The Great Clans

"The Family" is a long and complicated story, recording the centuries-old game between several large families, including the Langya Wang family, the Yingchuan Yu family, the Longkang Huan family, and the Chenjun Xie family. What I'm reading now is the first one, which covers the journey from south to east across the Yangtze River to Wang Dun's first mutiny. The Langya Wang family thus took control of the political affairs of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and created a model of co-governance between the clan and the imperial power.

"The king and the horse share the world", this sentence is really domineering! Moreover, the book also mentioned many historical celebrities, such as Wang Dun, Wang Dao, Wang Xizhi, etc., Which gave me a deeper understanding of the culture and art of that era. All in all, this is a great book worth reading!

This book takes the story of the Langya Wang family's growth from an ordinary noble family to a top family as the main line, and discusses the success of big things slowly. In this book, we can see that Sima Rui inherited the forbearance and calmness of his ancestor Sima Yi, the statesmanlike style of Wang Dao, the representative of the Wang family, and the military strength of Wang Dun. From the time when the Langya Wang family and Sima Rui jointly traveled south to manage Jiangdong, until Sima Rui ascended the throne and proclaimed the emperor, the relationship between the Langya Wang family and Sima Rui was like a couple. However, after Sima Rui became the emperor, in order to check and balance the Langya Wang family, they suppressed the gentry, cultivated cronies, and strengthened the imperial power. In the end, it aroused the dissatisfaction of the gentry represented by the Langya Wang family, which led to Wang Dun's rebellion. Sima Rui failed in this game and eventually died of illness. At this point, the top bureaucrats in the Jin dynasty were basically from top families such as the Wang family of Langya, which further confirmed the saying that "the king and the horse share the world".

For me, the Jin Dynasty is second only to ethnic minorities such as the Yuan and Qing Dynasties because of the Sima family, so I don't know much about the history of the Jin Dynasty. However, for various reasons, the aristocratic families gradually aroused my interest. Because of games and novels, noble families are always covered with a veil, invisible and intangible, but they exist. This book takes the aristocratic family as the guide, telling not only the changes from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, but also what the emperor and the aristocratic families could do in the troubled times, what they influenced, and what was not unchanged. Some people always say that there is nothing new under the sun, and I think they are right. Because no matter how the times develop, people are still the same group of people. Chinese people need to understand history the most, not only because it is our past and our pride, but also because from the beginning of the Yanhuang period to the present, the people are still the same group of people, and the spirit is still the same spirit. It will not fall behind due to the development of science and technology. On the contrary, it will always maintain its value like gold.

Very nice! It unfolds in front of the readers like a story, and they learn a lot of knowledge and understand the current situation in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Especially the inner description of the struggle for power, aristocratic families, poor families, strict hierarchies, and transcending classes has remained the same from ancient times to the present. Politics, wars, infighting, checks and balances, etc. Really worth watching. I'm really looking forward to the author's other two novels. They will be released as soon as possible. I can't wait to read them. Hahahaha [Chigua] [Chigua]

"What really attracts me about history is the complexity of people, more specifically, people's responses to complex situations and the flow of fate." This is also one of the reasons why I like history. As for the truth and laws

This book is a very realistic description of the entrepreneurial process of the founders of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao, the Wang Dun brothers, and the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui, as well as the psychological changes and considerations in the process. From the excerpts of historical materials in the book, we can see that many characters will consider the interests of their class, individual, and family when facing changes in the times, society, and country. Starting from this core interest point, it is not difficult to find that so many outrageous and bizarre things in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were based on the establishment of rules to protect and strengthen those who benefit. When individuals face the change of the country and the changes of the times, they should learn from the characters in the book such as Wang Dao, Sima Rui and others, accumulate strength, learn to be forbearing, see the situation clearly, and more importantly, learn to achieve great things, be slow, and be good at learning and improving themselves.

I can't describe the reason why I like history more specifically than the author. I hope you can read it yourself and understand.

There is a place in the book where it is mentioned that noble disciples traveled in ox carts, which fully reflects the author's academic skills. Needless to say, the quality of the book goes without saying.

A very good book! Many historical details have been ignored by us. This book gave me a lot of inspiration! Please update soon! Looking forward to the next one!