The history of broken dynasties is relative to the "general history".
It is a history book that records a certain period, or a certain dynasty.
Compared with general history, the history of broken dynasties can focus more on the details of this period or dynasty.
Keywords: [Broken Dynasty History Book List], share 10 good books on the history of the Broken Dynasty that are worth reading in depth.
1 《翦商》
"Grandson of Houji, King Shiwei, Yang of Juqi, Shishi Chushang."
The so-called Chui Shang means the destruction of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty.
The book "Merchants" spans more than 1,000 years, from the germination of the Xia Dynasty to the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty
It can be said to be the most wonderful history book about Xia Shang Zhou in recent years.
When reading history, we have all learned the story of Xia Wei's tyranny and death of the country, but we rarely consider the social reality of the primitive society.
During the period of the three emperors and five emperors before the Xia Dynasty, the ignorant primitive people have always maintained the brutal custom of using human sacrifice.
This kind of thing, which seems strange to modern people, was indeed a normal activity that was taken for granted during that period, and it was especially at its peak and varied when it developed into the Shang Dynasty.
At that time, the Zhou people were secluded in the western mountains and had always provided sacrifices for the Zhou Dynasty.
It's just that this human sacrifice was actually plundered from the Qiang people.
Until King Wen of Zhou was suspected by King Shang and banned in Yindu, and King Wen's eldest son Boyi Kao paid tribute as a human sacrifice.
This forced Zhou to rebel and replace Shang.
After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, it began to abolish cruel human sacrifice, establish benevolent government, and advocate moralization.
History is a little girl dressed up by anyone.
It can be said that after reading "Jai Shang", we can take this sentence as a guideline.
2 "The Politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty"
Since Qin Shi Huang, Chinese politics has entered the era of imperial power.
Not only the royal family, the state and the princes will be under the control of the imperial power, but all other social forces are under the control of the imperial power.
Even though the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty wielded power, and the Wei Shu Wu of the Three Kingdoms stood on their feet, those in power still "held the Son of Heaven to order the princes" and regarded imperial power as sacred and inviolable.
However, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was an exception.
In the more than 100 years from Yongjia Nandu to the Liu and Song dynasties and Jin, imperial politics was reduced to gate-gate politics, which lasted for a century.
On the surface, the Langya Wang clan, the Yingchuan Yu clan, the Chen Jun Xie clan, and the Yu Jun Huan clan are all famous families of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
But in private, they fought for the power of the royal family, waiting for foreign invasion, but they only cared about their own lives.
Tian Yuqing's "Eastern Jin Gate Valve Politics" truly shows us that absurd and bizarre "power game".
3 "History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Wei and Jin"
The Northern and Southern Dynasties of Wei and Jin began with the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ended with Cao Pi claiming Emperor Wei, and ended with Yang Jian's destruction of the Chen state.
In between, countless regimes have collapsed and new regimes have been established, and countless troubled heroes and debauched monarchs have emerged.
Some regimes were destroyed in just a few years, some regimes were able to hold out for more than a decade, some regimes were brutal and unscrupulous, and some regimes were peaceful and prosperous.
For example, Liu Ziye and his cousin Liu Yu of the Song State of the Southern Dynasty were extremely violent and absurd, far surpassing the two unconscious monarchs of Jun, and were called the Song Emperor by their descendants.
In particular, Liu Yu, bloody and cruel, takes pleasure in killing, especially loves dissection, and is a rare tyrant in history.
Thankfully, this somewhat perverted young emperor of Liu Yu was killed by the unbearable ministers at the age of 15.
However, under the chaotic times of the Wei and Jin dynasties, it was another era of light and gentle belts, no shoes and clogs, simple clouds, and transcendent and vulgar.
There were seven sons of Jian'an as early as possible, and then there were seven sages of bamboo forests, even in the precarious Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were talented people such as Xiao Tong, the author of "Zhaoming Wenxuan", and Liu Xun, the author of "Wen Xin Diao Long".
"History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Wei and Jin" is written by Wang Zhongxin, a protégé of the master of Chinese culture Zhang Taiyan, and the turmoil of more than 300 years, after the great integration of the Chinese nation, Nirvana was reborn, becoming vivid, full and lifelike.
4 "Crisis and Reconstruction"
The Great Tang, an era that haunts the souls of many people.
Why is the Anshi Rebellion, which was clearly pacified, considered by many to be the key to the fate of the Tang Dynasty?
It turned out that the Anshi Rebellion was calmed down.
However, the subsequent warlords and the division of clans and towns not only depleted the national strength of the Great Tang again and again, and eventually went to extinction, but also contributed to the later idea of the Great Song Dynasty emphasizing civilization over martial arts.
The internal friction between the central and local governments is the fundamental reason for completely changing the direction of the entire empire.
5 "Metahistory"
At their confluence, huge rivers merge, stir, twist, mix, communicate, and finally merge and go east.
This is a common phenomenon in nature.
This is also a very common phenomenon in the long history of the Chinese nation.
The history of the Chinese nation is a process of collision, integration and rebirth of countless ethnic groups.
The history of the Yuan Dynasty is no exception.
The nomadic Mongol peoples of the north are like a rushing flash flood, or a huge mudslide.
From the grasslands of northern Mobei, they rushed to the hinterland, colliding, fighting, infiltrating, and blending with the mainstream of Han culture, which was becoming quite silent.
Finally, a Yuan Dynasty that integrated the traditional cultures of Han and Mongolia was established, completing the unprecedented unification of the country.
6 "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty"
"Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" is a panoramic display of the fate of the seventeen emperors and other princes and dignitaries and minor figures of the Ming Dynasty during the three hundred years from 1344 to 1644.
The author used the brushwork of the novel to give a wonderful interpretation of the official politics, war, imperial mental arts, economic system, and human ethics of the Ming Dynasty.
Three hundred years, long is not short.
In fact, the most powerful thing about the bright moon that year was that it wrote about the imperial generals who have lived in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.
They are no longer distant symbols, their persistence and vulnerability, joy and pain, through the pen of the bright moon of the year, through the fog of history, resonate in our hearts.
We all think that time is like a great river that flows calmly, flowing only in the direction of heaven forever.
In fact, under the great river that flows calmly, there are countless undercurrents, reefs and man-eating whirlpools.
This is perhaps the true face of history that we should know best.
7 "Fifteen Years of Wanli"
The fifteenth year of Wanli, which seemed ordinary in the 276-year reign of the Ming Dynasty, was actually an inflection point in the fate of the entire Ming Empire.
In this year, the Wanli Emperor completely failed to strike, and the general Qi Jiguang, the general who protected the country, had just fallen, and the ancient Daming Dynasty missed the opportunity for the last reversal.
No one expected that these inadvertent details would shake the foundation of the entire Ming Dynasty, and that the Ming Dynasty would miss one last chance to restore morale.
Because at this time, the Spanish fleet was already in full array, and was about to go to England, opening a new maritime era of maritime hegemony.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the world has undergone tremendous changes.
The rigid and corrupt clique of civil servants, the germ of repressed capitalism, the growing gap between the rich and the poor... The contradiction is becoming more and more prominent.
However, the ruling class of the Daming Dynasty was not aware of the internal troubles in the great changes that had not been seen in a thousand years, nor did it perceive the external troubles that quietly rose and looked at the tiger.
So that in the fifteenth year of Wanli, it became the return of the Daming Dynasty.
8 "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty"
Nanming, a character ignored by history.
It is a group of heroes fighting for hegemony under the banner of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty", and it is a continuation of the Ming Dynasty.
In this complex period of the intersection of old and new history, the protagonists on the historical stage change extremely frequently.
There were both the Southern Ming court, which inherited the mantle of the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing Eight Banners, which were looking at the outside world, as well as various peasant rebels who overthrew the Ming regime.
Gu Cheng's "History of the Southern Ming", starting from the Chongzhen Emperor's hanging on a crooked neck tree until the collapse of the Kangxi Anti-Qing Base in the eastern part of the Kangxi Dynasty, takes the Dashun Army, the remnants of the Great Western Army and Zheng Chenggong and other popular anti-Qing struggles as the main line, helping us sort out this almost forgotten history.
Reading the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, we will always have an unspeakable sense of sadness.
Because since the Qing army entered the customs, the blood and tears of the Chinese nation have flowed for three hundred years.
9 "The Collapse of the Celestial Empire"
It is about a war that everyone knows - the Opium War.
Many people think that the reason for the failure of the Opium War is that our weapons are not as good as those of the other side.
In fact, it is very wrong.
The defeat of the Qing dynasty was almost a historical inevitability.
Rigid systems, officials who deceive and conceal them, rulers who are immersed in the beautiful dreams of the Celestial Empire and do not want to wake up.......
It was they who worked together to bring this war to defeat!
If we are unwilling to face them squarely one by one, we will lose the significance of learning from history.
The fact that a defeated nation has seriously pondered and changed its plans after the war is the greatest respect and the best commemoration of the martyrs.
10 "Modern Chinese History"
This is a historical pamphlet from the Opium War to Sun Wen's death for about a hundred years.
At that time, the author Jiang Tingyi (fú) was still teaching at Tsinghua University, and originally wanted to spend ten years working hard to write a modern history.
As a result, after the war, the possibility of such a plan becoming less and less realized day by day.
So in 1938, it took a few months to write this book.
Jiang Tingyi neither puts a top hat on historical figures nor labels it in the book.
Although it is not long, the content argument is very rigorous and profoundly interesting.
Popular for nearly a hundred years, worthy of the name.