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Proverbs, gossip and nursery rhymes are unique to Chinese history, and they often appear on the eve of dynasties or individuals who are about to go against their luck, and their content is also obscure. According to the history books, the earliest trick was the Qin Dynasty, a sentence "Hu Ye the Qin dynasty", which made Qin Shi Huang nervous, and deployed heavy troops on the northern border to defend the Xiongnu, but who thought that the Qin Dynasty would be destroyed in the hands of his son Hu Hai. Of course, since then, such prophetic language has often appeared in history, including a prophecy that tormented the Great Han for four hundred years, and it continued to appear in front of the eyes of the world after the fall of the Han Dynasty.
Yes, it is "The Han Dynasty, when Tu Gaoye". This quote comes from the Taiping Imperial Records, which records that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty traveled to Hefen and was composing poems with his courtiers, when suddenly a sentence appeared: "Han has six or seven misfortunes, the law should be ordered again, who should be the descendants of the clan room?" 6742 generations of Han Chinese, when Tu Gao also". Although the Qunchen stated that the Han Dynasty would never perish to comfort Emperor Wu of Han, this prophecy was handed down, and it was more important to think that it would be used repeatedly by future generations. So what does "when painted high" mean?
In the last year of the Western Han Dynasty, his foreign relative Wang Mang took advantage of the weakness of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty and usurped the Great Han Dynasty, but it was not long before the world was in chaos, and the masses rose up. As a descendant of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu took on the heavy responsibility of reorganizing the Great Han Dynasty, and Gongsun Shu, who had divided Sichuan at that time, wrote to him, saying that he was "Dang Tu Gao". Of course, the two emperors opened a war of words at this point, and Liu Xiu wrote back to Gongsun shu, "The han generation, when Tu Gaoye", means "when Tu Gao" This person replaces the Han Dynasty Liu clan, do you have the surname "Gao"? In other words, your grandson Shu Sheng pulled hard, and this prophecy has nothing to do with you. Later, Gongsun Shu was the first person to pay the price of his life for this prophecy.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos again, and "the Han Dynasty, when Tu Gaoye" was once again filled with life. First of all, Yuan Shu calculated that the family had appeared in the fourth generation and three dukes, and now he had the military to dominate the side, and he had obtained the jade seal that symbolized power. Therefore, he thought that the "Dang Tu Gao" of the Dai Han Dynasty was himself, and finally despite the dissuasion of the master book, he founded the country as an emperor and established the name Of zhongshi. Friends familiar with "Three Kingdoms" also know his fate.
After Yuan Shu failed, Cao Pi then appeared on the scene again. Twenty years after Jian'an, Cao Pi believed that the time was ripe for usurping the Han Dynasty, and the subordinate official Xu Zhi took advantage of the situation to write a letter saying, "When Tu Gao is high, Wei Ye; like Wei, the two views are also." When the Dao and the tall Wei, Wei is the Han Dynasty. So Cao Pi followed Wang Mang's example and repeated the trick, forcing Emperor Han to ascend the throne. Who knows that decades later, the Sima family will also follow the Cao family's practice, take the political power for themselves, and unify the world.
It is reasonable to say that this prophecy should also withdraw from the stage of history at this time. However, in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, actually took out this proverb again. Of course, his dream did not come true. In fact, after Shi Le dealt with the Xiongnu Liu regime, Xiao Daocheng usurped the Liu Song regime, and even after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Zhou Guo Wei usurped the Later Han Liu regime, and always used this proverb as a shield. As for the specific meaning of "Han Dynasty, when Tu Gaoye" means, no one can say for sure, but the only thing that can be affirmed is that it is specially pit Liu Dynasty.
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