coobybook Chapter 560 Did the Qing Dynasty families know that their emperor was Manchu?
Chapter 560 Did the Qing Dynasty families know that their emperor was Manchu?
Did ordinary people in the Qing Dynasty know that their emperor was a Manchu?
During the Xinhai Revolution, due to the lack of unified command, revolutionaries and secret societies in various regions, after taking control of cities, often did not know what to call the new government.
[You can only choose any name]
The result was that many places called it the Great Han Military Government.
[The Hubei Great Han Military Government, the Sichuan Great Han Military Government, etc.]
The uprising army organized by the Shaanxi Revolutionary Army was directly named the Qin-Long Restoration Army.
In some places, the revolutionary army was so unsure what flag to fly that they simply wrote "Han" or "Great Han" on it.
[I saw a set of old photos showing people specially wearing traditional clothing passed down from their ancestors to welcome the revolutionary army.]
Therefore, the people under the rule of the Manchus may not have known whether their ruler was Manchu or not, but they certainly knew that their ruler was not Han Chinese.
"When an uprising doesn't know what name to use, 'Han' is always the most legitimate."
"How could I not know that the monarch is Manchu? Not to mention the Manchu city, even the imperial examinations have a separate, lower-level version for Manchus, intermarriage between Manchus and Han Chinese is prohibited, and many important officials are Manchus."
"Whether the monarch is Manchu or not is irrelevant, but they do know that the inner city of larger cities is inhabited by a large group of Manchus."
"During the Eight-Nation Alliance invasion... there's a foreign record where someone asked a farmer, 'Your emperor fled...' The farmer replied, 'What does that have to do with me? I'm Han Chinese... You can look it up...'"
"At that time, the Manchus and Mongols in Northeast China also overthrew the Qing Dynasty under the banner of Han supremacy [facepalm] [look]."
"Ever since the dominant ethnic group in this land became known as Han, this character has taken on extraordinary significance."
The people of the Han Dynasty felt proud after seeing this video: the Han Dynasty was so powerful and amazing that no matter what dynasty came after or what modern people in the sky were, they would have to call themselves Han people.
After reading this, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and others were somewhat unconvinced: Weren't our dynasties powerful enough? Why did they all start calling themselves Han people later on?
It seems we need to work even harder than the monarchs of the Han Dynasty to surpass them, so that future generations can proudly call themselves Tang, Song, or Ming people.
During the Qing Dynasty.
The people of the Qing Dynasty, already subjected to various literary inquisitions by the Qing emperors, trembled in fear: What is "Ming"? We dare not pronounce it! If the emperor above were to pronounce it, he would surely be beheaded. How many heads do I have to risk like that!
Let's stick to the Han language. It's safer to use the Han language. Even the Manchu nobles above us address us as "Han people."
We've long been used to the difference between us and them. After all, even the imperial examination policy can be openly opened to them because of their status. How can we compare?
Those who attempt to support the Ming and destroy the Qing: I was born a person of the Ming Dynasty, and I will die a ghost of the Ming Dynasty.
We swear we will never be slaves to the Qing, never be treated like slaves by them. They don't even consider us human beings!
I don't want to shave my head and leave these ugly braids like those old folks. Every time I look in the mirror and see myself, I'm so disgusted by this look that I want to cry. The show was right, what's so good about this outfit?!
They all treat these things like treasures. I don't want to keep them. I don't want my wife to have her feet bound. What's so attractive about breaking her feet and then binding them with foot-binding cloth? I really don't understand.
Watching their wives crawl on their knees and do chores, what kind of twisted psychology does it satisfy? Anyway, I can't bear to see my childhood sweetheart suffer like that with me.
So what if I have big feet? My ancestors left behind forbidden books. The empress of the Ming Dynasty also had big feet, but she was still a virtuous empress in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
My wife knows me inside and out, understands my ideals and ambitions, and feels sorry for my current difficult situation. After marrying her, she will definitely be a virtuous wife, no less virtuous than the empress of the Ming Dynasty.