Author: Qingdeng
Wu Zetian ascended the throne as an emperor as a woman. In many historical annals, and even in circulated records, few people slander her. The main reason is because Wu Zetian won over poor students all over the world. .
(1) Seven sects and five surnames: I would rather marry a girl with five surnames than join the emperor's family
In the Tang Dynasty , the factions of officials and the connections between the aristocratic families were all based on the clans.
These clans not only have a lofty status in society, but also have the prestige that can be echoed by everyone. These clans are intertwined and monopolize the hopes of poor students.
Thousands of years of heritage have created a wealthy family. Longxi Li family, Zhaojun Li family , Boling Cui family, Qinghe Cui family, Fanyang Lu family, Xingyang Zheng family, Taiyuan Wang family . These seven families were known as the Seven Sects and Five Surnames in history.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Li family in Longxi served as prime ministers for ten consecutive times.
In order to better control the seven sects and five surnames, Tang Gaozong prohibited marriage on his own. I thought I could break up the family through in-laws. But it had little effect.
In the Sui and Tang Dynasties , all the monarchs were committed to destroying the clans, because the reputation of these clans among the people far exceeded the imperial power. These wealthy families who have been in the Central Plains for hundreds of years are very superior in terms of personal connections and economics. The most important thing for the change of dynasties is to make achievements.
is a clan that does not belong to the imperial power and can only be weakened and excluded by the imperial power.
In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, what was important at that time was not talent but family background.
After that, in order to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, many imperial powers chose to reach strategies with the clans, attaching great importance to the clans and giving them supreme rights.
This arrogance continued until the Tang Dynasty. During the
period, in order to ensure that the noble bloodline was maintained, internal intermarriage was always carried out. This better ensures unity. The seven sects and five surnames were in-laws to each other and controlled all the rights in the Central Plains.
There are also women from the seven sects and five surnames who marry outside the family. As long as someone asks for marriage, the betrothal gift will be overwhelming.
What's more, it is a blessing to be able to marry a daughter of seven sects and five surnames.
There was a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty Xue Yuanchao . The most regretful thing in his life was that he could not marry a girl with the fifth surname.
The emergence of girls with the fifth surname has greatly weakened the status of the princess. The position of consort is almost aspirational for young talents, but if they have to choose between a princess and a girl with a fifth surname, they will choose a girl with the fifth surname, because this behavior directly enhances their status among literati.
At that time, men would rather marry a girl with the fifth surname than join the emperor's family.
(2) Aristocrats, literati and literature
The spread of the seven sects and five surnames is the result of hundreds of years of vicissitudes and the wisdom of wars. Their rise actually represents the rise of literature.
Although it has blocked the advancement of poor students, without the status of the seven sects and five surnames in the chaos, many documents and books would have disappeared long ago.
As the saying goes, where there are books, there are also powerful families.
In the later period, the heads of the seven sects and five surnames had already disappeared from everyone, but those high-ranking ministers were not the continuation of the seven sects and five surnames? The existence of
gate valve has witnessed the ups and downs of the times and also better preserved the anecdotes of that era. They are more like a pair of eyes, recording what they see.
Gate Valve has preserved its culture, which is the foundation of Gate Valve’s inheritance.
If the collection of books is there, the culture will continue, the inheritance will remain the same, and the family will last forever.
The wealthy family is a sign of an era. They were originally literati, but these people gathered together to form a political group that could fight against the royal family.
It rose during the Han Dynasty, developed during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and lurked in chaos Southern and Northern Dynasties . It rose again during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and finally collapsed after Wu Zetian, withdrew from the political stage, and died.
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