preface
As the saying goes, "hearing is false, seeing is believing", with the progress of society, the network is becoming more and more developed, with the arrival of the information age, all kinds of news are intertwined, it is easy for everyone to have wrong judgment.
In fact, the film and television dramas and novels we see are not completely based on real history, and there are many stories that come from wild history that cannot be studied.
If we are willing to calm down, sit in the library, and look through the ancient history of the mainland, we will find that we have a great error in our understanding of the characters and stories recorded in history.
When we know historical figures, we must think from an objective point of view, seriously check and verify, and do not confuse facts with novels.
There were four of the most famous lies in ancient times, and many people believed in them and even wrote them into textbooks.
As everyone knows, we only know only half about it, and we do not look at things fundamentally, and we are only hearsay about these records, so we open our mouths and express our opinions.
So, what exactly are these four most famous lies? Now how do we know they're lying?
Kang Qian prosperous
The three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong were also rare Ming monarchs in Chinese history, who were not only outstanding in ability, but also diligent in government and loved the people, and dedicated their lives to the country.
The three emperors attached great importance to agriculture, developed commerce, and used talents, and with their efforts, the Qing Dynasty gradually prospered.
During this period, the national strength of the Qing Dynasty gradually became stronger. Economically, there was prosperity during the Kangxi period, rectification and rule during the Yongzheng period, and prosperity during the Qianlong period.
At the same time, the people's living standards have also been guaranteed, and the people can also send their children to private schools while maintaining food and clothing.
This period was one of the most powerful periods in Chinese feudal society. At that time, both economic and political power were unprecedentedly powerful. Kang Qian Shengshi is also known as "Kang Yong Qian Shengshi
Under the prosperity, there are also many drawbacks. But in history, the two emperors, Kangxi and Yongzheng, were very capable, and through their own efforts, they pushed the Qing dynasty to its heyday.
During the Kangxi period, agriculture was developed and people's living standards improved. During the Yongzheng period, the population increased a lot, and commerce also developed further.
The Qianlong period reached its heyday. Although this prosperous era did not last long, the impact during that period was enormous.
Yongzheng rectified the rule of officials and implemented the policy of apportioning money into acres, which effectively reduced the number of people and greatly reduced the peasants' burdens. The salaries of the officials were reduced a lot. Moreover, Yongzheng also implemented a system of maintaining cheap and honest banks.
However, under the prosperity, there were too many drawbacks, and during the Qianlong period, although the country was strong, there were serious internal problems, because at that time, there was no effective political means to restrain the behavior of officials.
Therefore, this phenomenon also led to the corruption and degeneration of officials, and these officials began to gradually affect the lives of the people, and social contradictions were gradually intensified and have not been effectively resolved.
During the Qianlong period, there were many small-scale peasant uprisings between various places, and these uprisings were caused by the hardships of the people.
The uprising caused great pressure on the government, and the Qing government chose to adopt the method of punishing officials, which is also to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
These officials said that they would change their bad habits, but they were still the same behind their backs, and they continued to search for the people's fat and people's anointment, and the people's lives were difficult, even the emperors of the past could not change this situation, and finally brought the Qing into the abyss of destruction.
Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism
After the overthrow of the Zhou Dynasty, an era of princes vying for supremacy began, that is, the Spring and Autumn Warring States, at that time, countries would fight each other, and turn enemies into friends.
At this time, in order to have a greater competitive advantage, each princely state attached great importance to the development of its own country, not only politically and economically, but also culturally very developed, so there was also an era of a hundred schools of thought.
During the first ideological emancipation period in ancient China, there were many famous literati and inkers, but unfortunately, most of the works of these literati and inkers have been lost, one is because the age is too old to remain intact, and the other is Qin Shi Huang's book burning pit Confucianism.
In the era of a hundred schools of thought, Confucianism, Moism, Legalism, Taoism and Yin-Yang all had their own ideas, of which Confucianism and Taoism were of great help to the development of the country, while Legalism and Yin-Yang played a hindrance to the development of the country.
After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, in order to better manage the country, Qin Shi Huang adopted a unified policy, thus making the country more united.
However, after unification, Qin Shi Huang had the idea of unifying all thoughts and no longer allowing individuals to have different thoughts and different ideas. In fact, this idea had already appeared in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, but it was not as crazy as Qin Shi Huang.
After Qin Shi Huang was unified, he ordered a large number of Confucians to be burned to death, and at the same time he also refused the rule of Confucianism, but chose Legalism, and his actions caused countless casualties and countless scrolls to be burned, which is why Qin Shi Huang was criticized by the world.
And the reason why the Qin State was able to unify the six countries was because the Qin State was very united at that time, and the reason why they were united was precisely because their thinking was unified.
In fact, Qin Shi Huang's burning of books to pit Confucianism was not to eliminate Confucianism, but to eliminate some charlatans who used Confucianism as a guise to harm civilians, swagger, and even undermine the stability of the entire country, which was not a good thing for Qin Shi Huang for the existence of these people.
Qin Shi Huang became aware of these problems after his reign, and he believed that if these charlatans were not dealt with, it would be difficult for the country to remain stable.
To this end, he resolutely issued an order to kill all those demagogic charismatic sorcerers, and even the Confucians who opposed him, because of their cruel methods, so they have been criticized by people, but he did kill many innocent people and burn many useful texts.
Beacon play princes
When we were in school, we all learned the story of King Zhou You's beacon play, and at the end of the Zhou Dynasty, a dim monarch named King Zhou You, he had a beautiful concubine named Zhao Yao, and after being with Zhou You, he looked for fun all day and did not care about state affairs at all.
He soaked in the pile of beautiful women and indulged in eroticism, living a luxurious life all day. Later, a large number of craftsmen were mobilized and a lot of money was spent to build one city after another.
Moreover, King Zhou You also loves Zhao Yi very much and responds to her requests. The ministers saw that the emperor was so faint, so they played together, hoping that King Zhou You would execute Zhao Yao, and after seeing the twist, King Zhou You became angry, and also provoked a dispute among the ministers because of Zhao You.
The relevant information we learned in books is that Zhao Yao is a cold beauty who always smiles on weekdays.
Once a war broke out in the royal capital, and the war was raging, and the major princes and nobles were alarmed by the war, and they rushed to reinforce, and when she was bumped into by Zhao Yi, she thought it was very interesting, and she was amused.
It was the first time that King Zhou You was so happy to see Zhao Yi smile, and at Zhao Yao's request, King Zhou You lit a beacon again.
You must know that at that time, lighting a beacon meant that King Zhou You was in danger, and the soldiers of the nearby city would ride fast horses to the capital as soon as they saw the wolf smoke.
After the soldiers rushed to the capital, they found that there was no war at all, and the beacon was lit only because King Zhou You wanted to praise Yile, and the soldiers were even more sad about King Zhou You's move.
The ministers also started overnight, criticizing Zhao Yao for seducing the emperor, hoping that King Zhou You would execute Zhao Yao and return a Ming monarch of the Zhou Dynasty.
King Zhou You was not satisfied after this incident, and he saw that Zhao Yao was depressed all day, so he decided to light the beacon again, and the soldiers quickly rushed to attack again.
But I never expected that the Son of Heaven would take the major measure of lighting the beacon as a child's play, and also lit it twice, just for Concubine Bo to smile, they were angry, and they had nothing to do.
From then on, the soldiers no longer believed in King Zhou You, and when an enemy really appeared in the capital and King Zhou You lit a beacon, no one came to rescue him.
Everyone thought that King Zhou You was playing with them, so no one came, and in the end, the Great Zhou perished, which was really ridiculous.
Everyone thought that King Zhou You was deceiving his subjects, but this was not the case, King Zhou You was the head of a country after all, no matter how stupid he was, he would not make such a decision.
It was not until later when Tsinghua University sorted out the bamboo tablets that it was discovered that King Zhou You took the initiative to attack the original Shen Hou foreign family Shen Guo, and Shenhou contacted the Rong tribe to defeat the King of Zhou, and Western Zhou perished. There is no story of "beacon play princes" on the bamboo tablet.
There was only one reason for King Zhou's death, and that was Empress Shen's opposition to King Zhou's abolition of the crown prince. So Empress Shen returned to Shen to ask for help, but when King Zhou You learned the news, he decided to start a war.
As a result, it was wiped out by the Darong tribe, and the legends handed down in later generations are all due to our shallow knowledge. Indeed, the more people who know history, the broader their knowledge, the deeper their understanding of the world, and the more they understand history.
Burning the Afang Palace
Up to now, we only know that the scale of the building of Afang Palace was recorded in the "History", but the specific details are unknown.
The historical Afang Palace was burned down by Xiang Yu, but it left a lot of mysteries for posterity, Qin Shi Huang of that year, forced the commoners, built the Afang Palace, I don't know how many people died.
Therefore, after Xiang Yu came to Xianyang, he set fire to Afang Palace, which was both a rebellion against the Qin Dynasty and an incentive for the soldiers.
But in fact, Xiang Yu did not burn the Afang Palace, you must know that in the poem A Fang Palace Fu, the majesty of the Afang Palace is simply impossible to describe in words, since it is such a large building, how can it be burned with only one fire from Xiang Yu?
And after the archaeologists conducted field investigations, there were no signs of burning in the place where the Afang Palace was established, and there were no traces of the ash left behind after the burning.
In fact, in the process of exploration by archaeologists, some architectural sites were found, and a large number of bricks and dirt were found in these sites, and it can be judged from these places that the Afang Palace was not burned down at that time.
From a practical point of view, the Afang Palace at that time may have only built a foundation, which was not as large and magnificent as written in ancient texts.
epilogue
In general, many of the historical people or events we are familiar with have not been confirmed, not all historical facts are completely accurate, and we do not fully grasp what we have in the past, and it is a very long time to understand it at a deeper level.
We cannot criticize a person without understanding what it is, which is wrong and shameful.
This also depends on generations of experts and scholars to explore. However, we must also maintain a truth-seeking attitude and not have any prejudice, otherwise it will make people feel funny.