In the era of the Qing Dynasty founded by the Manchus, the four characters "soldier, ding, pawn, and brave" on the soldiers' clothing represented completely different social status and destiny.
So, how does a small difference in just one word lead to a significant difference between identity and destiny?What are the changes in the image of the soldier in "Soldier Assault"?What kind of social hierarchy do these four types of soldiers symbolize?What role do they play in the state?What is the historical trajectory of their history?
During the Qing Dynasty, those soldiers who were respected as "the highest status" were almost all representatives of "soldiers". They are the loyal guards of the emperor and the royal family, and they are also the backbone and backbone of the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and they are the pillars and pillars of the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners - the carrier of the integration of the Manchu and Han Dynasties. This group of Manchu soldiers were mainly descendants of the Eight Banners, who were the top elite of the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1616, under the leadership of Nurhachi, the Eight Banners Army was formally established. It was an army with the Manchus as the majority and a mix of Han Chinese and other ethnic minority elements. Nurhachi selected a number of brave and warlike young men from among his close people and formed four "flags", which were named the four flags of yellow, red, white and blue. They come from different regions and nationalities. This is the initial form of the Eight Banners Army. By the post-Jin period, the Eight Banners Army had developed into a huge military organizational system. The Eight Banners Army was not only outstanding in combat, but more importantly, they were highly loyal to politics. The children of the Manchu nobles formed the idea of loyalty and patriotism in the long-term life and practice of conquest. They were determined to loyally support the imperial family and become a strong pillar of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1636, Huang Taiji was further subdivided into four flags, namely Hou Huang, Hou Hong, Hou Bai and Hou Lan, based on the original four-flag system. Among them, the back red is the positive yellow flag, the back white is the positive red flag, and the back blue is the secondary red flag. This constituted the overall framework of the Manchurian Eight Banners system. The Eight Banners system was an important policy of the Qing Dynasty to rule over the ethnic minorities in the north before entering the customs. The Eight Banners Army had risen to prominence as the most outstanding military force of the Qing Dynasty and excelled in many battles.
The Eight Banners Army is not only a military organization, but also represents a special social class. As the number of the Eight Banners increased, so did its status. When you join the banner, you will receive the title of Shadow and Lumi, which will allow you to live a more privileged life. Due to the many drawbacks of the Eight Banners system itself, coupled with the intensification of the Manchu and Han contradictions, the Qing Dynasty adopted a suppressive policy against the Eight Banners Army, which caused the Manchu rulers to learn from the Han people, so that the Qing Dynasty gradually embarked on the road of decline. During their war of expansion, they acquired numerous lands and relied on them to live a rich life. In the ruling structure of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the Eight Banners were regarded as the highest elite class.
During the Qing Dynasty, soldiers embroidered with the word "Bing" on their chests were outstanding members of the Eight Banners family. The Children of the Eight Banners is a large group of Eight Banners nobles. Not only do they live a worry-free life, but they also enjoy a high degree of social respect and political privilege. They were born in the noble family of the Eight Banners, but they enjoyed the same treatment as ordinary commoners. This causes them to become arrogant and arrogant, and their eyes are empty-eyed.
Liu Xuan was a young banner man from the army, he was always arrogant and arrogant, giving orders to other soldiers as if he were the real master of this barracks.
Liu Xuan smiled coldly, and then waved his hand to order his subordinates to take Yongding to the street and let everyone know. "Aren't you exonerating me?In Liu Xuan's eyes, this kind of violation of life is just a daily thing, because he knows that his military background will cover up all his crimes for him. His attitude towards these "soldiers" was also extremely cold. This is precisely the embodiment of the arrogance and prejudice of the "soldiers." There is a huge difference between the native soldiers and the mountain people. They treated the other soldiers as a helpless land, completely unsympathetic.
If "Bing" stands at the top of the pyramid of Qing Dynasty society, then "Yong" is at the bottom. In the military system of the Qing Dynasty, both "Yong" and "Guan" belonged to low-level officers, but there were differences between the two. The "Yong" are made up of ordinary people of the Han nationality, who are soldiers who have been temporarily conscripted in an emergency. "Yong" is a group of people with low status and status. They don't get the attention they deserve and live in quite difficult circumstances.
Wang Er was born into a farming family in Shandong Province and was a young man of Han nationality, who had the opportunity to live a quiet life of farming and studying. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, he saw that the Qing court was corrupt and degenerate, and the people were struggling to make a living. However, since the arrival of the Qing army, Wang Er's life trajectory has changed. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, in order to stabilize social order, the Qing Dynasty severely suppressed bandits in various places. The Qing army recruited strong men to join the army in various places, and Wang Er was forced to become a "brave" and eventually became cannon fodder.
Wang Er did not anticipate the living conditions after enlisting in the army, they lived in a simple barracks, and the quality of food was very poor. Once, when he went to visit his comrades in the army, he saw a soldier whose home was a bungalow made of bricks, covered with a thick layer of dust. The soldiers lived in houses made of brick and wood and enjoyed high-quality food. "Why are you soldiers so lazy?This made Wang Er feel extremely depressed and dissatisfied.
During an outdoor training activity, Wang Er accidentally broke a vase, and was severely beaten by the soldiers. Wang Er endured humiliation and heavy burdens in the army, and survived three difficult years. One day, he saw the scene of a fierce battle on the battlefield. When the war finally came to an end, Wang Er felt relieved and returned to his native farmland. He moved his family to live in the county seat, and worked with the villagers, working, and chatting, and lived a very happy life. Although everyday life is still poor, the real advantage is uninhibited.
What Wang Er will always remember is a bloody battle, the Qing army was surrounded by enemy troops, and the situation became very tense. At this time, there was a Han soldier charging ahead. At this critical moment, the soldiers quickly retreated, and Yong had to be pushed to the front line and become a victim. They fought hard under enemy fire and eventually won the victory. In the rain of bullets, Wang Er witnessed his Han companions fall to the ground one by one. There were corpses everywhere and rivers of blood. Together with his comrades, he exchanged his blood for the last victory. But at this moment, the enemy suddenly attacked, taking all the soldiers prisoner into their barracks. This shocking war brought deep scars to Wang Er's life. In this moment of crisis, he thought of his compatriots and his own compatriots. For countless sleepless nights, he would dream of the blood field, and the sorrowful cries of his comrades would constantly echo in his ears.
Yong Ding was the outcast of the lowest level of Qing society;They are a group that is bullied, tortured, and destroyed in the dark, and they are also brave warriors who fight and sacrifice bravely in the face of suffering. Their fate is no different from that of an insignificant mustard. They are the pride of our nation and the precious wealth of the country and the people!However, the land thrived because of their blood. We must not forget those heroes who have been unknown in the long course of history.
Compared to the tragic fate experienced by Yong, Ding's living conditions have improved significantly. In the war in the early Qing Dynasty, the logistics support of the Qing army was very important, which was not only manifested in the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness, but also reflected the importance that the Qing Dynasty attached to the development of local society. Ding's primary responsibility was to provide logistical support and assistance to the Qing army, and their core tasks included managing food and distributing information.
Zhang Dashun is a Han Dangding**, who is mainly responsible for the management of the barracks warehouse. One night, he found a large bag in the warehouse. "Although Ding's honor was not as good as that of a soldier, his life was also quite good. He said to himself, "I've had a good life in the past few years. Zhang Dashun said. His job was to take care of ordnance and distribute ammunition, ammunition, bullets, and other items. Zhang Dashun, a lazy man, quickly understood the true meaning of the job: the items in his hands could be exchanged for some funds, and he could easily pass the test with a little preparation during the inspection by his superiors.
At one point, Zhang Dashun quietly took a few bags of high-quality rice from the warehouse and sold them. When he learned about the situation in the warehouse, he told the warehouse director in charge of the warehouse about it. When the upper leadership came to conduct the inspection, he arranged for the staff of another warehouse in advance and then took the inspectors to that place. After inspection, it was found that there was no rice in the warehouse, so the staff of the warehouse came up again, saying that they had stolen the rice and would be punished. In the end, the matter was not resolved, because Zhang Dashun experienced too many twists and turns.
Zhang Dashun was not only responsible for the management of the goods, but also often delivered letters to the soldiers, who would also give tips to show their gratitude. This also became an additional benefit for him.
Zhang Dashun did not need to go to the battlefield, he enjoyed a privileged life and had the opportunity to earn extra income, and his living conditions were far beyond the imagination of ordinary people in the Qing Dynasty. He opened a small hotel in his hometown, and business has always been good. For him, Dangding was the last stage of his life to find the treasure.
At the bottom of the Qing Dynasty, there was a special group of people, including jailers and officials. These jailers have more peculiarities than jailers in general, the most important of which is that they all have a common identity - prisoners. Their main duty is to guard prisoners or perform various errand duties. They guard thousands of prisoners every day and send them to prison to serve their sentences. On the surface, this job seems easy, but in fact it is full of difficulties and challenges. If you ask a jailer, what do you like to do best?Ma Shun was already a prisoner in his fifties, and he spent more than a decade in prison. In prison, he has been doing an ordinary and mundane job, sending his fellow inmates to the cell every day and then sending them out. Initially, Ma Shun remained passionate about the position, hoping to improve the strict management of the prison and provide some human attention to the detainees.
However, the long interaction with the prisoners made Ma Shun gradually apathetic, and he gradually mastered an unwritten rule in prison: accepting bribes from the prisoner's family members can provide the prisoner with a better quality food and living environment. He also used some of the "special care" in prison for his own personal gain. Ma Shun's spouse is seriously ill and needs to pay for medical expenses. This prompted him to start actively banging bamboo poles on the families of prisoners.
Ma Shun felt a little uneasy when he saw the extra silver coins in his hand, but when he thought of his wife, he firmly accepted the bribe. His wife was killed while serving her sentence in prison, leaving behind a child. The love and justice in prison are gone, and Ma Shun has unfortunately become a part of this depraved system. After he was caught on the execution ground, he was imprisoned again. The situation experienced by the official Li Si is not optimistic. He was in prison doing paperwork, writing a lot of documents every day, and sometimes reviewing several official documents, which made him very tired and hard. He originally thought that it would be easy to be a simple errand boy, but he did not expect that a word in the official document was written incorrectly, and as a result, he was severely reprimanded by his superiors. He had no choice but to write his name on the paperwork. The task of handling paperwork keeps Li Si very busy, and he often needs to work overtime until late at night.
Li Si was often under tremendous pressure during his missions, and he was often sent to remote villages, where he slept rough and was treated badly by the villagers. In order to regain his dignity, he fought with them and even beat the people in the village to the point that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen. Once, Li Si was unfortunately beaten to death by an angry villager. The villagers thought it was his wife and beat her to death. Since then, the family left behind by Li Si's wife and her two children has begun a period of decadence.
While the soldier may seem light-hearted on the surface, there are actually huge difficulties and potential pitfalls hidden behind it. In the process of carrying out the mission, there is a risk that you may lose your life at any time, which also becomes a shadow in the depths of the pawn's heart.
The small difference in one word has created a huge gap between fates. During the Qing Dynasty, there were some soldiers who were soldiers, and there was no shortage of soldiers who were born in generals, but few people knew about the Eight Banners with soldiers as the main body. We observe that in the strict social hierarchy of the Qing Dynasty, soldiers and warriors had their own unique fates and different circumstances.
Among the children of the Eight Banners, the rank of soldiers is the highest, and their status is very high, but they are also extravagant and indulgent. Yong was an ordinary Han Chinese who was temporarily called into the army, and he suffered ruthless repression and great sacrifices. In this era of "soldiers and nobles", their lives are full of contradictions and pain. Ding lived a comfortable and well-off life, and his life was relaxed and elegant. His home was an ordinary peasant family. The duties of a pawn are not simple, and there are hidden dangers everywhere.
The fate they experienced revealed the strict hierarchy in Qing society. The Manchu aristocracy was a complex and large class of Banner and Han Chinese. The distinction between the Eight Banners and the Han Chinese, as well as between the scholars and the common people, is clearly demonstrated among the many soldiers.
As the course of history changed, the gradual decline of the descendants of the Eight Banners eventually led to the decline of the Qing army. When foreign enemies invaded, the once elite forces were unable to turn the tide. As a result, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court had to carry out large-scale disarmament of the army, and a large number of Qing troops withdrew from the stage of history. This situation was due to the unavoidable consequences of the absurdity and fame of the feudal rulers.
Unfortunately, those heroic Ding and pawns fell victim to this declining dynasty. Their deaths make us see the tragedy of that era. We must not forget the tragic fate of the Qing Dynasty's rank-and-file soldiers, who suffered many hardships they did not deserve. In them, you can see the helplessness and sorrow of the people of that era. This prompts us to re-examine what humanity really means and what is at the heart of the nation.
History of the Qing Dynasty