The territory of the Yuan Dynasty is the longest in history. Why do later generations keep silent about it?

changes endlessly, each has its own goals. Today, Mr. Haiyou continues to explain the characteristics of Chinese history and culture.

Speaking of the dynasty with the largest territory in history, many people would think of the Yuan Dynasty, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that there is nothing special about the Yuan Dynasty except the largest territory.

and the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, apart from knowing Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, we almost never even heard the names of the other emperors, and even the tomb of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty has not been discovered.

So the question is, what is the reason why the history of the Yuan Dynasty is so little known? There must be a reason for this.

First, the Mongols value martial arts and do not pay attention to ideological construction

The Yuan Dynasty is a dynasty established by the Mongols. Genghis Khan once said that the entire world should be turned into Mongolian pastures. It can be seen that the Mongols of that era had a strong sense of pioneering, but in stark contrast to their strong sense of pioneering, it was their extremely lacking sense of governance.

In the eyes of the Mongols, as long as the horses occupy a place, this place becomes Mongolian land, but after they occupy it, they do not pay much attention to construction and management.

It is for this reason that although the Mongols’ iron horses have stepped into Europe, the European countries became independent soon after the Mongols left, and the Mongols did not leave much influence in Europe.

is the same in the Central Plains. After the Mongols occupied the Central Plains, they did not inherit the Song Dynasty political system, but still managed the Central Plains with the system on the grasslands.

This is very untimely. For example, the abolition of the imperial examination system resulted in a large number of scholars having nothing to do but writing tunes, novels and scripts. This also led to the lack of official records in the history of the Yuan Dynasty.

At the same time, the Mongolian rulers at that time also repelled the Central Plains culture, and even some Mongolian emperors only spoke Mongolian but did not understand Chinese.

This is in sharp contrast with the later Qing Dynasty. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty received Confucian education from an early age and were proficient in many languages ​​of Mongolian, Chinese and Manchus, and usually spoke Chinese as their mother tongue. This is also an important reason why the Qing Dynasty has existed much longer than the Yuan Dynasty. .

Second, the Yuan Dynasty was relatively short and turbulent

Mr. Jin Yong's trilogy of sculpture shooting was created in the background of the Yuan Dynasty, from Genghis Khan leading the Mongols to expedition to the founding of Zhu Yuanzhang, the period was only 100 years.

However, in this short period of 100 years, the Mongols have countless wars of all sizes. From the early prince’s expedition to the west, the battle for the throne of Alibaba, the Li Zong rebellion, the Sung-Song war, the suppression of Haidu, and the expedition. In Burma, the expedition to Java, the expedition to Japan, and the expedition to Vietnam, until the later period of infighting among power officials and peasant uprisings, the Yuan Dynasty did not have a few days of peace.

In these wars, even some historical books of the Yuan Dynasty were destroyed during the war. In addition, the rulers did not pay much attention to historical materials, which led to the lack of historical materials for reference when compiling the "Yuan Shi". Little is known about its history.

Third, the foreign race entered the Central Plains, and there was a natural flaw in legal theory. The Mongolian army at that time liked to slaughter the city, basically it was wherever they went. In the process of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty regime, they also repeatedly slaughtered the city. This has caused very deep damage to the hearts of the people of Central Plains.

and the Mongols ruled the Central Plains, this is the dominance of foreign races, from the perspective of traditional cultural values, there are natural legal defects. "Yidi has a monarch, not like the death of all summers."

During the Mongols' rule of the Central Plains, the Central Plains culture was hit by unprecedented blows, and the Han scholars have always been worried. The Ming Dynasty scholar-officials did not even recognize the history of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to avoid the humiliating memory of being ruled by the Mongols, some Ming Dynasty scholars chose not to talk about this period of history. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty scholar-officials did not record the history of the Yuan Dynasty. many.

Summary

Now let’s summarize that, because the Mongols value military and culture, and do not pay much attention to cultural construction, their rule time is relatively short, and they are aliens entering the customs. There are natural shortcomings in jurisprudence. As a result, later generations knew little about the history of the Yuan Dynasty.

Now even the Mongolians don’t know much about the many deeds of their ancestors. This is due to the historical limitations of the people at that time, and we can’t force it.

But these former "alien races" have now become part of the big family of Chinese civilization. When the new crown pneumonia broke out in China, Mongolia also gave us a lot of assistance, and it is precisely because of the unity and forge ahead of our Chinese nation that we have today's prosperous country.