China is the only country in the world with an unbroken history from ancient times to the present day. In this 5,000-year history, excluding the era of the legend of the Yellow Emperor and the three dynasties of slavery, China still has a history of more than 2,000 years of feudal dynasties.
Since the end of the Warring States period in B.C., when the Qin state, under the leadership of its rulers and with the rapid increase in power brought about by Shang Yang's change of law, succeeded in breaking up the other six states one by one and annexing their territories to establish the first feudal dynasty in Chinese history, this feudal dynasty system has become the mainstay of Chinese politics for the past 2,000 years.
There was only one supreme ruler of this feudal system, the emperor. The emperor was the absolute leader of a feudal state, and was known as the son of heaven, as he was the head of the whole country. The emperor was in charge of everything under the sky, and everything in a country, big and small, belonged to him, including the people. And because people for the desire for power, as well as the emperor's throne itself passes, in China more than two thousand years of feudalism, a **** appeared more than a dozen dynasties, dozens of countries, and the countries of which each era of the emperor, large and small **** there are more than five hundred. But it is these set of all rights and benefits under the sky in one group, their average life expectancy is not yet to forty years old, in addition to a few emperors finally has been living sixty or seventy years old, others are basically die young. Compared to the common people of the time, it was only just a few more years of life.
This is a mind-boggling thing, because the emperor is the pride of the heavens, since the possession of a country's most powerful power, naturally, what is good for the body of the drug must be given priority to the emperor to use, what is the emperor is the first to enjoy the delicacies of the sea, do not need to eat, no need to do the hard work, do not need to live in a poor living environment, what you want to what there is, but also comes with a nation of the best doctors. The best doctors in the country. In this case, how could the emperor only live so long?
But the facts are right in front of us, whether you believe them or not, they are the facts. The only thing that can explain this situation is the following reasons.
The first reason is the royal family's regard for bloodlines. It is important to know that as early as the Zhou Dynasty, one of the three ancient dynasties, Chinese feudal society had already gone into the political system of the family world, and the royal family had been the king for generations. Because of their noble status, the royal family cared a lot about their own family's bloodline, and they believed that if their family intermarried with outsiders, it would only make their family's bloodline less pure. As a result, these royals will only marry within their own family, and will only marry within their own family.
We all know now that consanguineous marriages have a huge impact on the offspring, and if they are intermarried within three generations of the immediate family, then the possibility of the children born to them having some congenital defects in genetics is very high. This will not only affect the physical health of the offspring, and even for the age of the descendants, will also have a great impact.
Ancient China, the Han people for the orthodoxy of the bloodline is not yet very important, basically take the policy is very open, and there is no royal bloodline because the other side is not pure royal bloodline on the refusal to marry the situation occurs. Moreover, history does appear a lot of from the civilian class of the imperial consort and even the queen, after all, the Han people still think that look right on the eye can be, for the birth of how noble is not very care.
In fact, this is only a positive contribution to the royal bloodline, and can optimize the royal bloodline.
However, ethnic minorities care very much about the orthodoxy of the royal bloodline, so ethnic minorities will find that the phenomenon of inbreeding and intermarriage is very common among the royal relatives, which also leads to a generation of offspring whose bodies are not as good as the next generation. This is really the terrible thing about ignorance.
The second reason lies in the fact that the life of the emperor was really too good, which led to the fact that there were many mediocre and incompetent emperors who degenerated into sound and color after sitting on the throne of the emperor. It may be said that the first reason is not really able to directly bring down a dynasty, but the beauty of the country can really pull the emperor down.
Like the Beacons of the Zhou Dynasty, and its predecessor, the big brother? Shang Dynasty, none of them were destroyed because the emperors were intoxicated by the sound and the sex. This phenomenon, in fact, in ancient China, is not uncommon. And this phenomenon is especially likely to happen in the later stages of a flourishing dynasty, such as the Tang Dynasty. From the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the time of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, the national strength has been very strong, but the late Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty thought that his country was already very strong, so he began to be intoxicated by beauty, regardless of the political affairs, which led to the Tang Dynasty from the heyday of the sharp turn of the decline of the Tang Dynasty, and ultimately was destroyed by the country.
And when the emperor was drunk on sex, his body would naturally become weaker and weaker. If you overindulge in lust, your body will collapse sooner or later, but in the face of a forest of beautiful women around you, there are a few emperors who can hold on to them. Of course, like the emperor for immortality to seek immortality medicine will also eat bad medicine and lead to the collapse of the body, resulting in a shortened life expectancy.