What characters did ancient emperors create? For example, Wu Zetian created "曌" and Liu Yan created "龑".
Liu Yan, the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, his real names were Liu Zhi, Liu Yan, and Liu Gong. His father Liu Qianwang and his mother Duan were descendants of Liu Jiao, the king of Chu Yuan, the younger brother of the Han emperor Liu Bang. Through the efforts of his father Liu Qianwang, his elder brother Liu Yin and himself, in the late Tang Dynasty, he and his elder brother Liu Yin used force to wipe out more than 70 separatist regimes including Jiaozhou Quhao, Guizhou Liu Shizheng, Yongzhou Ye Guanglue, and Rongzhou Pang Juzhao. After gaining influence, he separated the Lingnan region and established the Dayue Kingdom (later changed to the Southern Han Kingdom), which included today's Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan and northern Vietnam. Its historical development process was similar to the founding of the country by Sun Quan, the great emperor of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. . Liu Zhi was tall and tall, good at horseback riding and archery, and had excellent martial arts skills. Another characteristic was that like Liu Bei, his hands could reach down to his knees, which was often described as a symbol of the emperor. However, after Liu Zhi became the emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, he was not as wise as Sun Quan and Liu Bei. He was arrogant and contemptuously called the emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty "the governor of Luozhou". He was extravagant and lustful. It is said that when he built the Zhaoyang Palace, he used gold as the roof. The floor was paved with silver, and a large amount of pearls, crystals, and amber were used for decoration. Nine years after Liu Zhi ascended the throne, he dreamed of "a white dragon meeting Nangong". He quickly took out the "Book of Changes" and did a fortune-telling. Taking the meaning of "flying dragon in the sky" in the "Book of Changes", he created a "dragon ascending and descending to the sky". "The word "龑" (pronounced 'yan') is used as his name.
Just like Wu Zetian, who coined the word "曌", who loved to use cruel officials, Liu Yan, who claimed to be a "flying dragon in the sky", was also a tyrannosaurus that surpassed his predecessors. According to historical records, "Yan was clever, enlightened and harsh, and was cut off by a sword." "The punishments of dismemberment, dismemberment, and ticking, every time I see someone killing someone, I feel overjoyed, and I don't feel like I'm feasting on it. I salivate over it, and people think it's a real mirage." What does it mean? It is said that Liu Yan likes to use some torture methods to execute people, such as burning, tongue cutting, nose filling, sawing, etc., and he also likes to watch during the execution. When he saw the killing scene, he was so happy to see the tortured person struggling in pain. Dancing around, mumbling words, and drooling, everyone thought it was a reincarnation of a monster. Liu Yan also invented a particularly heinous punishment called "water prison", in which people caught many poisonous snakes and put them into the water, then pushed the guilty prisoners into the water and watched the poisonous snakes bite the prisoners to death. The level of cruelty is even worse than that of Daji. He is truly a "sadist"!
Liu Yan had great military exploits before ascending to the throne of God and always won battles. After becoming the emperor, he had the idea of "being rich means peace" and lost the ambition to conquer the world. In wars, he lost more than he won. During Liu Yan's reign, an event with far-reaching influence in history occurred, that is, the "Vietnam" independence incident. Originally Liu Yan's Southern Han Kingdom included northern Vietnam, and ancient Vietnam was "an integral part of China's territory." However, within ten years of his rule, a sudden mutiny broke out in Jiaozhou in the Southern Han Dynasty, and Liu Yan's generals Jiao Gongxian killed the officials in charge and separated one side. Another general, Wu Quan, led troops to attack Jiao Gongxian. Jiao Gongxian asked for help from Liu Yan. Liu Zhi named his son Liu Hongcao the king of Jiao, and then led troops to attack Wu Quan. As a result, he was defeated by Wu Quan, Liu Hongcao was killed in battle, and Liu Yan's defeat and withdrawal directly led to Vietnam's independence. Wu Quan occupied Jiaozhou from then on, and the dynasty established by Wu Quan was the Vietnam Wu Dynasty, which was the beginning of Annan's departure from China.
However, after all, Liu Yan was also the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty. In order to consolidate his rule, Liu Yan had his own advantages in employing people. His greatest advantage is his kindness to scholars. First, the descendants of the ministers who were exiled here during the Tang Dynasty, as well as the scholars who fled to the local area to escape the war, were all taken in and reused by him, surpassing Chai Jin, the "little whirlwind" in Water Margin. The second is to imitate the previous dynasty and open up subjects to recruit scholars so that capable talents can stand out. There was a scholar named Liang Song who won the top prize in the palace examination in the first year of Bailong's reign with his poem "Lychee Poetry" and became a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. But he couldn't stand what Liu Yan did and thought that "there was a lot of tyranny", so he wrote a poem "Looking at the Son at the Gate" and "begging to return to his adoptive mother". This reason did not offend Liu Yan and got rid of his "companion". The cruel officialdom of "a king is like a tiger accompanying a tiger" highlights the intelligence of the "number one scholar". The leader of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yan, "pleased him with pity and generously rewarded him", but Liang Song refused and "only asked Quan to exempt him from Gongzhou's Ding Fu for one year".
He doesn't want to protect you, but he still applies to you to exempt his hometown from taxes for one year. Isn't this going too far? But in the end, Liu Yan "followed him", which shows Liu Yan's deep love for talents; there is also a story about a man named Wang Dingbao who strongly opposed Liu Yan's proclaiming emperor. Liu Yan wanted to proclaim himself emperor but did not want to have a stalemate with Wang Dingbao, so he sent He went to Jingnan as an envoy and then proclaimed himself emperor. When Wang Dingbao came back and saw the raw rice turned into cooked rice, he complained and ridiculed Liu Yan. Liu Yan didn't take it seriously, but just smiled a little proudly, which shows Liu's big heart. It is broad.
Yan, the real dragon emperor who invented characters for himself, was also one of the most superstitious emperors in Chinese history. He loved "The Book of Changes" so much that he had to calculate everything first, even if he even You should also look at Feng Shui when fighting. One time, he succeeded in fortune-telling and he actually won in the end, which increased his determination to trust fortune-telling, just like Er Zhuge in the movie "Xiao Erhei's Marriage". When he was about to die, he still made a fortune telling according to the Book of Changes, "He asked Zuo Pushe Wang to translate: But my descendants are unworthy, future generations will be like rats entering an ox's horns, and the power will gradually diminish." Liu Yan was worthy of being a "real dragon", fortune telling Oddly enough, his descendants were indeed inferior to each other, and all of them were tyrants. The five generations of kings only reigned for sixty-seven years before they suffered the fate of national subjugation. Liu Yuan, the last descendant of the generation, was even more incompetent than Liu Bei's son Adou. He was defeated by Pan Renmei, the general of Song Taizu, like "the autumn wind sweeps away fallen leaves." , making Liu Yan, who claimed to be a "flying dragon in the sky", dumbfounded under Jiuquan.