Why is Shu Han not the Han Dynasty?

Shu Han is also known as Han Ji. On the surface, it can be said that he is a continuation of the Han Dynasty, Ji Lao. Therefore, from his own point of view, as well as from the perspective of culture and art, Shu Han can understand this point.

This is a broad understanding. In a narrow sense, our general understanding of "Korea" is a manifestation of politics under the patriarchal clan system. However, after the establishment of the Shu-Han regime, an obvious political problem appeared, that is, he had to admit the legitimacy of the Soochow regime, otherwise he and Soochow would be politically hostile.

Therefore, this incident violated the purpose of orthodox politics, just like the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, because it did not allow other regimes to exist, which was the political basis of orthodox regimes. The same is true of Wang Mang's New Dynasty and Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Next is the definition of orthodoxy. Whether in China or in western civilization, consanguinity is basically the main way to maintain feudal rule. There is no doubt that Liu Bei and Liu Xie have at least the same ancestry, not to mention Liu Yuan, who founded the Han Dynasty in the Western Jin Dynasty, which is even more flattering.

Although this kind of behavior looks thick-skinned, it has a good political effect, not to mention that the interval from Han Wei to Jin Dynasty is basically only about a century. Maybe the people in the Western Jin Dynasty still have a copy of the almanac of the Han Dynasty hanging in their homes.

So the so-called orthodoxy is not defined by rulers, but by later generations. Just as we will associate Han Wei with Wei and Jin Dynasties, because they can connect the beginning and end of the era, not what happened, everything has reason to be the orthodoxy of that era. If so, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the last years of the Tang Dynasty would not be in a mess.

This is a contradiction in itself. It says that history is evaluated by later generations. No matter whether he abdicated or what kind of political turmoil, he directly inherited the foundation of the previous dynasty. For us, each one has different historical influence and credibility, and even the sense of historical identity of ordinary people.

In a word, whether Shu-Han religion can be called orthodoxy depends on how we observe it from a historical perspective. Just like the dynasty appendix in Xinhua Dictionary, it is not marked as the continuation of the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Han Dynasty behind Shu Han, which shows that they are not directly related politically.

However, in Sinology, Liu Bei and Emperor Zhao Lie of Han Dynasty, including the monarchs of Cheng Han and Hou Han, will appear again in the calendar of Han Dynasty. Isn't it interesting?