Why did it be difficult for ancient dynasties to exist for 300 years?

In fact, this is the same reason as being rich for only three generations.

It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country. The first generation fights the country, and the second and third generations guard the country.

In ancient China, the emperor system and the primogeniture system were practiced. This led to a situation where the talents of the emperor did not match the power he had.

In layman's terms, it means that the emperor is mediocre and the country is miserable.

You can't guarantee that your heirs will be extremely talented and talented.

The absence of a strong leader can easily lead the country astray and into the abyss.

And each dynasty had different problems. The problem itself lurks beneath the phenomenon.

It takes a certain amount of time for it to manifest and erupt. Perhaps the first year of expropriation and extortion was tolerated, and the people could endure it. And it continued in the tenth year, and the people endured it still. But in the fiftieth year, the hundredth hundred, there is no need to endure it, and there is no need to endure it anymore.

Naturally, someone will revolt and overthrow this decaying dynasty. No matter how deep the problem is, it is enough to be stimulated for 300 years, and the change of dynasties is the reincarnation of history and the progress of history.

Why it will be 300 years, this may involve the asymmetry of the development of the population and the economy of the society, it is difficult to explain clearly, I can only make simple assumptions, such as the growth of people, through childhood, adulthood, old age. Assuming that 100 years is the base number, it can be regarded as using 100 years to seek development and accumulate wealth in these 100 years; In another 100 years, because of egoism and hedonism, the ruling class will begin to squander the wealth of the imperial court in large quantities within these 100 years; In the last 100 years, the wealth of the imperial court was in short supply with the continuous expansion of the population base of the ruling class, and finally the idea had to be hit on the common people and the gentry and landlords. In the early days of the dynasty, due to the war, there will be a partial renewal of the interest class, and at the same time, the population will plummet, and the people will obtain land, so the initial development can be stable.

From the middle and later periods, the population will grow so that the rate of production capacity and economic growth cannot keep up with the growth rate of the population, so a peasant uprising caused by hunger broke out, which eventually led to the change of ownership.

The Zhou Dynasty existed for the longest time.

The dynasty that succeeded the Shang Dynasty in Chinese history was founded after the destruction of the Shang Dynasty by King Wu of Zhou, the leader of the First Zhou Dynasty. The Zhou dynasty existed from about 1046 BC to 256 BC, for a total of 790 years.

Of all the feudal dynasties in ancient China, none ruled for more than 300 years. Although the two Han Dynasty claim to have been in existence for more than 400 years, in fact, there have been interruptions and perishes in the middle; And even if the Tang Dynasty counts the time when Wu Zetian was called the emperor and built Zhou, it was only 289 years; As for the other dynasties of the Sui, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, it was even shorter, of which the Sui Dynasty as a unified dynasty lasted only 37 years.

The Xia Dynasty was built for many years and the Shang Dynasty was many years, but none of the subsequent dynasties exceeded the year, and the longest was also a year!

The Xia Dynasty, the **, the Zhou Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty all lasted for more than 300 years.

Three hundred years should be a cyclical issue, not a coincidence.

Friends who study Western history will find that ancient Western dynasties often ruled for more than 300 years, such as the Bourbon dynasty, which ruled for at least 400 years. And the ancient Chinese dynasties also had strong periods, such as the Qin State, the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, etc., why did they last less than 300 years? I think there are many reasons for this.

First of all, there is a common problem in the succession of dynasties, that is, in the early stage of the establishment of most new dynasties, the king will first carefully analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the previous dynasty's rule, learn from the advantages of the previous dynasty, or continue to use it, remove the disadvantages of the previous dynasty's rule, and abolish the establishment of a new system. Ancient Chinese dynasties were fought for by war, and they must recuperate in the early stage, so the early stage was relatively prosperous, and the later rulers became more and more corrupt, and the exploitation of the people became more and more serious, so there was a rebellion, and there was an opportunity to change the dynasty.

Secondly, there is the issue of population and land. In ancient wars, it was basically the number of people, the strength of the army, plus occasional natural disasters, such as famine years, plague years, the population will be greatly reduced, and after several years and decades of war, the population will be reduced. There is an opportunity for the establishment of a new dynasty, and the per capita land resources are very abundant, and there are few people in the land, so there will be a prosperous era.

The prosperity basically lasted for more than 100 years, there was no family planning in ancient times, there were more and more people, the land was not enough, and the population multiplied to a certain extent, and some people had no food to eat and starved to death. When the common people saw it, the official master's house did not worry about eating and drinking, but he didn't have anything to eat, and he rebelled!

Finally, there are some reasons for the ancient system, we will find that the restriction of the king's rights is constantly improving, to the Ming and Qing dynasties, civil officials are no longer willing to be governed by the king alone, even if the king does not personally govern, the government will not be wasted, so the king's will is also constantly wearing, similar to the "virtual monarchy republic". There are always some uncontrollable factors in the change of the imperial court, which lead to the demise of this imperial court.

In short, the change of the imperial court has always gone through a process of "establishment-revival-strength-decline", if you want to ask, what time is about a cycle of about three hundred years, of course, the reasons for the demise of each dynasty are different, and it cannot be studied simply as an individual case, we are talking about a law here.

It is easy to start a business, but it is difficult to keep a business, and there is no way back to open the country, as long as you rush forward desperately; And if you keep your business, if you don't pay attention to it, you will fall into enjoyment, so it is easy to destroy the country.

In fact, many dynasties are less than 300 years old, just because each dynasty has a faint monarch, but this faint monarch may lead to the demise of the entire dynasty, so it is not more than 300 years.