As the last dynasty in China's history, the Qing Dynasty has a history of more than two hundred years and has experienced twelve emperors.
An imperial power will change from generation to generation, and by the end of the dynasty, the country has ceased to exist in name only, as can be reflected in the names of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty.
In history, it is an eternal truth that must be combined for a long time, and after a period of development, this dynasty is in turmoil and it is difficult to maintain.
In other words, a dynasty must experience its demise, and there is no era of non-fall.
The history of the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years can be divided into many branches, from laying the foundation to the heyday to withering, the twelve emperors have twelve titles, these names are read together, and even piece together the process of the gradual decline of the Qing Dynasty.
Laying the foundation, reaching its peak, the society was unstable, and the later the Qing Dynasty became more and more dilapidated.
In fact, the scene of the decline of the Qing Dynasty just confirms a famous sentence in "Dream of the Red Chamber": "The burrow is empty, when the bed was full of beds, the grass was decaying, and it was once a song and dance hall."
The naming culture of the Qing Dynasty
In the Culture of the Han Nationality, taking names is particularly exquisite, and even in modern society, many of our names are based on generations. The words set by the ancestors have many large families that continue to this day.
The Qing Dynasty was not founded by the Han Chinese, they belonged to the Manchus, so in terms of culture, they had certain differences with the Han, but in terms of naming, they did not pay so much attention.
Ai Xin Jue Luo is their surname, from the beginning of Nurhaci to the Shunzhi Emperor, the Qing Dynasty has not yet been completely unified, has been fighting the world, for the future unification of the foundation.
Because there were fewer Han cultures in contact at that time, they were less affected, and their names did not have much to do with the situation in the Qing Dynasty. Most of them are named according to the naming method of ethnic minorities, and do not pay attention to rules.
The famous Kangxi Emperor, whose name was Ai Xin Jue Luo Xuan Ye, while his two brothers, named Fu Quan and Chang Ning, seemed to have nothing to do with each other.
However, after the Kangxi Emperor ascended the throne, he knew more about the culture of the Han people, and in terms of naming, he moved closer to the Han people, and ranked the generations according to the characters, which became the basis for the future name of the Qing Dynasty.
Growing up, he received a lot of education in Han culture, and when he named his sons, he had yin characters. For example, Yongzheng's name is Yin Chan, Hongli is the name of the Qianlong Emperor, and Yin Zhen, Yin Zhen and so on.
The title given by the Kangxi Emperor to his grandsons was "Hong" (弘), Qianlong's name was hongli (弘历), and most of the people who collided with him changed their names.
Because of his great admiration for his grandfather Kangxi, coupled with the deep baptism of Han culture, the names of Qianlong's descendants are also designated by him personally, which are "Yongmian Yizai".
These four words are also very interesting, originally the meaning of thousands of generations, the Qianlong Emperor demanded that his descendants must use these four words to take names.
The impact of literal hell
During the Qing Dynasty, Daxing Text Prison, in order to unify management, the rulers at that time used text prison. If you use the wrong words, you are likely to be unhappy because of your own words unconsciously.
In the society at that time, the imperial power was supreme. In order to show respect for the emperor, many articles must learn to avoid secrecy, once the Chinese characters in the emperor's name appear, they must be revised in time, otherwise it is disrespectful to the emperor, and then it will be destroyed.
After Yongzheng ascended to the throne, in order to consolidate the imperial power and to abide by the rules, he changed the "Yin" in the names of other princes to "Yun", and later these princes were killed one after another, leaving only his brother, that is, "Yin Zhen".
However, the pronunciation of the name "Yinzhen" is the same as the name of the Qianlong Emperor "Yinzhen", and in order to show respect, "Yinzhen" was renamed "Yunzhen".
Compared with Yongzheng, the Qianlong Emperor was much friendlier, he did not kill the other princes, nor did he ask them to eat names, but when they wrote "Hong" and "Calendar", they had to make changes in the way they wrote, removing a point, so that they could avoid some secrets.
The world has taken names and avoided these two words.
In the society at that time, when the imperial power was the most concentrated and supreme, no one dared to openly resist, as long as it was said by the emperor, the people of the world must make concessions and must obey unconditionally.
In the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the people's compromise for the emperor, there were also examples of the emperor changing his name for the masses, and the Jiaqing Emperor was like this.
"Yongyan" is the name of the Jiaqing Emperor, yongzi is a common word in Chinese characters, if you really want to avoid it, it is very troublesome.
So the Jiaqing Emperor himself made a compromise, he changed his name to "颙琰", Daoguang Emperor's original name was "Mianning", after ascending the throne, he changed the name to "Minning" that was not easy to bump into.
In daily writing and creation, it is necessary to avoid the Chinese characters contained in the emperor's name. However, for the convenience of the people, the two emperors sat for a long time and gave in.
From the perspective of the masses, these two emperors made concessions for the people, but combined with the previous examples, we can find that the Qing Dynasty gradually declined.
Look at the history of the development of the Qing Dynasty from the name
While making concessions for the people and winning the hearts and minds of the people, the Qing Dynasty also experienced loneliness, especially after the Daoguang Emperor, and the decline of the Qing Dynasty intensified.
At that time, the people of the Qing Dynasty had long been accustomed to writing the emperor's name, and the emperor had not changed his name, and the Qing government's control over the world situation had long been worse than before, and it was no longer the scene of the original family.
If the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor was the last glory of the Qing Dynasty, then the Daoguang Emperor was the beginning of the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
The Daoguang Emperor reigned for thirty years, and before his abdication in 1850, China experienced the fate-changing Opium War, which was the first step in the fall of our country and the first step in the destruction of the Qing Dynasty.
After the Daoguang Emperor, the Xianfeng Emperor succeeded to the throne. The Xianfeng Emperor was the last powerful emperor in China, and he also tried hard to save the Qing Dynasty.
Unfortunately, he was not born at the right time, because of the relationship of the times, many of his talents did not have the opportunity to be played, and he himself died young.
After the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, the ruined dynasty was handed over to his young son, the Tongzhi Emperor, who died after only nineteen years of age, and his next term was the Guangxu Emperor.
By the time the Guangxu Emperor succeeded to the throne, the real power was not in his hands, but his grandmother, the mother of the Tongzhi Emperor, Empress Dowager Cixi. By the time Empress Dowager Cixi arrived, the Qing government had become a puppet government.
epilogue
Before we understand the influence of the emperor's name on the current situation, we must assume that their names are only unique and have nothing to do with the changes of the times.
On the contrary, after generations of proof, we will find that the background of the names or names of these emperors still has some relationship with the current situation at that time.
From the Kangxi Emperor to the Qianlong Emperor to the Yongzheng period, the emperors had strict control over their own names, which was also the most prosperous period of the Qing Dynasty. By the time of the Daoguang Emperor, the Xianfeng Emperor, and the Tongzhi Emperor, the Qing Dynasty was gradually in ruin.
Don't feel that the dilapidated scene mentioned in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is far away from us, in fact, this is very common in our lives.
The rise of a generation will surely be accompanied by the end of a generation, in which the scene of decay is indispensable.