Today, on the way off work, I finally finished listening to "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".
I watched this series more than ten years ago, and the hot post in the Tianya community, and then I bought this series, and gave it to my younger brother after reading it.
At that time, it was purely regarded as **. It feels very interesting, and history can be written so wonderfully and easily understandable.
Now more than ten years have passed, and I listened to it again, and I ordered it to reread it in a certain east. The book is still the same set of books, but the perception is different.
It's hard to believe that this is a book written by Mingyue when she was 28 years old, and I can't believe that there are so many things about this book that have touched me.
I often come to my nerves on my way to and from work, and I burst into tears when I listen to it. I know, it's not a story, it's all history.
I once sighed at Yu Qian's incorruptibility and uprightness, and I was also amazed by Xia Yan's old ways, admired Xu Jie's forbearance for decades, and was also moved by Empress Qian's love for Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong, and the heroism of Lu Xiangsheng, a general in the late Ming Dynasty, who died generously knowing that he could not win the enemy.
Not to mention how many heroes and traitors and loyal ministers have appeared in this short 276-year history of the Ming Dynasty.
The biographies of the characters in the pile of old papers, a character may only have a few thin pages or even a few lines, but it is their life.
There are so many riches, drunken money, and deceit, all of which are just a pile of dung in the end. Nothing is your own, nothing.
I heard Chongzhen's suicide today, heard him cut off his daughter's arm, heard that he was busy with government affairs for seven or eight hours a day, which is equivalent to moving bricks for an hour a day, and his clothes were torn for the queen to mend and wear, and he walked very slowly, because walking fast would expose the patches inside him. He is very smart and diligent, but the fortunes of the country are coming to an end, and he has done his best as the emperor of the last shift.
Why commit suicide? Because he didn't want to be captured and humiliated. Why did you cut off your daughter's arm? Because I don't want my daughter to be ruined. Why do you walk so slowly? Because he still wants to be faced.
Reading between the lines, my previous impression of Chongzhen slowly changed from a faint monarch to a specific flesh-and-blood person. An emperor who loves the country and his family, a man who has responsibility and integrity, a father who loves his daughter like his life, and a child of the Zhu family who knows that he has exhausted his strength and tries to stand on the last shift.
Finally, at the end, Mingyue told the story of Xu Xiake as the end. To describe Xu Xiake in one sentence is the central idea that the author wants to express: the meaning of life is to spend his life in the way he likes.
I think so. 