Why did the Qin and Han dynasties miss a Chu dynasty?

There was the Chu Dynasty between the Qin and Han dynasties.

It is true that a Chu dynasty was missed.

The reporter asked: Shi Lao, how did you find this mistake? Do you think this was an unintentional mistake, or is someone deliberately falsifying history?

Professor Shi Shi's answer (hereinafter referred to as Answer): I discovered this error when I was writing the book "Two Thousand Years of Chinese Imperial System: Right and Wrong: From the Beginning". In my opinion, this cannot be an unintentional mistake, but a deliberate falsification of history.

A: Absolutely. Please readers flip through all the "Chinese Historical Chronology" at hand, it is the appendix of any history book, it is also the appendix of the language reference book (including the mainland's "Cihai" and Taiwan's "Great Dictionary", etc.), please take a look, which year is the age of the Qin and Han dynasties?

Is it 206 BC? If so, it means that the Qin and Han dynasties were connected, and before that, it was the Qin Dynasty; From this year, it was the Han Dynasty. There was no Chu Dynasty in the middle.

But this is not the case in history. In 206 BC, Prince Ying of Qin surrendered to the anti-Qin coalition army under the banner of Chu, and Qin died. In 207 BC, Zhao Gao, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, had convened hundreds of officials to publicly announce that after the defeat of the Qin Empire, the six kingdoms were restored, the imperial court no longer existed, the emperor system was abolished, and the Qin State was restored to the Qin Kingdom, and the prince was called the King of Qin, not the third emperor.

From then on, until the end of 202 BC, there were no emperors in China for these 5 years, that is, the emperor system of the Qin Dynasty did not continue, but was interrupted.

Q: What year did Liu Bang ascend the throne as emperor (become Gaozu of the Han Dynasty)?

A: It was the end of 202 B.C.E.

Question: The "Chronology of Chinese History" refers to the five years from 206 BC to 202 BC as the first year of Han Gaozu to the fifth year, it seems that you do not agree?

A: Of course I don't agree. Because that's not true. The historical fact is: at the end of 202 BC, after Xiang Yu was defeated and died, Liu Bang dared to ascend the throne and become emperor.

Question: The real time when Liu Bang claimed to be emperor was 202 BC, but the "Chronology of Chinese History" was written in 206 BC, 4 years in advance, do you think this is a falsification of history?

A: It's definitely a falsification of history. Chinese are more serious about the work of the chronology, even if someone accidentally remembers wrong, even if it is only a few days wrong, if they do not find it at that time, future generations will find out.

As for remembering four years wrong, and letting it be wrong for more than 2,000 years, without being discovered or corrected, such a thing is indeed very rare. It should also be noted that during the war, the Chu Dynasty established by the rebel team did not necessarily have a majestic edifice, and the royal court they established first in Xuyi and then in Pengcheng may have only a few thatched huts, which are extremely simple, and are just an institution to call for.

No, at that time, whether it was Emperor Chuyi or the overlord, they all belonged to the category of alliance leaders, and they were the strongest princes, but they had no affiliation with other princes. Due to the melee of all princes (including the Han) at that time, the time was counted to the Han Dynasty, that is, the first year of the Han Dynasty was followed by the Qin Dynasty in the historical circles.

Indeed there is. Western Chu (206 BC - 202 BC), Xiang Yu seized the power of King Huai of Chu and established himself as the overlord of Western Chu, divided the princes of the Eighteen Roads, and was later destroyed by Liu Bang.

Yes, there is the state of Chu, as the saying goes, if Qin dies, it will be Chu.

Xiang Yu established the capital, which should be regarded as a dynasty, and the Han Dynasty had not yet been established at that time during the dispute between Chu and Han.

That period is called the period of Chu and Han conflicts, and the troubled times are not divided into dynasties.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a Huan Chu.

It's not famous in history, so don't ignore it in a short time.

In the middle of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, there was actually another dynasty, which was the Western Chu.

Maybe it's because this dynasty didn't have a lot of contributions and very good things.

In fact, there was another dynasty between the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and I don't know about this.

In fact, there was another dynasty between the Qin and Han dynasties.

I feel that there is no dynasty between these two dynasties, and I have not heard of it.

There is also a Western Chu, I personally think that it was ignored because of two reasons: first, the existence period was too short, just four years, and second, Liu Bang neither wanted to destroy the merits of Qin nor betray the crime of Chu, so the "Historical Records" ignored Western ChuMany people think that the Qin Dynasty is the Han Dynasty, but in fact, there is a dynasty that is not a dynasty between the Qin and Han dynasties, that is, Western Chu, Western Chu was established by Xiang Yu, when the Qin Dynasty fell, Xiang Yu began to seal the marquis, and Liu Bang, who established the Han Dynasty, was the king of Hanzhong during the Western Chu period.

Xiang Yu originally had the intention of expanding Xichu, but the situation was too tense, and in the end he did not become the emperor, but became the king, so he was only the hegemon of one party, so later generations called Xiang Yu the overlord. But no matter what kind of Xichu is, it does existWe all know that Qin fell in 206 BC, and Han was established in 202 BC, so the middle 4 years are the time of the existence of Western ChuIn the last years of the Qin Dynasty, there was a great chaos, when Xiang Yu and Liu Bangbing divided into two ways, respectively to destroy Qin, Liu Bang's strength was indeed very strong, forcing Qin Ziying to surrender, it stands to reason that the credit should be Liu Bang's, but Xiang Yu has a good deck of cards, because he has 400,000 troops in his hands.

Therefore, although Xiang Yu is not the one who destroyed Qin, he is in the hands of the armySo he began to establish himself as a king, began to be a marquis as the lord of the world, and sent Liu Bang to Shu as a marquis, and became a king of Han. Liu Bang is not a fool, knowing Xiang Yu's intention to do this, he pretended to accept Xiang Yu's arrangement, secretly recruited troops in Shudi, and expanded his power, and at this time, Xiang Yu's overlord position has not yet been confirmed, and there are still many lands that have not been recovered, and he has not noticed Liu Bang's abnormal behavior at all.

After that, Liu Bang began to counterattack and prepared to attack Western Chu, so the dispute between Chu and Han broke out, but Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were not weakUntil 202 BC, Liu Bang recruited more talented people to encircle and suppress Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was exhausted, forced to be helpless, and chose to kill himself, since then, Western Chu perished, and then, the Han Dynasty rose, and Liu Bang became the king of a country. In fact, it was obvious from the beginning that it was a matter of time before Xichu perished, because Xiang Yu actually offended Liu Bang, who was quite strong in strength and power, in order to become the king of the world, isn't this the so-called "begging for beating"? So the foreshadowing was also buried by Xiang Yu himself.

Yes, there are others, but I don't want to record them for other reasons.

There shouldn't be, otherwise history wouldn't have recorded it.

I don't think he's getting noticed, so I don't record him and ignore him.

It may be that it has existed for too little time and people are not impressed.

The year when Liu Bang invaded Xianyang (that is, the year when Prince Ying of Qin surrendered to Liu Bang) was later posthumously named the first year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, although the Han Dynasty had not yet been established at that time, but in the historical records and Han books, it was the first year of Gaozu from the year when Qin was destroyed, so this period should belong to the Han Dynasty.

That dynasty is not counted, it should be a period of chaos and separation, and history calls this period the "Chu and Han Dispute".

It is the era of the change of dynasties of the Qin and Han dynasties, and it cannot be specifically classified as that dynasty, but only a period of time of regime change!! The establishment of each dynasty was accompanied by a period of regime change!!

There are a lot of troubled times of warlord secession, Liu Bang is the king of Han, Xiang Yu is the overlord of Western Chu, and there are many kings, just troubled times, it can still be called the end of Qin or the former Han Dynasty.

The winner is the king, and the loser is the loser! In the first era of Liu Bang's claim to be emperor, Xiang Yu's destruction of Qin and Liu Bang's claim to emperor were only about four months apart.

It should still be Qin, the Han Dynasty has not been built after all!

This dynasty was "Zhang Chu", which originally meant to expand the state of ChuBut the dynasty of "Zhang Chu" soon perished, so there is no detailed record in history.

At the beginning, the history of our country was all known through historical records, but with the deepening of archaeologists, archaeologists found many events that were not recorded in the history booksFor example, the silk book "Five Star Zhan" unearthed in Hunan Province, "Five Star Zhan" records the dynasty between the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, that is, "Zhang Chu".

"Zhang Chu" is recorded in the "Five Star Occupation" in the form of an era name, that is to say, "Zhang Chu" is a dynasty in the history of our country. Later, archaeologists explained the dynasty of "Zhang Chu" through other relevant records in the "Five Stars".It turned out that "Zhang Chu" was a regime established by Chen Sheng in the early years of the Han Dynasty, and this regime completely replaced the regime of the Qin Dynasty, so people at that time regarded "Zhang Chu" as a new dynasty.

I believe everyone is familiar with Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising, but after this incident, many people don't understand, after their uprising, Chen Sheng directly established the "Zhang Chu regime", he originally wanted to expand the Chu State, so he gave such a name, and later,Chen Sheng led many soldiers to attack Hangu Pass, but he didn't expect Zhang Han to have an ambush, and finally Chen Sheng was defeated, and the "Zhang Chu regime" was overthrown.

In the end, the rest of Chen Sheng's soldiers were accepted by Xiang Yu for his own use, and Xiang Yu established Xiong Xin as the new king, so the Han Dynasty was established, because the "Zhang Chu" dynasty was established for a short time, so many people gradually forgot about this dynasty, and there was no detailed record of this dynasty in the history books. If there was no unearthed silk book of "Five Star Occupation", no one would have thought that there was a dynasty of "Zhang Chu" between the Qin and Han dynasties.

It is not a dynasty, it can only belong to the separatist forces, and this situation will only occur due to the short time and the unification of the world

This is because the unearthed silk book has not been recorded in many histories, and it is very precious.

There may have been other dynasties between the Qin and Han dynasties, but they may just not be recorded.

There should have been other dynasties, but they existed for too short a time for the world to remember.

The historical period between the Qin and Han dynasties was actually a period of "vacancy" during the great turmoil in the Central Plains at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

During this period, there was no emperor, but the state of Chu, which was divided into theaters, became the dominant state.

Two relatively powerful kingdoms emerged through the Xiting Division, one was the Chu State of the Overlord Xiang Yu, which was called "Western Chu" in history because of the capital Pengcheng, replacing the Chu State of King Huai. The other is the Han kingdom established by Liu Bang, the king of Han.

As for the dispute between Chu and Han, it is a historical event and cannot be counted as a period.

Late Qin Dynasty [BC209-BC206].

Chu and Han contended [BC206-BC202].