievements. In the first year of Guangshun (951), Guo Wei was proclaimed emperor, and Zhao Kuangyin's status also rose with it, and he was the deputy commander of Huazhou. After Zhao Kuangyin made his fortune, he did not stop.
Zhao Kuangyin seized the military power, emptied the descendants of Guo Wei of Later Zhou, and declared his independence. Subsequently, from Jing and Hu as a breakthrough point, he went south to pacify the world in one fell swoop and established a unified Northern Song dynasty regime. After Zhao Kuangyin's death, he created his younger brother Zhao Guangyi to inherit the imperial title of Song Taizu, and the two brothers became, as the monk said, "True Dragon Heavenly Son".