Qin, Han, Sui and Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, among the mainstream dynasties, the Yuan Dynasty has the largest territory, but it has the least sense of existence.
Other dynasties always have a story to tell, especially the founding emperor, and even a lot of things. But in the Yuan Dynasty, except for the two names of Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, there was no other impression. Why is this happening?
First, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was too large, and the Central Plains region that we are familiar with is not its mainstream.
The territory of the Yuan Dynasty was too large, spanning the Eurasian continent. The cavalry of the Mongols, who once drank horses in the Mediterranean. In the National Museum of Hungary, the original rulers were all Asian faces, much like the ancestors of the Mongols.
In the "History of the Old Yuan", there is a record of the aurora, and in Yeluzhu's "Sungai Drunken Hidden Collection", there is even a description of the polar day phenomenon: "Zhao Rui and others enter the North Sea, go back and forth for several years, and the sun does not set. ”
And the Central Plains, where our mainstream culture is today, is only a small part of such a vast territory.
Under the rule of the Mongols, the people were divided into four classes: the Mongols, the Semu people, the Han people, and the Nan people, and the Central Plains region was directly divided into the third and fourth classes, and the Central Plains was naturally not the mainstream cultural area.
Second, names, tribes, forces, and place names are too long to be remembered.
This is a very important reason, it is easier for everyone to remember the name of two or three words, for example, the names of the emperors of the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties are easier to remember: Liu Bang, Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty, Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty......
Let's feel the painting style of the Mongol/Yuan Dynasty again: Genghis Khan, born in the Pantuo Mountain of the Downi Wenpantuo on the side of the Nan River (now the Onen River), was elected as the Khan of the Mongolian Qiyan Department in 1189, and soon after the establishment of the Great Yuan, he subdued the Eight Thorns, Huoli, and Balma tribes in the east and west of Lake Baikal.
After reading this large paragraph, how many names of people and places can be memorized......
Take Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy as an example, which involves a large number of Yuan Dynasty episodes, but who are the people who are most remembered?
Many people can say the basic configuration of Mingjiao, the leader of the sect is Yang Dingtian, the light is left and right, Yang Xiao, Fan Yao, the four major guardian kings, the five scattered people, and so on.
But how many of the forces of the Yuan Dynasty that were overthrown by Mingjiao can stand up? Zhao Min is remembered because she fell in love with Zhang Wuji, but this is her Chinese name, and her real name is remembered by a few people.
Third, there are fewer scenes of the Yuan Dynasty in history textbooks
The Yuan Dynasty in everyone's impression originated from history textbooks, and the time boundary was roughly from 1206 to around 1259, when Zhu Yuanzhang captured Dadu. History textbooks are also written here, and the protagonist is replaced by the Ming Dynasty.
But the actual Yuan Dynasty (Mongol Empire) also includes the "Northern Yuan" period when Emperor Yuan Shun ran outside the Saiwai, as well as the four khanates. If you count them all, in 1402, the ghost power killed Kun Timur and abolished the Northern Yuan Dynasty, which can be regarded as the real end of the Mongol Empire, and it was also a two-hundred-year situation before and after.
On the contrary, world history, especially European history, has more descriptions of the Mongol Empire.
Fourth, most of the mainstream dynasties have many ruins and have become tourist attractions
I want to see the Tang Dynasty go to Xi'an and Luoyang, I want to see the Song Dynasty go to Kaifeng and Hangzhou, I want to see the Ming Dynasty go to Beijing and Nanjing, but I want to see the Yuan Dynasty, there are really not many places to go.
Although the capital of the Yuan Dynasty was Beijing (Yuan Dadu), this is only one of the many capitals of the Yuan Dynasty, and the ruins and cultural relics left behind are far less than the Ming and Qing dynasties.