"Title Xi Lin Bi" once said: "Horizontal view into the mountain side into a peak, far and near the height is different." "Everything in the world has different meanings, and if you look at it from different angles, you will reap different endings."
Looking at the thousand-year history of ancient society, it can be seen that among many dynasties, the Tang Dynasty can be described as the most eye-catching dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty society, there is a prosperous scene of all countries coming to the Dynasty, and many people will also think of the openness and tolerance of the Tang Dynasty for the first time when mentioning the Tang Dynasty.
Compared with other dynasties, during the Tang Dynasty, many emissaries and merchants from other countries appeared in China, and affected by this situation, many foreigners settled in the Central Plains during the Tang Dynasty. Once, a persian prince tomb was excavated in The Shaanxi region of China, and after the relevant experts interpreted the inscription of this tomb, it was said: Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty people did not understand Persian. What is the origin of this tomb of a Persian prince? What does this inscription record?
In 1955 AD, Chinese archaeologists accidentally found an ancient tomb in the Shaanxi region, and at that time, after interpreting the epitaph in this ancient tomb, it was found that the owner of this tomb was su Yu and his wife during the Tang Dynasty. After some identification and interpretation, experts determined that the general content of the inscription was that Su Yu's wife, Ma Shi, died in 874 at the age of 26.
However, in the process of further analysis of this epitaph, experts found that the tombstone has two contents: Han inscription and Persian inscription. At that time, after consulting the relevant materials, the experts interpreted the content of this Persian record, and after the interpretation, the experts found that the content of the ancient Persian inscription and the Chinese inscription was very different, and it was written in the Persian inscription: Su Yu's daughter Ma Shi died at the age of 26.
From this difference, it can be seen that Ma's identity has great doubts, in the Chinese inscription, Ma's identity is identified as a wife, but in the ancient Persian inscription, Ma's identity is identified as a daughter. In order to explore the real relationship between The Ma clan and Su Yu, experts began to look for historical facts related to Su Yu and the ancient Persian state.
Through the help of some Western scholars, Chinese experts learned that Su Yu's name comes from the transliteration of the Persian royal family, and combined with Persian historical data, it can be determined that Su Yu is a Persian prince.
During the reign of Tang Taizong, the Persian region was attacked by the Arabs, so he hoped to get the support of the Tang Dynasty army, but during this time, Tang Taizong was reluctant to allocate reinforcements for Persia, and since then, the Persian prince has come to the Tang Region several times and three times, hoping to get the help of the Tang Dynasty army.
During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, he did not directly send a large army to help Persia, but instead made Su Yu the new King of Persia and divided Persia into the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty.
But this solution did not actually resolve the contradiction, and in the days that followed, the dispute between persia and the Arabs remained unrelenting. At that time, because the Persian region had been occupied by the Arabs, Su Yu could only stay in the Chang'an area to live.
By understanding the Persian groups settled in the Chang'an region, it can be found that in order to continue the Persian culture, these Persian people who settled in the Central Plains arose Zoroastrianism, a religious concept that believes that the world is divided into light elements and dark elements, and that fire is revered out of worship of light elements.
In the tolerant and open environment of the Tang Dynasty, Zoroastrianism flourished, and although Zoroastrianism was attacked for its involvement with the Buddhist movement during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Tang, the Persian descendants living in the Chang'an region still retained their worship of fire.
In addition, in this archaeological activity, experts only found a Ma in the tomb of a Persian prince, which represents the wife written in the Chinese inscription, and the daughter written in the Persian inscription is the same person, the reason why this inscription will be so special is also because in Persian culture, the noble blood should be kept pure, Su Yu as a Persian prince, he should marry his own sister or daughter as a wife. It can be seen that the Ma clan in this tomb is not only Su Yu's daughter, but also Su Yu's wife.
By understanding the society of the Tang Dynasty at that time, we will find that the people of our country have relatively high moral requirements, and the marriage between fathers and daughters is an extremely serious sin, and anyone who commits this sin will end up with a heinous end.
For su yu, he was obviously aware of this rule, and in this case, he covered up his behavior by writing two epitaphs. At this point, experts have also lamented: fortunately, the Tang Dynasty people did not understand Persian.
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From this historical experience, we can feel that in different cultural backgrounds, people's concepts and cognitions are different, and in the process of learning history, we should also fully consider the background of historical figures and the type of religion they believe in, so as to better understand the historical truth and avoid being deceived.
Reference: "Where are the descendants of the Persian royal family in China in the Tang Dynasty?" 》