After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court gave great rewards to the children of the Eight Banners who had made meritorious achievements, and their descendants enjoyed the imperial court when they reached the age of seven, even if they walked on the street. The so-called Eight Banners is a military system established by Nurhaci, which divides the Qing Dynasty army into eight banners, controlled by eight flag owners, all of whom are civilians in peacetime, and all young and middle-aged men are soldiers in wartime, which is a military system relied on by the founding of the Qing Dynasty from another point of view.
The Eight Banners system had many privileges, such as the inheritance of their titles, their sons had a fenglu when they reached the age of seven, the imperial court would also share a certain amount of land, and the social status was very high, and some local officials easily did not dare to offend them.
However, it is precisely because of such regulations that the eight flags have gradually degenerated. Of course, the loss of combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners is related to the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty after the Kangxi Dynasty, the wars in the Kangqian Dynasty were not as much as when the Qing Dynasty fought in the Jiangshan, the Eight Banners had such superior conditions, most of the people slowly degenerated, and finally the Qing government was forced to be helpless, and the local township heroes became the main force of the Qing government, such as the later Xiang Army and the Huai Army.
The Qing Dynasty stipulated that the children of the Eight Banners could inherit their father's titles and property, and the children of the Eight Banners enjoyed the imperial court from an early age, in this case, the children of the Eight Banners did not have to struggle anyway to have the state to pay money, and could not do other trades, so they ate and drank everywhere, fighting clams, fighting birds, playing with women, smoking big cigarettes, and the whole circle of eight banner disciples finally became like this, and slowly the kung fu that was originally immediately fighting the world was slowly abandoned.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, although many of the Eight Banners disciples lost their noble status, many of their vices were still changed, and some of the Eight Banners disciples even sold their property in order to smoke a big cigarette, and eventually fell into the streets, even beggars were not as good, some were so poor that the bells rang and died to face and did not work, fighting birds and cockroaches all day long, sitting and eating and so on.
Some of the Eight Flags disciples became second-rate children, mixing the streets all day and touching porcelain everywhere. According to historical records, some eight flags disciples casually took the bowl to the street, saw the rich family bumped into it, threw the bowl on the street, and then said who the ancestors were, which emperor rewarded the bowl, let the family compensate, in case others do not compensate, they will rely on the person, gather some eight flag friends to find you trouble, some people to avoid unnecessary trouble and give money.
Now that the Qing Dynasty has fallen for more than 100 years, many of us are still laughing at the fall of the Eight Flags after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, but look closely around us, there are some rich second generation, nouveau rich descendants, squandering all day, sleeping during the day and making a big fuss at night, sports cars crashing, don't these people are the continuation of the original Eight Flags? Sometimes history makes us think deeply, not look at jokes, what do you think?