In the Tang Dynasty, being short was also guilty, why should short people be arrested?

Height has always been more important, many people want to be tall, but height is related to genes and the environment, people in some places will be shorter, and the people in Daozhou in the Tang Dynasty are shorter than other places. Originally, it was not the fault of the people to be short, but the rulers of the Tang Dynasty liked to see novel human beings, so they asked the people to pay tribute to these people, and the people of Daozhou were also asked to pay tribute because they were short. The chosen ones would be treated by the imperial court until Chang'an, and then watched like animals by the upper classes, and most of these tributes would never return to their hometowns.

Daozhou's location is relatively remote, and the people live a very difficult life, so they are much shorter than people in other places. Faced with the fact that the height of the people of Daozhou was much lower than the average height, the rulers of the Tang Dynasty did not think about finding out the reason and then improving the lives of the people of Daozhou, but asked Daozhou to offer them short people for their amusement. The people of Daozhou also dared not speak out against this situation, and could only pray that they were not the shortest, and that they would not become tributes if they had good luck.

However, this situation of the people of Daozhou was lifted after Yangcheng became a thorn. As soon as Yangcheng started his career, he was appreciated by the prime minister of the dynasty and went to Daozhou to make a history of assassination. After Yangcheng knew about the suffering of the people in Daozhou, he was very sympathetic and wanted to relieve the suffering of the people.

When the envoys of the imperial court repeatedly asked Yangcheng to prepare tribute, Yangcheng was indifferent. In view of the fact that the envoy came to Daozhou many times, Yangcheng wrote a memo to the emperor, in which he wrote: According to the rules of tribute, if there is a place that can pay tribute, pay tribute, and if there is no tribute, there is no need to pay tribute.

The envoy asked us Daozhou to pay tribute to the dwarf slaves, but our Daozhou did not ask for the dwarf slaves, only the dwarf people. Yangcheng also said that during the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, other countries paid tribute to parrots to the Tang Dynasty, but these parrots could not adapt to the climate in the north when they arrived in Chang'an, so these parrots were returned to that country. We treat parrots in other countries so well, let alone our own people?

The emperor at that time, Tang Dezong, was touched, so he issued an edict announcing to the people of Daozhou that there would be no need to pay tribute to the dwarves in the future.

In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, it was indispensable for someone to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty as an open period, and all kinds of strange people were also one of them, and the reason for their short stature due to insufficient food in remote areas and other factors would be captured and appreciated by the nobles in Chang'an City.

Because they are very short, people who are different from ordinary people are treated as rare things, and they are only dedicated to princes and nobles, and they are visited like zoos.

The ancient people were slightly shorter than modern people, and the height of people before the founding of the People's Republic of China was basically the same.

First of all, let's talk about the general height of the ancients.

The standard unit of length in ancient times was the "ruler", but the length of the "ruler" in the past dynasties was inconsistent, basically the earlier the age, the shorter the "ruler". For example: one foot in the Qin Dynasty was about one meter, and one foot in the Ming and Qing dynasties was about one meter meter, which was about 50% more than that in the Qin Dynasty!

The ancients often said "seven-foot man", which is basically a saying formed in the Han Dynasty. The weights and measures of the Han Dynasty were basically exactly the same as those of the Qin Dynasty. Among them, the unit of length "ruler" is about meters.

Rice. It can be seen that the height of the ancient Han people is more than about meters. At the same time, see "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a big man like Guan Yu can reach eight feet tall, which is more than the current meter, which is relatively tall now.

In addition, there are a few who reach nine feet, and their height is about 2 meters, which is one meter taller than most people at that time. Considering that Chinese are now more meters tall, which is about the same height shorter than China's most famous "giant" - Yao Ming, it is credible that the height of Chinese in Qin and Han is generally about one meter.

Let's talk about the terracotta army. The nature of the terracotta warriors and horses is the underworld guard after the death of Qin Shi Huang, and the soldiers are all selected, and the specific criteria for the selection of the Qin people are not very clear at present, but according to the general situation of other dynasties, the emperor's guard soldiers have certain requirements in height. Therefore we can infer that:

The guards of the Qin Dynasty basically required a relatively tall height (otherwise, a group of short guards really lacked a bit of deterrence at that time, and the wind thought: in addition to protecting the emperor, the guards also have the nature of an honor guard, so the soldiers need to be relatively tall to show the grandeur of the country). At present, the height of the Qin terracotta warriors and horses that have been found is usually in meters, especially in the early stages of meters.

Referring to the discussion in the previous paragraph, the ancients were quite tall (the Qin Terracotta Warriors were basically the shape of the tallest group of soldiers at that time). And now there are not a few people above the meter, and the average modern soldier in the north is more than the meter tall. It can be seen that the ancients were slightly lower in height than modern humans.

To sum up, the records in the ancient books should be calculated according to the weights and measures at that time, for example, "seven-foot man", according to the current standard of 1 meter = 3 feet, that is, there are more meters, and there are few in the world that can reach it, right? The records in ancient books must be accounted for, and after the accounting, they will not feel exaggerated (a slight exaggeration or an exaggeration of a very small number of people is still possible). There is not much difference in height between people in the Manchu era and people in the Qin and Han dynasties, and modern people are only slightly taller due to adequate nutrition.

I won't go into details.

The thing we are proud of is that after the founding of New China, there was no war, coupled with the progress of people's thinking and the propaganda of policies, almost no one chose to marry close relatives, and our height was not short to recover and become taller. Genes have been protected and inherited, and the standard of living is getting higher and higher, so now people's height is improving from generation to generation.

Before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the War of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms has not stopped, tall and powerful people want to join the army, and they will have ** when they join the army, and people with short stature do not have to participate in the worry of life, so it is easy to survive, and if they reproduce from generation to generation, their height will become shorter.

Because in fact, during the Tang Dynasty, people began to pay less attention to physical exercise, so the average height of people slowly became shorter. Therefore, physical exercise is still very important.

That's because after the Tang Dynasty, people in our country and people from other ethnic minorities began to marry, so because of genes, the height of our country will also begin to become shorter.

After the Tang Dynasty, there was a period of frequent wars for a long time. However, the able-bodied people were pulled to be warriors, leaving some of the shorter ones behind. War poverty affects people's quality of life.

That's because the years of war and natural disasters have caused the people to be unable to eat enough and their bodies have been damaged, and the war has drained away a large number of young and middle-aged people, leaving behind the old, weak, sick and disabled children, which are naturally insufficient in all aspects.

There are two main things, the first is the increase in wars after the Tang DynastySince every time the people died on the battlefield were some tall men, the genes of tall bodies among the Chinese slowly decreased. The second thing is that Chinese women began to have the habit of binding their feet, because foot binding has brought a bad effect on women's bodiesSome women's physical fitness has declined sharply, and when the physical fitness of mothers declines, the physical fitness of the children they give birth to will definitely not be better.

Many people say that people after the Tang Dynasty were generally short because people at that time could not eat enough, but in fact, this statement is wrongTake the Tang Dynasty as an example, agriculture in the Tang Dynasty was much more developed than all previous dynasties, and people simply could not have a decline in physical fitness because they did not have enough food and clothing. If the agriculture of the Tang Dynasty was not developed, we can also take the Qing Dynasty as an example, the Qing Dynasty was much more prosperous than all the previous dynasties, and the arrival of the prosperous era shows that the country is strong and the people are rich.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the scale of the war has been much larger than before, due to the large scale of the battlefield, the corresponding investment of more people, when the war was waged at that time, the ruler would first choose some tall people to fight for himself when selecting soldiersIt is precisely because the tall and the big ones die on the battlefield that it is difficult for the short ones who are left behind to give birth to tall offspring.

Of course, in addition to war, women's footbinding behavior is also a key factor affecting the height of Chinese. Since the Song Dynasty, the bad habit of women's foot binding has been popular in China, and due to the existence of foot binding, women's physical fitness has declined rapidlyDue to the poor development of women's lower limbs and pelvis, the children they give birth to are generally not of high physical fitness.

Because in the Tang Dynasty, there was no need to fight at all, and many people lacked exercise, so they were very short.

Because during the Tang Dynasty, their economic development was very good, and there were few wars.

Because they made themselves short so that they didn't have to go to war.

Personally, I think that since the Tang Dynasty, I have become better, and people rarely go out to exercise, only thinking about how to have fun?

The Tang Dynasty, presumably everyone knows that this prosperous dynasty that spread the fame of the Chinese nation to the world, has retained Chinatowns in all countries around the world, and the Tang Dynasty is famous and famous; In the Tang Dynasty, there were many Ming monarchs such as Tang Taizong, Tang Xuanzong, Wu Zetian and so on. In between, there were also many policies, many of which were very enlightened policies, such as the ethnic policy, which reflected the tolerance and elegance of the Tang Dynasty, but there were also some policies that made people very confused. That is, the short people in the Tang Dynasty are going to be arrested, what is going on?

It turns out that the name of this policy is "tribute people", and this person does not refer to graceful beauties, but ordinary people with different body shapes. You may read this, and you will ask, what does it mean to be different from ordinary people? It may be a person with patterns on his body, for example, it is recorded in the history of the Tang Dynasty that the northwest paid tribute to Chang'an with a woman with unique lines in the northwest; The life of such a person after arriving in Chang'an can also be imagined, probably being visited like a monkey, and it was extremely humiliating.

In addition, short people were also an outlier in the Tang Dynasty, where people were tall and tall, and belonged to the category of people with different body shapes. So it is also in the category of being tributed. It is reported that during the reign of Gaozong, the "tribute people" who paid tribute to the imperial court in Daozhou were the local people who were short in stature.

There is a text as evidence that "the people of Daozhou, many dwarfs, and the city is sent in the year of dwarf slaves", you can think of how desperate the people of Daozhou would be at that time, and they didn't know where their fate would go, whether they could live with peace of mind, or they were unfortunately sent to Chang'an to be watched.

"Tribute" was the reason why the short people of the Tang Dynasty were arrestedWhat is hidden behind these two short words is how many people's wives died at that time, and they were really cruel when they parted from life and death. The poem "The old man cries his grandmother cries his son", the poem of Saint Du Fu is by no means an exaggeration, but a word of blood. It can also be seen from this that even a highly regarded dynasty like the Tang Dynasty had some outdated policies.

This is because there was a bad habit in the Tang Dynasty at that time, that is, to pay tribute to those short people as tribute for the pleasure of the nobles, which was a very bad custom, which shows that the status of these dwarfs at that time was very low.

According to historical records, "the people of Daozhou, many dwarfs, and the elders are only more than three feet." The city was sent in the year of dwarf slaves, and it was called Daozhou Ren Tugong". This person who was paid tribute, because of his short stature, became the plaything of the royal family and nobles, and he may not see his family for the rest of his life.

If you are too short, you will not look good, which will affect the appearance of the entire Tang Dynasty and the impression of other ethnic groups on the Tang Dynasty, so if you are too short, you will be arrested.

At that time, with the economic prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, they paid great attention to the image of their country, thinking that the short man was too ugly, which affected the image.

Because the Tang Dynasty was more open, they paid more attention to appearance and dress, and if they were too short, it would affect the whole look, so if they were too short, they would be arrested.

Because the economy of the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous at that time, the society and culture were relatively open, and they believed that being short affected the social image.

The Tang Dynasty paid more attention to culture, appearance and social style, and people who were too short had some influence on their image, so they were arrested.

Because there are also some immoral customs in the Tang Dynasty, Daozhou in the Tang Dynasty needs to pay "tribute" to the imperial court, which is the local people with short stature.

Because there was a bad habit in the Tang Dynasty at that time, that is, to pay tribute to those short people as tribute, for the nobles to have fun, which was a very bad custom.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was not a sin to be short, but the magnates at that time liked novelty things, and there were decrees of tribute people, and those who were different from ordinary people would be paid tribute to the emperor and nobles as playthings.

It was not arrested, but it was paid as tribute, because there was a bad custom during the Tang Dynasty, that is, people with easy appearance and figure were treated as tribute.

Some of the customs in the Tang Dynasty were very barbaric, and some places would arrest dwarfs and contribute them to dignitaries and nobles for their amusement, which was very immoral.

At that time, the status of dwarves was very low, in fact, it was not that they committed crimes, but that the ruling class at that time wanted to make fun of these dwarves, which was very cruel.

Because the Tang Dynasty, which has always been open and inclusive, has always had the impression of the living world, in fact, it has preserved many laws that are very barbaric and inhumane, like tribute people. The "people" who want to pay tribute to Chang'an here refer to people whose body shape is different from that of mortals.