Successive founding emperors of all dynasties had a group of civilian and military generals under him: Li Si, Wang Qi, and Meng Tian under Qin Shi Huang; Zhang Liang, Han Xin, Xiao He, and Chen Ping under Liu Bang; Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You, Dianwei, and Xu Chu under Cao Cao; Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Ma Chao under Liu Bei; Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lü Meng, and Lu Xun under Sun Quan; Qin Qiong, Wei Chi Jingde, Li Jing, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhan, and Wei Zheng under Liu Bei; Mu Huali, Bo Shu, Bor Kuo, and Bo Kuo under Tie Muzhen. Chilao Wen, Mu Huali, Zhebei, Subutai; Zhu Yuanzhang had Zhu Sheng, Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, Xu Da, Tang He...
However, when it comes to which civilian and military generals under Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Han, are afraid that many people really can't say for a while and a half. In fact, the lack of fame of Liu Xiu's founding heroes is an illusion. In the third year of the Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor Yongping (60 AD), the Han Ming Emperor Liu Zhuang ordered people to paint portraits of 28 generals (known as the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai) who assisted their father Liu Xiu in the Yuntai Pavilion of the Southern Palace of Luoyang. The Yuntai Twenty-Eight Under Liu Xiu's command was often compared in Chinese history with the Eleventh Meritorious Servant of the Qilin Pavilion of emperor Xuan of Han and the Twenty-four Heroes of lingyan Pavilion of Emperor Taizong of Tang, and later people also referred to liu Xiu's Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai as "Yuntai Twenty-Eight Residences" corresponding to the mythical and legendary names of the Twenty-Eight Stars of the Heavenly Court.
In the past, many rural grandmothers who ate and chanted the sutra knew the names of the twenty-eight stars and immortals in the sky. The Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai are said to be the Twenty-Eight Stars in the Heavens who helped Liu Xiuguang restore the Han Room. Most of the historical figures are known only to those who have read the history books, and the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai under Liu Xiu's command are known even to the illiterate old ladies of the people. So do you think that the twenty-eight generals of the PTZ are not famous? Even Ma Yuan, the fubo general who was not included in the list of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, left such allusions as "Ma Ge Shroud" and "Piling rice for mountains" for future generations. It is strange that people, while counting these allusions, know very little about the characters who left them.
The whole world knows that there are twenty-eight stars in the sky, but few people can call out the names of the twenty-eight generals corresponding to the twenty-eight stars. Allusions such as "Ma Ge Shroud" and "Pile rice for mountains" can also be said to be well-known, but few people know that these allusions were left by Ma Yuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Although these allusions left by Liu Xiujunchen to future generations are indeed well known to women and children, on the whole, people do not seem to pay much attention to the history of Guangwu Zhongxing, so there is a strange phenomenon that everyone knows the classic story but does not declare it. So why is the history of Liu Xiujunchen's creation of the Eastern Han Dynasty relatively low in later generations?
The time in which the Eastern Han Dynasty was in Chinese history created a two-headed undesirable state: the Western Han Dynasty founded by Liu Bang was actually usurped by Wang Mang, and Liu Xiujunchen actually laid down the Jiangshan step by step, so Liu Xiu was actually a founding prince in essence. However, because Liu Xiu was a descendant of the Western Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu used the national name "Han" after he won the world, the Eastern Han Dynasty regarded it as a continuation of the Western Han Dynasty in the minds of many people. The ups and downs of the late Qin Dynasty and the rivalry between Chu and Han attracted enough attention to a considerable extent. In this strong contrast, the process by which Liu Xiujunchen founded the Eastern Han Dynasty is easier to ignore.
Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was the Qin and Han Dingge, and then the three-legged Dingli: after the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes of the world rose up together. After a long period of melee, the various groups formed a three-legged pattern of Cao Wei, Shu Han and Eastern Wu. Due to the popularity of popular novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the history of the Three Kingdoms period is widely known. The deeds of historical celebrities are usually recorded only in historical texts. Ordinary people's attention to this aspect of understanding is actually relatively limited, more people still understand history through some novels and operas like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" (of course, in modern times, many people understand history through film, television and other film and television works).
The Eastern Han Dynasty was between the Qin and Han Dingge and the three-legged Dingli: the previous Chu-Han rivalry and the subsequent three-legged Dingli attracted enough attention, so there are relatively few literary works that have specifically described the history of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty since ancient times. In modern times, there are not too many film and television works depicting the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The TV series depicting the founding history of the Eastern Han Dynasty may only be the 2014 "
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"" is more famous, and it is this TV series that also puts the main line on the emotional line of Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua, and the twenty-eight generals under Liu Xiu have become an inconspicuous foil role. The reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty is not concerned is that people regard the Eastern Han Dynasty as a continuation of the Western Han Dynasty.
Such a mentality will naturally lead to the weakening of Liu Xiu's status as the founding prince. In fact, Liu Xiu's sense of existence among the founding kings of successive dynasties is relatively weak: in the past era when network information was not developed, our history textbooks only used the phrase "Guangwu Zhongxing" to brush up the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In our history textbooks, the peasant revolt at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Northern Expedition of the Western Han Dynasty, and the division of the Xiongnu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty are all important plays, and the Guangwu Zhongxing sandwiched in the middle is naturally not so brilliant in these contrasts. Only in recent years, with the spread of network information, Liu Xiu's popularity and sense of existence have increased.
In recent years, there have been some like "
This kind of film and television work with Liu Xiu as the protagonist, at the same time, Liu Xiu's popularity in various network information is also increasing. In the past, when Liu Xiu's own popularity was low, his civilian generals were also little known, but now Liu Xiu's civilian generals are not famous with the increase of the fame of the lord. This is mainly because Liu Xiu's personal radiance is too strong. In the process of fighting the world, Liu Xiu would even encounter such a thing as meteorites falling from the sky to kill and injure the enemy army. Such a good luck against the sky made Liu Xiu known as the "Great Magic Master" and "Son of the Face". In front of such a strong protagonist aura, the civilian and military generals under their hands were all covered up.