Historical "jokes" and "truths"
Dear readers, please sit tight.
Looking through history textbooks, the Qing Dynasty is often described as synonymous with "decay, backwardness, and isolation."
The textbook summarized the three hundred years in a few lines: the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong, the Opium War, the loss of power and humiliation of the country, and then - the end of the drama.
But history is never a matter of black and white.
The truth of these three hundred years is far more exciting than textbooks.
This was a counterattack launched by the "barbarians" from the Northeast. It was an "irregular" entrepreneurial team that took over the most civilized empire in the most barbaric way.
They used the butcher's knife to "leave the head but not the hair" to forcibly shave the heads of the Han people; they also used the pen and ink of the "Sikuquanshu" to try to erase the memory of the Han people.
They succeeded and they failed.
In the story of these three hundred years, there are Nurhachi's thirteen armors, Huang Taiji's "counterintuitive plan", Dorgon's "anger", Kangxi's "elimination of Obai", Yongzheng's "bloody son", Qianlong's "ten perfect martial arts", and Cixi's "listening to politics behind the curtain".
There is passion, intrigue, love, betrayal, and countless "magic operations" that are ridiculous.
For example, in order to save money, the emperor asked eunuchs to serve as "human alarm clocks"; for example, in order to flatter the emperor, ministers paid "wigs" as tribute to the emperor; for example, a war was caused by a disagreement over "kowtow etiquette".
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