What are some of the words in the history books that seem frivolous but cruel to taste?

A lot of torture in history books is very cruel, and when you read it, you don't think there's anything, but when you think about it, how this torture is done, you will feel very cruel, but history books generally downplay this kind of torture, and they don't use too much brushwork to render it.

The winner is king, the loser is the villain, this sentence looks very light, and many people agree with this sentence very much, but I know very well that I really feel that this is a bloody torture. It makes people dare not lose, and there is no room for people, in fact, it is really cruel.

The counties passed, there was no rest of the red land, the spring swallows returned, and the nest was in the forest. In the battle of Emperor Yuanjia of Song Wen, when the Northern Wei army retreated, it carried out a brutal sweep of the area through which it passed. When the swallows return in the spring, they build their nests in the woods. The swallows nested under the eaves because the house was all burned down.

Two-legged sheep. In the volume of Song Zhuangqiu's "Chicken Rib Weaving": "The old thin man is called 'Rao Grip Fire', the woman is called 'Unenvious Sheep', the child is called 'and the bones are rotten', and the eyes are 'two-legged sheep'.

The two-legged sheep here refers to people, and prisoners of war are eaten as food after the war.

Twenty-three years, sent to the frontier, died in fifty-three years. History books often summarize a person's life in three words or two, and there is only one sentence in the thirty years of frontier life.

The ancient historians were all like knives, and although the things they described seemed mundane, they were all very critical. Deep ancient poetry is often brutal.

In some history books, there are a lot of understated but cruel realities, and these are the deepest points of the heart, so I think it's very scary.

There are seemingly frivolous but cruel words in the history books as follows:

1. Exterminate the clan, exterminate the three clans, and exterminate the nine clans.

In the feudal society, the supremacy of monarchy, the ancient rulers regarded human life as a grass leakage, and engaged in plant connections at every turn, a sentence of "clan extermination" seems to be an understatement, but looking through the historical materials and savoring it, behind it are countless bloody human lives.

2. "The locusts in the eastern part of the country rose and flew west to Dunhuang".

It seems that it is just writing that locusts are raging in Kanto, but in fact, locusts are flying all over the sky, and after the locusts that cover the sky and the sun, there is nothing left in the crops of the common people, and there is no harvest. What these people are facing is a great famine, where the people eat Guanyin soil, and even cannibalism by the hungry. Behind this are countless hungry people struggling, and they are full of white bones!

3. Jingguan is the skull platform.

The corpses of the defeated enemy were piled up on both sides of the road, and then the corpses were compacted with earth to form a huge pyramid-shaped mound of earth as a sign of military merit. Historically, the Sui Dynasty's three conquests of Goguryeo failed, and the Goguryeo rulers built the corpses of the Sui army killed in the battle into the "Jingguan".

Summary of historical book genres

1. Chronicle.

Chronicles are records of historical events according to the chronology of the living emperor (i.e., chronologically). On behalf of the "Zizhi Tongjian" (compiled by Sima Guang in the Song Dynasty, it is the most influential one of the existing chronicles in China). In addition, the chronicle history book also has Confucius's "Spring and Autumn Cover He Rotten"."Spring and Autumn Three Passes"Zuo Qiu Ming's "Zuo Biography" (also known as "Spring and Autumn Zuo's Biography"), "Spring and Autumn Ram Biography", "Spring and Autumn Valley Liang Biography" and so on.

2. Chronicles.

Ji biography is a biography of a person (the biography of the emperor is called "Ji", the general person is called "biography", the person in special circumstances is called "Ji", the record system, customs, economy, etc. is called "Zhi", and the historical facts are recorded in the way of arranging historical events called "table").

3. Dynastic history.

This genre was founded in the Book of Han written by the Eastern Han historian Ban Gu, which describes the 230-year history of the Western Han Dynasty from the first year of Gaozu (206 BC) to the fourth year (23 years) of Emperor Wang Mangdi.

<> "History is an understatement but a cruel word.

1. It will rain heavily, the road is impassable, and the degree has been lost. If the deadline is lost, the law will be cut.

2, Ye Zhong is hungry, cannibalism, and the people of Jilong Shigong are eaten.

3. For the first time, more than 100,000 people were erected, and the Beijing view was built in the south of the city.

4. Locusts come from the east, covering the sky and plague the world.

5. The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. Shoot absolutely.

6. Dogs in the city eat people, and they are all fat, and the sea cooks dogs.

7. The twenty-second year of Jian'an is a major epidemic.

8. It is a drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people of Quzhou cannibalize people.

9. It was blackmail and tried his best to resist and kill, leaving 240 of his little ones to return to Zhao.

10. Spring swallows return and nest in the forest.

11. Hunger and cannibalism.

If you ask the history books what sounds cruel, there's a lot more of that. For example: "Shandong was plagued by locusts, and the people were eaten by their children", "There was a rebellion in a certain place, which swept through many places", and so on, to name a few.

You must know that the history books all record some major events, such as about the common people, in the eyes of the rulers, there are very few, many are just one or two sentences of understatement, and they are overshadowed.

In particular, like the historical records revised by the imperial court itself, they are all to praise the emperor's great achievements, and the emperor's great achievements are often based on the suffering of the people, such as the locust plague in Shandong, the people are easy to eat, there is no too much description of the people's disasters, more to describe the emperor, or which character, through what means, how to relieve the disaster, but also praise his IQ and bravery.

But think about it carefully, to what extent can the people exchange sons to eat each other, and in the face of this situation, the records in the history books only use the word famine to describe it, and do not describe too much how to provide disaster relief, just say that after many years, the economy has developed there, and there has never been a famine again.

There are also descriptions of wars, bloodshed, I know there is a certain degree of exaggeration, but if there are not enough dead people and there is no red ground, how can there be such an adjective? And to use this adjective to describe, one can imagine how many people died.

Some emperors have a better life, and they don't have the credit of disaster relief, nor the credit of pacifying, and many people don't understand, why do everyone praise them? This is because the emperor did not provide disaster relief when he was in him, which means that he governed well, and there were no disasters in all directions, so there was no need to go to disaster relief; If there is no pacification, it means that the world is stable, no one rebels, and there is no need to suppress the rebellion; Isn't that something to be praised? So, you don't have to have a lot of things going on to make a career, and it's great to be dull sometimes.

The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms recorded: Cao Cao killed Kong Rong on the charge of unfilial piety, Kong Rong was the twenty-year grandson of Confucius, and the Eastern Han Dynasty still flaunted filial piety to rule the world. Actually said that the descendants of Confucius were not filial?

Cao Cao wanted to kill Xun Yu, and he committed suicide when he sent an empty box.

Cui Yan shaved his yin and yang head for the first time, and died the second time.

If you go to see the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, there must be a lot of them in the Martial Emperor Chronicles, because of the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms compiled by Chen Shou, he did not dare to be disrespectful to Cao Cao. So it's an understatement for these things.

If you have any doubts, you can ask them.