When we have not yet read books to learn history, many children's understanding of history comes from TV dramas, such as "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview", "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" and so on. These wonderful and interesting TV series not only brought a lot of fun to our childhood at that time, but also made us gain insight, and after we seriously and deeply understood history, the plot of those TV dramas that we watched was in line with history, helping us to better understand history.
For example, in television, we see the prosperous situation in the Kangxi era, and we also understand that Hezhen is an insatiable official, and in the TV series that tells the historical story of the Qing Dynasty, we often hear the title of "Gege Ago", and naturally we have heard words such as "Eight Banners", knowing that they are the sons of the Nobles of the Qing Dynasty. Now that New China has been established, I don't know where these former Eight Flags disciples are now?
Eight Flags, class symbol
The Eight Banners are actually the army organization and hukou system of the Qing Dynasty, and from a literal point of view, it is the eight colors of the flags, namely the eight flags of zhenghuang, zhengbai, zhenghong, zhenglan, yellow, white, red, and blue, of which the Aixinjue Luo family belongs to the zhenghuang banner, the children of the eight flags, that is, the descendants of the eight flags. Many aristocrats during the Qing Dynasty belonged to the descendants of these Eight Banners.
Among the eight banner disciples, many of them are able to fight good wars, be complete in literature and martial arts, and defend the country, and there are also many idle children who are good at leisure and bad work, eat, drink, and have fun, and enjoy family protection, such as the Qing Dynasty literary scholar Cao Xueqin, who is the disciple of the Zhengbai Banner, and the famous writer Lao She is a Zhenghongqi person, and their achievements have little to do with the family.
At the beginning, most of the Eight Flags people were Manchus, and with the continuous development and progress of the society after the Qing soldiers entered the Customs, the Eight Flags system gradually changed from a national symbol to a class symbol.
At that time, the Eight Banners were in charge of the country's military and political strength, and the eight flags meant that the family status was high, the social resources were rich, and the descendants could receive a better education.
With the progress of the times, such an unequal system of artificial stratification will inevitably not last long, and even soon show its drawbacks. With the increasing population, many descendants of the Qiren family have received monthly money from Weibo by relying on generations of shade, and they have no ability to survive and have nothing to do all day.
On the one hand, for these Eight Banners children, their lives are so wasted; on the other hand, for the country, using a lot of money to support these idle people has not created any value, which is a great burden on government finances, and even easily leads to corruption.
Moved to Larin and found another way out
It is imperative to solve the problem of redundant personnel and no production of the Eight Flags. In the ninth year of Qianlong, the Qing government considered the decision to relocate 3,000 bannermen to Lalin and let them live in the local area to alleviate financial pressure.
The reason for choosing this place is also because the land in that area is fertile, but it is sparsely populated, and it is also the place where the Roots of Manchu life sprouted, and this move of the Qing government is also hoping that these Eight Banners disciples can revitalize the local area.
These 3,000 families of Eight Flags settled in Larin. According to the organization of the Eight Banners, each banner is divided into three banner tuns, namely toautun, ertun and santun, and in Lalin, a total of 24 flag tuns, known as "Beijing Banner 24 Tun".
Lalin is actually in today's Heilongjiang, they named the place in this way, these 24 tun are still used today, when many precious cultural relics brought by the Eight Flags disciples from the capital have also been well preserved to this day.
He Yan was a corrupt official in the Kangxi Dynasty, and after the new emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, he was raided. The property collected during the raid even exceeded the financial revenue of the Qing government for more than ten years. Since he was raided, his family has naturally plummeted, living a life of marginal people among the eight flags.
Among the 3,000 banner families who moved to Lalin during the Qianlong period, there were descendants of Hezhen. Once brilliant, the end is exiled to the cold and bitter land, away from the bustling circle, which is really lamentable.
But from another point of view, the eight flags system is actually a system that no longer has advantages, and in the long run, it will suffer more disasters, and it is not a better choice to move to other places like this and find another way.
Live steadily, be stable and happy
What kind of life did these 3,000 eight flags children live after moving to Lalin, and do they still have indignation in their hearts? In fact, they have long accepted the reality, accepted their new identity and living environment, and lived a stable and peaceful life, but they still retain some of the traditions of their ancestors and the cultural customs of the past.
Every year Chinese New Year's Eve, the descendants of the Eight Flags of Larin will worship their ancestors together in the conventional way, which they call "worship the old shadow". The "old shadow" is also the portrait of the ancestor, because the Manchus respect the west and must be placed on the west wall.
Every year, the Larin people have followed this habit, and now most of them are engaged in agricultural survival, they are already authentic farmers, and only when they pay homage to the New Year, they remember the past of their ancestors and seek their ancestors to bless the wind and rain and harvest.
Beijing's bean juice is well known and is a custom food with varying degrees of acceptance, and in Larin, locals say that the bean juice here is actually better than Beijing's.
Located in such a treasure land as Heilongjiang, the quality of the grown grain is excellent, and the bean juice here is improved by adding soybeans and millet, and the natural flavor is extraordinary
In addition to retaining their previous living habits, the Eight Banners disciples in Lalin also inherited the excellent qualities of the Manchu qing nobility in their conduct. Nowadays, many people can't speak Manchu, maybe their daily living habits and language are no different from those of Han Chinese, but the characteristics in their bones will not change, most of them are bold, simple, hospitable, and sincere.
The history of the migration of the Eight Banners to Larin was naturally recorded, until 2000, when an archive called "The Original Case of the Banner of Larin Al Chukha Jing" was discovered, and the story of this place once again attracted attention, and the story of this migration 262 years ago was discussed.
Now that everything has become a thing of the past, there is no longer any imperial class in this society, everyone is an ordinary citizen, living a stable and peaceful life, except for occasionally turning out their own genealogical stories, or gossiping about the glory and fall of the past, which is also a pleasure.
After all, looking back at history, we can also harvest good from it, relying on family protection alone, it is difficult to keep their lives always good, the key is to rely on their own efforts to adapt to the development of this society, do not forget the original and embrace new changes are not mutually exclusive.