Why is the average life expectancy of the Eastern Han emperors so low?
The reasons that affect people's life span are mainly divided into internal and external factors. It mainly includes differences in genetic factors, eating habits and psychological quality. The external causes are mainly natural disasters, wars, accidents and killings.
From the genetic point of view, Liu Xiu, the first emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, died at the age of 63, which was already a long life in ancient times. However, later princes also got married very early and began to have children in their teens and twenties. In fact, at this age, they have not developed themselves. Children's offspring point fingers.
Liu Xiu's Portrait
Judging from the living and eating habits, Zhong Changtong, a philosopher at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, analyzed the early death of the Eastern Han emperor in Shu Chang, but the original book was missing. However, Sun Siyuan, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, quoted Zhong Changtong's exposition in A Thousand Women. Fill the bone marrow with alcohol during the day and bleed in the room at night. This story is about an emperor who is full of food and drink, fat and heavy, indulges in debauchery and loses weight. Congenital deficiency, acquired ignorance of temperance. However, this is a common fault of emperors in previous dynasties, not the fault of emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty alone.
One third of the emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty were children emperors. The fourth generation and Emperor Liu Zhao were only 10 years old when they acceded to the throne, and their predecessors were very young, with an average of only 9 years old. Liu Longgang, Emperor of KUSANAGI, failed to reign after a hundred days. I'll be dead in 220 days. Is the shortest-lived emperor in history. Children's nature should grow up in the process of playing, but such a darling of heaven is bound by premature time and belongs to the court of the adult world. The repression of nature will make children lose happiness. Therefore, early accession to the throne is not helpful to their physical and mental health. There are exceptions. Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, was named Dong Zhuo at the age of 9. I started his puppet road. After being accused by Cao Cao? Threaten the emperor to order his ministers? . The whole life is frightening.