Hello everyone, I am the king and grandson who loves history and talks about history, welcome to read the historical anecdotes brought by Wang Sun. Taking history as a mirror, we can see the gains and losses. The theme brought today is: an incident of insulting the mother at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Dian assassinated others and was crowned an official by the emperor? That's the way it is.
I believe that everyone has heard of Dong Yong, in the twenty-four filial pieties, there is a story of Dong Yong selling his body to bury his father, which later evolved into a myth and legend that the seven fairies were touched by their filial piety and married. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty after Dong Yong, the empire produced another filial piety surnamed Dong, his name was Dong Dian, although his filial piety deeds were not counted as twenty-four filial pieties, but they were recorded in other texts, but we also found similar insults to mothers in them. In the text of "Filial Piety Dong Gongzan", there is such a passage that after the death of his father, Dong Dian did his best to provide for his widowed mother, and after the death of his mother, he was deeply sad and alone in the barren mountains and wild mountains to guard the tomb for his mother, causing hundreds of birds to flock to the tomb for their filial piety. In order to avenge his mother, he chose to kill people in the blue sky and daylight.
So what's wrong with motherhood? Let's take a look at it together.
In the Song Dynasty's "Baoqing Simingzhi" recorded the insult to his mother in detail, telling that Dong Dian of the Eastern Han Dynasty was very filial to his mother, and one day his mother fell ill and wanted to drink GuzhangXi water, so in order to let his mother drink clean Jurzhangxi water, he built a house on the bank of the stream until his mother recovered from her illness. And the mother and Dong mother of Wang Ji in the east "each said their own son, sent a message and named it", the seed of hatred was planted in Wang Ji's heart, and one day forgot to insult Dong Mu in every way while Dong Yan was not there. As for the details of how to humiliate Dong Dian's mother, some texts such as the Baoqing SimingZhi do not record in detail, on the one hand, it may be because Dong's case is a secret for His Holiness; on the other hand, Wang Ji does not dare to tell the neighbors about the process of humiliating Dong's mother. Later, the death of the child mother may be related to this humiliation, Dong Di is a filial piety, because the queen mother is still alive, so he chose to assassinate Wang Ji after the death of the queen mother, and then surrendered himself to the government.
As a result, this matter was known to the emperor, and Emperor Han and Emperor He spared him of his crimes and made him an official, but Dong Di refused. The Handling of the Assassination of the Mother by Emperor Han and Emperor was very popular with the people. In the hearts of Han Hedi, Dong Dian should not bear the charge of murder, because he should be commended for eliminating harm for the people, because of his virtuousness, he was promoted to become an official, so that more virtuous people could be discovered. This is in line with the han and emperor's selection of officials to value the talent of the starting point. However, Dong Yong did not want to be an official, and later he was always in the township, and Emperor Han and Emperor used official documents to commend his filial piety, and this matter was also recorded in the historical record.
If this murder were placed in today's society, it would definitely be in jail. But in ancient times, he was not punished, but almost became an official, what do you think about this? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.
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