Looking back at history, we can find that the time of the existence of a dynasty seems to be cyclical, and three hundred years is a hurdle. Take the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, which are closest to us, if you count from 1636 when the Emperor Taiji changed the name of the country to the Great Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty coexisted for 276 years, and it is interesting that the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty also existed for 276 years. The Sheng Tang Dynasty also existed only for 289 years, and the Song Dynasty existed for 319 years.
The longest-standing dynasty in Chinese history was the Zhou Dynasty, and with the subsequent period of existence and demise in name only 791 years, the situation is similar not only in China, but also in other countries. After all, in the evolution of history, it is inevitable that other powers will overwhelm the dynasty, which will lead to the destruction of the old dynasty and the birth of a new dynasty, just like the birth of people, old age, illness and death, which is an immutable theorem.
However, there is a dynasty that is an exception, this dynasty has not been overthrown since its birth in 660 BC, so the country has not changed dynasties, and the most "long-lived" dynasty in history must be known to many people, that is, japan's Chrysanthemum Dynasty.
According to the Nihon Shoki, the founder of the Chrysanthemum Dynasty was Emperor Shinmu, who founded the Chrysanthemum Dynasty in 660 BC. In Japan, Emperor Shenmu has some "mythological" colors, and the most core god in Japan is called the Sun Goddess, also known as the God of Amaterasu.
Amaterasu has always been revered as the ancestor of the Japanese Imperial Family, and the legend says that the first generation of "Emperor Shinmu" was a descendant of Amaterasu, which is why Japanese subjects believed in the emperor so much. Of course, there is some sense of mythological brainwashing. But I have to say that such an approach is really effective.
People's belief in religion lasted much longer than the belief in imperial power. In ancient Times, many European dynasties even succumbed to religion and theocracy, while in ancient China it was imperial power that took precedence over religion. However, the Chrysanthemum Dynasty of Japan completely unified imperial power and religion, which also made the power of the Japanese emperor more stable.
In ancient Japan, when the power of the Japanese emperor was vacated, in 1185, when the Kamakura shogunate was established, the Japanese emperor lost basic power, but the Kamakura shogunate never overthrew the Tenju Dynasty. Because of the Japanese people's faithful belief in the emperor, it was more conducive to the rule of the Kamakura shogunate.
The Kamakura shogunate thus treated the emperor as a puppet and held the emperor's power for 682 years, but no one dared to attempt to overthrow the Chrysanthemum Dynasty and the emperor system, and later entrusted the government to the Meiji Emperor in 1867. Japan then embarked on the path of militarism, which left the Chrysanthemum Dynasty and the Japanese Emperor facing an unprecedented crisis.
After Japan surrendered in World War II, it was occupied by the United States. Before Japan's surrender, there was a very important treaty, that is, to retain the emperor system, otherwise it would have to fight to the end. At that time, Japan did not have the strength to negotiate conditions, but the United States also agreed to this condition in order to make it easier to control Japan after the war.
At that time, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, the main war criminal of the Fascist Axis, was not tried. It was only on January 1, 1946, that Miami asked to issue the "Declaration on Earth" to all of Japan, and since then the emperor has not faded the aura of "god", but the Japanese people's belief in the emperor is still deeply rooted in the bones, and the emperor system has been preserved, and has been passed down for 126 generations so far.