Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 254
On the stage, the lights were shining brightly, and in the cross-interlacing light, accompanied by the majestic Han Yuefu music.

On the huge screen, the historical picture scroll of the Han Dynasty in 2000 was opened.

Someone is chanting aloud, the sound of the universe is like piercing the viscera.

It reverberates in the hearts of every audience and lingers for a long time.

Relying on the general's power, teasing the restaurant Hu.

In the fifteenth year of Hu Ji's year, Spring Day is the only rice cake.

Long skirt with belt, wide-sleeved Acacia jacket.

Lantian jade on the head, and big Qin beads behind the ears.

The two servant girls, He Yaotiao, have nothing in their life.

One servant girl is 500 million, and two servant girls are more than ten million.

Unexpectedly, Jin Wuzi, Pingting passed my hut.

He Yuyao on the silver saddle, and Cui Gai hesitantly.

……

The host Lin Feng and Bailu walked out, and behind them was the magnificent scene of the Han Dynasty.

Ancient city walls, ancient buildings, ancient markets, ancient Chinese ancestors...

All of this is so familiar and yet strange.

That picture was so real.

There seems to be a pervasive sense of sight, which makes people experience the scene and dream back to the big man.

"The Han Dynasty from Han Emperor Liu Bang to Han Jingdi Liu Qi's economic strength rose slowly and became the largest empire in the East. It was also called the two largest empires with Western Rome."

"By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Empire had become one of the most powerful empires in the world. The Xiongnu Empire was defeated and fled to the west in embarrassment. The major countries in Central Asia and the Western Regions were also afraid of it."

"Zhang Qian's trip to the Western Regions opened up the famous "Silk Road" for the first time, opening up the trade channel between the East and the West. Since then, China has become the center of the world trade system until the rise of the Mongols more than 1000 years later."

"It is precisely because of the prestige of the Han Dynasty that foreigners began to call the Chinese people "Han people", and the people of the Han Dynasty also liked to call themselves this way. "Han" has since become the eternal name of the great Chinese nation."

Lin Feng and Bai Lu spoke word by word, introducing the basic information of the Han Dynasty to the audience.

History of the Han Dynasty From 202 BC to 220 AD, it was divided into the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was a powerful unified empire after the Qin Dynasty.

In 202 BC, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang founded the country and made Chang'an its capital in June.

Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che further promoted the cause of unification.

In AD [-], Wang Mang usurped power, and the Western Han Dynasty ended.

In 25 years, Liu Xiu, a member of the royal family who participated in the rebellion against Wang Mang's regime, proclaimed himself emperor and established the Eastern Han Dynasty with Luoyang as his capital.

Created "Guangwu Zhongxing".

During the Han Dynasty, national integration developed unprecedentedly, foreign exchanges were frequent, and the national strength and economy were relatively strong.

Moreover, the unification of culture laid the foundation for the social development of the Chinese nation in 2000, and made great contributions to the continuation and standing of Chinese civilization.

The Han Dynasty lasted for more than 400 years and had 29 emperors.

In 220, it was usurped by Cao Pi of Wei State and perished.

soon.

Lin Feng's familiar voice rang out, pouring into the ears of every audience watching the live broadcast.

"Through the history of more than 2000 years, go back to the Han Dynasty, talk to the emperor of the Han Dynasty, talk to all the emperors of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, and unlock the secrets hidden in the ancient scrolls for modern people."

The sound ended.

On the big screen behind the stage, the mighty and turbulent ancient picture swept in like a stormy wave.

Submerge the two hosts in it.

The screen flashed.

When the audience blinked, the stage had disappeared, and what came into view was a scene of an ancient city.

It is daytime.

Two hosts dressed in Han Dynasty costumes fell from the sky, accompanied by the camera, and landed in the middle of a market.

People come and go, every commoner in the city wears the oldest clothes and speaks the oldest language.

"Chang'an City?"

"It should be. When the camera zoomed down just now, the tallest building in the middle of the distance is believed to be Weiyang Palace."

"I have to say that the shooting props here are too real."

"Which filming base was shot at?"

"You little whites, I really went back to the era of Han Gaozu more than 2000 years ago, okay?"

"Have you noticed? The words of the people here seem to be very different from today?"

"The words of the ancients are certainly different from the modern ones."

"Is there any brother majoring in language, come out and popularize it?"

"No time, the instructor is calling, saying that the language in the program is of great research value, and he is rushing to school."

"Why is the scene of Chang'an City so different from what the host just said?"

"It does look a little poor."

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In fact, the host Lin Feng was also dumbfounded. He didn't expect that in the early days of Han Gaozu's administration, the entire Chang'an city could be so poor.

"Lin Feng, did we come to the wrong plane of time and space?" Bailu asked in surprise.

Why is this Chang'an city of the Han Dynasty in such a state of ruins waiting to be rebuilt?

At a glance, people are poorly dressed, their hair is disheveled, they look haggard and lack energy. More than [-]% of them are suffering from long-term malnutrition, sallow and emaciated, walking weakly in the streets and alleys, in many dark and humid corners, There were wailing sounds, and looking around, they were poor beggars in ragged clothes. Most of them were skinny and suffering from illnesses. They struggled and wailed like death. Naturally, there was a stinky smell in the air.

Of course, the audience couldn't smell this smell.

The goods sold on the street are even more sparse, and there are not many that can be seen. Not to mention the surrounding shops, all of them are empty, and the shops are quiet, as if they have just been robbed.

How poor do you want to describe it?
It's just that the two of them walked for a while, and they couldn't see any "useful" garbage on the ground.

Anything of value is recycled.

Even the leaves of the trees are picked up by the poor and collected back to light a fire for warmth.

Look around.

Not a single carriage in sight.

The only thing that stood out was the patrolling soldiers, who were fairly neatly dressed.

However, it may be because of hunger that most of the soldiers are not skinny, and they don't have the sense of being tall and mighty in movies and TV dramas.

Lin Feng said helplessly, "After the Qin Dynasty, wars continued for many years, refugees traveled thousands of miles, the land was abandoned, and the buildings were destroyed. This basically conforms to the current situation in Han Gaozu's time."

It seems that some historical data are not completely nonsense.

For example - "The Son of Heaven cannot have equal horses, a general or an ox cart, and a horse is worth a hundred gold."

Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty couldn't find a horse with four skins and a solid color, and he would ride an ox cart to court, and the price of goods soared. Look at how miserable and poor the current situation of this country is. The whole country is just an empty shell.

It can also be seen from the national policy at that time that the early Han Dynasty was too poor to live on. "Govern by doing nothing and rest with the people". Naturally, with the development of production, light corvee and low tax, the emperors in the early Han Dynasty lived in dilapidated houses, with a tax of [-] yuan, which gave the people a lot of space to recuperate.

Even so, the society's economy is still in a state of depression; serious land annexation, all kinds of economic chaos, the phenomenon of selling officials to buy nobles, "the wine and meat of rich men stink, and the roads are frozen to death" were not the patents of the late Tang Dynasty.

Fortunately, the early Han Dynasty learned the lessons from the death of the Qin Dynasty and implemented the parallel system of prefectures and states; in addition to the kings with the same surname, there were also well-known kings of the opposite sex such as Han Xin; at that time, the vassal states had absolute freedom in their own feudal states ;If you have an independent army, you can also mint coins; let's think in another way, if you are a ruler, if the country is not really poor, would you give such great power to the princes below?
"In the era of Han Gaozu, it was really poor!"

"How do you feel, the start is not as good as a dog?"

"Those sons of time travel, if they travel to the early Han Dynasty, how aggrieved they will be?"

"In this environment, modern people may not survive for three days in the past."

"Yeah, even if you want to eat some swill, you definitely can't grab it."

"So poor and white, but by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the whole man was very rich, and the economic growth rate was not slow."

"The emperors of the Han Dynasty are still very good."

Afterwards, the two walked a few streets and led the audience to see the appearance of the early Han Dynasty.

In the end, the camera zoomed out, flying into the ancient Weiyang Palace of the Han Dynasty like a goshawk soaring to the sky.

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(End of this chapter)