The great man will live forever

Chapter 100 Finally arrived in Jinyang
After not staying in Fushi for a few days, Liu Han went to Xihe again, and then arrived in Jinyang two days before the Yuan Dynasty.

There were many holidays in the Western Han Dynasty, including winter solstice, summer solstice, FuRi, twelfth lunar month, New Year's Day (Spring Festival), New Year's Eve, Ren's Day, Shangyuan (Lantern Festival), and Qingming.

Among them, Ren Day, also known as Ren Festival, Ren Qing Festival, Population Day, Ren Seven Days, etc., is an ancient traditional Chinese festival on the seventh day of the first lunar month every year.

Legend has it that Nuwa created humans on the seventh day after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, and horses, so this day is the birthday of humans.

One thing worth noting is that the date of the Spring Festival has not been consistent throughout history.In the Xia Dynasty, it was called "Sui", which means that spring will come as soon as the New Year arrives. In the Xia Dynasty, the Spring Festival was on the first day of the first lunar month.

In the Shang Dynasty, it was called "Sacrifice", and the Spring Festival was on the first day of December.

In the Zhou Dynasty, it was called "Nian", and the New Year began to be said. The Spring Festival of the Zhou Dynasty was on the first day of November.

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, the first day of October was the Spring Festival.

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty later restored the old calendar and set the first day of the first lunar month as New Year's Day. The date of the New Year's Day was fixed and continues to this day.

It's just that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has not yet changed the day of the new year to the first day of the first lunar month, which is 104 BC, also called the first year of Taichu.

Astronomers Tang Du, Luo Xiahong, Deng Ping and others formulated the "Taichu Calendar" and absorbed the solar term elements of the Ganzhi Calendar as a supplementary calendar to guide agricultural affairs. They changed the beginning of the year on October [-]st in winter to January [-]st in spring. It is the first day of the year and is called New Year's Day.

The current time Liu Han is in is 120 BC, no, it should be 119 BC. After all, the Lantern Festival is coming soon, and there are still more than ten years before the first year of Taichu.

The existence of the Han Dynasty has witnessed a lot of history and created a lot of history. Many things from later generations were inherited from the Han Dynasty. It is said that the earliest vacation originated from the Han Dynasty.

"Han Code" records: "Official officials take a break once every five days to take a bath."

Five days of work and one day of rest would be considered good in later generations.

Of course, those are officials. Ordinary people, or farmers, do not have the right or concept of taking vacations. Just like the wage earners of later generations, nine-nine-six and zero-seven are the norm.

Holiday, what holiday?

Only those who are of no use to the country have a holiday, and ordinary people can only work.

As long as you can endure hardships and stand hard work, you may have endless hardships in your life.

Liu Han was a man of two generations. In ancient times, he became more and more aware of one truth, that is, some rules were made by the superiors. Most of their existence was to restrict the people at the lower level and to protect their interests.

These were even more naked in the Han Dynasty. The emperor could change the laws of the Han Dynasty with just one word, especially for an emperor like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who had such great power throughout the ages.

There is no absolute fairness. Class has always existed since ancient times. It can only be weakened, never eliminated.

In other words, where there are people, there will be classes, just like ants in nature.

Queen ants, male ants and worker ants have a clear class division of labor, which is determined from the moment they are born. This is the way of heaven and the law of the world. How can humans reverse it on their own?

Of course, the wage earners of later generations will at least not starve or freeze, but ordinary farmers in Han Dynasty often face hunger and cold. If a natural or man-made disaster occurs, they will have to sell their sons and daughters, which will lead to the destruction of their families.

How can manpower compete with heaven?
Even in later generations, if a serious illness occurs and the savings of more than ten years are gone, the house will have to be sold again.

Ordinary people cannot fight against the sky, but great men and saints are different. The teacher once said, "Fighting against the sky is endless fun! Fighting against the earth is endless fun! Fighting against people is endless fun!"

Only a majestic person like him can conquer nature and a single spark can start a prairie fire.

Since class is inevitable but can be weakened as much as possible, rules must exist. No matter how bad the order is, it is better than no order. It is better to be a peace dog than a person in troubled times. For ordinary people, it is more difficult to survive in troubled times.

Maybe one day, human beings can completely eliminate classes and create absolute fairness, which means that the greatness of human beings has surpassed the basic rules of the universe. Human beings can change the basic laws of the universe and even formulate the rules for the operation of all things. The universe is only in the palm of human beings. things.

That is such a distant and great picture, perhaps it has surpassed the so-called gods, because even gods have levels and injustices...

This day may never come, or it may be in the very far future, so far away that it already stands at the end of time, or beyond the long river of time.

Of course, these are all very far away from Liu Han, unless he can reach the end of time.

When Liu Han was still dozens of miles outside Jinyang City, he saw many carriages coming out to greet him, carrying the banner of Dai Wang. That was his brother, now Dai Wang Liu Yi, who succeeded Dai Wang in 133 BC. King's title.

Liu Han and Liu Yi's grandfather, Dai Xiaowang Liu Shen, was the third son of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty Liu Heng.

Liu Yi is one or two years older than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. He is about 37 years old now and is in his prime. He is wearing silk and has good looks. He has big eyes, a high nose and a long beard. He is 1 meters tall and is taller than Liu Han. They are all slightly tall. Liu Han is only about 9 meters tall. He is a standard handsome uncle.

I have to say that the Liu family's appearance scores very high. The men are generally handsome and strong, while the daughters are all beautiful and handsome.

It can only be said that Liu Bang's genes were good, and he himself was good-looking. "Historical Records: The Benji of Emperor Gaozu" records: "Long Zhun has a dragon face, a beautiful beard and beard, and there are 72 sunspots on the left thigh."Wen Ying, a scholar of the Three Kingdoms, believes that Liu Bang "was born in response to the dragon, so his face looks like a dragon, with a long neck and a high nose."

In today's terms, it is a very standard high nose bridge.

The beautiful beard is a bit like the image of Guan Yu from the Three Kingdoms. The beautiful beard makes Liu Bang look quite mature and easily creates a sense of trust in people. It adds a lot of points to Liu Bang's image of a "forgiving elder".

China has had a tradition of respecting the elderly since ancient times. This is what the saying goes, "If you talk a little, you will not do things well."

As for "there are 72 sunspots on the left thigh", this is probably fabricated and boasted by later generations and cannot be trusted.

"Historical Records of Justice" records: "The number of 72 sunspots is the number of 72 days of the Red Emperor. Wood, fire, earth, metal, and water each live in one side, and one year is 360 days. They are divided into four directions, each with ninety days. The earth lives in the center, and the four seasons are combined. On the 72th, it will take 72 days, so Gaozu’s 72 sunspots are in response to Huo De’s [-] days of conquest.”

In short, 72 is an auspicious and very noble number.

As for the number of black moles on Liu Bang's legs, when Sima Qian wrote the historical records, Liu Bang's bones were probably gone. How to know whether there are 72 black moles on his legs.

However, he is definitely tall and handsome with a tall figure. Li Xian of the Tang Dynasty annotated "Book of the Later Han" and quoted "He Tu" as saying: "Emperor Liu Jirijiao, hoopoe, chest, turtle back, dragon's butt, seven feet and eight feet long inch."

"Rijiao" refers to the bulge in the center of the frontal bone, which is shaped like the sun. It is often used to describe the appearance of an emperor;
"Hoopoe" is used to describe people's hair accessories, which probably refers to Liu Bang's expertise in grooming himself, such as trimming his beard and making bamboo leather crowns;

"Chest chest" means straightening the chest;

"Turtle back" refers to a strong back;
"Seven feet and eight inches", one foot in the Han Dynasty was 23.1 centimeters, so Liu Bang's height was about 180 centimeters, which was not considered low no matter in which era.

"Dragon stock" means long and powerful hands and feet. Liu Bei in later generations was like this, with very long hands, but his blood relationship with Liu Bang was too far away, maybe he was atavistic.

Let’s talk about the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty first, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiu. He was already very far away. He was the ninth grandson of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty Liu Bang and a descendant of Liu Fa, the king of Changsha Ding, son of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.

And Liu Bei is a descendant of Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan, which is even further...

"Fourth brother! I finally meet you. It has been 14 years since I even wrote a letter to the king. Brother Wang has worked so hard to be with you."

Liu Yi stepped forward directly, looked at it for several seconds, and after roughly confirming it, he hugged Liu Han, really crying.

Liu Yi is the eldest son of Liu Deng, and he is also the eldest son. He has three younger brothers, the second brother Liu Zhe, the third brother Liu Hao, and the fourth brother Liu Han.

Unfortunately, Liu Zhe and Liu Hao died young before reaching the age of ten. Liu Han, the fourth eldest, was lucky to survive.

In ancient times, the death rate of children was very high, not only among the people, but also among the royal family. Children who died in infancy were everywhere.

"Where is sister-in-law?"

Liu Han took a look and saw that the acting princess Zhang did not come.

"Uh..." Liu Yi was a little embarrassed. There was no way he could recruit that great person. That person was his aunt at home, whose status was higher than his own, and he also had a bad ear.

You know, in the Han Dynasty, the status of women was not low. Otherwise, how could there be a figure like Empress Lu? There was also Empress Dowager Dou, the grandmother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was also an outstanding person and had been in power for many years.

Although women were generally not allowed to become marquises, there were many outstanding women in the Han Dynasty who were open-minded. When they saw a man they liked, they would express it directly. If a woman was dissatisfied with the man, she could remarry.

Sometimes even the empress dowager could remarry, and the emperor could marry a widow.

Women remarry three times, and this is also the case.According to historical records, the wife of Prime Minister Chen Ping who married more times was probably the wife of Prime Minister Chen Ping, who remarried five or six times.

What’s even more interesting is that the mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Wang Quan, was a widow.

Wang Ao first married the grandson of King Jin and gave birth to a daughter. Later, she was sent to the crown prince's uterus by her mother and gave birth to three daughters and one son for Liu Qi. Their son was Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Good guy, the emperor made a widow his queen, is this something that future generations can imagine?
Then the widow and the emperor's son inherited the Han Empire and became the emperor of the ages. I am afraid that many novels in later generations would not dare to write this.

There are only six women who have been awarded the title of marquis in the history of China, namely Lu Houdi (Zi), Yin'an Hou Wumingshi, Mingniting Hou Xu Fu, Fou Hou Tong, Linguang Hou Lu Yu, and Zhongzhen Hou Qin Liangyu.

Except for Qin Liangyu, who was granted the title by Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the other five were all granted the title during the Han Dynasty.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, the status of women was very high, and there was even the first female emperor Wu Zetian.

Only the so-called Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism came out, which maintained the principles of nature, destroyed human desires, three obediences and four virtues, three cardinal principles and five constant principles, and feudal imprisonment, and women completely became the subordinates of men...

(End of this chapter)