Problem description:
Any story will do, as long as it is from that period.
Analysis:
Gorgeous Age of Blood —— Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties: People's Alternative History
(Preface) The Fetal Movement Period in the Prosperous Age of China
-the gorgeous and bloody era of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
If we can have a history playback machine, press the "Back" button and search the history from 265 to 589 AD, we will certainly find many thrilling, thrilling and bizarre "scenes" in the period of 3 15 years in China's history, which is called "Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties".
Scene 1: In 280 AD, Sima Yan, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, destroyed the State of Wu and unified the whole country. In addition to being in high spirits, the burly and handsome emperor celebrated every day, sang songs every night, sat on a sheep cart all day, and wandered among the bodies in the magnificent palace.
Scene 2: In 29 1 AD, Hui Jin, the son of Emperor Wu of Jin, was sitting in a huge dragon chair and bowing. Ministers reported to him that there were frequent natural disasters outside, and many people starved to death and had no food. Hui Di opened his eyes wide, thought about it, and asked, "Why don't people eat porridge to satisfy their hunger?"
Scene 3: In 3 10, one day at the end of the "Eight Kings Rebellion" in the Western Jin Dynasty, Jiezu Xerox's army hunted and killed more than 100,000 Western Jin nobles who fled in a hurry in one day. The next day, the Huns in Liu Yuan set fire to all sides, burning 200,000 soldiers and civilians alive and eating "roasted human flesh".
Scene 4: In 365, 438+08, 65, 438+0, Liu Cong, the Xiongnu emperor who occupied a vast area of the Central Plains, ordered Jin Chen, the captured emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, to put on his servant Tsing Yi and wash his wine once, and ordered the lost emperor to stand behind him with an instrument cover. Several Jin ministers in the temple burst into tears and were dragged out to be beheaded. That night, the eighteen-year-old emperor Jin was strangled alive by the Huns.
Scene 5: In 306 AD, Liu Kun, a great writer, was trapped in Jinyang, a city of sorrow and joy. One night, there were many cavalry outside the city, and the regiment was surrounded by barrels. Liu Kun, dressed in white, went upstairs by the moon, making a long whistle. The Xiongnu soldiers sighed sadly. In the dead of night, Liu Kun played Hu Jia again, but it was a pity that a large number of Xiongnu fighters cried and sighed, looking forward to homesickness. After a while, they gave up the encirclement;
Scene 6: In 349 AD, the former generals of Shi Hu, Ran Min and Li Nong, were angered by the rebellion of Jie people and issued a "order to kill Hu". One day and one night, the square outside Fengyang Gate in Yecheng was filled with tens of thousands of heads. Within a few days, more than 200,000 Jie people were killed by soldiers and civilians who had been cruelly squeezed for a long time. "Fighting violence with violence", an oppressed nation disappeared from the world in a very short time;
Scene 7: In 3 18 AD, Jiankang City, Emperor Si Marui of the Eastern Jin Dynasty ascended the throne, accompanied by hundreds of officials, and the music was clear. Out of sincere gratitude, the new king constantly summoned Wang Dao, the minister, to join him in the throne. Finally, Wang Dao refused to say, "If the sun and everything are the same, why should the whole world shine!" Even so, "the king and the horse, * * * the world" has been widely known, and the political era of aristocratic children in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties officially began;
Scene 8: On both sides of the Fei River, 80,000 elite soldiers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty are waiting for battle, and on the one hand, there are more than 100,000 troops of the former Qin Fu Jian the Great. Behind the former Qin army were hundreds of thousands of steel foot soldiers who rushed to the front from Chang 'an and other places. However, at the moment when the troops of the Eastern Jin Dynasty began to cross the river and Qin Jun moved backward, neither side expected that Fu Jian the Great's order of "a slight retreat" would ruin a great empire, and the northern part of China would once again fall into a sea of blood torn apart and killing each other.
Scene 9: In the summer of 420 AD, Emperor Jin Gong sent an imperial edict, pushing the "Zen position" of the country and the old hero Liu Yu, and the Southern Dynasties entered a new period-the Song Dynasty. More than a year later, the deposed emperor Gong Jin was chanting Buddha in a place under house arrest, and soldiers sent by Emperor Wu of Song climbed over the wall and smothered the "happy" former emperor who gave up the country with a quilt. After that, the same thing happened, and none of the emperors in the Southern Dynasties had a happy ending.
Scene 10: In 426 AD, Emperor Tuoba Tao of the Northern Wei Dynasty conquered Wantong City, which was built by Xiaba Helian Bobo. He looked up at the magnificent terraced fields with poor literary talent and carved beams and painted buildings, and then touched the walls of Wantong City, which were hard enough to be chiseled. Mao sighed: "how can a small country and few people not die!" " Thirteen years later, Tuoba Tao eliminated the last Beiliang Juqu family in the sixteen kingdoms regime and unified the northern part of China.
Scene 1 1: At midnight on the first day of the first month in 453 AD, Liu Yilong, Song Wendi, which had just suffered a crushing defeat in the Northern Expedition, was working in his bedroom when his prince Liu Shao and the mutinous soldiers broke in with knives. Emperor Wen instinctively raised his stool to defend himself, and the traitor cut it off with a sharp knife. Wendi lost all his fingers and was trapped in the bed. At the age of 47, the famous "Yuanjia Shi Sheng" was finally marked with a black rest.
Scene 12: In A.D. 528, Hu Taihou of the Northern Wei Dynasty was willful and had the heart to poison his own son, and was taken to Er Zhurong, the general of the car owner. Before the Empress Dowager could explain more, Er Zhurong left and ordered Hu Taihou and her newly established three-year-old emperor to be thrown into the turbid water of the Yellow River and drowned alive, thus ending the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Scene 13: In the summer of 549 AD, after more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians died in Jiankang, Hou Jing, a former general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, invaded Taicheng. 86-year-old Yingjie Liang Wudi regretted inviting the wolf into the house. At that time, there was no entourage around him, and he was lying alone on the straw mat of Jingju Temple. He was ill and bitter, and no one agreed. In a panic, he read "ho ho" and died with hatred;
Scene 14: In 58 1 a.d., Emperor Wendi of Sui usurped the throne of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and killed his grandson, the little emperor Yuwen Yan, who was only ten years old. Then he slaughtered the royal family of Yuwen Yi again, killing 25 descendants of Emperor Wendi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, 6 descendants of Jie, 6 descendants of Emperor Wudi, 12 descendants of Emperor Wudi and thousands of descendants of Fenglong.
Scene 15: In 589 AD, nearly 100 generals and 520,000 soldiers led by King Yang Guang of Jin invaded Jiankang on a large scale. Chen, the last literati emperor in the Southern Dynasties, and his second concubine went down the well in panic and became prisoners. China re-entered the era of unification. When hundreds of thousands of Sui army bees swarmed across the river, the Qinhuai River was once choked by the water, just in response to the prediction of Guo Pu, a master forecaster, that "the Huai River will run out and the king will die". As a result, the family system of gate valves, which lasted for hundreds of years, finally came to an end, just like the flowers of Yushu.
All of the above are like dreams, but they are all real moments in history!
Time is dim and wonderful, and how many heroes have passed away in the fleeting time. However, those uncut, humanized, non-dramatic, and precisely the most dramatic "dramas" of China families in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties have forced us to have endless yearning for that magnificent history.
For more than three centuries, only the Western Jin Dynasty had the privilege of "enjoying" the temporary reunification for just 37 years. In the rest of the time, the land of China has been in a state of disintegration. There have been more than 30 separatist regimes, large and small, millions of Hu people poured into the Central Plains, and countless northern Han people lived in the south of Jianghuai. All kinds of class relations and ethnic relations have reached a brand-new reorganization, and the aristocratic door has experienced a process from peak to trough.
The Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties (Sixteen Kingdoms) were the most painful and darkest periods in China's history. It is also a great heroic era in ancient China. The collapse of civilization will always bring the inevitable result of "keeping pace with the times and creating heroes" The demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, although the Yellow River basin fell into the abyss of blood and various ethnic regimes appeared everywhere, also contributed to the first ethnic integration of the Chinese family to the greatest extent. The vivid culture and martial spirit of the Hu nationality have added vitality to the spiritual blood of the Chinese nation, unparalleled fresh factors to the Chinese culture, and laid a rich national psychological accumulation for the great unification of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the future.
In that big era, Xianbeizi, Han Jiaer, Qiang Zhongjie, Bian, Xie Zuhao and Xiongnu Ying rode horses with a bow, which was natural and elegant, and the mysterious words were always fascinating and amazing. In such a great era that held the breath of future generations, so many heroes, heroes, poets, adulterers, cowards and virtuous women appeared and staged a touching world drama. Different from the drama on the stage, the drama on the stage is divided first and then combined, while the drama on earth is divided first, full of bitterness and blood.
At the same time, in this 300 years full of blood and fire, it is also an era of great harvest of the Chinese nation's spirit. Qian Shan is beautiful, and hundred schools of thought, such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, metaphysics, legalism and famous artists, is full of flowers and unconventional. There are many literary schools, and religious arts are in full bloom. Dance, music, painting, calligraphy and sculpture have all reached unprecedented heights. At this peak of aesthetics with the most liberated thoughts and flamboyant personality, people have to marvel at the breathtaking beauty of this great era while admiring infinity.
In order to avoid writing a "running account" with boring events in chronological order like ordinary dynastic history books, the author tries to bring out historical events from a fresh and unique perspective, capture the most dramatic figures and historical facts in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and string this history together like pearls.
At the same time, the author tries to nail in a novel and unique breakthrough point, so that the important figures in each dynasty have a clear sense of priority, reasonable arrangement, accurate narrative, and clearly show the unique context of this great era of Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. In addition, because this book covers a wide range: history, humanities, poetry, economy, literature, war history, official history, titles, historical geography, the origin of people and so on. It is really difficult to be complex but not trivial, refined but not broken, harmonious and well informed.
What I want to present to readers is a brand-new dynastic history in content and form, which is based on people's history and people's comparison. This novel and unique way of writing history can be said to be my new invention so far. I hope this unique historical writing method can not only avoid unnecessary "fiction" like pork in general historical novels, but also make academic history research works look more vivid, interesting and plain.
History is not a dead person or thing, nor a dry mixture of years, numbers, names and nouns. If writers can "write delicately" and readers can "read interestingly", we will always get unexpected surprises like the sudden discovery of treasures in the deep sleep of history.