Ancient China has undergone dynastic changes, and there are countless rulers born, but there are not many emperors who can be famous in history, and it is very rare for emperors to truly achieve great deeds and be remembered by the people.
There is also the kind of tyrant who does all the absurd things and plunders the people's fat and the people's anointing, but more often it is the kind of mediocre emperor who is unremarkable, has no fault or political achievements.
Four hundred and eighty temples in the south, how many buildings in the smoke and rain. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of The Wei and Jin Dynasties, it can be said that it is the most turbulent history in ancient China, the entire Central Plains has become a pot of porridge, all kinds of family forces have sung and I have appeared, everyone dreams of being able to dominate the world, however, most of them are drowned in the dust of history for various reasons.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the founding emperor of Southern Liang, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu was the ruler who had stepped onto the stage of history
Reigned for 48 years, but did not touch a woman for 40 years,
He lived to the age of 86 and finally became the laughing stock of the ages.
The opportunity of the times
In the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Liu Song Dynasty, in 464 AD, Xiao Yan was born in Moling County, Jiankang, his father was named Xiao Shunzhi, and Xiao Daocheng, the founder of Southern Qi, was a brother, and the two grew up together, and the relationship was not ordinary.
When Xiao Yan was 16 years old, Xiao Daocheng launched a coup d'état, allowing Liu Song's last emperor, Liu Zhunchan, to take the throne and establish the Southern Qi regime, Xiao Shunzhi was made a county marquis for assisting Xiao Daocheng, and Xiao Yan's family also became an imperial relative.
What is valuable is that Xiao Yan was one of the few literary and martial all-rounders among the monarchs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and when he started his army from Yongzhou, Xiao Yan showed his outstanding talent at the military level, and Xiao Yan, who grew up in a superior environment, received a very good education since childhood, not only proficient in the six arts of Confucianism, but also familiar with the principles of yin and yang.
In 483, Xiao Yan entered the official field as a wei general Dongge matsuri, this year he had just turned 20 years old, and just a month later, he entered the residence of Xiao Ziliang, the king of Jinling, with his outstanding ability, and it was under the influence of Xiao Ziliang that Xiao Yan began to contact Buddhism.
After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty introduced confucianism, Confucianism gradually became the orthodox thinking of my ancient feudal dynasty. However, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the two Jin Dynasties and sixteen kingdoms, in the midst of more than two hundred years of social turmoil, the development of Confucianism became stagnant, the war-torn situation, and the continuous change of political power made people's ideological level once again experience the impact of the collapse of Li le.
Obsessed with Buddhism
With years of conquest and official operations, no one could stop Xiao Yan's ambition to become emperor, so in 502 AD, Xiao Yan directed himself to perform a Zen ren drama, ascended to the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, and changed the name of the country to Liang.
After Xiao Yan seized the throne, he once exerted great efforts to revitalize the development of the country's economy, so the society in the early days of Southern Liang experienced a period of steady improvement.
Unfortunately, however, emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu changed his temperament after commemorating it, and he became indifferent to state affairs.
Instead, he indulged in Buddhism and could not extricate himself.
He ordered the construction of temples in the territory, the worship of the Buddha by the whole people, and personally presided over the construction of various large Buddhist temples, each of which was grand in scale and extremely gorgeous, and consumed countless sums of money in the national treasury.
Under his leadership, the whole country rushed to build Buddhist temples, and Xiao Yan also issued an edict
Preferential treatment should be given to monks
It sponsors monks and nuns from all over the world to study Buddhism.
If it is only for Buddhist sensibilities, it is better to say, the key is that Emperor Wu of Liang also personally came on the scene, in 504 AD, Xiao Yan issued a decree to the world,
He declared his conversion to Buddhism
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In 527, Xiao Yan personally came to Tongtai Temple to live as a monk for three days, and after returning to the palace, he seemed to be inspired by the Buddha to order a general amnesty for the world.
In 529 AD, Xiao Yandi came to Tongtai Temple again, this time he was even more outrageous, took off his clothes to bathe in the temple, washed away the dust, and also put on the robes and robes, ready to live in the Buddhist temple, and took a Dharma name called Sanbaonu.
During this period, he personally presided over the Dharma lectures and explained the Buddhist scriptures to the good men and women who came to worship. Seeing Xiao Yan's absurd behavior, Manchu Wenwu was very troubled, so they knelt at the door of the Tongtai Temple together, prostrated their heads repeatedly, and asked the emperor to return to the palace to manage the government. In the end, it was under the persuasion of the monks in the temple that Xiao Yan returned to the court.
Tragic end
After Xiao Yan became emperor, the harem beauty three thousand,
And because he was devoted to the Buddha, he had no interest in female sex at all
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During his 48 years in power, he did not touch a woman for 40 years
After Xiao Yan's wife died of illness, Xiao Yan did not have another empress, which directly caused him to be childless in his early years, so he had to succeed his nephew Xiao Zhengde as crown prince.
Unfortunately, Xiao Yan came to have a son, gave birth to a son named Xiao Tong, and was made the crown prince, Xiao Zhengde's emperor was not able to become, can only be changed to a marquis, the huge gap made Xiao Zhengde resentful, coupled with Xiao Yan's single-minded desire to seek Buddha, waste the government, just gave him the opportunity to rebel.
Therefore, Xiao Zhengde colluded with Hou Jing to launch a coup d'état, which was known as Hou Jing's rebellion. Hou Jing was originally a treacherous villain, and everyone dissuaded Emperor Wu of Liang from using this person, but Xiao Yan expressed a welcome attitude toward Hou Jinglai, who was originally from the Liang State, and awarded him the title of Grand General and the King of Henan.
Hou Jing saw that there were many contradictions between the imperial family, so he seized the opportunity and joined forces with Xiao Zhengde to rebel and launch a coup d'état, and promised to make Xiao Zhengde emperor after the matter was completed.
In the end, the rebels invaded the city, besieged the palace, and attracted the lake to flood the palace, and the Liangwu Emperor Xiao Yan, a monk emperor, was trapped in the palace and could not escape, becoming a turtle in an urn.
Soon after, Xiao Yan was imprisoned by Hou Jing in Taicheng Jingju Shop, no one was allowed to approach, at first Hou Jing did not dare to make too much trouble, after all, Xiao Yan was still the nominal emperor, hastily killed him and had a bad reputation, so he sent some people to send some coarse tea and light rice every day, but later strived to gradually stabilize, there was no need to serve Xiao Yan anymore, so he cut off the grain.
At this time, Xiao Yan was already 86 years old, and in that era when the average life expectancy was only about 40 years old, it was rare for people to live such an old age.
However, Xiao Yan was still imprisoned and still did not forget to recite the Buddhist scriptures, and because there was not enough food, Xiao Yan was starved to death, and this "Bodhisattva Emperor" was eventually because of this
The abandoned dynasty and government have become the laughing stock of the ages, and they have personally ended the dynasty they have built.
brief summary:
As an emperor, the most important thing is nothing more than to control the affairs of the state and achieve a great cause and fame.
Buddhism has developed very well since it was introduced to China, becoming a tool for the rulers to fool the people, but Xiao Yan, the monarch, was obsessed with Buddhism, recited the Sutra every day, did not pay attention to national construction, and in the end was robbed of his own country by outsiders, and he also became a laughingstock, so it seems that his final fall is also self-inflicted.