Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, may not have imagined that the Great Han created by him had such a strong incense!
In the 210th year of the Western Han Dynasty, he was disturbed by Wang Mang and almost officially stopped cooking. However, among the descendants were Hao Jie, Liu Xiuyi, a descendant of Liu Bang's ninth grandson Liu Fa the Prince of Changshading, who rose up and violently defeated the new dynasty usurped by Wang Mang, inheriting the han dynasty's ancestral lineage, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was re-opened.
Almost two hundred years later, when the Han Dynasty was in decline and the world was in chaos, the Cao family took advantage of the situation and forced the children of the Liu family to retire. Originally thought that the Han dynasty stopped here, but did not expect that Liu Bei, a descendant of Liu Sheng, the King of Jing of Zhongshan, was dissatisfied and arduous, and he created a new world in the land of Bashu, standing on the foot of Cao Wei and Sun Wuding, and the national name was still "Han", declaring that it was Liu Bang and Liu Xiu who inherited the mantle of Liu Bang and Liu Xiu, and later generations called it "Shu Han".
Later, Liu Bei's indisputable son Liu Chan surrendered bare-chested, thinking that the Han Dynasty should be the end of its life at this point, but slowly, just over forty years after the fall of shu Han, another descendant surnamed Liu officially became emperor, once again playing a clear banner, and the national name was still "Han"!
Is this emperor the lineage of the Liu clan? scold! No one can say clearly, pursuing his origin, it is actually from the Xiongnu nobility, but how can a Xiongnu surname Liu?
Don't think it's a joke, when the emperor is serious, not only the establishment of the country as "Han", but also honored The Han Gaozu Liu Bang, the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, the Shu Han Zhaolie Emperor Liu Bei as the "Three Ancestors", the Wen Emperor Liu Heng, the Wu Emperor Liu Che, the Xuan Emperor Liu Quan, the Ming Emperor Liu Zhuang, the Zhang Emperor Liu Zhuo as the "Five Sects", the official sacrifice ceremony, and even the lord Liu Chan, who had just died for more than thirty years, did not pull down, and posthumously honored him as the Emperor of Xiaohuai. Judging from this posture, he wanted to recognize his ancestors and return to the sect, and he would inherit the incense of the old Liu family in a bright and upright manner.
The Xiongnu, surnamed Liu Mingyuan, declared himself King of Han in 304 AD in The city of Zuoguo, in present-day Lishi, Shanxi. Four years later, Liu Yuan officially declared himself emperor, changed his era name to Yongfeng, and moved the capital to Pingyang (平陽, in modern Linfen, Shanxi). At that time, someone fished out a piece of jade seal from Fenshui and wrote "There is a new Baozhi", perhaps it was Wang Mang's jade seal, Liu Yuan thought it was a good omen, and specially changed the year name to Herui.
This is called the emperor, the capital is fixed, and with the jade seal and the era name, Liu Yuanke is the legitimate emperor. The first regime of the "Sixteen Kingdoms" thus appeared. But the doubts also clearly existed, he was a Xiongnu, originally surnamed Qiu Huanshi, how could he insist on rubbing the light of the old Liu family? Is he a big "Han" suspected of a copycat version?
To say that it has nothing to do with the Great Han Dynasty, it seems wrong to simply put gold on your face. Liu Yuan and his relatives and brothers surnamed Liu are all vibrant, they are indeed the clan relatives of the Liu clan, and there is a certain blood relationship!
The author checked and checked, can not deny Liu Yuan's statement, his basis is as follows:
When the Han Dynasty was just established, he was once surrounded by a large army led by the Xiongnu's Mao Dun Shan Yu at Baideng Mountain, known in history as the "Siege of Baideng". After being trapped for seven days and seven nights, Liu Bang used Chen Ping's strategy to escape. In order to recuperate, Liu Bang decided to make peace with the Xiongnu, of course, he was reluctant to accompany his precious daughter Princess Lu Yuan, so he chose one of the children of the clan to marry Mo Dun Shan Yu, and the two were also brothers.
After marrying the Xiongnu, the princess had a son named Ji Congee (jī yù), and after Mo Dun's death he became the family, known as Lao ShangDan Yu, and Liu Yuan belonged to the clan passed down from Ji Congee. In the Tradition of the Xiongnu, the descendants and the mother's surname, after all, the little princess of the clan is also surnamed Liu, so her son can also use Liu as a surname.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu were attached to the imperial court, and Yu Fuluo's son, The Leopard, once resided in Han China. It was in his hands that he officially used the Surname of Liu and called himself Liu Bao, on the one hand, his Xiongnu surname was too complicated and remote, on the other hand, he also wanted to be close to the Han Dynasty. Later, Liu Bao took over as King Zuo Xian and took charge of the left side of the Xiongnu, and his son was the famous Liu Yuan.
According to the Book of Jin, "Wei Wu divided his people into five divisions, with leopards as the left commanders, and the rest of the marshals were all made by Liu Shi. "In Cao Cao's time, the leaders who commanded the five xiongnu departments were all surnamed Liu. From this point of view, the surname Of Liu should be the largest surname among the Xiongnu nobles, and when Liu Yuan was called emperor, most of his important subjects were surnamed Liu, such as Liu Xuan as The Minister, Liu Huan as the Grand Situ, Liu Hong as the Tai Wei, and Liu Rui as the Wei Wei, which can also be seen from the degree of their Sinicization.
When it comes to Sinicization, Liu Yuan is almost no different from the Han people, he was conquered by the Central Plains civilization since he was a child, and he loves to read and study Confucian classics. He was born tall and mighty, with great strength and skilled martial arts, and was deeply pushed by the celebrities in Hedong. What is even more rare is that this person is a virtuous corporal, light on wealth and righteousness, and has the arrogance of a leader among the Xiongnu.
During the reign of Cao Wei (264-265), Liu Yuan was taken hostage and remained in Luoyang. At this time, he had grown into a big man of eight feet and four inches tall, three feet long, and his appearance was magnificent. According to legend, he has three red hairs on his heart, three feet and six inches long, and what is more amazing is that he has the word "Yuan" on his left hand, which is why his father Liu Bao named him "Yuan".
scold! Ordered by heaven, they must be born different, and the Huns even learned this set of tricks that Han politicians liked to play.
The great upheaval caused by the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" gave Liu Yuan the opportunity to become a gravedigger of the Jin Dynasty.
In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the descendants of the Sima family fought in a mess, and some people wanted to take advantage of Liu Yuan's prestige in the Xiongnu and let him go back to recruit troops to help in the battle. Liu Yuan couldn't help himself, this is the real release of the tiger back to the mountain.
Liu Yuan returned to Zuo Guocheng, was immediately promoted by the five shan yu to be da shan yu, and began to plot their grand plan of "rejuvenating the state and restoring business", in the words of his cousin Liu Xuan: "At that time, our ancestors were about brothers with the Han Dynasty, but now this so-called Shan Yu only has a false name, we have no land of rulers, the nobles of that year are no different from ordinary people, and now Sima Clan is fratricidal and the imperial court is in danger, which is a heavenly opportunity for us to restore our ancestral inheritance!" ”
If you want to achieve great things, you can only be justified in your name, after all, the Xiongnu are foreign tribes, how can they get the support of the people of the Central Plains?
After some conspiracy, they decided to raise the banner of Liu Zi, to present themselves as the descendants of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and to call on the world in the name of restoring the Han Dynasty, for this reason, another "Han Dynasty" was newly released, known in history as "Han Zhao".
When a clear-eyed person looks at it, isn't this pulling a big flag and pulling a tiger skin? But the people had an effect, and soon Liu Yuan's men gathered tens of thousands of troops and occupied the entire territory of Hedong, with the capital to compete with the Jin Dynasty for the world.
Liu Yuan was still very much like an emperor, he was a wise man, frugal and industrious. Unfortunately, he was unable to push the Xiongnu to strength and dominate the world, and in 310, when his son Liu Cong and nephew Liu Yao and others led an army to attack Luoyang, he fell ill and died.
The strong opening of "Han Zhao" also did not achieve long-term peace and stability, and Liu Yuan's sons engaged in a fierce nest fight after his death, and finally were eliminated by Shi Le's Later Zhao, and "Han Zhao" existed for only 25 years.
Those who are engaged in politics will take it and install a façade when it is useful; if it is useless, it will be abandoned like a.
In Liu Yao's hands, he felt that the big Han had no use value, kicked down the Liu family's tablet, and simply worshiped Mao Dun Shan Yu as an ancestor.
Not only that, but when he encountered the authentic Han family heirs, the Shanyang Gong family of Liu Xie, the Emperor of Han Xian, and the Anle Gong family of Liu Chan, his sharp combat knife did not hesitate at all, and almost slaughtered them all.
However, the influence of the Han Dynasty could not be killed, not only this short-lived "Han Zhao", but also the later Later Han, Northern Han and Southern Han dynasties still held high the banner of "Han".
References: "Book of Jin", "Spring and Autumn of Wei", "Wei Jin", "History of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Two Jin Dynasties", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Volume 1, Former Zhao Lu"