Introduction: When we watch ancient film and television dramas, we often find such a phenomenon, in ancient times, if a person broke the law, in order to escape the punishment of the law, he often chose to cut his home.
Generally speaking, when these criminals choose to become monks, the imperial court often does not continue to pursue, the most typical such as Lu Zhishen in the Water Margin.
After Lu Zhishen killed the town of Guanxi with three fists, at the suggestion of Zhao Yuanwai, he chose to go to Mount Wutai to become a monk, but this was also the case, and when Lu Zhishen became a monk at Mount Wutai, the officers and soldiers did not come to arrest him.
So many people, can't help but ask, did the ancient temple become a place to harbor criminals? In fact, the facts are not as everyone thinks. The following will tell you an example of escaping from home in order to hide and finally fail.
【1】 The historical background of the change in Heyin
In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, social unrest was unstable.
This event is called the change of Heyin in history, and the change of Heyin can be roughly known from the name of the nature of the matter, and the events named after the change in history are often bad events.
Although according to traditional culture, the word "change" is similar in meaning to "easy", such as Zhou Yi, which refers to the philosophy of "flexibility".
As the saying goes, if you are poor, you think about change, but if one normality is suddenly broken and becomes another state, it is likely to become worse. For this reason, the ancients paid attention to a step-by-step approach to everything.
A bite to eat a fat man, in the end can only be a failure, of course, involving major national events, changes in the imperial court, this time change often means a change of power.
The country of Northern Wei is not the same thing as the State of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, and many people often confuse the two because there is a Wei character. The State of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period was thousands of years earlier than the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The Northern Wei Dynasty was a country during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms themselves were a complex and changeable era, and it was said that he was complex and changeable because the frequency of power changes was a bit high.
Basically, a country lasted for a few years and was replaced by other forces, so it was difficult to be an emperor during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and often lived a precarious life.
Even so, people's desire for power is still undiminished, and no one gives up the pursuit of power because of instability and turmoil.
On the contrary, they all fought for power, such as Empress Huling of Northern Wei, who was the biological mother of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei.
Speaking of this Empress Dowager Huling, she was not simple, and the Northern Wei imperial family had such a strange tradition that as long as the emperor's son was crowned prince, her birth mother must be executed.
It sounds like a particularly cruel thing, but in the eyes of the Northern Wei imperial family, it was very reasonable to do so, and the purpose of doing so was to prevent the emperor's mother from interfering in the affairs of the dynasty.
In fact, in my opinion, this is not necessary, if a person wants to interfere in the politics of the DPRK, no matter what his identity is, he cannot be stopped. Historically, it was not the emperor's biological mother, and the women who interfered in the affairs of the dynasty were not absent.
It was such a cruel practice, but it was broken by Empress HuLing, who relied on her own charm, and after Empress Dowager Huling's son Yuan Xue was made crown prince, many ministers suggested to the Northern Wei Emperor that Empress Huling be executed.
But the Emperor of Northern Wei loved empress Hu so much that he was reluctant to kill her, and this inhumane rule was completely abolished from her beginning.
【2】 Northern Wei rebels attacked Luoyang
Those who have attained the tao have much help, and those who have lost the way have little help.
However, this Empress Dowager Huling failed to live up to the good intentions of the Northern Wei Emperor, because Empress Dowager Huling really began to exercise power after her son Emperor Xiaoming ascended the throne.
Perhaps she worries that her son is too young to handle national affairs well, just like parents now, the children are adults, and she is worried that the children will not live well alone.
I remember watching a news that a mother's own son was admitted to college, because he was worried that his son would not be able to wash clothes, and traveled thousands of miles to accompany the school.
Such parents, who seem to be spoiled by their own children, are actually harming their own children, because parents who completely handle their children's affairs in this way will most likely lead to the child's loss of self-reliance.
Of course, Empress Dowager Huling's son Yuan Xue did not lose his self-reliance in the end, on the contrary, as he grew up, he wanted to be independent more and more.
Empress Hu Ling was a strong mother, and in the face of her own son wanting to get rid of her control, Empress Hu Ling was very uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that she felt that her son had become strangers more and more.
In the end, the gap between mother and son became bigger and bigger, the son wanted to take back his power, the mother clung to it, the son became more and more dissatisfied, the mother became more and more angry, and finally the contradiction finally broke out.
The way Empress HuLing chose to resolve this mother-son conflict was very extreme, and it seems very surprising to us today that Empress Huling chose to kill her son.
The specific method of implementation was to poison his own son Yuan Xue with poisonous wine. You must know that Empress Hu Ling poisoned her own son, this is not a matter between their mother and son.
Because Yuan Xuan was not only the son of Empress Dowager Huling, he was also the emperor of Northern Wei, this event had risen to the state level, and for this reason it also left a handle for the powerful ministers in the dynasty.
Soon, The Northern Wei chancellor Erzhu Rong used this as an excuse to raise an army against Empress HuLing, as the saying goes, those who have gained the Tao help the lost Dao, and Empress Hu Ling's practice has aroused the indignation of the masses.
You think about how the princes and princes of the Yuan family can give up and rest, so they have made internal responses for Erzhu Rong, and Erzhu Rong's rebel army quickly broke through the Northern Wei capital Luoyang City.
[3] Empress Dowager HuLing and the palace maid cut their hair for self-preservation
The Buddha Gate is a place to harbor criminals.
Empress Dowager Hu Ling saw that the general situation was gone, and in the face of the rebels, it was already impossible to escape, and besides, where could she run away as a female streamer?
But when people face the danger of life, they instinctively choose to protect themselves, and Empress Hu Ling has not forgotten to protect herself in addition to fear, of course, her way of self-preservation is very special.
Perhaps because Empress Hu Ling had been a disciple of the Buddha, she may have thought in her heart that she would be blessed by the Buddha, and she ordered all the women in the palace to cut their hair with herself as nuns.
Empress Dowager Hu Ling was likely to think like this in her heart, she had chosen to become a monk and no longer care about worldly affairs, so that the rebels would let her go.
But her calculations were wrong, because in the hearts of the rebels, as long as Empress Dowager Hu was alive, they would not be able to sleep soundly, and cutting the grass and removing the roots was the best way to solve this hidden danger.
Therefore, it was not long before Empress Huling was captured from the temple by the rebels, and Erzhu Rong did not directly order her to be killed, but ordered her to be expelled from Luoyang, but after leaving the city, Erzhu Rong ordered That Empress Hu Ling be thrown into the Yellow River.
epilogue:
All in all, Empress HuLing cut her hair as a nun and chose to become a monk, but did not bring herself security, because she did many evils, and the Buddha did not protect her, and in the end she was still inevitably eradicated.
[History is like a pot of old wine, it needs to be tasted carefully, here, calm down, I will take you through the past of a thousand years, come back, you will be more pink. Pay attention to your old friends: Reading history and knowing the heart]