As we all know, in the ancient society of our country, the emperor was the most powerful person under the heavens. And at that time, in addition to heaven and earth, the emperor was the biggest. However, the emperor would not bow to anyone other than his father, mother, and the gods of the time. However, the Kangxi Emperor noted above in the history of the Qing Dynasty in China once knelt down to a person, and adopted the method of three kneeling and nine prostrations, kneeling five times, ah, also because of this move of the Kangxi Emperor, but also the Qing Dynasty more than two hundred years of the great jiangshan to kneel out, so to speak, at that time was also the most powerful kneeling in history. So who was this person whom Kangxi bowed down to?
The figure of the Kangxi Emperor's kneeling was no one else, he bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps the reader will say that these two emperors have been together for hundreds of years, how did they kneel, how did they perform rituals? In fact, the Kangxi Emperor worshipped the Ming Tombs. Why? As we all know, the Qing Dynasty was a dynasty founded by ethnic minorities. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, when there was social turmoil, and the northern minorities rode on horseback, all the way south, attacking the city strategically, the weak Southern Ming people were their opponents, so after a fierce battle, after a series of struggles, the Manchus from the north finally seized power and established the last feudal dynasty in China.
The Kangxi Emperor used the method of worshipping ming xiaoling to subdue the people. Because in the eyes of the people, worshipping the Ming Tomb is to remember and miss the previous dynasty. After the worship of the Ming Tomb during the Qing Dynasty, it became a means for the emperors of the dynasty and the rulers to buy people's hearts. After Li Bai's death and dorgon entered Beijing, he was allowed to worship ming xiaoling and the tombs of other Ming emperors. When the Kangxi Emperor first went to worship The Ming Tomb, all the people dismounted outside the door, and after getting off the horse, Kangxi began the great ceremony of three prayers and nine prostrations, like the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang kneeling.
The Kangxi Emperor's practice, which seemed to outsiders to be a grievance against himself, played an unexpected result, and without scrapping a single soldier and a horse, the Kangxi Emperor regained a lot of people's hearts, so that many people who had antipathy to the Qing Dynasty were attached to the Qing Dynasty. The Kangxi Emperor's kneeling can be said to be the most expensive kneeling in history, because this kneeling was exchanged for the 200 years of the Qing Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji. This led to the later Kangqian prosperous world. The Kangxi Emperor's six lower Jiangnan also had such a purpose, but in the Qianlong period, although it also imitated the Kangxi six lower Jiangnan, but in the end it was splurgeful, and the Qing Dynasty began to decline from prosperity to decline from this time. The two men's purposes were completely different.