Why did Qin Shi Huang call himself "Emperor"?

The Qin Empire was established with great fanfare, and a series of decrees were issued regardless of whether they were acceptable to the people. Whether or not he accomplished the task of unification in the spiritual realm, he finally fulfilled the historical mission that all Qin kings had undertaken - to annex the six states and unify the world - in a formal way.

Ying Zheng's first task after establishing the Qin state was to give himself a resounding imperial title, which was very important to him. Before the Qin dynasty, the son of Zhou had been called king, and the word "king" had already been adopted by many subsequent rulers in a dignified manner. I naturally had no appetite for what others had chewed over. Besides, he had set himself a lifetime of immortality, so he could not afford to be sloppy about using such a name for several years.

When I was facing the magnificent mountains and the magnificent work of my predecessor, I was dizzy, indeed dizzy. In this case, the majority of the people are stunned. I think it's a good idea to have a good time.

It's a very simple fact that when you're working with a slash-and-burn system, you're motivated, and once you've got a lot of grain in the field, you're not going to be able to find your way around! This point belongs to human nature, and Qin Shi Huang wished very much that he could enter the ranks of the gods rather than be a human being. Obviously he didn't.

An overused Chinese character "王" (王), the more he looked at it, the more it turned his stomach, and the more his heart swelled up, the more he felt the need to find another name.

After all these mixed feelings, a new title was born that is familiar to people today: "Emperor". So why did Ying Zheng combine two such powerful words together, and what does the word "emperor" mean?

What Qin Shi Huang wanted was to be overbearing, and he didn't want to make himself related to any kind of ancestor. He skipped the embarrassing family history and went straight to being an ancestor, directly to being the first emperor.

221 B.C., a historical year that we are all very familiar with, is a year that, when we see it, time and space seem to be strangely intertwined, and the concept of history in our brains seems to take on an owner.

Yes, one day in 221 B.C., Ying Zheng sat on top of the great hall in Xianyang, the capital city of Qin with mixed feelings. It turned out that in the final battle of Qin's unification, Tian Jian, the king of Qi, had surrendered without a fight, along with Tian Jian's ambition, stating that he was willing to be a feudal ruler of only 500 miles of land.

This humble request was a huge boost to Ying Zheng's vanity, as he had been fighting for so many years.

Besides, there is no such thing as a 500-mile land grant. You think I'm a charity organization?

And so, a brainstorming session to change the name of the king took place in the courtroom. In a short while, the prime minister Wang òài, the royal historian Feng Jiao, and the court minister Li Si had an idea. They came together and reported that the land of the five emperors (Huangdi, Zhuanxu, ?àcu, Yao, and Shun) was only 1,000 kilometers in size, and the vassals did not come to the court for such an area. Now you have pacified the world, the whole country unified set up counties, the decree of unification, this is a pioneering ah, before the ancients, after the estimate there is nothing to come, you have this merit is great to the sky.

In ancient times, there were the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Earth, and the Emperor of Thailand, and the Emperor of Thailand was the most honored, so the king should be called "Emperor of Thailand".







The King of China is the first Chinese emperor in the world to be granted the title of King of China.

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So, Ying Zheng ordered: remove the word "Tai", leave the word "Huang", and then use the ancient name of "Emperor", and together they were called "Emperor". Emperor" - the title of the highest ruler of all dynasties in Chinese history - was thus born. It seems that Ying Zheng cared most about his own title. The ministers had to rack their brains to come up with such a name.

The word "朕" was originally a generic term for the first person in the pre-Qin Dynasty, and could be used by anyone. By this time, Ying Zheng had taken over the word "朕", and "朕" became the moniker of the emperor, and was strictly forbidden to be used by others. The name is there, but it is only a small beginning.