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In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people. This poem is enough to see the prosperity of the gate valve in the old days.
In the Tang Dynasty and before the Tang Dynasty, the power held by the family of gate lords in the entire society was still very large, and it could even be on par with or even above the imperial power.
But in the late Tang Dynasty, that is, after 880, the gate valve that had flourished for thousands of years seemed to suddenly disappear in historical occasions, what is going on? In fact, the clues can be seen from the epitaph......
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Dynasties and families
"A century-old dynasty, a thousand-year-old family"! We may hear this phrase a lot, but we don't have a specific idea of how true it is.
However, we can get a glimpse of the time of dynastic rule, the longest dynasty in Chinese history is the Zhou Dynasty, which lasted for 790 years, and the second is the Shang Dynasty, which is about 550 years.
In the Han Dynasty, the power of the Han Dynasty was also very strong, and people at that time would also say: "The sun and the moon shine, and the rivers go, are all Han land." "That's it.
However, even if it is as strong as the Han Dynasty, the reign time is only 407 years, and the dynasty is replaced, but the family has been inherited for thousands of years.
For example, when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, there was a person named Yang Xi, who was the Marquis of Chiquan, so the Huayin Yang clan was also passed down in this way.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, this family had been inherited for thousands of years, and of course, it could be called a family, and this family naturally had a lot of power.
For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, there were Sun Yang Ci, Yang Bing and others as captains, and Yang Zhen's fourteenth grandson was even more amazing, his fourteenth grandson was Yang Jian, and Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty.
In the Tang Dynasty, "Li Wuwei Yang" was the four great families at that time, which is enough to see how powerful the Yang family is.
However, in history, the so-called family is not only such a family, but also some families, which have been passed down for a very long time.
For example, the Pei family in Hedong, the probability of this family becoming a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty is very large, and there is a sentence that describes it very well, "no Pei will not become Tang".
The means of holding power
Although there was a imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was difficult for ordinary people to turn over through this road, and even if there were, it was rare.
This is mainly because many resources at that time were in the hands of those big families, so those big families would definitely spend a lot of resources and time to cultivate the people in their own families.
In such a situation, ordinary people do not have the opportunity to get in touch with those advanced things, and in the absence of opportunities, how can they talk about competing with those people?
When the people of the family enter the court, they must give priority to helping the people in their own family, which also forms a vicious circle, and the power in the hands of the family is getting bigger and bigger.
However, a gate valve, or a family, has always had a limited ability to resist risks, so they also need more forces to stabilize their rights.
So they also have their own unique ways to maintain their families, for example, they will achieve this goal through marriage.
In this way, they will become people in the same boat, but there are a lot of things that people think about, in order to be able to pass on their family, the gate valve family will never press all their net worth into one place.
They will press the treasure in many ways, no matter which side wins, they can get the greatest benefits, and some of those in power are not stupid, and those in power naturally want to concentrate power in their own hands.
Those in power will try their best to make the power in their hands stronger, but how can those gate valve families agree, because of the power of those gate valve families, the imperial power has to bow its head.
Of course, there are also some unexpected situations, such as in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although there were more wars during that time, but this also broke the monopoly of the gate valve family to a certain extent.
However, after the Qin Dynasty unified the whole country, the family of gate valves began to reappear, and many of the historical figures we know are also from the family of door valves.
Sometimes, the power of the gate valve family is even stronger than the king, such as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there are some remote places, they may not know which emperor the emperor is, but they must know which family.
The emperor has always wanted to rectify such a phenomenon, and the reason for the fall of the Sui Dynasty is also inseparable from its creation of the imperial examination system.
How could the gate valve family be willing, so there are many people in power who choose to win over the door valve family, in this case, the probability of their success is also very large.
However, after 880, the number of gate valve families began to decline off a cliff, even if there were some families with great power, but no matter how big it was, it was not as great as the imperial power.
"Anshi Rebellion" and "Huangchao Uprising"
In 880, when it was still the late Tang Dynasty, in our impression, the Anshi Rebellion in 755 opened the prelude to the decline of the Tang Dynasty.
However, the truth of the matter is that the Anshi Rebellion did not have a very serious impact on those gate valve families, because An Lushan did not want to have a stalemate with those gate valve families, he wanted to use the power of those gate valve families.
So at that time, after the Anshi Rebellion, those gate valve families ran to a relatively safe place, and when everything subsided, those gate valve families quickly stabilized again.
However, the Huangchao uprising is different, this is the fundamental reason for shaking the gate valve family, Huang Chao was born in a salt merchant family, with a lot of talent, but because of the monopoly of the gate valve family, he did not enter the center of power.
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So Huang Chao decided to lift the table, and after Huang Chao entered Luoyang and Chang'an, he began to clean those gate valve families.
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Some people may be curious, there are so many people in the gate valve family, how did Huang Chao accurately find those people and start killing, which has to mention the household registration system at that time.
Under the accurate household registration system, many people from the gate valve family were killed, and under such a massacre, the inheritance of those gate valve families was also broken.
This can also be seen from the excavated tombs, before 880, after the death of those people from the gate valve family, the tombs were quite good, and the epitaph above can also show the events of the tomb owner's life.
Through those information, it can be traced back to the fact that they are more or less related to those gate valve families.
However, after 880, such a situation did not exist, which means that there was a huge change at that time, and they did not have time to collect the corpses of their own people.
And the period from 878 to 884 was the time of the Huangchao Uprising, and it was precisely because of the massacre of the Huangchao that most of the gate valve families did not continue. #长文创作激励计划#
Resources:
[1] Baidu Encyclopedia - "Yellow Nest".
[2] CNKI - "Rethinking the "Huangchao Uprising"" Historical Style.