Zhu Ming Dynasty is the 2 1 volume of teacher Yi Zhongtian's History of China series. This book does not explain the general history of the Ming Dynasty, but focuses on the period from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang and Judy can be said to have changed the course of China. The book also focuses on the unique political system of the Ming Dynasty, including the Royal Guards, the East Factory and the West Factory. Everyone is very interested. I believe that friends who like reading history will not miss Yi Zhongtian's works. I found two book reviews for you this time. Interested friends have a look first.
A Review of Zhu Ming Dynasty;
Briefly summarize the history of the Ming Dynasty: from major events to politics, to social economy, and finally to culture. After reading this book, the idea of "those things in the Ming Dynasty" can be clearer. Precautions are as follows:
Imperial power and relative power, prime minister system and cabinet system, six governors, nine departments and three divisions, Ming dictatorship and Qing dictatorship;
Liu Sanwu denied the prince, Huang Zicheng pitted Wen Jian, Yang Rongti paid homage to the imperial tomb, Tie Xuan cheated Judy, and Fang Xiaoru harmed ten families;
Judy's cabinet, the captaincy cut; Jin Yiwei and Ji Gang killed Jie Jin;
The cabinet became a false prime minister, the eunuch became an emperor, Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian;
Zhang Ting and the literary inquisition, Zhang Yong and Wang Shouren;
Noisy in the early stage, lazy in the middle stage (Jiajing, Qin Long, Wanli), sick in the later stage (Taichang, Apocalypse, Chongzhen), with Wuzong as the turning point in the middle and early stage;
Wealth and capital have no destination and cannot be used to improve people's livelihood, scientific and technological innovation and expand reproduction. They can only be used for extravagance and waste, which is really a big problem;
The lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full; Suzhou style, Guangzhou craftsman;
North-South List, Gentry, Village Covenant, Shang Imperial Examination, Yangzhou Skinny Horse;
Zi Kao, after having obtained the provincial examination, will try, Gong Kao, born in the second list, three yuan;
Chen Hongshou's prints, Zhang Dai's essays, jokes, leaves, novels and operas;
Tang is on the horse, Song is in the boudoir, and Ming is in the market;
Journey to the West in the Three Kingdoms, feelings of home and country, loyalty and human feelings, worldly wisdom and the spirit of the times;
It is epoch-making to write characters and short personal creations in Real Parents.
The Tang and Song legends of China's classical short stories, and the Ming and Qing legends of singing Nanqu as the main play;
Tang Xianzu's artistic world, which is based on emotion and composed of dreams, seems illusory, but it is not untrue;
Li Zhi's childlike innocence and throat cutting.
Reflections on Zhu Ming Dynasty (Ⅱ);
I just finished reading the front part of this set of books and found the latest update, so I couldn't wait to finish reading it. This should be the first book written in the Ming Dynasty, which is a bit broad. I also finished watching the bright moon in the sky in the Ming Dynasty. I can't remember the specific content, but I have an impression: fascinating! Fifteen years of Wanli, deeply impressed. I have read some books about the Ming Dynasty before, so it is easy to read this book. After all, it is much easier to write.
No matter how to write, it is natural to write Zhu Maoyuan Zhang first, but it can't be bypassed. Writing about him naturally has some typical labels: killing heroes and abolishing prime ministers. They are all familiar contents, but some details will still be creepy when you look at them again; Judy, the prince of Yan, is more admirable than his father. He was deeply impressed by Fang Xiaoru's extermination of ten ethnic groups and his move to Beijing. He deliberately looked up nine relatives on the Internet and found that he was almost uncomfortable. He killed more than 800 people just by killing the top ten clansmen in Fang Xiaoru! Or take them to Fang Xiaoru and kill them one by one. I think many of these 800 people don't have much friendship with him at all. Every time I see this history, I feel uncomfortable and speechless. Moving the capital to Beijing has influenced the history of China for hundreds of years until now.
Then I talked about the abnormal politics of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, spy politics and autocracy have been further strengthened. Royal Guards, East Factory, West Factory and Silijian can basically suppress the existence of the cabinet (* * *). These are all measures to concentrate power on the emperor himself. But there happened to be many wonderful emperors in the Ming Dynasty, and it felt that a good start was ruined.
Summing up the Ming Dynasty, Yi Zhongtian described it as noisy in the early stage, lazy in the middle stage and sick in the later stage. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two fathers and sons threw down the tables and sticks, and everyone lost his temper. After a few local ruffians, the babies of the Empire got a little angry. Later, the three serious people stopped for a hundred years, and of course they were idle in the middle, but people always couldn't help themselves in middle age. Later, they couldn't help it. What impressed me the most was our "number one player" Zheng De, whose life is absolutely enough to write a pure YY novel.
What this book is most interested in is street life and jokes, especially for more than 100 years. Street life is actually very interesting. Everyone regards it as a number and a small number. Even thieves have nicknames, and marrying a famous prostitute is more beautiful. Yangzhou lean horse, initially thought to be a kind of horse in Jiangnan, was later discovered to be a human flesh business, which is really an anecdote; At that time, the jokes were very interesting, even higher than now. Without some writing and pen and ink, you really couldn't play this treasure. There was also pornography and love in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that the Ming Dynasty was ruled by Neo-Confucianism, and the ethics of the Three Cardinal Principles and the Five Permanent Principles were very strict. But I think the more erotic love, the more unique and beautiful it is, which is quite a bit like "the yellow flowers in the battlefield are particularly fragrant". Well, it's a bad choice of words!
On the whole, this book is a bit simple. The first few chapters seem to be mostly ordinary narratives, without too many comments and features of their own, but the latter two chapters are eye-catching, well written and insightful. In fact, besides politics, there are many things worth knowing in the Ming Dynasty.