2. Zhao Gao is a eunuch, but not a eunuch. According to Records of the Historian, Zhao Gao was an official with official records, which was a proof that people later thought he was a eunuch. However, the titles of "official", "official record" and "eunuch" in Qin and Han dynasties do not mean that the castrated person is a palace official, that is, the so-called "eunuch" in later generations. He actually had a daughter who married the then Xianyang Mausoleum, which also proved that he was a healthy person. Zhao Gao is a distant relative of the Zhao royal family. He is knowledgeable, proficient in law, good at martial arts and writes good calligraphy. Unfortunately, he was talented and immoral, and eventually ruined the Qin Dynasty.
Being a monk in the Tang Dynasty was very cool. First of all, you have to have a certificate to become a monk, so you don't have to pay taxes. Besides chanting, the monk's main job is to cross over for the dead and pray for the living. These nursing jobs are paid. The Buddha's magic power is boundless, and the income of monks is considerable. Some famous temples will also accept alms from nobles, and nothing can be put down without decent warehouses. Besides, monks have land. At that time, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, gave thousands of acres of land to Shaolin Temple, and the monks rented the land to businessmen and lived a life of "renting monks".
4. You Ge Wu Dalang sells sesame cakes, originally called steamed cakes. In Song Renzong, it was changed to cooking cakes to avoid the emperor's taboo (Zhao Zhen, Song Renzong, homophonic with "steaming"). This staple food has no stuffing and does not add any oil, salt or sugar. Actually, it is today's steamed bread. What was called steamed bread in the Song Dynasty was actually today's steamed buns. In addition to mutton, fish and crab meat, the "steamed bread" eaten by Song people also has different fillings such as shredded bamboo shoots, pineapple fruit and soup rice. Of course, the Song Dynasty was not without steamed bread, but "steamed bread" and "steamed buns" were not exactly the same. Steamed buns can be stuffed without noodles and meat dishes.
5. Zhu Yuanzhang considered that his descendants might have the same name, so he drew up a descendant pedigree of 20 words for each of his 24 sons, one word for life. Children and grandchildren should have dual names. The first word in the dual names was taken by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the last word must be a word with five lines as the radical. The order of the five lines is "fire, earth, gold, water and wood". After the mid-Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jiazi's grandchildren couldn't find words, so they began to make words. After the periodic table of elements was introduced into China, experts found that there were basically no words that could explain these elements well, but when they opened Zhu Yuanzhang's genealogy, their mouths were crooked. I found a lot of rare words beside the golden characters. Feel them: Zhu, Zhu, Zhu Cu Cr, Zhu Cu Nb, Zhu Qianla, Zhu Xiaoti, Cadmium and Vanadium.
6. The hairstyle of men in the Qing Dynasty is not the "yin and yang head" in the current film and television dramas. Ganlong used to be a "money mouse tail" hairstyle. All the hair was shaved, leaving only a handful of hair on the top of the head, braided into a braid that can pass through a copper hole. After Jiaqing, it gradually evolved into a "pigtail" style, leaving more hair. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that it evolved into the "python tail" style that is common in film and television dramas. Imagine the "Brothers Corps" in "The Seized Office of Kowloon", including grandpa four, grandpa eight, grandpa thirteen and grandpa fourteen. Are you still fascinated?