Do you know how the Dragon Boat Festival came about?
When they see this question, it is estimated that the vast majority of people will scoff at it and feel that this question is very meaningless. Because Chinese know that the Dragon Boat Festival was set up to commemorate Qu Yuan during the Warring States period. Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River and died, and later generations carried out various commemorative activities on the day of Qu Yuan's death, and later formed the Dragon Boat Festival that we are familiar with.
This common sense is familiar even to children who have just entered elementary school.
But have you ever wondered why the Dragon Boat Festival is called the Dragon Boat Festival? Instead of calling it something else?
In fact, there is really a story about the origin of the name of the Dragon Boat Festival.
It is said that before the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival was not actually called the Dragon Boat Festival, but the 'Dragon Five Festival'. In ancient Chinese, the word duan has the same meaning as chu. Because Qu Yuan died on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, later generations called this festival 'the fifth festival of the first month', or the fifth festival of the end of the year.
But in the Tang Dynasty, with the accession of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji to the throne for a long time, a minister named Song Jing proposed to change the name of the Dragon Boat Festival. Because Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's birthday is the fifth day of the eighth month, Song Jing believes that it should be avoided, so he should change the name of 'Duanwujie'. Because according to the calculation of the sexagenary cycle, May is also called the 'noon moon'. So later, the Duanwu Festival was renamed the Dragon Boat Festival.
Because of the emperor's birthday, a national holiday will be renamed. It seems that this Song Jing should be a villain who tends to be inflammatory. But in fact, this person is not only not a villain, but one of the four famous ministers of the Tang Dynasty! and the famous Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Yao Chong and others, on a par. During the Tang Xuanzong era, it was he who succeeded Yao Chong as prime minister. The famous Kaiyuan era in history, to a certain extent, was created by Yao Chong and Song Jing.
What's even more interesting is that the famous 'Song Ci' in the film and television drama is his descendant.
What kind of person is this prime minister of the Tang Xuanzong era? What contribution does he have to be able to rank alongside Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others?
In fact, if we carefully review Song Jing's life, it is not difficult for us to find that the real Song Jing in history, his contribution to the Tang Dynasty is really huge! Song Jing is also fully worthy of the title of one of the four famous ministers.
Song Jing, whose name is Guangping, is a native of Xingtai, Henan. Song Jing was born in 663 AD, during the reign of Li Xian, Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, and with the improvement of the imperial examination system, many talented people were able to pass the imperial examination and become officials in the court. In 680 AD, Song Jing, who was only 17 years old, passed the imperial examination, entered the rank of scholar, and officially entered the official career and began his official career.
I have to say that Song Jing in his youth was really talented. At the age of seventeen, he was able to pass the Jinshi examination. This result is probably enough to make those who have taken the exam all their lives, but failed to pass the exam, go home in shame.
However, as Song Jing began to become an official, the Tang Dynasty began to gradually enter a special era. In 683 AD, two years after Song Jing entered the government, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi died. After Li Zhi's death, the Tang Dynasty fell into chaos that lasted for nearly 30 years.
In these thirty years, first of all, after the death of Li Zhi, the crown prince Li Xian successfully ascended the throne. However, less than two months after Li Xian ascended the throne, Wu Zetian, as the empress dowager, launched a coup d'état, deposed Li Xian, and renamed Li Dan as the puppet emperor. In the following years, Wu Zetian, as the queen mother, vigorously eliminated dissidents and seized power. Finally, six years later, she officially deposed Li Dan, ascended the throne herself, and became a generation of empresses.
After Wu Zetian ascended the throne, in order to stabilize his position, he began to appoint cool officials on a large scale, and set off a whistleblowing campaign across the country. Thus, the era of the infamous reign of cool officials in history began. The era of cool officials during the Wu Zetian period lasted for more than seven years. It wasn't until seven years later, as Wu Zetian completely secured the throne and no one opposed her, Wu Zetian executed Lai Junchen, the head of the cool officials, and completely ended this absurd era.
However, after this, Wu Zetian began to be greedy for pleasure again, and favored the male pet Zhang Changzong brothers. At the same time, Wu Zetian finally decided to depose Li Xian, the former emperor of Tang Zhongzong, as his heir, and re-establish him as the crown prince. Because of these complex reasons, in the next seven years, the Tang Dynasty began infighting again around the issue of Wu Zetian's heir.
It wasn't until seven years later, in 705 AD, that with Wu Zetian seriously ill, Prime Minister Zhang Khan Zhi staged a coup d'état, executed the Zhang brothers, and forced Wu Zetian to abdicate and return the government to Li Xian. Wu Zetian's era finally ended, and at the end of the same year, a generation of empress Wu Zetian died peacefully.
Although Wu Zetian died, the chaos at the top of the Tang Dynasty did not end there. After Li Xian ascended the throne, his queen Wei was equally ambitious, vainly trying to become the second Wu Zetian. Therefore, in the next five years, Wei began to purge dissidents as the queen again, and once again set off a bloody storm in the court.
It wasn't until five years later, in 710 AD, that Wei simply poisoned Li Xian, set up Li Xian's youngest son as a puppet emperor, and made himself the queen mother. However, not long after Wei took power, Li Dan's third son, Li Longji, united with his aunt Princess Taiping, staged another coup d'état, killed Wei, and once again supported Li Dan as emperor.
After Li Dan became the emperor, the infighting among the high-level leaders of the Tang Dynasty still did not stop. As the two heroes who supported Li Dan, Li Longji and Princess Taiping competed again. In the next two years, Li Longji and Princess Taiping launched a fierce fight. Two years later, Li Dan was worried that this conflict would be unavoidable, so he simply gave the throne directly to Li Longji and became the emperor himself. However, after Li Longji ascended the throne, Princess Taiping still refused to stop, and even plotted to launch a coup d'état to abolish Li Longji. Another year later, in 713 AD, just before Princess Taiping was about to launch a coup d'état, Li Longji took the lead and killed Princess Taiping and completely took sole power.
It was not until this time, with Li Longji taking sole power, that the political chaos at the top of the Tang Dynasty came to an end. The high-level political ecology has become stable again. But at this time, a full thirty years have passed since Li Zhi's death!
The young Song Jing, who had just entered the ranks and had not yet reached the age of twenty, encountered such an unlucky era. In such an era, the difficulty of being an official is naturally conceivable. If you are not careful, you will be ruined because of the wrong position. If you offend those cool officials, the end may be extremely miserable.
But what is interesting is that after Song Jing joined the office, he did not suffer any major setbacks in the entire Wu Zetian era. On the contrary, in the 20 years of Wu Zetian's rule, Song Jing has risen step by step, and his career has been extremely stable.
A big reason why this is the case is that Song Jing is really good at being an official! The 'will' here does not mean that you are familiar with the professional work that you should be responsible for, but that you are well versed in the way of being an official. Song Jing's family, since the Northern Wei Dynasty, has been an official for generations. Song Jing's eighth-generation ancestor once served as a secretary in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Later, although the Song family declined a little, Song Jing's father is still the ** at the level of the secretary general of the municipal party committee.
Therefore, the experience of being an official for generations has made the Song family's family very familiar with the way of being an official. Song Jing has been exposed to these since he was a child, and he naturally knows this when he grows up. Therefore, after Song Jing joined the office, he has been holding Zhou Zheng. Neither participate in the court to stand in line, do not form parties for personal gain, and do not go back to flattery those traitorous ministers. At the same time, Song Jing must not offend a certain **, let alone provoke those cool officials. At the same time, Song Jing is still working very hard in terms of work. Such a person will naturally have a very stable career.
In addition, when Wu Zetian was in power, although he vigorously eliminated dissidents, Wu Zetian did not forget to promote talents. For those who are from an average background, do not participate in party struggles in the court, do not oppose Wu Zetian, and have strong work ability, Wu Zetian is actually very willing to be promoted. It just so happens that Song Jing fully meets these conditions. Therefore, in the twenty years that Wu Zetian was in power, Song Jing rose from the director of a county public security bureau to the high position of Zhongcheng in the imperial history. It is equivalent to the procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate today.
However, with Song Jing in a high position, many high-level power struggles can no longer be avoided. Because Song Jing was upright and refused to flatter the powerful, it didn't take long for Song Jing to offend the Zhang brothers who were in power at that time because of some trivial matters. Fortunately, Song Jing has always been a straight person, even if the Zhang brothers want to pick bones in eggs, they can't find any big mistakes. Therefore, in the next few years, under the suppression of the Zhang brothers, Song Jing's career temporarily stopped, but he was not hurt too much.
After a few years, it was not easy to wait until Zhang Cambodia launched the Shenlong coup, the empress Wu Zetian abdicated, and Tang Zhongzong Li Xian ascended the throne for the second time, and the Tang Dynasty finally entered a new era. However, after the Li Xian era, Song Jing was still depressed. Because after the Li Xian era, Wei began to join forces with Wu Sansi, the ruler of the Wu family, to clean up dissidents and control the government together. And Wu Sansi is also not a good person, and the relationship between Song Jing and Wu Sansi is naturally not too good.
Therefore, after the Li Xian era, with Wu Sansi taking power, it didn't take long for Song Jing to be kicked out of the center and released as an official. In the years since, Song Jing has been serving in the local area. However, judging from the later historical development, it is a good thing that Song Jing was kicked out of the center this time. Because he was far away from the capital, he was able to avoid the court battles in the past few years. This can be regarded as a mistake, and it is a blessing in disguise.
After working in the local area for a few years, when Li Longji and Princess Taiping staged a coup d'état and supported Li Dan as the emperor, Song Jing's hard life finally came to an end. After Li Dan ascended the throne, it didn't take long for Song Jing to be transferred back to the capital, and then he was directly promoted to the secretary of the ministry, and he was fully responsible for the first assessment. At this time, the reason why Song Jing was so reused was that in addition to the fact that he himself was indeed talented, and Li Dan himself did have some insight into people, there was actually a more important reason.
Because in the turmoil of the previous thirty years, there were too many talented people who died because of the struggle in the court. For example, several heroes who launched the Shenlong coup d'état back then, without exception, all died tragically. Therefore, after Li Dan ascended the throne, there were actually only a handful of ** people like Song Jing who were very talented, not badly qualified, and still alive. Song Jing and the other fierce Yao Chong, can almost be said to be the only remaining two important ministers, so they will naturally be reused.
However, in the Li Dan era, the struggle in the court still did not stop. In the following years, there was a fierce battle between Princess Taiping and Li Longji. But this time, Song Jing never chose to stay out of the matter, but stood firmly behind Li Longji.
Because in Song Jing's view, the young Li Longji is the only one who has hope to completely end the chaos of the past decades.
In the past thirty years, although Song Jing rarely participated in the party struggle in the court, he tried to protect himself as much as possible. But this does not mean that Song Jing is a timid person who is greedy for life and afraid of death and will only protect himself. On the contrary, Song Jing has his own political ideals and his own revenge. It's just that in the previous thirty years, whether it was Li Xian or Li Dan, or Empress Wei and Wu Sansi and others, in Song Jing's view, they were not the real masters, and they were not enough to lead the Tang Dynasty to a better tomorrow.
But Li Longji is different.
The young Li Longji has determination and perseverance, and he is extremely talented and has a strong desire to build the country better, rather than simply for his own selfish desires. So, in the face of such Li Longji, Song Jing rarely violated his habits, took the initiative to stand by Li Longji's side, and became one of Li Longji's most powerful helpers.
But in this way, Princess Taiping's side will naturally hate Song Jing to the core.
Shortly thereafter, Princess Taiping secretly exerted her strength to kick Song Jing out of the center again, and once again released him to serve as the local assassin.
However, Song Jing was released this time, but he did not stay out for too long. Because only two years later, Li Longji staged another coup d'état, killed Princess Taiping, and completely took sole power. After Li Longji took power, he first firmly controlled the military power, and at the same time recalled the famous minister Yao Chong and reappointed him as the prime minister, with full responsibility for the central work. As for Song Jing, he was temporarily sent by Li Longji to Guangzhou to take charge of local stability.
It wasn't until four years later that as Yao Chong got older and worse, his health became worse and worse, and he urgently needed a fierce man to take over his class and continue his unfinished business. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji finally summoned Song Jing back, first promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department, and then waited until Yao Chong completely retired, Song Jing immediately replaced Yao Chong and became the next prime minister.
This year, Song Jing is 54 years old! After more than 30 years of ups and downs in the sea and countless cruel political struggles, Song Jing has understood the ultimate meaning of being a politician. From this time on, the era belonging to Song Jing finally began.
In the sixteen years since, Song Jing has been sitting in the center, assisting Li Longji, and creating the famous 'Kaiyuan Prosperous Era' in history. If Yao Chong is quite similar to Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui in the Tang Xuanzong era, then Song Jing is another Wei Zheng. During Song Jing's reign, he spoke out many times, was not afraid of the powerful, and did not show favoritism. It is precisely because of Song Jing's strictness that a series of policies formulated by Yao Chong in the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty were successfully implemented, and finally the so-called prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty was created.
In 732 AD, the twentieth year of the Tang Dynasty, Song Jing returned home. After returning home, Song Jing refused guests and never participated in the affairs of the court again. Five years later, Song Jing died at home at the age of 75. In addition, after Song Jing retired, Li Linfu, a generation of traitors, took over his position as prime minister. In the decades that followed, the prosperous Kaiyuan era created by Yao Chong and Song Jing was disintegrated little by little, and finally caused the Anshi Rebellion.
Later historians recognized that if Song Jing was replaced, it was not Li Linfu, but another relatively talented prime minister. In the era of the Tang Dynasty, maybe it could last for a few more decades.
Looking back on Song Jing's life, it is not difficult for us to find:Song Jing's life, most of the time, was actually depressed. Since he joined the government, although Song Jing's career has been very stable, the political chaos of the Tang Dynasty for 30 years still makes him live a very aggrieved life for most of his life. It wasn't until Li Longji took power that Song Jing ushered in the real spring of his life, and when he came to his own era, he established an immortal career.
Song Jing's story also tells us a truth:In fact, the life of most people cannot be really smooth sailing, and they will always encounter some failures or depressed periods. However, setbacks are sometimes not necessarily a bad thing, take Song Jing as an example, if there were no thirty years of polishing, Song Jing might not be able to grasp the essence of being an official and create his own era.
Therefore, even when the general environment is bad, we should not give up. The worse the environment, the more we should persevere. Winter doesn't last forever, spring always comes. Only in the cold winter can enough strength be stored to sprout in the spring and finally harvest in the autumn.
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