History books can also be rhetorical and sometimes make people question life
People today still talk about the Tao, but that's actually how the ancients behaved. Even historically accurate history books are exaggerated.
Bai Juyi has a poem "Building a Monument", which has such verses:"The inscriptions are all about glory, and the virtues are all about Zhongni"。Bai Juyi said that some of the inscriptions are indeed exaggerated, and he is on a par with Jiang Ziya in terms of virtue, but he does not dare to compare with Confucius. Bai Juyi also said"Not only were the saints ridiculed, but later generations also hesitated"。What you do will not only arouse the ridicule of today's saints and pass it on to future generations, but also arouse the suspicion of future generations.
So, today let's see how the indigenous people recorded in ancient books talk about it.
The first thing to talk about is the ** of Zhang Xianzhong, a Shu person.
According to the historical records of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong was cunning and murderous by nature, and if he didn't kill a person that day, he felt uncomfortable. So he sent four generals to different provincial capitals to kill people, and in the end he killed about 60 million people, and 60 million people is 600 million people. The main purpose of the History of the Ming Dynasty may be to account the tragedy of Zhang Xianzhong's killing, but it should not be 600 million in any case, because the population of the Ming Dynasty was not 600 million!
Kill 980,000 soldiers of the whole health army. He also sent four generals to kill the counties and counties, and the name was to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. He will honor the officials in ambush, summon the mastiffs of the ten halls, hear the sound of the mastiff, behead them, and kill them on the day. There is also a cruel method of skinning, and the skin is not eliminated, and the one who dies first will die for sin. The soldiers they killed were ranked differently from the number of soldiers they deserved, and a total of 60 million insignificant men and women were killed**. History of the Ming Dynasty - Legend 197 - Bewitched Thief.
Mao Qiling's essay has a more detailed description of Zhang Xianzhong's Shu State **. Zhang Xianzhong sent four generals to the provincial capitals to kill, and there were a certain number of killings on each route, but the clear figure given by Mao Qiling was close to 7 million, so such an accusation was even more unreliable.
59.88 million men and 95 million women were killed in Pingdong, 95.88 million men and more than 88 million women were killed in Phongnam, more than 99 million men and more than 88 million women were killed in Anxi, and more than 76 million men and more than 9.4 million women were killed in Dingbei.
It is precisely because of the sloppiness and exaggeration of these historical books that the details of Zhang Xianzhong's assassination in Sichuan are still very controversial to this day.
In ancient depictions of emperors and generals, there are many exaggerations to show that these great men are different and will fulfill the destiny of heaven. For example, none of the three emperors and five emperors are different from ordinary people.
Take Fuxi, for example, he is a dragon with a bull's head. The rest of his body is very different from humans.
Fuxi: Fuxi dragon body ox head, canal shoulder well, mountain quasi-sun angle, eyeball Hengling, length of nine feet one inch, broad vision, special appearance. Spring and Autumn Latitude-Hecheng Diagram.
Later emperors also concocted many false stories to prove that they were chosen by heaven, such as Emperor Wen of Sui, who was born with two horns on his head and his whole body covered with scales. When his mother saw this, she threw him to the ground in fright.
My mother was about to hug Gao Zu, when she suddenly saw horns growing on Gao Zu's head and covered with scales. Mother was so frightened that she threw Gaozu to the ground. Book of Sui, Volume 1, "Emperor Ji I-Gaozu.
According to historical records, Emperor Wen of Sui played cool as the protagonist of the popular TV series "Little Dragon Man" many years ago.
Some other records about Liu Bei's physical characteristics may also be problematic, eg"Put your ears over your shoulders and put your hands on your knees"records. The pair of ears is reminiscent of Mo Ye's hat in "Dragon Babu", and if he holds his hands on his knees, only a gorilla can do it. To sum up, Liu Bei's image is likely to be a hat Mo Ye plus a pair of gorilla's arms, you can judge for yourself.
There is another form of self-aggrandizement.
For example, in the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi issued an edict that the ancient Ming Dynasty was very extravagant, and the expenditure of the Ming Dynasty in one day was equivalent to the expenditure of our country in a year, and the rouge gouache money in the palace of the Ming Dynasty amounted to more than 400,000 taels. The Ming Dynasty had more than 9,000 concubines and 100,000 eunuchs.
We've all been to the Forbidden City, and the maximum number of visitors to the Forbidden City is 80,000 a day, so there are too many tourists. According to the Kangxi Dictionary, there were nearly 110,000 concubines and eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, which is definitely not true. According to other historical records, the number of eunuchs during the Wanli period was about 14 000. In order to discredit the Ming Dynasty, Kangxi first opened his orthodoxy and horizons.
In demonstrating his skills, Kang said he captured 135 tigers, 12 bears, 25 leopards, 20 lynxes, 14 deer, 96 wolves, 133 wild boars, hundreds of deer, and too many other animals to remember.
Jiang Xi also boasted that he could shoot 318 rabbits a day, which is something that ordinary people can't achieve in a lifetime.
If you really need to shoot 318 rabbits in one day, there's only one option, and that's the one below**.
Growing up, I fought one hundred and thirty-five tigers, twelve bears, twenty-five leopards, twenty lynxes, fourteen deer, ninety-six wolves, one hundred and thirty-three wild boars, and hundreds of moose, and the rest were all accidentally hit by my headshot, and I can't remember the rest. I hit three hundred and eighteen rabbits a day, and if he wasn't an ordinary person, he could hit that number in a day.
Ruan Ji was a famous scholar in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and was respected by many people, so much so that the description of him in the history books is exaggerated. Nguyen is said to be a good son. One day, he was playing chess with someone when someone came to him in a hurry to tell him that his mother had died. The man who played chess with him hurriedly said that he had to take care of his mother, and the game ended there. Ruan Ji did not listen to him and strongly urged him to continue playing chess with him. Nguyen Ji drank a lot of wine when he played chess, and drank two barrels.
At this time, Ruan Ji suddenly screamed and spat out several liters of blood.
On the day Ruan Ji buried his mother, Ruan Ji ate a large pot full of chicken gizzards, drank two buckets of wine, and vomited a few liters of blood.
Although the book is not bound by etiquette, the language is deep and broad, and the mouth is not undeniable. When his mother died, he was playing chess with someone, and the couple told him to stop, but the book was left to bet with someone. Drank two buckets of wine,"Wow"spat out several liters of blood. and burial, must eat steamed throat, must drink two buckets of wine, and then die, clearly said that it is poor, Yang's precedent, because of the complex ** several liters, destroy its bones, almost naturally destroyed. Jin Shu.
Chen Deng, who was the Taishou of Guangling at the time of the Three Kingdoms, was sick, his chest was swollen and his face was red, and he couldn't eat, Hua Tuo looked at him and said:"You have a few liters of worms in your stomach, and if you eat too many big fish and meat, you will have a mass of poison in your stomach. Hua Tuo prescribed him a decoction, and Chen Deng drank the decoction and vomited three liters of worms.
Guangling Taishou Chen Deng fell ill, chest tightness and shortness of breath, red face, and did not think about eating. After checking the pulse, he said:"Fu Jun has several liters of worms in his abdomen, and he wants to have internal gangrene, let him eat fish. "He boiled two liters of soup and drank one first. He ate for a while, spit out three liters of worms, his red head moved, and half of his body was raw, and the pain was cured at once. He said:"This disease will have three stages, and good doctors can save it. "If he is not there, his death is as he says.