Qingpingle is a knowledge-intensive TV series, and its scope is not limited to poetry and songs. For example, in the play, Song Renzong, as a monarch, is called "the housekeeper", which is different from our usual cognition.
(1) Calling the emperor a "housekeeper" was not initiated by the Song Dynasty. In historical materials, the earliest emperor's title as a "official" was Jin Shu Shi Ji Long: "Official is hard to call. If I want to do something rash, do you understand? I don't like being an emperor. I'm going to follow the example of Xiongnu's murder of his father and kill my uncle, Emperor Schleswig. Will you obey me? )"。
There is also a record in the Biography of Shu Wei Yuan Zhen: Wei Shizong treated Gao Taifei with courtesy, "Call his grandmother, leave him with wine, and take courtesy as his family." When Wei Shizong left the palace, Gao was so moved that he bowed down and raised his glass to bless him: "May the official luck last for a thousand years!"
The stamen of Meng Chang, the emperor of the post-Shu Dynasty, said in "Gong Ci" that "in the late Ming Dynasty, the official family had to count my wife before driving", which fully proved that during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the official family had become synonymous with some emperors.
(2) Why is the emperor called a butler? Tracing back to the source, Ying Zheng, king of Qin, thought that "virtue is both Huang San and five emperors", so he extracted and merged "emperor" and "emperor" into the word "emperor".
Han Jian, the Western Han Dynasty called the son of heaven a county magistrate, and the Eastern Han Dynasty called the son of heaven a country. In On the Machines, the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei and Jiang Ji said: "Huang San is the official of the world, and the five emperors are the home of the world." Huang Sanhe and Five Emperors are ancient sages, so they are all "officials".
In addition, the official has both selfless meaning and selfless meaning. The son of heaven rules the world from generation to generation, and must be selfless and treat others equally.
(3) The emperors of the Song Dynasty were all called "bureaucrats". After Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in Chen Qiaoyi and took the yellow robe to the position, it caused a heated discussion. In order to support Zhao Kuangyin and prove his justice and orthodoxy, courtiers simply called him a housekeeper to prove that the throne was right and the country was well governed. Therefore, since Song Taizu, the emperors of the Song Dynasty have been called "the butler".
Zhao Pu, the prime minister, criticized Zhao Kuangyin face to face: "The butler just scolded this and that with a straight face, not just because a light rain swept away your interest? The people are looking forward to this timely rain! "
The butler is your honorific title, but Zhao Kuangyin is not an ordinary person. Who dares to call himself a butler? He knew that many people refused to accept himself as the emperor, so he gave bow and arrow weapons to some close military commanders in the name of hunting. After leading them to the dense jungle, he said half jokingly and half seriously, "This place is too remote. If you want to be an official, you might as well kill me! " This statement scared all the military commanders, and they knelt down to show their loyalty.
In addition, with the popularity of the word "official", the folk in the Song Dynasty derived the title of "official". The original meaning of "official" is "official", which became a respectful name for men with status after the Song Dynasty. In addition, women in the Song Dynasty often called their husbands "officials", and the most familiar one was "Simon's leading man". It is true that Lin Chong was called "official" by his wife in Water Margin and Ximen Qing in Jin Ping Mei was also called "official" by his wife and concubine, which is in line with the historical facts of the Song Dynasty.