Western Jin Dynasty:
A dynasty with money is a grandfather, a dynasty eroded by extravagance.
The early period was similar to the Huanling period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the later period became the Jing Kang period of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The early Western Jin Dynasty was tossed by the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty.
Under the vigorous rule of Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, he adopted the strategy of recuperation and recuperation, and also saw the signs of prosperity of the "rule of Taikang".
It was only the dark night before the dawn of the golden age, and as a result, the Jin Dynasty immediately became overwhelmed and returned to the appearance of the Huan Emperor and the Ling Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the later period, the Western Jin Dynasty was tossed and turned by the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and was defeated in the battle with the Xiongnu.
In the end, Sima Rui and his family crossed the south of the river, which was strikingly similar to the Jianyan south crossing of the two Song Dynasties.
Standing on the axis of history, looking at the Western Jin Dynasty 1700 years ago.
Ji Kang Fuqin, Liu Ling was drunk, Ruan Zhi was rampant... I had to sigh at Wei Jinfeng's bones.
In that era of song and wine, it sounded so fascinating.
As everyone knows, the Western Jin Dynasty is a heavy history. The three kingdoms of the upper class and the northern and southern dynasties played more of an "excessive" role.
One hundred and fifty-five years after the founding of the country, in the Central Plains Dynasty established by the agricultural civilization, it was short-lived.
The reason for this is a shocking word - "luxury".
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Compare the rich and morbid vanity
The Western Jin Dynasty was the most serious dynasty in Chinese history.
From the perspective of the aristocratic class, the most famous figure is "Shi Chongwang Kai Doufu".
These two people, why are they also allowed?
Wang Kai was the uncle of the state, and Shi Chong was the richest man in the Western Jin Dynasty.
Both families are very rich, no one obeys anyone, and all day long they fight for "who is the richest man in the Western Jin Dynasty".
After Shi Chong moved to Luoyang, he heard that Wang Kai's family was very rich.
In order to suppress Wang Kai's arrogance, he directly took sugar water to brush the pot and wash the dishes, and used the candle as a firewood to cook water.
When the people of Luoyang City heard about this, they gave a thumbs up and praised the Shi Chongjia family for being really rich.
When word reached Wang Kai's ears, he immediately asked someone to fence the road forty miles beyond his house with silk.
Shi Chong, seeing that Wang Kai had surrounded the road with silk for forty miles, made a barrier of fifty miles with the more expensive Caijuan himself.
The two of you come and go, no one obeys anyone, and has long occupied the "hot search" of the Western Jin Dynasty's show off wealth.
Another scholar named He Zeng was not to be outdone. It is said that He zeng was troubled every day about what to eat. The history books record:
Eating ten thousand dollars on the day, it is like 'no place to go down'.
A meal costs "ten thousand dollars", which is equivalent to the living expenses of an ordinary family for a year.
Even so, he still felt "no place to go" (disliked the low grade of the meal, can not get off the chopsticks).
Continuing to take Shi Chong, in addition to fighting with Wang Kaifu, Shi Chong also has a move to destroy people's three views - "if you don't drink enough, you will kill beautiful people."
Shi Chong often entertained relatives and friends at home.
During the meal, he would make the beautiful woman toast, and the other party must drink it, if the other party did not drink it all.
Shi Chonghui felt that he was particularly faceless, and would complain that the beauty's appearance and temperament were not hot, and directly asked someone to pull the toasting beauty out and behead her.
In fact, this is the embodiment of Shi Chong's pathological vanity.
In today's society, there are some fields and some people, like the people in the Western Jin Dynasty who are competing for riches.
When getting married, the bride price should be compared. People have received eighty thousand, then my family must have 100,000, if there is less, it will feel faceless, and I can't look up in front of my relatives and friends.
There are many people who change the fa all day long to show off their wealth, buying leg of lamb and pig's trotters for their pets, cats and dogs.
To say that it is out of a kind heart that loves small animals is understandable.
But some people are absolutely impure in purpose, and they have to put the video live on the Internet.
The leg of lamb's trotters, which no one could afford to eat, were taken by them to feed the dogs.
To say that the money belongs to your family, you can spend it as much as you want, it seems to make sense.
Don't forget that the social atmosphere is everyone's, and you can't be corrupted as you want.
You privately feed the dog sea cucumber abalone and take the head horse to water the flowers, that is your family affair.
If you deliberately display it on the Internet, that is a matter of social morality.
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Bai Jin reached the top
In the Western Jin Dynasty, the Chinese nation's money worship reached its "full heyday".
"Money" is regarded by society as an all-powerful "god". What is lost is poor and weak, and what is gained is rich and strong.
Money has become a powerful lever to leverage society, and everyone is vying to talk about money.
Talk about money without shame, love money without shame, make money without morality, and rack your brains to spend money.
A scholar with conscience and foresight, named Lu Zhao.
He really couldn't read it anymore, and wrote a "Money Theory" to satirize the gold worship at that time.
Lu Zhen vividly personified "money", saying:
For the treasure of the gods. Relatives are like brothers, the word is Kong Fang. Relieve Yan Yi's face and open the mouth of difficult hair. Those who have more money are in front, and those who have less money are in the back. The former is the ruler, and in the latter is the servant.
At the same time, with the help of the fictitious characters Sikong Gongzi and Mr. Qimu, they expressed: As long as there is money, there will be no disadvantage, there will be wealth, and what books to read.
Because Lu Zhen lived in a gold-worshiping society like the Western Jin Dynasty, from the status quo of "everything is inferior, only the money is high", he saw the ubiquity of copper odor and the harm to the world, and then wrote "Money Theory".
"The Theory of Money God" still has an extremely important practical contrast significance in the present. In the eyes of some people, "more money and less money" has become the only criterion for measuring success.
Under the strong advocacy of money by some so-called "entrepreneurs" who are actually "capitalists", some people's values have become deformed.
Some people even think that as long as they have money, the meaning of studying is not great, saying that "college students work, junior high school students become bosses".
More girls said nakedly, "I'd rather sit in a BMW and cry than sit on a bicycle and laugh."
This scene is very similar to Lu Zhao's experience.
Money, of course, is a good thing, but its role is also enormous.
However, people's hearts are full of money, and they try to use money to "make ghosts" and make "money" the only goal to pursue in life.
Books were thrown away, benevolence and righteousness were lost, virtue was lost, love was abandoned, and family affection was abandoned, and the social atmosphere was thus corrupted.
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"Talk" and pleasure
Wei Jinfeng bone, just a cool look.
Thinking about it carefully, those so-called Wei and Jin celebrities really did not do something meaningful.
In today's parlance, it was an age of entertainment to the death.
Behind the entertainment to death, on the one hand, there is the resistance of the literati to Sima Shi, on the other hand, it is also influenced by extravagant hedonism.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, when productivity was relatively backward, those Wei and Jin celebrities did not do practical things all day.
Either meet in the bamboo forest to indulge in singing, or drink to escape reality.
For social wealth and public resources, it is not a waste.
Most of the content discussed by intellectuals is flashy and unrealistic, mostly "metaphysics", which seriously deviates from the reality of life.
Even if it was Wang Xizhi's family, the Langya Wang clan was known as the leader of the Wei and Jin "Xuantan".
When the family member Wang Yanguan went to Shangshuling, and even to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Wang clan was still extremely prominent.
In front of him is Wang Kai, who is fighting for wealth.
Later, there were Wang Yan and Wang Yan, and then Wang Dun, Wang Dao, Wang Xi, and Wang Kuang.
And Wang Xizhi, the son-in-law of the East Bed, are all from the Langya Wang family.
However, looking through the history books, the Wang clan, which has influenced history for hundreds of years, has been evaluated by people as saying that "the mouth does not care about the world, only ya Yong Xuan is vain."
After Fang Xuanling of the Tang Dynasty finished repairing the "History of Jin", he gave it to Emperor Taizong Li Shimin for approval, and when Li Shimin saw the "Benji of Emperor Wu of Jin", he once sighed
"If you don't know where you are broad and think narrowly, you can be broad and broad; if you live in the rule and forget the danger, you will rule the impermanence."
It can be said that it hits the nail on the head.
However, intellectuals should take this as a warning, do a solid job of scholarship, and do learning in a down-to-earth manner.
Instead of being opportunistic like a businessman, eager to cash out and happy to enjoy.
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Luxury is the "cancer cell" of society
Many people indulge in extravagant pleasures, enshrine "money" as a guideline, hold the mentality of dying after addiction, and turn a blind eye to their shameless copper stink behavior and listen to it.
Day after day, year after year, enjoying the low-level pleasures of luxury as much as possible.
In order to find a more "beautiful" and more pleasurable luxury life, it has become more intense.
Eventually, it is swallowed up by extravagant cancer cells.
"Look" a little, encourage each other, and forge ahead.