1. The barmaids of the Tang Dynasty were protected by national law.
In the Tang Dynasty, bartenders and prostitutes were legal and legitimate occupations, and they were included in the "official households" and protected by law. If you rape a drunkard or a prostitute, you will be punished with 100 rods, and the upper limit will not be capped. "If you rape a miscellaneous household or an official woman, you will have a hundred rods." (Tang Lu Shu Discussion, Vol. 26)
Second, "knowledge is power" is Chinese said first.
The famous saying that "knowledge is power" was not first said by the Englishman Bacon.
As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the thinker Wang Chong once said something similar: "If people have knowledge and learning, they are powerful." (On Balance and Effectiveness.)
As an aside, Wang Chong is a staunch atheist.
Third, the person who wrote the most poems in history was the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Qianlong composed at least 42,000 poems in his lifetime, and on average he had to compose 1-2 poems a day, but there was almost no essence, and finally only one poem was selected into the primary school chinese textbook.
Fourth, the shortest reigning emperor in history, the late Jin Emperor, completed Yan Chenglin.
The last emperor of the Jin Dynasty completed Yan Chenglin, and before the enthronement ceremony was held, he led his troops to battle, and later died in the rebellion. Historians speculate that Yan Chenglin reigned for less than two hours. At the same time, his era name Shengchang was also the shortest used one in the history of the world, and it was only read out when the edict of the throne was announced.
Fifth, there are about two thousand "princes" in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Tianjing Incident, Hong Xiuquan sealed more than 2,700 kings in order to consolidate his power, and many of them were strange titles, such as Love King, Giant King, Escort King, Sub King, Block King, Supplementary King, Ladder King, Listening King, Dry King, Qiu King...
Sixth, Zhu Yuanzhang's original name and his father's name are marked with numbers.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was originally named Zhu Zhongba, his father Zhu Wusi, his grandfather Zhu Chuyi, his great-grandfather Zhu Sijiu, and Gaozu Zhu Bailiu. Such a name was not given because the Zhu family was engaged in mathematics, but because in the Yuan Dynasty, ordinary people had no names if they could not go to school and become officials, and could only be named after the age of their parents or the date of birth.
The word "beast" had a positive meaning in the early Ming Dynasty.
The cloaked beast is often thought of as a pejorative idiom meaning a cloaked beast referring to a person who commits misdeeds and behaves as despicable as a beast. But before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, clothed animals and beasts were an enviable word, originally a positive meaning. The Ming court stipulated that the official clothes of civilian officials should be embroidered with birds, and the military attachés should be embroidered with beasts, and the styles of animals and animals embroidered were also different due to different grades. The beast is embroidered on two square pieces of brocade called "complements", and when used, it is sewn on the official uniforms of officials, one in front and one in front of each other, so the official uniforms of officials are also called "supplementary clothes".
The cloaked beast was a status symbol at the time. It was only in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when the bureaucracy was corrupt, that most of the officials' corpses were vegetarian and flies, and "dressed as animals and beasts" evolved into a derogatory term for the degeneration of the finished product and the depravity of livestock.
Viii. In the Battle of Jinchu, which refreshed the three views, the victor helped the loser escape.
In the early Spring and Autumn Period, the war was very gentlemanly, and generally after defeating the enemy, it would not be exterminated. In 597 BC, the State of Chu and the State of Jin fought a war in the land of Qi, which was the historical Battle of Wu, which ended in the victory of the Chu army. During the escape of the defeated Jin people, some of the chariots fell into the mud pit and could not advance, so the chasing Chu people stopped and told the Jin people that they should pull out the beam in front of the car, and the Jin people were able to continue to escape. However, they did not run far, and the horses of the Jin people were hovering, so the Chu people taught them to pull off the banner and throw away the horizontal logs on the car, and the Jin people escaped smoothly. At this time, the Jin people felt that their faces could not be hung up, and turned back while running: "We don't have such a rich experience in escaping like you." ”
9. "Han" is the most used national name in Chinese history.
The most used national name in Chinese history is Han, and the upper number in the row is the Western Han, Xuanhan, Eastern Han, Shu Han, Han Zhao, Chenghan, Hou Han, Southern Han, Northern Han, etc. 9, if you count Hou Jing, Chen Youyi and other forces of short duration, the total number can reach about 20.
Liu Yu, emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, was probably the highest personal force value of any emperor in Chinese history.
Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" once described such a passage: Liu Yu took more than a dozen attendants to reconnoiter the enemy in a war, only to be accidentally discovered by the enemy and besieged by thousands of people, so he struggled to resist, and the attendants were killed. The lord general Liu Yu saw that Liu Yuliang had not returned, so he took people to look for it, and when he arrived at the battlefield, he saw a shocking scene: thousands of people were fleeing for their lives in the front, and Liu Yu was chasing and killing him alone.
Southern Dynasty Song Wu Emperor Liu Yu
11. Because he hated poetry books, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered the abolition of schools throughout the country.
In his later years, Emperor Yang Jian of sui hated poetry and books, so he ordered the abolition of schools throughout the country, leaving only the Guozijian school in the capital.
Emperor Yang Jian of Sui
12. During the Song Dynasty, folk funerals were very pompous.
During the Song Dynasty, the trend of extravagance spread from the civil and military officials down to the common people, and even some people even despised frugality and did not think that frugality was a virtue. Influenced by this concept, the people attach great importance to funeral customs and habits.
Do your best to be extravagant as filial piety, otherwise you will be deeply ashamed of yourself and ashamed of the township.
Those who have land will sell their land and houses cheaply, while the poor often borrow money to do funerals. As a result, many people will go bankrupt after the funeral and will not be able to repay it for life.