Emperors take turns to do it, next year to my home, the feudal emperor in the Chinese civilization is indeed a special existence, to a certain extent far more than the inheritance of the European royal family.
If you have communicated with foreign friends, you will find that they are very curious about Chinese civilization: Why do you have no bloodline inheritance, no bloodline of high and low?
It should be noted that there is a theory of high and low blood in the whole of Europe, the royal family is the royal family, and the ordinary people are ordinary ordinary people.
And the reason for this, there are many main points, we just put out one, the European royal family almost for many years will not change, that is, so many back and forth uninterrupted alternation.
What is often discussed in Europe may be the problem of the advantages and disadvantages of the bloodline, which do not exist in the Chinese civilization.
If we exaggerate a little more, everyone is a person with a name and a surname, and they have been upside down for generations, which family has not been a famous family?
Therefore, for our Chinese civilization, there is no suppression between bloodlines, or whether there are advantages or disadvantages between bloodlines.
And today we focus on this article, why is it that the royal family in Europe has remained unchanged for almost a thousand years, while the identity of the emperor in the Chinese civilization has changed with the times?
Point 1: The Cyclical Problem of The Chinese Feudal Dynasty
Some historians have come to the conclusion that in the process of the rule of the Chinese Dynasty, except for the two special stages of the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties, the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, almost all the feudal dynasties ruled between 200 and 300 years.
It's almost a very deadly juncture, is it like this?
The answer is yes and no.
The main reason for this situation is that the distribution of resources is unfair.
We take the Ming Dynasty as an example, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, up to the officials of the imperial court, down to the common people, we all know that the money of the entire empire is spent less and less.
Why isn't there enough money to spend?
Because wealth is in the hands of a very small number of people.
This part of the very few people, the first part is zhu Yuanzhang's descendants.
Before Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he issued several orders, which to a certain extent led to Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants being able to eat and drink without labor, and even exempt from land taxes.
To a certain extent, this aggravated the shift in wealth and brought great disaster to the entire empire.
Part 2 is that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, especially in Jiangnan and other places, there were many large landlords.
They control a lot of land resources, but also control the access of some people.
Whether it is the access or resources of this part of the people, so that these large landlords do not have to pay taxes, to a certain extent, it has led to the rich getting richer and poorer.
Coupled with the fact that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was unreliable, the Manchu Dynasty was not a civil and military official, and all kinds of strange things were superimposed together, which directly promoted the demise of an empire.
Therefore, it is not difficult to find that any period of feudal dynasty rule was prosperous in the early days, but over time, it will inevitably lead to the maximization of the interests or power of some people.
And this part of the people who maximize their power, once they cannot change their style in time, will bring great crises to the entire imperial court, and then there will be a lack under the premise that the resources of the imperial court are extremely limited.
And this part of the lack of once uncontrollable, it may bring crisis, such as the demise of the Song Dynasty, the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and even the demise of the Yuan Dynasty.
Of course, this may be too absolute, such as the Tang Dynasty or the Han Dynasty, their demise may have more external factors related to it, but there will always be some uncontrollable factors.
As the empire progressed, some people became more and more powerful, and these people who had power, whether they had their own small ideas or inaction, were extremely dangerous for the entire empire.
When we understand this, it is easier to understand why during the reign of feudal dynasties, empires were constantly changing, and the speed of change was relatively frequent.
And once the speed of change is more frequent, there is a subtle embarrassing situation: we will put this in Article 2.
Point 2: The emperor has it every year and will come to my house next year
When you were reading middle school history, you read two characters, these two characters are Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.
Logically, the less successful uprisings of these two figures could not directly promote the progress of Chinese civilization, at best, they would have turned down the Great Qin Empire and brought some opportunities to Liu Bang or Xiang Yu in the later period.
But is it that simple?
The answer is no, behind this thing there is a lot of cattiness, and these cattiness is what we want to focus on.
The biggest cattiness is that the prince Xiang Ning has a kind of sentence, which almost overthrows the core and essence of the feudal dynasty's rule.
Note that before the Qing Dynasty, it was the Xia Shang as we know it, and during the Zhou Dynasty, there was also zhou tianzi.
In other words, in the Zhou Dynasty and before the Zhou Dynasty, imperial power and theocracy could not be said to be one, but theocracy also occupied a very high position.
At this stage, Qin Shi Huang not only stepped on the divine power under his feet, but also put the imperial power on top of his head.
But the words that followed Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising had a great influence, and this result proved to a certain extent that Chinese civilization did not need to look at blood.
Who is born to be a prince?
No, I had to fight on my own.
Therefore, we will find that in many dynasties after the Qin Empire, there were some small people who became emperors, such as Liu Bang, and even a very great beggar became emperors, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang.
Point 3: The Chinese Dynasty was a dynasty full of struggles
Looking closely at the development process of Chinese civilization, it is not difficult to find that in the process of historical records, there were too many peasant uprisings.
The so-called peasant uprisings were mostly inaction by the imperial court, which left the people displaced and unable to settle down, followed by a series of uprisings and riots.
This kind of thing seems to happen rarely in the European royal family, and even if it does, it does not seem to be as grand as we think.
But this was not the case in Chinese civilization, especially during the Yuan Dynasty.
If you are interested, you can directly check the historical documents to see how many peasant uprisings are related to the Yuan Dynasty.
Therefore, in the Chinese civilization, we will find that the development of imperial power will always be based on the service class and let the people live and work in peace and contentment as the highest standard.
For example, in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once issued a regulation that if corrupt officials were found everywhere, the people did not even need to go online to report, and directly bundled and transported this corrupt official to the capital.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang directly presided over justice for the common people.
But these things were absolutely unworkable in Europe at the time.
Because there were various organizations and institutions in Europe at that time, and these organizations and institutions were almost closely tied to the European royal family, and even directly related to the interests, such as the so-called pope.
Especially in the European Middle Ages, blood relations were almost an important correlated factor in the succession of the imperial throne.
But I am very sorry, although the Chinese civilization also has some respect for the blood of the emperor, the premise of this respect is that the country is stable and the people have a good life.
If this is not the premise of disrespect, it will really become the end of the emperor taking turns to do it, and next year will come to my house.
Therefore, this has created the European royal family that has remained unchanged for almost a thousand years, while the feudal ruling dynasty of Chinese civilization has gone through generations like a horse and a flower.