Everyone will encounter difficulties and failures on the road to growth, this is a small episode in life, those negative emotions may make us feel hopeless, but in fact, there are many ordinary meanings in life, it is worth our hope for life.
Encountering difficulties in life can change the status quo with efforts, but what if it is "despair" in history?
In the long years of China's five thousand years, there have been highs and lows, there are glory and despair, and there are four famous moments of despair in history, all of which have a common feature, which is worthy of deep consideration by future generations.
01
Yongjia Rebellion
The general trend of the world, in the process of division and unification, is divided and merged, and the population is the foundation of a dynasty, and there is no people and no country.
In China's magnificent history of 5,000 years, it is usually accompanied by population migration, which is nothing more than war, economic and political reasons, and during the Yongjia period, with the end of a dynasty, it ushered in a famous population migration in China.
Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and in the early days of his reign, he innovated politics, revitalized the economy, strictly practiced economy, promoted the legal system, and promoted population growth, so that the society presented a prosperous scene, known in history as the "rule of Taikang".
However, in his later period, he was extravagant and lascivious, slackened government affairs, divided the kings, laid hidden dangers for the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", and later passed the position to an idiot emperor Sima Zheng, which was also a major mistake of his.
Sima Zheng and Empress Jia Nanfeng directly caused the later "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", when politics was in decline, the economy was broken, social contradictions were sharp, and foreign wars were constant.
After the Western Jin Dynasty was seriously injured, the Northern Hu people took the opportunity to go south, establish a political power, and massacre the Han people, for the "Five Hu Chaohua", the Western Jin Dynasty and the scholars moved south to the Yangtze River Valley, known in history as "Yongjia Nandu", which was the first large-scale southward migration of Chinese civilization.
But this time the southern crossing was "crowned south crossing", and in ancient times, only "soldiers" and above wore crowns, that is to say, at that time, only nobles fled for their lives, and ordinary people became desperate outcasts.
The brutal rule of the Hu people in the north has sharply reduced the population of the north, which is the first great catastrophe in the history of Chinese civilization, and after yongjia's southern crossing, it officially entered the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, opening up nearly three hundred years of separatism and turmoil.
02
Anshi Rebellion
The large-scale migration of the population represents the incompetence of the emperors of the dynasty, and this kind of population migration did not occur only once, but also occurred in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
After Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian deposed her son to become empress, and after she abdicated, she returned the throne to the Li family, and the imperial struggle between the Li and Tang royal families began, after several twists and turns, and finally Li Longji ascended the throne for Tang Xuanzong.
The reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was a period of great prosperity, known in history as the "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era". However, everything in history cannot avoid a "prosperous pole must decline", and the prosperous Tang Dynasty has gradually collapsed.
The difference between Li Longji's rule can be distinguished by "Kaiyuan" and "Tianbao", and Li Longji during the Kaiyuan period worked hard to govern the Tang Dynasty to the fullest prosperity, but Li Longji in the Tianbao period favored Yang Yuhuan and enjoyed extravagant pleasures, so that the prosperous Tang Dynasty has since gone downhill.
Another thing that had a very great impact on the Tang Dynasty was the "Anshi Rebellion", which was a war launched by An Lushan and Shi Siming to betray the Tang Dynasty, which was also an important turning point in the transformation of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline.
This civil war caused the Tang Dynasty to lose a large number of national strength, a large number of people lost, and later the Tang army had the ability to counterattack, and finally quelled the war, which had a great impact on the people at that time, and despair can be imagined.
03
Battle of Cliff Hill
The Battle of Yashan was a battle for the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, which later unified China during the Yuan Dynasty. In this battle, the Song Dynasty army and the Mongol army launched a large-scale naval battle at Yashan Mountain, which was a rare sea battle in ancient times.
This battle was related to the survival of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was a decisive battle between the Song and Yuan, but in the end, the Yuan army won more with less, Lu Xiufu committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea with the young emperor Zhao Fu on his back, many loyal subjects followed him, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea to martyr the country, since then the Zhao and Song dynasties have fallen and the Yuan Dynasty has been established.
The change of dynasties is a historical necessity, but this has become the nightmare of the people of the Song Dynasty, during the Yuan Dynasty, China's feudal civilization turned from prosperity to decline, the Southern Song Dynasty Han people were reduced to the lowest fourth class, and despair enveloped the entire land of China.
04
A lament at the end of the Ming Dynasty
"The Son of Heaven guards the gate of the country, the king dies and the society is ji", the Ming Dynasty monarchs are considered to have integrity, Zhu Yuanzhang is a famous grassroots emperor in history, and he attaches great importance to character.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, a number of exile regimes were established in the south, known in history as the Southern Ming, and many people did not recognize the Southern Ming as the Ming Dynasty.
After the establishment of the Southern Ming Dynasty, it has been in exile, and eventually the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing army. In order to make the Han people submit, the Qing army forced the Han people to shave their hair, and carried out a series of slaughters.
It is said that tens of millions of people died in the massacre of the Qing army at the end, and the desperate struggle for fate is probably the most intense.
It is not difficult to find that the people's despair was accompanied by the faint and incompetent monarchs at that time, which is a common feature of the "four desperate moments". But the suffering of history has finally created the indomitable sons and daughters of China and created a happy life.
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