First, Qin Shihuang "burned books to bury Confucianism"
This story, written in a history textbook, was discovered by everyone in recent years. This is complete nonsense. The text we learned in primary school was roughly like this: Qin Shihuang was a tyrant. In order to prevent the people in the world from rebelling, he confiscated kitchen knives from all over the country and beat twelve huge copper men; He also collected all the books in the world and burned them all. In addition, he will bury alive "all" Confucian scholars who oppose him.
However, the fact is that Qin Shihuang only burned the history books of the other six countries. He doesn't burn books about medicine, planting, astrology and a hundred schools of thought contend. The real person who burned books was Xiang Yu, a great hero praised by later generations. He set fire to Qin king Palace, and the fire burned for three months. Xianyang has become a scorched earth, and there are no books! In addition, Qin Shihuang killed 400 alchemists instead of Confucian scholars. When he worshiped Mount Tai, he called him unworthy to pass the throne to people with other surnames by abdication system, and finally got nothing.
Second, the subtle influence of resistance
When I was a child, I always heard people say that Kanggan flourished. When I grew up, I read the Travels of China written by Marco Ernie, England, only to find that he said in the book: During the Qianlong period, an 18-year-old girl in Jiangnan, China, didn't even have a pair of pants. The people of China are so poor that they want the whole family to wear a pair of trousers. The big girl has no pants and uses wheat straw as an apron! The author of Matteo Ricci's Notes visited China during the Ming Dynasty and described it as a "garden country": the streets are clean and tidy, ordinary people are neatly dressed, tourists will have a set of "new clothes" and beggars will have special shelters! So, I don't know how this prosperous time of the Qing Dynasty came about.
Some people who support the Qing dynasty think that the Qing dynasty has a large territory, that is, a prosperous time. However, no matter how big the territory is, people live in non-human and non-ghost, and have no dignity. What is a prosperous time? As for their heyday, they can only be compared with their worst period. Although people can't afford to wear trousers, at least Kangxi and Qianlong's own palaces were not served by foreigners after the Second Opium War and in China before and after Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion. In addition, Kangxi can also learn western languages, advanced technology and culture "alone". Therefore, whether the "prosperous time" is "prosperous time" depends on when it is compared.
Third, the picture is passed
Another nonsense historical lie is that Zhang slaughtered Sichuanese for ten years, and Zhang Lixia "killed seven monuments", which was recorded by unofficial history in Qing Dynasty. Zhang didn't set up the so-called "Seven Killing Monument" at all, but the "Oracle Monument" he set up is still there. Its text is: "There is everything in heaven, everything in man, and nothing between man and heaven. Ghosts and gods are obvious and self-righteous. " It is not what was originally rumored: there is nothing in the sky for people, and nothing in the sky is given by people. Kill, kill, kill, kill.
Zhang used to be an ordinary farmer in Shaanxi Province. Because of the plague of locusts in his hometown, he had to raise the flag to rebel. He has always had a bad temper, and after the death of the Ming Dynasty, he established the "Daxi regime" in Chengdu. Due to the isolation of Sichuan Basin from the outside world, the traffic was inconvenient in those years, and it was difficult for outsiders to understand the situation. He and his two adopted sons have been stationed in Sichuan and Sichuan for more than ten years since 1644. In the meantime, he fought bloody battles with Nanming Army and Qing Army for many times.
The Qing army advised him to surrender, but he resolutely refused. However, on his deathbed, his adopted son said in his last words: "The orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty for 300 years may not be extinct, but it is also an act of God. I am dead and eager to return to the light, so I am not unjust. " Thus, his adopted son Li Dingguo became the last national hero of Nanming. After the Qing soldiers invaded Sichuan, they found that almost all Sichuanese were dead, mainly because of the bloody battle and the flight of Sichuanese in the past ten years. And most of them, it is hard to say whether Zhang or the Qing army killed them.