Title: 400 Years of the Great Han Dynasty
Author: Zhang Yan
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I'd like to call this book a friendly, "primer on Han Dynasty history" choice, so that girls like me who doze off in history class can easily grasp the history of the Han Dynasty.
The book comes with a royal genealogy map of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the relationship between the three generations of ancestors is clear at a glance.
With time and characters as the warp and weft, the three-dimensional display of the intricate 400-year-old Han Dynasty. Emperors, harems, civil servants, and military generals, learn the history of the Han Dynasty four times from four perspectives.
emperor
Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu...... Each generation of emperors has the wonder and difference of each generation.
The way the grassroots emperor and the hereditary emperor handle the government is still quite different. The former is good at going down to the grassroots level, listening to public opinion, and winning the hearts of the people from the bottom up, while the latter lacks front-line experience and often carries out power coverage from the top down.
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harem
Thousand-faced Lu Pheasant, Empress Dowager Dou, Wei Zifu, Princess Jiewu...... Gossip like me, I like to listen to some harem things the most, showing the brave and resourceful deeds of many women
However, in the era when women have no choice in their own fate in their lives, several generations of queens have given birth to heirs by virtue of "low probability" events, and mothers are expensive by virtue of their sons, and even have excellent strategies to control the situation.
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Bunshin
The soldiers are not bloody, and they see that Wenchen Xiao He, Zhang Liang, Yang Zhen, and Jia Yi are based on the court and strategizing.
It can be said that Wenchen is the dreamer of the prosperity of all dynasties, and "good eloquence and good at fooling" is the merit of most favored Wenchen, which may be the reason why liberal arts students have survived until now.
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Warlord
The sword and sword shadow attract many generals to be ambitious and proud, and expand the territory. Throughout Han Xin, Zhou Yafu, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Li Guang...... The high-spirited and lost sadness of this life.
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With the author's interesting brushstrokes, he travels through the imperial inheritance, harem, court, and battlefield, so as to build his own macro world.
From the point to the line, to the surface, to the intricate historical network, turning over the prosperous Han Dynasty depicted in the history books, those emperors and princes, concubines and princesses, courtiers, and iron-blooded generals who have never been concretized have become vivid and vivid at this moment, and I have touched the entire history created by these specific people.
I guess that's what it means to read history.