Homosexual emperors
Homosexuality is a fashionable word, but it doesn't fit the Chinese context because its existence in China is very old, and Liu Xin, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was one of them.
Dong Xian was handsome and dashing, and the son of the royal historian Dong Gong, and was thus chosen to be the crown prince's warden. Emperor Ai fell in love with him and made him Dong Menlang, and appointed his father as the order of Baling and moved him to the position of Guanglu Daifu (光禄大夫). Soon after, Dong Xian was also appointed as extra horse harnessed by the side of a team of the side of a team of lieutenants in the service of the middle, "Han Shu - Dong Xian biography", Dong Xian, "out of the ride, into the Royal left and right, ten months between the reward of tens of thousands of, the noble shocked the imperial court." The two are inseparable, the same bed **** pillow.
On one occasion, the emperor woke up, the sleeve was Dongxian pressure, he was afraid to pull the sleeve woke up the "love", so cut it with a knife, visible depth of its love. The emperor also built a palace similar to the imperial palace for Dong Xian, and gave Dong Xian the best of the imperial supplies, while using the inferior ones himself. In order to be with his lover for the rest of his life, he also built a mound for Dong Xian next to his own mausoleum. In the Book of Han - Dong Xian's Biography, it is recorded that Emperor Wudi even jokingly said to Dong Xian, "I want to follow Yao's example of Zen Shun, how about it?" The ministers were dumbfounded. This kind of "love" do not want to Jiangshan love in history is rare. The state of affairs was so bad that Wang Mang usurped the throne and established a new dynasty less than 10 years after the death of the emperor.
Emperor Bodhisattva
History has a "three Wuzong" (Northern Wei Taiwu Zong, Northern Zhou Wu Di, Tang Dynasty Wu Zong, the Fifth Zhou Shizong) to destroy Buddhism, but there are also Liang Wu Di, Wu Zetian, Tang Zhongzong, such a faithful Buddhist believers. Among them, the "Emperor Bodhisattva" (ministers in the zhangzhi so called) Liang Wu Di Xiao Yan is the most prominent.
The emperor vigorously advocated Buddhism and spent huge sums of money to build temples, and at that time there were 2,846 temples of various sizes throughout the country, among which the Dai Aijing Temple, Zhidu Temple, Deliverance Temple and Tongtai Temple were the largest. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once exclaimed, "Four hundred and eighty temples in the South, how many buildings in the smoke and rain." He also wrote a large number of Buddhist writings, "although a lot of things, but the volume does not pick up the hand, burning candle side stand, often to e night." And the part is very large, of which the "system of the purpose of the Great Nirvana Sutra Lectures" has 10l volumes.
At the same time, Emperor Wu also created the theory of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, that Confucianism and Taoism are derived from Buddhism. He also put forward the precept that Buddhists should not eat meat, which was not stipulated in Buddhism before, and he wrote the text of "Cutting off Wine and Meat" based on the Nirvana Sutra and other Theravada Buddhism. From then on, he set an example by living the life of an ascetic monk: he ate only one meal a day, did not dabble in wine and meat, and lived in a small hall and dark room with a hat for three years, and a bed quilt for two years. Emperor Wu also had three times to give up the temple: the first year of Datong (527 years), he suddenly ran to the Tongtai Temple as a slave, living with the monks, and later by the minister of the "redeemed"; two years later, and ran to the temple; Taiqing first year (547 years), 84 years of age, he gave up the third time to the temple, and insisted on staying more than a month. Three times "redemption" of Emperor Wu spent 400 million.
The Buddha did not bless this faithful believer, Taiqing three years (549 years), Hou Jing launched a coup d'état, captured Jiankang, the Bodhisattva Emperor was captured, and was later starved to death.
Emperor of Chess
"When boredom comes, take over the chess to play, to learn to be a soldier and a bishop, to get the strength to be in charge. The pawns will move forward, and will not talk back. You must learn to walk straight, not like a horse walking diagonally. If there are others who block my favor, I will **** hit them like a child." (Gui Zhi Er - Wing Department eight volumes) Tang Su Zong Li Heng is keen on chess, but not bachelor bishop, do not learn the pawn rook, but to learn the horse line slant.
The last dynasty was plagued by the Tianbao Rebellion (also known as the Anshi Rebellion). Suzong and his concubine Zhang Liang Di embraced the troops to flee west. On the way to escape, he also remembered chess, put mountains of military intelligence war reports and ignore, and Zhang's all day chess for fun. The prime minister Li Yu advised: if not to pull back from the brink, there is a repeat of the "Mawei slope incident" (soldiers mutiny, kill Yang Guozhong and others) of the danger. Suzong still no convergence, in order to hide people's ears, ordered the eunuchs will be "gold and copper molding" chess pieces replaced by "dry tree chicken" carved wooden chess pieces, so that the onlookers can not hear them play chess throw the sound made. People called this kind of chess piece "Baoying Xiangqi". In literature, Xie An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Kong Ming of the Three Kingdoms, and Liu Bo Wen of the late Yuan Dynasty were all able to "play chess in a tent, and win from a thousand miles away", and Su Zong seemed to be no slouch either.
Cuju Emperor
Tang Xizong Li ingenious hobby horseback riding, cockfighting and cuju. He once said proudly, "If I should strike the ball into the lift, I shall be the top scholar." He sometimes play is two or three hours, even forget to eat, anxious around the eunuchs and maids around. He also repeatedly ordered local officials to recommend the ball skills of young people into the palace to accompany him to hit, there are many people because of the good Cuju and was appointed as a feudal official. The eunuch Tian Lingzi's brother, Chen Jingwan, won the game and was made the governor of Xichuan. Of course, there were also many people who lost their lives because of their mistakes in playing cuju.
Playing with the ball will kill you. In the first year of the Qianfu reign (874), Wang Xianzhi revolted in Changheng, and then Huang Chao responded. After the uprising was easily quelled, Tian Lingzi and authoritarian, cuju emperor often talk about the dynasty with close friends and tears. The first year of the Guangqi (885 years), Li Kexun into Chang'an, Xi Zong fled around, Wende first year (888 years) died of grief and anger.
Carpenter Emperor
Ming Xizong Zhu Shan school not listen to the teachings of the sages - "ancestral law Yao and Shun, the Charter of the civil and military", but go to learn Luban, learn Yu Hao, learn Li Commandment, all day long with axes, saws, planes.
Xi Zong, outside the Jin soldiers invasion, within the Shandong Xu Hongru uprising and Shaanxi Wang Erzhi uprising. Xizong, however, did not do his job, only know how to make woodwork and build small palaces. Wu BaoYa in the "open garden magazine" wrote: Hsi Tsung "tasted in the courtyard to build a small palace, four feet high, exquisite and skillful". As often addicted to it, skillful, according to the "first set aside Zhi": "the genus of the axe catty, are self manipulation. Although the skillful craftsman, can not be over." Xizong's playfulness makes the eunuchs dictatorship, sycophantic power, as the "discretionary Zhiyu" said: "When hacking the time of pleasure, or an urgent chapter, please decide, literate female recite the title of the name of the Bi, YuYin always Oracle WangTiQian generation said: 'I know, you guys with the heart line to go.' The traitors then want their love and hate, red implementation." Wei Zhongxian is in this case to expand the power, step by step to seize power.
"Ming History Volume 22 - Hizong" said: "indiscriminate reward and obscene punishment, loyal and tragic, hundreds of millions of centrifuges, although I want to not die, how can I get it." Xizong concentrated on his "palace", the sycophants are quietly digging his feet, Xizong died only more than a decade, the Ming dynasty died.