The people are the real creators of history.
Most of the historical spotlights focus on emperors and generals, and rarely pay attention to small people at the grassroots level.
However, sometimes the historical direction of China and even the world is changed by a small person.
1259, when the Iron Cavalry of the Mongol Empire was about to conquer the European and Arab worlds, it suddenly came to an abrupt end and withdrew its troops frantically. The reason why
such a dramatic scene occurred is that when Kublai led his army to attack Diaoyucheng (today's Chongqing), he was killed by a small soldier named Chen Aniu.
So, various Mongolian troops began to return to the court and compete for the throne.
If Chen Aniu did not hit Kublai Khan, if the Mongolian army conquered the entire Eurasian continent, perhaps history would be different.
This issue of book list keywords: [Historical Details Book List] , restores the amazing truth in history from a small person and a small detail.
1 "The Ming Dynasty under the microscope"
If you want to understand the Ming Dynasty, you cannot only focus on the court, but also listen to the cry of the lowest level.
Ma Boyong 's "The Ming Dynasty under the Microscope" restores the most realistic historical laws in the encounters of ordinary people.
For example, in the "Pengxian Petty Officials' Fraud Case", county officials colluded with each other and were busy looking for suitable people to seek bribes and make money every day.
A grassroots official with a sesame size can determine the fate of a person, a family, or even a family if he makes a little bit of a bad intention and changes a few words to the official document.
For example, in "Wuyuan Dragon Vein Defense Battle", the imperial examination county Wuyuan suddenly failed a juren. However, local scholars said that the people who burned lime on the mountain digging mountains destroyed the dragon vein in Wuyuan.
On the one hand, it is the future of the imperial examination scholars, and on the other hand, it is the livelihood of the poor people.
In each case, it not only shows an extremely vivid political ecology, but also the voices of those ants born in the dust and died in obscurity, about to be obscured in the grand history.
2 "The Rest of Your Life"
日3 Even ordinary people in a distant era are part of the real history. Without them, history is incomplete.
We originally thought that a palace maid would not cause any turmoil in the long river of history.
Who knows, but because of an epitaph, the entire dynasty's murderous struggle was led up.
"The Rest of Life" reveals a vivid history comparable to a palace TV series through the interpretation of the epitaph of a bichuni named Ciqing of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. Wang Zhonger, the protagonist of the story, was originally a rich lady from a middle-class family in the Southern Dynasty, but because of the war, she was robbed and became a palace maid in the Northern Wei palace.
Wang Zhong'er spent the rest of his life in the Northern Wei Palace. It seemed ordinary, but in fact it was an extremely real, bizarre and sinister and vicious battle for life and death in the imperial power.
In the end, Wang Zhonger was forced to become a monk, and Ciqing was her name after she became a nun.
Wang Zhong'er lived to be 86 years old as a palace maid. In troubled times, Southern and Northern Dynasties can also be regarded as a miracle.
If there was no Chang Jing's epitaph, Ciqing's 86-year life would have long scattered into the void like light smoke.
Fortunately, there is an epitaph, we can get a glimpse of the distant and real history.
3 "The Twilight of the Forbidden City"
"The Twilight of the Forbidden City" was first published in 1934. For the just-revolutionized Qing dynasty, the times are not long.
The author of this book, Johnston , is the English and math teacher of the last emperor Puyi .
For more than 30 years of living in China, Johnston has widely visited classics, history, poetry, songs and essays, and has had a very profound study of Chinese Confucian culture and Buddhist philosophy.
Therefore, "The Twilight of the Forbidden City" is not the impression of a foreigner's glimpse, but the real experience and profound insights in Forbidden City .
Jorston started the Hundred Days Reform in 1898 led by Emperor Guangxu and Emperor Kang Youwei and . It has been written until the embarrassing situation in the Forbidden City where the emperor and the president coexisted after the Xinhai Revolution, and has also brought us interesting news that has not been seen in history books.
For example, from the 13 years from early 1912 to the end of 1924, there was always a president and an emperor in the Forbidden City.
For example, an official of the Republic of China government actually wanted to posthumously award the posthumous title after his death.
Although "The Twilight of the Forbidden City" opened our eyes, it could not hide the sour smell of Johnston as a vested stake in the feudal monarchy.
4 "The Three Cases"
Bombing case , Hongwan case, and the palace transfer case, these three cases are the most entangled and complex and far-reaching in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
The first case, the attack case.
The madman Zhang San broke into the prince's palace, but he was not found out until he was executed by Lingchi.
Second case, Red Pill case.
After the emperor took the pills tributed by his ministers, he suddenly died.
The third case, the case of moving the palace.
The emperor passed away, and court officials, eunuchs and harems began to fight openly and secretly and fight in order to compete for the imperial power.
"The Beginning of Three Cases" not only analyzes the case, but also points out incisively that this is an irreconcilable conflict between the imperial power of the emperor and the literati group's island power.
Imperial power is the most fundamental desire of feudal emperors for thousands of years. The power of scholars is the collective appeal of scholars to political treatment and the fierce resistance to the dominance of imperial power.
5 "The Golden Peach of Samarkand "
Tang Dynasty is the prosperous era of China that all nations come to celebrate.
However, the adjectives in history books cannot help us fully understand the prosperous scenes of the Tang Dynasty.
Xue Aihua 's "The Golden Peach of Samarkand" shows us the opening and prosperity of the prosperous Tang Dynasty from a small perspective of luxury goods.
Samarkand is a big city in Uzbekistan . It was once a bustling hub city on the ancient Silk Road .
In the seventh century, the kingdom of Samarkand twice contributed a rare and brilliant peach as a tribute to the Tang Dynasty court, and at that time this peach was called "golden peach".
The golden peaches in Samarkand are just one of the tributes from the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
This book is a catalog of imported luxury goods in the Tang Dynasty. In the book,
also verifies more than 170 imported products from the Tang Dynasty.
For example, Kucha pillows that can make people wander around in their dreams, blonde and blue-eyed beauties who attract customers in Xi'an taverns, countless precious spices in the bustling street market, etc.
And all these trivial historical details clearly outline a prosperous, rich culture and vivid and charming picture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
