Luoyang, a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city history and more than 1,500 years of capital construction history, has created countless legends of Chinese civilization. "Shannanshui north is yang", Luoyang is named because it is located in the sun of Luoshui, and the Heluo area centered on Luoyang is the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization. The ruins of the five major capitals of Xia Du, Shang Du Xi Bo, Eastern Zhou Wangcheng, Han Wei Luoyang City, and Sui and Tang Luoyang City are lined up along the Luo River, which is rare in the world. More than a hundred emperors ruled here. Today, let's talk about Liu Zhuang, the Ming Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Zhuang (15 June 28 – 5 September 75), courtesy name Zili, was the second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty (reigned between 57 and 75), the fourth son of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and his mother was Yin Lihua. In the nineteenth year of Jianwu (43 years), he was made crown prince. In the second year of the Middle Era (57), he officially took the throne. Liu Zhuang eliminated the threat of the Northern Xiongnu, ordered Dou Gu to lead troops to conquest, and ordered Ban to go beyond the countries of the Western Regions and set up the Western Regions Capital Protectorate. Introducing Buddhism to China. During the reign of Liu Zhuang and his son Liu Zhangdi of Han, history called the "Reign of Ming Zhang". On August 6, the eighteenth year of Yongping (75), Liu Zhuang died in the front hall of the Eastern Palace of Luoyang at the age of forty-eight and reigned for eighteen years. Emperor Xiaoming was buried at xianjie mausoleum (present-day southeast of Luoyang, Henan).
On August 5, 25 AD, Liu Xiu took the throne as emperor at the Qianqiu Pavilion in Yancheng, and Jianyuan Jianwu was built. In order to consolidate his rule, Emperor Guangwu of Han strongly advocated the Confucian way of Confucius and Mencius. In October of the fifth year of Jianwu (29 AD), the world's first government-run university was built outside the South Kaiyang Gate of Luoyang City----- Luoyang Taixue, which was 8 miles away from the Imperial Palace. Liu Xiu visited Yaru all over the place, sought the classic Que wen, and established the Five Classics Doctorate and the Sifang Bachelor Yunhui Jingshi. Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Eastern Han Dynasty served As a Confucian scholar and hired a wise scribe to teach. According to the Later Han Dynasty Book of Ru Lin and Fan Zhun, Emperor Ming "traveled to the scriptures, shot at the end of each township, sat and lectured, and listened to the Confucians, and the four sides were happy." Luoyang Taixue's reputation grew, and the Xiongnu also sent people to Luoyang to study. Liu Zhuang emphasized filial piety alone, advocated "ruling the world with filial piety", formulated the ritual of sacrificing heaven and earth and ancestors, and established a set of car uniforms for the princes and hundreds of officials of Tianzi according to rank.
In the second year of Jianwu Zhongyuan (57), the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu died, and Liu Zhuang succeeded to the throne with Luoyang as Emperor Ming of Han. After Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the western states broke away from the jurisdiction of the Central Dynasty and were controlled by the Northern Xiongnu. In the fifteenth year of Yongping (72), Liu Zhuang sent Dou Gu (窦固), the governor of Fengche, and Geng Bing , the lieutenant of Tuomadu , to garrison Tunliang Prefecture.' In the spring of the sixteenth year of Yongping (73), Liu Zhuang ordered Dou Gu, Geng Bing, and others to attack the Northern Xiongnu in four ways. Dou Gu led his army out of Jiuquan, defeated the Xiongnu Huyan king Yu Tianshan, left troops to defend the city of Iwulu (present-day Hamixi, Xinjiang), and Ban Chao accompanied him on the Northern Expedition and served as a false Sima (acting Sima) in the army. Ban Chao led his troops to attack Yiwu (present-day Hamisi Fort, Xinjiang) and engaged the Northern Xiongnu at the Pushi Sea (present-day Balikun Lake, Xinjiang), where he suffered many victories. Dou Gu admired his talents and sent Ban Chao on a mission to the Western Regions with Guo Ke. After making preparations, Sima Banchao and Guo Ke led thirty-six of their men to the Western Regions, first reaching Shanshan (in present-day Ruoqiang, Xinjiang). King Shanshan first paid tribute to Ban Chao and the others, and then suddenly slackened and cold. After Asking after Questioning and learning that the Northern Xiongnu had sent emissaries, Ban Chao immediately gathered thirty-six of his men and went straight to the Northern Xiongnu emissaries' station just after it was dark. There were often strong winds in the western region, and Ban Chao ordered ten people to set fire to the wind, and the Xiongnu were in a mess. Ban Chao personally killed three Huns, the ambushed men also killed more than thirty people, and the Xiongnu emissaries were all buried in the sea of fire. King Shanshan was horrified when he saw the head of the Xiongnu emissaries. Ban Chao enwei was equally important, and King Shanshan returned to the imperial court and sent his prince to the Han Dynasty as a hostage. Soon, the Eastern Han Dynasty set up the Western Regions Capital Protectorate in the Western Regions. The Western Regions Capital Protectorate was a jurisdictional institution established in the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty. Since then, the Silk Road of Luoyang and Rome has been reopened.
One night in the eighth year of Yongping, The Hanming Emperor Liu Zhuang had a very strange dream. He dreamed of a tall golden man whose head and neck were surrounded by a circle of very dazzling light, descending on the center of the palace. When Emperor Hanming heard that he had dreamed of a very auspicious Buddha, he was very happy and immediately fasted and bathed. After that, he selected Cai Yan and his disciple Qin Jing, the disciple of the doctor, and others, took the yellow and white fine silk and went to the Tianzhu Kingdom to seek buddhist scriptures. After a very arduous long journey, Cai Yan, Qin Jing, and their entourage finally arrived at the Tianzhu Kingdom and visited many Tianzhu monks. The Tianzhu monks unanimously decided that emperor Han Mingdi was not afraid of the long way to send people to ask for Buddhist scriptures was a very pious act, and the two masters, Zhu Fa Lan and Jia Ye Mo Teng, brought many Buddhist scriptures written on the leaves of The Bedoro trees, and followed Cai Yan and Qin Jing to China to promote the Dharma. In the tenth year of Yongping (67 AD), two senior monks of Tianzhu were invited to join the envoys of the Eastern Han Dynasty and returned to the capital Luoyang with a white horse carrying Buddhist scriptures and Statues. Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han Dynasty personally received them, and when he saw the Buddhist scriptures and Statues, he was very happy, and he paid great respect to the two senior monks, and arranged for them to temporarily stay at the "Hongxu Temple", the official office responsible for foreign affairs at that time. In the eleventh year of Yongping (68 AD), the Han Ming Emperor ordered the construction of a monastery in the north of the Sanli Imperial Road outside the Xiyongmen Gate in Luoyang. In order to commemorate the White Horse Riding Sutra, it was named "White Horse Temple". This is the Shiyuan White Horse Temple.