In ancient times, feudal emperors often used the "era number", "year number" is a way of ancient chronology, can also be used to calculate the emperor's reign time, the first in history to use the "era number" is known as "Emperor Wu of Han", his first era name is "Jianyuan", this system has also been retained after this, and spread to overseas Silla, Vietnam and other places.
"Year number" this thing is extremely complicated to say, whenever a major accident or encounter a festive event occurs, the monarch will change to the era name, hoping that this year number can wash away the obscurity and so on, so most emperors do not only use one year number in their lives, such as Emperor Wu of han has "Yuan Hunting", "Jianyuan", "Taichu", etc., and the most frequent change of the era name in history is Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and a generation of empress Wu Zetian, the frequency of the couple changing the era name is unimaginable, Li Zhi used fourteen years, Wu Zetian, on the other hand, changed his nineteenth era name.
In the eyes of the ancients, the use of era names is also closely related to the fate of their dynasty, and for the sake of the long-term peace and stability of the dynasty, they generally obtain those more auspicious names, such as "Ruyi", "longevity" and so on.
However, things are always unexpected, and there is such an era name in history that can be called the most unlucky: the beginning. The first user in history was the famous Emperor Wu of Han, and after that, four emperors used him, but I don't know whether Emperor Wu of Han used all the luck of this era name, or whether the era number itself was unlucky, and the next four emperors all died of death, which can be called the most unlucky era name in history, so who are the other four emperors?
Former Qin Fu Deng
Maybe you are very unfamiliar with this name, but his grandfather is the famous Fu Jian, after the defeat of the Battle of Shuishui, the once huge Former Qin was torn apart, and the Former Qin Fu clan could not suppress the rebellion, and Fu Jian and others had to return to Former Qin's homeland to make plans.
After Fu Jian's death, the Fu clan elected his son Fu Pi to succeed him, and at this time in the land of Guanzhong, the Later Qin Yao clan gradually rose, and Fu Deng and others also won and lost each other in the battle with Later Qin.
Soon after, the Former Qin emperor Fu Pi was also killed in the war, and Fu Deng, who had a lot of military achievements under Fu Pi, also became the new emperor of Former Qin, changing the Yuan Dynasty and continuing to glue with the Yao clan of Later Qin.
After Fu ascended to the throne, the war against Later Qin was also repeatedly won, but successive victories also overwhelmed his mind, and after that, he began to become conceited, unable to listen to the opinions of his subordinates, and finally defeated and killed, and shortly after his death, Former Qin also perished.
Western Qin begged for qiangui
After the defeat of the "Battle of Shuishui", the land of Hexi controlled by Former Qin was also in a state of fragmentation, and ethnic minorities such as Houliang, Northern Liang, Southern Liang, Western Liang, and Western Qin successively established themselves as kings in Hexi.
Western Qin was a clan established by the Xianbei Qifu clan, and after the Battle of Shuishui, the leader of the Qifu clan, Qifu Guoren, established Western Qin in the land of Hexi, but Qifu Guoren died only in the first few years. At that time, his son was still too young, so everyone unanimously elected Qifu Guoren's younger brother, Western Qin Qifu Qiangui.
In 388, Qifu Qiangui succeeded to the throne of Western Qin and changed his era name to Taichu.
However, at this time, Western Qin can be said to be struggling to survive in the cracks, and he has a strong Later Qin around him and many other countries whose strength is not weaker than his Southern Liang, Northern Liang, etc., and Western Qin frequently fights with these countries.
In 400 AD, Later Qin Yao Xing sent the famous general Yao Shuode to attack Western Qin, how could the weak Western Qin be the opponent of this behemoth, Later Qin declared its demise, and Qifu Qiangui only surrendered to Southern Liang.
In 409, Qifu Qiangui's son Qifu Qiangui successfully resurrected with the power of Later Qin and informed Qifu Qiangui, so Qifu Qiangui once again became the King of Qin.
However, this time good luck also did not take care of Qifu Qiangui, once Qifu Qiangui went out hunting, on the way a very unlucky bird stopped at his hand, causing him to be extremely unhappy, and in June of the same year, he was killed by his nephew Qifu Gongfu, along with more than a dozen of his sons.
The King of Southern Liangwu was bald and lonely
The same tragedy also occurred in the political situation in Hexi, and the old rival of Western Qin, the founding monarch of Southern Liang, was also killed.
Bald hair can also disagree with "Tuoba", in fact, he and Tuoba Xianbei are the same tribe, bald Xianbei was originally subject to Houliang Lüguang, but for Bald Wugu, Hou is only his own shelter, and his greater ambition is to occupy Hexi.
In 395 AD, Bald Wugu attacked the Xianbei tribes entrenched in the land of Hexi on the orders of Lü Guang, but it was this appointment that allowed Bald Wugu to officially get rid of Lü Guang's control, and from then on Emperor Tiangao was far away. In 396 AD, Lü Guang appointed the bald-haired Wuhu as the general of Zhengnan, but for the bald-haired Wugu at this time, he was no longer pinning his hopes on submitting to Lü Guang, and in 397 AD, the bald-haired Wuguo judged Liang to stand on his own, which history called "Nanliang", and his era name was also Taichu.
In fact, the history of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms is also very exciting, although this period is dark, but this period is also the emergence of tyrants, only in the land of Hexi there are Lü Guang, Qifu Qiangui, bald Wugu and other tyrants, after the establishment of Nanliang, bald Wugu went around to fight, and the land of Longxi was controlled by themselves.
However, the bald-haired Wugu also had a big problem, good wine, that is, this point wanted his life, just when Nanliang was victorious in the battle against Houliang, the bald Wugu himself also drifted, drunk at a celebration banquet, fell off his horse and caused serious injuries, and died not long after, and his brother inherited the throne of Nanliang.
Liu Song deposed The Crown Prince Liu Shao
Liu Shao was the eldest son of Emperor Yuanjia, the third emperor of Liu Song, from the point of view of life, Liu Shao was the eldest son of Emperor Yuanjia, and he was also favored by Liu Yilong from childhood, and there was this relationship, if there was no change, Liu Shao could successfully inherit the throne of Liu Song, but the two fathers and sons eventually broke up.
One reason is that Liu Shao's power in the later period was too concentrated, when Liu Shao had the Eastern Palace Guards in his hands, and there was a large group of princelings in the middle of the dynasty, and Liu Yilong's second son was also attached to Liu Shao, this huge princeling party made Liu Yilong suspicious of Liu Shao, and if not prevented, it was likely to reproduce the scene of Liu Yikang; however, for Liu Shao, Liu Yilong's emperor had been too long, he had been the crown prince for twenty-four years, he could not wait, it just so happened that Liu Shao was also suspected by Liu Yilong because of the "witch deception case" soon after. So Liu Shao decided to preemptively attack, joined forces with his brother to kill The Yuan Jia Emperor Liu Yilong, usurped the throne himself as emperor, and changed the yuan to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.
However, Liu Shao's usurpation could not be concealed after all, and Liu Shao's third brother, the later Emperor Xiaowu of Xiaowu, raised an army on the spot and joined forces with Shen Qingzhi, a major minister in the court, to defeat Liu Shao, and Liu Shao, who had finally ascended the throne for only a few months, was defeated, while his third brother took the fruits of victory.
So the above is the end of the five emperors whose year number is Taichu, except for The Han Wudi Liu Che, the four emperors did not have a good ending, either died in an accident or were killed by their subordinates usurpation, and then the descendants suffered because of this, so the era name of "Taichu" can be called the most tragic era name, I don't know if It is Emperor Wudi of Han who used up his luck.