When the emperor eats and drinks and sits on the three thousand beautiful ladies, he can still enjoy the top medical conditions, but why is the average life expectancy of the 408 emperors in history only 39 years? Is it true that living too moistly and having too many wives will also affect life expectancy?
We all know that the average life expectancy of ordinary people in ancient times was low because of the high infant mortality rate, even if some people are immortal, the average is less than 30 years old, only the base is too large. But there are only 408 emperors in history, and they all ascended the throne in good health, so why is the average life expectancy still not more than 40 years old?
Today we will briefly talk about "why the ancient emperors lived for a long time" and send off friends who are ready to cross.
Emperor we are not a dynasty number, from the beginning of Qin Shi Huang to the last emperor Puyi is a total of 408, the longest living is Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, aged 89 years old, the shortest life is the Han Emperor Liu Long, only 2 years old, the average life expectancy of the two is almost 45 years old, but this is an individual case, does not represent anything, I found that the longest-lived emperors of various dynasties basically have a common point:
For example, the 55-year-old Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty, the 64-year-old Emperor Yang Jian of sui, the 81-year-old Emperor Gaozong of Song, the 80-year-old Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan, and the 71-year-old Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, they are all founding emperors from Rongma and the longest-lived emperor of the dynasty, so we can draw such a conclusion: life lies in movement.
In other words, could it be that emperors with short lifespans are the only ones who do not exercise? In fact, many short-lived emperors are precisely because of excessive "exercise", overdraft of the body, and finally hate, I will roughly attribute the reasons for the emperor's short average life expectancy to three places: too much work, excessive indulgence, and safety hazards.
Next, we will analyze these three points, the first point: when the emperor does too much work.
I believe that everyone's impression of the identity of the emperor is mainly from various film and television dramas, I think that when the emperor is two words: "willful", eating everywhere every day, playing everywhere, seeing the girl you like will be directly included in the harem, no matter how big or small, there will be someone to solve it for you.
As everyone knows, this is a dream, the emperor said that he is the head of a country, to be more like a servant of a country, the whole world's people eat and drink Lasa, the emperor has to manage it alone, from a certain place to the people's livelihood and people's feelings, to a certain enemy to raise troops to attack, let you be the emperor, do you manage it?
Surely some people will say, isn't that what the civil and military officials are doing, and if they are handed over, they will not be able to do it? That being said, how can you be sure that they are not sneaking around and even preparing to stab them in the back? You always have to go through it yourself, this is to go to the dynasty, batch folding, finish you can do other things, far from saying, let's take the Qing Emperor's schedule as an example:
You have to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, be waited for to wear and wash, and then go to the old lady to ask for peace, 6 o'clock pad bar some things and then go to the toilet, 7 o'clock you have to go to the morning pilgrimage, the civil and military officials have long been waiting there.
The early dynasty does not care about more or less things, open 2 hours and then disperse the dynasty, eat morning tea and start batch folding, batch to 11 o'clock to start class, the emperor what class? As we said earlier, the whole world's food and drink must be managed by the emperor, and you can leave it to the hundred officials to handle, but you must understand how to do it, and understand that the hundred officials report some truth and falsehood, so that you can control the ministers for your use, rather than being fooled by them.
Ministers often only need to specialize in one field, but the emperor has to do everything, slightly leaking a little flaw, maybe how many people are waiting for you here, so as long as you don't die, you will learn from death.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I ate a serious meal, which was also the last meal of the day, and after eating, I had to summon the ministers to listen to their reports on the work, and solved the things that had not been completed in the morning, as well as the things that had not been understood in the morning, and had been made up at noon.
Wind and fire were finished before 4 o'clock, and then the folds were approved, sometimes a batch was approved until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, according to relevant statistics, the emperor had to approve tens of thousands of words of folds on average every day.
Each letter may be about a few crosses, a little more than a hundred words, you can calculate how many folds are ten thousand words, after all, a hundred officials can pick a lamp night battle, and the emperor has only one.
The most disgusting thing is that many of the folds are purely water-filled content, sprinkled with hundreds of words, quoting the scriptures is very difficult, only to see the last sentence only to find that it is a certain official to pat the horse ass to ask for a good hydrology, the word is also written by the thief is small, because you need to read, their words dare to be bigger than your words, that is, the following offenses.
Small words, a lot of nonsense, hurting the eyes and brains, but you can't help but look, in case there is a critical situation? It is no wonder that some emperors will appoint some officials and eunuchs to screen them in advance, which is forced.
At the end of the day, it can be said that the body and mind are exhausted, but the matter is not over, if the time is still early, eat some pastries and supper to continue to make up for the knowledge; You can't run when you don't have time, you have to hurry up and create people, create successors for the empire, it can be said that the mules of the production team have not called this way.
But you can't do it, burning life is your job, no one will praise you for doing a good job; But if you want to give yourself a holiday one day, you will immediately come out with a bunch of people poking at your spine, scolding you for not doing your business and abandoning the government, and you will also be recorded in the family history by the official on duty and pointed out as a negative teaching material.
The most bitter thing is that you are doing the heaviest work, they will not even let you eat enough, don't look at the emperor eating the whole table of mountains and treasures and seafood, but how much can really fall into your mouth? In the memories of the last emperor Puyi, he was often suspected of being hungry, and even sometimes stole a cold steamed bun to eat, and he also felt that it was extremely sweet.
Every day even can't eat enough, but also to fight for the old life to cultivate, cultivate the world during the day, cultivate the harem at night, such a state of life can live a long life is strange, not sudden death is considered lucky. This is the first reason for the emperor's short average life expectancy, and the second reason is that the emperor is overindulged and overdrawn in the harem.
Ancient emperors can be said to enjoy the best living conditions in the whole world, food, clothing, shelter and transportation, countless men want to be emperors is nothing more than two things: one is to enjoy the supreme rights, and the other is to enjoy the bottomless harem.
It is said that there is a bone scraper on the head of the color character, if the emperor knows how to temperate, it is to enjoy life; If you don't know how to temperate, every indulgence is like Ling Chi being stabbed, and no one knows which knife to cut, and the person will be gone.
For example, the 35-year-old Song Duzong Zhao Yu (qí) and the 44-year-old Hancheng Emperor Liu Xiao (ào), there is such a record in the "Continuation of The Zhizhi Tongjian Song Ji", saying that if Zhao Yu flipped over whose brand, who would go to Xie'en the next morning, there would be a detailed record of the eunuch in charge, and as a result, there were several concubines who thanked him together every three to five years, and the highest record was that more than 30 concubines went to Xie'en together, and Teddy Chengjing may not have this record.
The story is true and false, but Zhao Yu did ascend the throne for 4 years and suddenly died of illness at the age of 35, saying that it was not good that his body was overdrawn.
The story of the Hancheng Emperor Liu Xiao and the Zhao sisters is more widely known, men have a self-protection mechanism, sometimes overwork may strike, but Liu Xiao has to do it himself, the body can not keep up with the Dan medicine as an aid, so the 45-year-old he suffered a stroke and fell on the belly, which shows how much harm the emperor does not control.
To give a very appropriate example: it is well known that Emperor Gaozong of Song was not good at that aspect, and people lived to the age of 80 after recuperating their strength...
When it comes to recuperating, we have to mention medical treatment and health, as we all know, when the emperor does not seek immortality, he will also pay attention to maintenance, eat a deer antler today, and nibble two hundred-year-old ginseng tomorrow, but the medicine is three points of poison, even if it is a tonic, it will also increase the burden on the spleen, stomach and liver.
If you think about it, when the emperor was working hard during the day and the harem at night, he couldn't eat a mouthful of hot food, and it was nothing to eat tonic medicine once or twice, and eating too much was overdrawing his life. Not only is it a tonic, many emperors still believe in the alchemy of Dan, and as a result, they eat a large number of Dan medicines containing heavy metals, and their broken bodies can still bear this?
Most of them are a big red pill to eat, people will be cold, even if the accumulated toxins in the body are not dead, it will also reduce immunity, causing various diseases, in the ancient times when medical technology was not mature, many of the current daily small diseases, at that time are very fatal, many people do not know what disease they have to die.
Friends who have read the previous article "Why the Ancients Lived Short" must know that most of the ancient people were malnourished, and there was no money for diagnosis and treatment, so they could only resist or buy a piece of ejiao to supplement calories.
And the emperor has the country's top medical team for diagnosis and treatment, so he will not be put down by fever and cold, right? Not to mention, the same disease, maybe the people eat something good and recover, and the emperor can even drag it into a fatal disease.
The problem is not only the emperor's overwork, but also the shackles of the imperial doctors, compared with the full efforts of the folk doctors to save people, the imperial doctors do not seek merit but only no fault, because no one dares to give the emperor a strong medicine.
In the "Qing Barnyard Banknote" there is a "Prescription for the Tai Hospital", which has such a record: the medical officers of the Tai Hospital will successively diagnose the emperor's pulse, and then give the diagnosis separately, and write the prescription, and finally come up with a comparison at the same time, and the diagnostic results of several people and the prescription require strict control of the error, otherwise it is difficult to save their lives.
The medical officers also have a way to deal with it, they will nominate an old senior, what medicine should be used? Is it warm or cool? Is it an attack or a tonic? How much is used? It all depends on the hint of the old seniority, who stands where the medical officers are visible, holding a button or bead as a hint.
Even so, the prescriptions prescribed by the medical officers will be reviewed in every way, and the most important thing is to ask the medical officers to say the source of the prescription, and the relevant therapeutic effects, and must have a file to check. Therefore, even if the medical officers have more knowledge and experience, they will still take the "Medical Sect Golden Book" as the mainstay, and they will not dare to increase or decrease the drugs and doses according to their own experience.
After the emperor has eaten this medicine, he also needs a medical officer to re-diagnose, the medical officer must re-write the prescription at this time, neither the same as the original, nor too bad, at this time the medical officer must not have any similar efficacy, just get a few irrelevant things to add into the prescription, or that sentence, do not seek merit but seek no results.
After several follow-up diagnoses, the prescription has completely changed its taste, it may have been a medicine for fever, and it is not impossible to finally become an antidiarrheal medicine, so when the emperor must not be seriously ill, in addition to Hua Tuo dare to do surgery, it is estimated that others only dare to prescribe you tablets.
Since the founding emperor, there is another reason for the sharp decline in the average life expectancy of the emperor, that is, the genes are not good, because the founding emperors almost all have their own hair wives to ensure the diversity of genes.
However, since becoming the imperial family, many emperors in order to hold the power in their hands, will choose to let their children marry the power of the country, especially the empress's mother's family, calculated that everyone is a distant relative, the result of a variety of hidden bad genes accumulated, resulting in the crown prince with his own disease, and eventually died young, dragging down the average life expectancy of the emperor.
This is the second reason for the short average life expectancy of ancient emperors, excessive indulgence plus incurable diseases. Next, let's talk about the third reason for the emperor's short life: there are always people who want to harm the emperor!
It is said that when the emperor is solipsistic, but I don't know how much pressure the emperor has to face as the king of a country, there are 408 emperors in Chinese history, of which more than 60 died of death, including many young emperors who ascended the throne, the small emperor has an unstable foundation and no means, which is the best object for seizing power.
Liu Long, the 2-year-old Emperor of the Han Dynasty, had not yet experienced the taste of being an emperor, and had already ended his life, and when he met the 77-year-old Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the average life expectancy of the two was just 39 years old, and it was their relatives and subordinates who took away their throne.
There are countless people who want to be emperors, but there is only one throne, and the high places are not cold, and those who can get the throne must be lonely for a lifetime. Because even your most trusted friends and relatives will gradually drift away from you because of the gap in identity, of course, there will be people who will come to you and seek a lifetime of glory and wealth, but do not forget that the emperor's words and deeds are all looked at by the people of the whole world, and if there is rarely a move that is not done well, it will be scolded by the world, and even be taken away from the country.
Therefore, after many people become emperors, they are like changing individuals, becoming fierce, refusing to easily believe others, and sometimes they have to say "I kill people in my good dreams", forcing others to fear themselves and keep a distance from themselves, and over time you become a lonely person, which is why the emperor calls himself "lonely" and "widowed".
If you don't have enough strategy and means, you can't sit on the throne, let alone protect your own people, as the old saying goes, "All fear comes from lack of strength."
In this case, when the emperor is in this situation, he must be afraid every day, afraid of his own murder, and also afraid that the ancestral Jiangshan will be lost by himself, that is to bear the name of the emperor for eternity, speaking of the emperor's profession, why not seek merit, but seek no fault, as long as the jiangshan is safely passed on to the next generation, he will be liberated, even if he suffers from serious illness, he is eager to sit up in the dying sickness and shout: I have completed the task!
As for why the Qianlong Emperor is so long-lived, as I said earlier, this is all an example, of course, we can also think from another angle, in film and television dramas we can often see Qianlong, Kangxi, Yongzheng micro-service visits, you say that their lives are stressful? Run out and hang out, eat, drink and have fun, like playing every day, staying up late at night to create villains, worried about someone grabbing the throne?
Besides, going out for a walk without a problem is much healthier than those canaries who are trapped in the palace and don't see the light of day, so in the end it is still that sentence, life lies in exercise, contentment and happiness, as long as the health is good, it is naturally easier to live long.
Why were ancient emperors so short-lived? There are three important reasons for the existence of these three, and no one can live long."