For many years, I have always had the illusion of the impression that Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng and Han Gaozu Liu Bang seem to be people of two different eras.
When I think about it, I think this illusion is probably because of the books I usually read and the education I have received in the past. From childhood textbooks to historical documents, television and movies and other literary works read in the library, the introduction of these two historical figures is mostly the Qin Empire, the first unified state of qin, the qin empire, which was established by The First Emperor of Qin, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, led his men to defeat Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, to establish the Han Dynasty.
Judging from these deeds, Qin Shi Huang And Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, are indeed two different historical figures who were active in different eras.
However, when I myself tried to analyze and understand these two great historical figures carefully out of interest, I found a small detail that many people overlooked, and it turned out that this was not the case.
Qin Shi Huang Was born in 259 BC, and Han Gaozu Liu Bang was born in 256 BC, and the difference between them is only three years! That is to say, Qin Shi Huang was 3 years older than Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao.
Therefore, they are actually figures of the same era, and Qin Shi Huang died in 210 BC at the age of 50, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, died in 195 BC at the age of 62.
So Liu Bang is only three years younger than Qin Shi Huang, why do he think he is a person of two eras?
Qin Shi Huang
Because Qin Shi Huang became famous too early, when he was 13 years old, Qin Shi Huang ascended to the throne, and at this time, Liu Bang, he climbed the wall tree in his hometown.
At the age of 22, Qin Shi Huang pro-government, successively eliminated Concubine Yi, Lü Buwei and his brother who coveted the throne, put his mother under house arrest, and grasped the power of the Qin state, and the 29-year-old Liu Bang was still not producing at this time, flirting with women.
At the age of 39, Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and sat on the world, while the 36-year-old Liu Bang had just become the head of the Surabaya Pavilion, and once sent a service person to Xianyang to meet Qin Shi Huang on a tour, Liu Bang could not help but sigh, the big husband should be like this.
At the age of 49, Qin Shi Huang died violently on the sand dune platform, and the 46-year-old Liu Bang was forced to hide in Mount Mangzhong to drink the northwest wind because he had privately released his servicemen.
The year after the death of Qin Shi Huang, 47-year-old Liu Bang, he raised an army in his hometown to revolt, and at the age of 54, Liu Bang got rid of his biggest rival Xiang Yu and finally came to the position of Qin Shi Huang 18 years ago.
Han Gao Zu Liu Bang
In a word, it is the pot of textbooks, Chinese history textbooks have always been adhering to the method of telling the history of the broken dynasty, each dynasty talks about a few things, talks about a few social realities, and then this dynasty dies, it talks about the next dynasty, so in the eyes of many people, the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty are two dynasties.
Since it is two dynasties, then how can it be a matter of two eras, even if the history of the Qin Dynasty II died, there are many people who can not imagine, the Qin Dynasty was only a short 14 years, unified to the establishment of the Han Dynasty is only 19 years, plus Qin Shi Huang, his old man really affected the feudal imperial system in 2000, important to any Chinese history books have to go to a large length to talk about, he can say that he is a tyrant, but he is by no means a faint monarch, which gives those who study history through textbooks, a very long illusion of the Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, the advantage of such a lecture in history is that it allows beginners to understand the major nodes in history very well, and to remember the entire history through historical nodes, Chinese history is better, and also benefits from this teaching method.
This is the most appropriate, and when looking back at history, insensitivity to historical events is actually just an innocuous flaw.
But the timeline of history is often intertwined, and the times are multidimensional, so never use only one angle to see the problem.
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