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Thirty-three halls
To the east, along the Seven Main Streets that run through downtown Kyoto, you can lead to the "Thirty-Three Halls" where the Buddha's light shimmers. It is 125 meters long from north to south, separated by columns, and is one of the longest wooden buildings in the world. It is named after the 33 main rooms of this hall. The hall enshrines a total of 1,000 statues of the Thousand Hands Guanyin Buddha, which is like a "big gathering" of Buddha statues. There is an ancient Japanese song that sings: "Thirty-three halls in Kyoto, 33,033 Buddha statues." ”
This "Thirty-Three Halls" was first built in 1164 AD. Tracing back to its roots, it was actually a "gift" from Hira Kiyomori to Emperor Go-Shirakawa. However, do not think that The Emperor's generous gift to The Emperor is a moral gentleman. In fact, it was this man who ushered in the era of "samurai politics" that lasted for 7 centuries.
The so-called "samurai family" is the samurai family. After the samurai entered the historical arena during the Heian Period, they often competed and clashed with each other. The weak are subordinate to the strong, and the strong expand into the great samurai. The leader of the weak samurai order became the "lang party" of the lord of the great samurai order; the leader of the great samurai order was called "samurai dongliang". The leaders of these great samurai orders were often from royalty and famous nobles. The Kiyokazu Genji and Huanwuhei clans are two of the most famous, with ancestors descending from the Emperor.
Although it is of noble blood, it is after all a "subordinate descending". Therefore, in the Heian period, the Gen and Hei families, although one in the Kanto and the other in The Kansai, were actually a pair of difficult brothers and sisters—in the eyes of the "public family" (the emperor and the secretary of state) in Kyoto, they were just a group of family members who served themselves ("waiters"). This situation was overturned in the first year of Baoyuan (1156). There was a great war, the Hosun Rebellion, which revolved around the ownership of power, and Emperor Shirakawa and his brother Emperor Shōtoku met in Kyoto.
At this time, the Hira clan led by Hira Kiyomori joined the camp of Emperor Go-Shirakawa, and due to the outstanding performance of these samurai, the victory and defeat were known within 4 hours, and the power struggle that lasted for a long time was resolved in an instant with the samurai sword. The day of the rebellion in Japan is the arrival of the samurai world, and the era when the samurai who were originally inferior in status will control everything!
Since it was the armed forces of the Ping family that solved the problem of power struggle, The status of Ping Qingsheng, as the leader of the Ping family, also continued to increase in the imperial court. Only 11 years after the "Hosho Rebellion", in 1167 AD, he assumed the position of Minister of Taizheng, the highest position in Japanese politics at that time. This made Hira Kiyomori the first person in Japanese history to join the ranks of the secretary of state as a samurai and hold the authority of the imperial court. During the reign of Hei Kiyomori, there were 16 secretaries of state and more than 30 people in the palace, and at that time there were 66 "kingdoms" in Japan, and the Hira clan was the exclusive half (32 countries). With the rise of power, Ping Qingsheng's wife and brother Ping Zhongzhong even more wildly said: "Those who are not of the Ping clan are not people!" ”
There are many Buddha statues in the 33 halls of Kyoto
However, as the "Tale of the Pingjia Family" a hundred years later put it, "The arrogant will never last long, like a dream of spring night; the tyrant will perish, as if the dust before the wind." "Ping's arrogance and arbitrariness have too many enemies. In 1180, another "samurai" from the Yuanlai Dynasty rebelled in the Kwantung Region. As soon as the battle began, "the samurai of the Eastern Kingdom (Genji) had always been desperate on the battlefield, whether it was his father or son who was killed, they all turned a blind eye, and only knew that the horses crossed the corpse and continued to fight to the death", and the Samurai of the Pingjia family, who had already been contaminated with aristocratic habits under the corrosion of power, rushed to flee first, so that the geisha and dancers laughed and said: "Ah, it is really not a word, the general who went out on the expedition fled without letting go of an arrow." Looking at the wind and running away is disgusting enough, but this time it is to run away from the wind. ”
As a result, "the rumors of the Eastern Kingdom increased by tens of thousands, and at that time it occupied seven or eight countries." At this critical juncture, enjoying all the glory and wealth, the generation of the most popular courtiers, Yumei Hirayoshi, suddenly fell ill with a "fever" in February 1181 and soon died. The Ping regime suddenly lost its pillars and began to waver. Civil unrest spread to Kyushu and Shikoku, and several times throughout the country. However, four years later, in March of the first year of Bunji (1185), the Yuan and Ping armies fought a naval battle at Tanpu (Shimonoseki Haimian), and eventually the Entire Ping clan was destroyed.
Source Lai Dynasty
The decisive victory in the Battle of Tanpu should be attributed to the brother of the Yuan Lai Dynasty, Yuan Yijing. He is also regarded as the greatest contributor to the overthrow of the Ping family. Who knew that this "god of war" in the minds of later Generations of Japanese people attracted the suspicion of his brother Genrai Dynasty because of his military achievements, and finally was ordered to pursue, all the way to Hiraizumi in Oshu (northeast of Honshu), and was eventually forced to commit suicide. "What an irrational life it is for such an excellent person to be such a result!" Sympathy for the tragic fate of the Yuan Yijing has spawned various legends that "the Yuanyijing did not die", and some people believe that he "fled to Ezo" to the north. By the end of the Meiji period, the Japanese folk had widely spread the legend that the Yoshikuri was not dead, and after traveling to the East Asian continent, he transformed into Temujin, conquered Mongolia, and established the foundation of the world. Some people even have brains to "examine", and the Aisin Kyora family is also because "it was first from Kiyowa (Genji), so the name of the country is Qing", which is jaw-dropping.
In any case, the birds are hidden, and the rabbits are cooked. Yuan Lai Chao and Yi Jing boiled beans and burned them, and then killed all the children of the Ping family, even a few years old children. After consciously removing all hidden dangers, in the third year of Kenkyu (1192), genrai took office as the "Great Shogun of Seiyi" and opened the Kamakura shogunate. Japanese history has officially entered the samurai era. It's just that Genrai Dynasty would never have thought that although he had exhausted his own organs, Genji's concubines would still die for three generations. The real power of the shogunate that he had painstakingly created eventually fell into the hands of his foreign relative, the Hojo clan.