Every dynasty has a legendary history, and The kings who established this dynasty enjoyed the legendary hymns. Nurhaci established Qing Empire , and this man who established Qing Dynasty also cared about the color of legend.
As the saying goes, the inheritance of Chinese civilization is always passed down by word of mouth through some familiar stories. Although stories are always difficult to distinguish between true and false, you can always see the rich connotation of Chinese civilization from these legendary stories.
Crow and Dog
Modern society, dogs are considered to be loyal friends of people , but in ancient times, there was no modern understanding of dogs so clearly and clearly. We can vaguely recognize them from some classic national curse. Dogs were not a good word in ancient times.
For profit-oriented fences, we will say "You are such a dog's leg", such as some words that are also used now, "dogs rely on people's power", "dogs look down on people's power", "fox friends" and so on.
These words have been passed down for hundreds of years or even longer. From then on, it can be seen that dogs had not had a high status in ancient times, and , in contrast to it, is in the West. The status of dogs is very high.
The reason behind this is actually easy to understand , because most of the production and life in Western countries rely on nomadic hunting, , and we descendants of Yan and Huang grow on broad plains and do not need to rely on hunting to maintain their lives.
Because of this, dogs have not had a high status in all dynasties. But among so many dynasties, there is one dynasty that is particularly special. They treat dogs very differently. They are not allowed to eat dog meat to make dog skin , and even think that dogs have divine nature.
This dynasty was the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the people were not allowed to eat dog meat, kill dogs, and even wear clothes made of dog fur. All this is related to Nurhaci, the founder of the Qing Dynasty.
And crows have been considered to symbolize bad luck since ancient times. If the crow comes, it means that bad things will happen. We seem to be used to using " The world is as dark as crows, to describe some things as dark.
But in the Qing Dynasty, crows also changed. crows no longer symbolize bad luck but represent auspiciousness, and even sacred and inviolable animals.
If you say why dogs and crows changed in the Qing Dynasty, they are all related to one person. that is Nurhaci, the builder of the Qing dynasty dynasty.
Nurhaci
9-year-old Nurhaci stood on the endless grassland, He waved his whip and sat under his body, staring at the birds and geese flying away from time to time in the sky.
His heart was full of melancholy, the woman his father married. He didn't like it, This woman named stepmother was not good to him, and could even be said to be mean.
When he returned to his room, the stepmother spoke ill of him and even mocked him for never being promising, , and Nurhaci didn't say anything, just sat aside reading books, he liked to read history books, so he knew Chinese and Mongolian languages.
But when he heard the stepmother's abuse of his biological mother, he couldn't help it, "It's time to leave" , he stroked his beloved horse, and the love horse sneezed loudly, as if responding to him.
There is still a dream in his heart, he wants to make achievements, He wants to build a dynasty of his own, of course he has never told anyone about all this.
But looking at the messy family, there is no longer a place for him to live here. He knew that even if he died, no one would shed a tear for him.
The boy left with his ideals in this way. When he left , he put his favorite Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his arms. He likes war and politics, as if he was born to live for politics and war.
He walked all the way east, and here he met a person who changed his life , that person was Li Chengliang , and here his talent was truly demonstrated.
Li Chengliang is an Han , but he was unexpectedly very nice to him and appreciated his talent very much, but Nurhaci felt vaguely uneasy, He knew that Li Chengliang was a suspicious person by nature.
As the saying goes, God is jealous of talented people. Nurhaci didn't stay here for long, Because the emperor at that time heard the stargazer saying that there was signs of the arrival of the emperor in the north, he issued an imperial edict to Li Chengliang.
And Nurhaci is a foreigner, which naturally attracted the attention of many officials at that time. Li Chengliang no longer trusts Nurhaci, and he wants to kill this suspicious person.
Nurhaci had no other choice but to wander again. It was during the process of escaping, that the two animals, crow and yellow dog, helped Nurhaci very divinely, and allowed him to escape the pursuit again and again.
It is also because of this that crow and yellow dog were recorded by historians in this period very divine. After Nurhaci established his own kingdom, he was even more moved when he recalled this incident.
At this time, he was no longer the wandering boy back then. He was the power-held Huang Taiji , so he issued a law that no one was allowed to kill crows or dogs.
Interesting Chinese culture
Traditional Chinese culture is always widely circulated. Some of them were born among the people, some were born in the royal family. In the era of feudal dynasties, how emperors deal with culture often reflects the political economy of that era.
We all know that the Qing Dynasty was founded by the Manchus, and their predecessor was also a nomadic people. It is precisely because of this that they have a natural favorable impression of dogs.
Therefore, after Manchu established the Qing Dynasty, the status of dogs naturally improved, and when the founders of the Qing Dynasty had close contact with dogs, also established the foundation for the improvement of dogs in the future.
The Qing Dynasty was the most centralized dynasty among all dynasties. All rights in were concentrated in the hands of the emperor, which naturally also reflected in the culture at that time.
Although this is just a small difference between treating dogs and crows, reflects politics but it can be seen that the emperor controls the country in every detail.
This is naturally prosperous with the modern hundred schools of thought, and the cultures of each family compete with each other in a different way, but this also adds a mysterious color to that dynasty.
From the little ones who do not eat dogs, respect for dogs and extreme respect for crows, it can be seen that the dynasty's monarchy has been highly praised and its undefiled characteristics, even these legends sound a bit absurd.
Summary:
As the founder of the Qing Dynasty, Nurhaci was the emperor of that era without exception. The rights he possesses also brought him cultural orientation, When he believes that dogs and crows are beneficial to the royal family, no matter how absurd they are, no one will laugh.
But it is precisely this kind of cultural uncertainty that is often accompanied by mysterious characteristics. Chinese culture advocates nature and reflects it in all things in nature, which seems to have some impact. also implies the characteristics of the unity of man and nature in Chinese culture.
