Why did the ancestors of the Han people change?Mother
Among the many events in the history of the Han Dynasty, the most frequently mentioned is the heroic resistance to the Xiongnu. During the Han Dynasty, there were constant contradictions and disputes between the imperial court and the Xiongnu, and the war lasted for a long time.
Although the strength of the Han Dynasty was sometimes inferior to that of the Xiongnu, it never had the idea of giving in and admitting defeat, and resolutely did not bow down even if it was in a desperate situation.
More than 2,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Han people fought against foreign forces with courage and fierce character, which made the Han nation successful again and again. However, with the development of successive dynasties, the Han nation in the later period seems to have lost the courage and tenacity of the past, and the strong and brave are no longer used to describe it, and the aesthetic tendency of later generations has become more and more feminine.
So what made the fierceness in the bones of the Han nation almost disappear? What happened in the dynasties since the Han Dynasty that made the former fierce strength vulnerable?
The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was indeed a dynasty of constant wars, which made the Han nation fall into deep internal friction, and its strength was greatly weakened, and the former fierceness was no longer there.
It's a long one"Internal friction"It was temporarily subsided in the civil war of the Western Jin Dynasty, but the end of this civil war was inseparable from an important family, the Sima family. Since Sima Yan established the Western Jin Dynasty, the chaotic situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty has improved.
However, this did not make the strength of the Han nation stronger, but because of the mistakes of the Sima family, foreign forces invaded the Han nation, although the internal friction stopped, but the invasion of foreign forces for the Han nation, is undoubtedly a huge challenge.
In the past, our ancestors were brave in their bones, fearless in the face of foreign Xiongnu forces, and even beat them to the ground. However, why did this foreign invasion have such an impact on our strength?
This may be attributed to the mistakes of the Sima family. Although Sima Yan established the Western Jin Dynasty, this does not mean that the people of the entire Sima family have a high level of strength and level, they lack a global vision, and they are not a theoretically outstanding ruling family.
The members of the Sima family generally performed well in the power struggle, and the position of the imperial court was solid. However, there is a lack of sufficient understanding in terms of military and personnel. They don't seem to be aware of their shortcomings in these areas.
What's more, their thinking is focused only on personal interests, regardless of the overall situation. For the common people, this selfish behavior is undoubtedly a disaster.
Taking Sima Yi's battle against Liaodong as an example, once upon a time, the Liaodong region was fully ruled by the Han nation, and the Gongsun family was powerful, and other ethnic groups revered it like a god.
However, after Gongsun Yuan succeeded to the throne, due to his lack of personal ability and greed, he frequently compromised with the outside world for personal gain, and turned a deaf ear to the life and death of the people. As a result, the Liaodong region gradually became a place where separatist forces were entrenched.
After learning of the plight of the Liaodong region, the emperor sent Sima Yi to investigate the situation. After Sima Yi was ordered, he successfully recovered Liaodong, but his actions were unexpected.
Although he defeated the separatist forces, he did not consider the people of Liaodong to be part of the Han nation. Instead, he unfolded ** and revenge, treating the people there as aliens.
After the mass killing, he even forcibly relocated the remaining Han people of Liaodong to the Central Plains. This kind of behavior will undoubtedly magnify the suffering of the Han nation again.
The "fat" of the people's hearts in eastern Liaoning has long attracted the attention of foreigners. It's just that the strength of the Gongsun family was too strong before, and their fierce personality was difficult to defeat, so they have been forbearant and have not shown it.
However, now the adult males and combat-capable people in the Liaodong region have basically been killed by Sima Yi's army, and Liaodong has almost become an empty shell. Sima Yi also moved the remaining Han people to the Central Plains, and when those foreign forces saw this, they naturally robbed one after another, and it didn't take long for Liaodong to become the territory of foreigners, and there, the Han people became a "minority".
Due to Sima Yi's erroneous decision-making and arbitrariness, the strength of the Han nation was seriously damaged, and the eastern Liaodong region was only a few signs of separation, but now it is occupied by foreigners, and it has lost a place with an extremely advantageous geographical location.
And the tenacity of the ancestors of the Han people more than 2,000 years ago has gradually been worn away from the "edges and corners". The drastic changes in the cultural style of the Wei and Jin dynasties and the weakening of military strength were not the main reasons for the later people's character to become more and more "Niang", in fact, the huge difference in cultural aesthetics was also an important reason for the occurrence of this phenomenon.
From China to the Qin and Han dynasties, the aesthetic concept of the Chinese nation has always been inclined to advocate bravery, appreciate bravery and strength, so in those periods, people's characters mostly showed the characteristics of bravery and fierceness.
They also prefer people who are full of courage and fearlessness in their bones. However, if you talk about the culture of the Wei and Jin dynasties, you may have heard of a term called "Wei and Jin Romance".
This word just reveals the great shift in aesthetic concepts during the Wei and Jin dynasties.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the social atmosphere underwent great changes, and people shifted from advocating masculinity to advocating the aesthetics of feminine beauty, and at the same time, more and more people indulged in pleasure and paid less attention to social development.
According to the record of "Shishuo Xinyu", Wei Jue, a famous beautiful man in this period, although he was a man, was praised for his otherworldly beauty.
Wei Jue's beauty attracted many onlookers, however, unexpectedly, the excessive praise led to his early death, indicating that the aesthetic concepts and ideas of the Wei and Jin dynasties were very different from those of the previous ones.
Nowadays, when we describe a man as handsome, we often use the phrase "looks like Pan An", who was also a figure in the Wei and Jin dynasties and was known for his outstanding looks.
This term originated in the Wei and Jin dynasties and has been passed down to this day.
The cultural direction of the Wei and Jin dynasties only shifted from rough and fierce to feminine at first, but became more and more extreme and unusual in the later period. According to the record of "Wei Luo", Cao Zhi would apply incense powder on his face every time he washed and changed clothes, and he would also rub incense powder on his body.
Even once when riding a horse, because the smell of fragrant powder on Cao Zhi's body was too strong, his horse couldn't help but bite his knee.
In the Wei and Jin dynasties, changes in aesthetic concepts were commonplace, affecting not only ordinary people, but also big people with heads and faces. During this period, people's aesthetics underwent earth-shaking changes, and even affected the spiritual outlook of the entire society.
In that era, people were overly indulged in pleasures, their mental state was sluggish, and their aesthetics were becoming more and more feminine, contrary to the vigorous wind of the past, which made the spirit of the Wei and Jin dynasties more scattered, unable to form a strong cohesion, and thus unable to resist foreign incursions.
Therefore, later generations often use the word "Niang" when evaluating the cultural style of the Wei and Jin dynasties, although this word has a certain derogatory connotation, it very vividly depicts the impact and impact of the great changes in people's aesthetic concepts during the Wei and Jin dynasties.
It seems that two thousand years ago, the fierce performance of our Han ancestors in character gradually changed to introverted in the later period, and the reason is not single, but the result of a combination of factors.
First of all, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were frequent wars and serious internal attrition, which damaged combat effectiveness and weakened the armed forces. In addition, the loss of the superior geographical location of the Liaodong region at that time, the interference and threat of foreign forces, dealt a heavy blow to the Han people.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Han nation underwent a great aesthetic change, and the admiration of bravery and courage gradually changed to the pursuit of feminine beauty. This series of changes triggered a significant decline in the strength and spiritual cohesion of the Han nation, making it change from a dominant position to a role that was vulnerable to foreign oppression in the later period.
In the face of this complex world, we must not only be vigilant about the thinking of the Wei and Jin dynasties, but also think deeply and have our own opinions and understandings at the moment of aesthetic and cultural development and change, and not be swayed by the negative aesthetic and cultural atmosphere.