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When it comes to the name Qin Hui, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind may be the derogatory terms "traitor" and "traitor", but do you know that this great traitor in history was actually a high-spirited young man who was determined to serve the country and the people with a pure heart at the beginning.
Yes, you heard him right, he really had a glorious past. In fact, the life of this notorious traitor was not so annoying at the beginning. So what's going on here?
The starting point of the boy
Qin Hui was born into a family of eunuchs who were not wealthy. At this time, you may think that since it is the home of the official eunuch, it should be regarded as a scholarly family, and the living conditions must not be too bad.
In fact, his family's conditions are not good, but fortunately, Qin Hui is smart and studious, deeply influenced by the family's tradition of emphasizing literature over martial arts, and has been keen on learning since he was a child. When he was a child, he was very catchy of classic ancient classics such as "Book of Songs" and "Book of Shang", and he had his own deep understanding and pursuit of Confucianism such as benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and wisdom.
With his intelligence and diligence, Qin Hui was promoted to the rank of scholar in the five years of Zhenghe and became a professor in Mizhou. At that time, he really had a pure heart and was full of ideals of serving the country.
However, the wheels of history roll forward, and the direction of fate is always unpredictable.
Jingkang's difficulty and Qin Hui
Everyone has heard a little bit about the difficulty of Jingkang, this is an important turning point in Qin Hui's life.
At that time, the Jin army went south, and the country of the Great Song Dynasty was in danger, and Qin Hui at this time was still a staunch anti-Jin faction, very tough on the outside world, and advocated resisting the enemy by force.
This young jinshi, with the lofty ambition to save the country from danger, desperately threw himself into the country's anti-Jin war, but the good times did not last long, and he was soon captured by the Jin army.
Everyone knows that the life of a captive is extremely painful and tormenting, especially for a young man who is full of hatred for the country and his family, it is even more of a kind of mental torture.
During the years of his captivity, Qin Hui experienced unprecedented suffering and tribulation, and it was in this process that his anti-Jin stance began to change.
Do you know that the pain and struggle in this is difficult for others to understand? In order to get a way out, Qin Hui began to compromise with the Jin people, and even became the collaborator of the Jin people.
He gradually lost himself, from an ambitious young genius to a "traitor" condemned by later generations. What is even more tragic is that after returning to the Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Hui completely changed his position and became the leading figure of the Lord-Peace faction, advocating peace with the Jin State.
In order to achieve this goal, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his loyalty, and the most well-known crime was to frame Yue Fei, which led to the final tragic end of this national hero.
A young man who used to have lofty ambitions and full of vigor was completely changed in the end because of the temptation of power and personal ambition.
It was his greed for power and selfishness that made his life trajectory tortuous and bizarre, and finally ascended to the throne of a traitor, and everyone shouted and beat him.
What is even more ironic is that on the basis of the peace negotiations he participated in building, he has accumulated a lot of power and wealth, but he has also buried his own notoriety.
Judging from Qin Hui's life, power is really a mirror, reflecting the truest desires in the depths of people's hearts. was full of ambition at the beginning, but in the end, because of his desire for power, he became a traitor in history.
The origin and circulation of the two poems
However, how did he know that it was such an inconspicuous corner that actually achieved his emotion at that time, which is still circulating in the mouths of many teachers.
"If you get 300 acres of paddy fields, you won't be the king of monkeys this time." This sentence summed up his embarrassment and inner resistance at that time. He compared the group of naughty students to the monkeys, and he himself was forced to become the king of this group of "monkeys".
After going around and around, this sentence has become a mantra for many teachers today when they joke about their students. Times have changed, time flies, and the circulation of these two poems may make many people not know its origin, but they can still hear it from the mouths of teachers.
Especially among those hard-working front-line education workers, they may complain when they are extremely tired and tired: "If you have 300 acres of paddy fields, why spend it here to be the king of children." Even if there is a hint of banter in the words, it cannot hide the real pain and helplessness in it.
What is amazing is that although Qin Hui is a traitor in history, he left such a sentence in his teaching life, humorously expressing the teachers' helplessness in life and their deep love for education.
Although it seems to be complaining on the surface, it is actually a love and adherence to that profession. It is this kind of contradictory and sincere emotion that makes these two poems more and more twisted in the long river of time, influencing generation after generation.
Nowadays, when we hear the teacher mention these two lines of poetry in class, we may smile and feel the fun.
But if you think about it carefully, it not only reflects the voice of an educator, but also reflects their extraordinary persistence in ordinary positions.
The bitterness and joy are intertwined, and countless warm and hard nights have been achieved. It can be seen that whether in the past or now, those teachers who are silently dedicated to the front line of education deserve our deep respect and understanding.
And Qin Hui's poem, which seems to have a hint of irony, now seems to have become a witty and affectionate tribute to the hard work of the teachers.
Qin Hui's Later Years and Historical Evaluation
Qin Hui's life experience is true, like a complete anti-gold drama. People like to see how others change from heroes to villains, and Qin Hui, the number one, can be said to provide us with an excellent sample.
At the height of his power, I bet the emptiness and helplessness in his heart was anything compared to the glory of the outward appearance.
At first, this guy had a heroic life because of his resolute resistance to gold, but in the end, because he succumbed to reality and pursued power, he gradually became the "traitor" in people's mouths.
Under his control, Yue Fei was implicated in trumped-up charges and finally died tragically. Qin Hui was also tied to the "notoriety" train because of this incident, and became the talk of future generations after dinner.
Speaking of Qin Hui's death, it is said that he felt that he was old at that time, and what power, fame and fortune were like that for him, and he began to think about living a peaceful and stable life.
But how can there be so many ifs and can'ts in this world, especially for a person like him. And Zhao Gou, the Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, was not a vegetarian, and without waiting for Qin Hui to take a breath to lift his shoes, he ordered all the officials of the Qin family to get out of the house quickly, which can be described as the final blow of the Game of Thrones.
After Qin Hui's death, he stayed in this world, in addition to the poem "If you get 300 acres of paddy fields, you won't be the king of the monkey", more of a later generation's spurning of him.
When we talk about him today, we probably won't even have the slightest bit of regret.
This is like a warning carved in stone, telling future generations: the fate of losing oneself and indulging in power is people's trash can, the scourge of history.
However, in the final analysis, this is also what Qin Hui asked for himself. His life can be said to be a typical process from gray to completely dark.
He could have chosen a different path, but in the end he was completely destroyed by power and selfish desires.
The lessons and warnings here are still quite useful to us today. After all, history is the best teacher, and Qin Hui is undoubtedly a vivid negative teaching material.
Resources:
Baidu Encyclopedia - Qin Hui