The truth about the heroes of the Purple Light Pavilion is revealed The gold content is not high, and most of them are made up
In a private letter, a reader asked whether the Qing Dynasty's Ziwei Doushu was a great democracyHow democratic is it?I hope that there will be an article on this.
The first question that the imperialists can answer directly is that the purple weeds are not strong, and of course, the so-called purple weeds are actually only half of them.
At least since the Western Han Dynasty, there have been opportunities to paint portraits of heroes. In the third year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court painted portraits of Huo Guang, Zhang Anshi, Su Wu and other ministers in the Qilin Pavilion of Weiyang Palace to commend the meritorious ministers of the Central Plains.
Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was a model in this regard, and the emperors of all dynasties followed the example of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. There are in the Eastern Han Dynasty"PTZ 28 generals", the Tang Dynasty had"Lingnan Pavilion Marquis"。
It is worth noting that the number of portraits of virtuous ministers depicted by these dynasties is extremely rare, so these people are truly virtuous people in society. If by the standards of the Qing Dynasty, these people could be glorified in the Taimiao.
After the Qing Dynasty came to dominate the Central Plains, merit painting became less important, at least not as common as in the Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Yongzheng dynasties.
The first minister to be portrayed was Prince Zheng Zierharang, and after his death, Emperor Shunzhi commissioned a painter to paint a portrait of the palace in order to repay the help of this imperial uncle.
In the Kangxi Dynasty, only a few heroes painted Juelu-Mena, and the Kangxi Emperor, as a minister, wanted to visit Changbai Mountain, and it seems that he was summoned to the palace and commissioned a painter to paint for him. However, Mena did not hang the painting in the palace, but was allowed to take it home and enjoy it for generations to come.
In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the number of portraits of heroes was very small and basically negligible. In the Qianlong Dynasty, the portraits of heroes began to appear on a large scale, and the term Ziguang Pavilion heroes appeared during the Qianlong period.
Ziguang Pavilion was unknown in the Ming Dynasty, and became even more famous when the imperial examinations were held in the Qing Dynasty. After Qianlong ascended the throne, he began to expand the Ziguang Pavilion. In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong, the palace was returned to the Ili Department, the front-line soldiers returned to the palace, and Qianlong held a celebration in the Ziguang Pavilion. Respected ministers also hung foreign oil paintings in their offices.
After the victory of the army, Qianlong organized a banquet in the Ziguang Pavilion and gradually organized the activity of drawing a map of the heroes. In the Qianlong Dynasty, there were four Ziguang Pavilion painting activities: Qianlong's 24th year of Pingding and return to Xinjiang, Qianlong's 41st year of Jinchuan, Qianlong's 53rd year of Lin Shuangwen's Taiwan uprising, and Qianlong's 58th year of Tibet.
Compared with the heroic paintings painted in previous dynasties, Qianlong's heroic paintings are large-scale and overcrowded. In each painting there are hundreds or dozens of civil and military ministers. This is documented in the literature:
Pingzhou Hui and Pingxiao Jinchuan each earn 100;Ping Taiwan earns 20, and Confucianism earns 30;Pingolkha earns 30 ..."
During the Qianlong Dynasty alone, 280 ministers drew the Purple Pavilion map. Among them are the well-known Fu Heng, Zhao Hui, Bandi, A Gui, Hailancha and Fukangan.
However, some of the nobles in the Purple Light Pavilion were not only of low rank, but also of inconspicuous value. Almost half of them were first, second, and third class guards. If the Purple Light Pavilion can attract so many guards, then the so-called"Aristocrats"It will no longer be an aristocrat.
Emperor Qianlong avoided extravagant consumption, and everything he did had to conform to royal etiquette. Emperor Jiaqing was more conservative and did not spend extravagantly. After his accession to the throne, there were many wars, especially the suppression of the White Lotus uprising.
According to the Qianlong faction, there are hundreds of people who want to paint the Ziguang Pavilion this time, but according to Jiaqing, this war not only cost more than 200 million taels, but also ended the ** era of the Qing Dynasty. So his mind is still clear, and no aristocratic minister will paint the Purple Light Pavilion.
After Daoguang ascended the throne, Zhang Ge, a Hui in Xinjiang, rebelled, and Daoguang ordered Zhen 40 people to paint against Ziguang Pavilion for eight years.
During the years of Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu, the country was troubled internally and externally, and the rivers and mountains laid by the ancestors were constantly eroded, and it was difficult to protect itself
However, there are also examples of Tongzhi painting Ziguang Pavilion, such as the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi four years, Tongzhi martyrdom, the Qing court ordered him to enjoy the hall to make Ziguang Pavilion paintings.
In addition to the middle period of the Protectorate, which won awards for suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, he also attracted Zhongxing celebrities such as Ziguangge, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang, but this time it was on a larger scale, with about 100 finalists.
Regrettably, these precious ** portraits hanging in the Ziguang Pavilion were damaged like never before during the occupation of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and now there are very few left, according to incomplete statistics, there are no more than 20 in the world.
As for the number of Purple Light Pavilion heroes, the imperial history did not verify it in detail, but what can be confirmed is that their number is very large, roughly estimated at around 500.