The famous "Zhao's Orphans" bloodbath, the truth behind what exactly

What is the truth behind the famous "Zhao's orphans" tragedy?

The Historical Records of the Zhao Shijia, history's great-grandfather Sima Qian, tells a sing-song story of the Orphans of Zhao. Cheng Ying, Gongsun pestle and mortar, Han _ and other righteous people to save the orphan's deeds have been passed down for thousands of years, touching. In recent years, it has been adapted into movies and TV dramas by famous directors, and thus is widely known to today's audience.

It is only in the authoritative Spring and Autumn history book Zuo Zhuan, which was written years before Shiji, that the description of the incident is very different, and even reverses the right and wrong. As for the cause of the matter, it was actually caused by a love affair between my uncle and my nephew.

Jin attacked the lower palace of Zhao, which is known in history as the Rebellion and the Rebellion.

The prime minister of Jin had been in power for many years and suppressed the public office, and Zhao was the only one. As a result, the monarch and other ministers of Jin were secretly dissatisfied.

Ji Meng, the daughter of the Duke of Jin (misidentified as the sister of the Duke of Jin in the Historical Records according to the Thirteen Classics), married Zhao Shuo, the son of Zhao Dun, and gave birth to Wu Zhao. Later Zhao Shuo died early and was posthumously named Zhuang, hence the name.

Zhao Dun had three younger brothers, Zhao Tong, Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Qiying; Zhuang Ji was uncle and nephew to all three of them. After the death of Zhao Dun and Zhao Shuo, most of Zhao's power, land and wealth fell into the hands of Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo.

He, mother and son became the orphans and widows of the Zhao family, with no one to turn to. Only Zhao, a young uncle of similar age, cared for her. In the long run, the fair lady, the gentleman, uncle and nephew-in-law is a natural pair, there is a sense of intimacy.

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On the other hand, Zhuang Ji was, after all, a princess of a state, supported by the Jin government, which still had the strength to support her. Zhao Yingzhi and her lover meant that his branch was allied with Zhao Dun and Zhao Shuo, and even with the Jin monarch behind him. Of course, if Wu Zhao grew up, their faction would pose a serious threat to Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo, who held power in the Zhao family.

Realizing this, the sensitive Zhao of course refused to give way to the younger Guo brothers. After a fierce domestic power struggle, they won the battle and deported Zhao Yingqi to another country in the name of "eliminating dirty laundry.

With his lover gone, there is no hope for his son's future. Therefore, Shoji held a grudge, so she simply lifted the table and ended it together. She advised her brother Ji Nu that "Zhao Tuo and Zhao Kuo are going to rebel".

At that time, Luan Shu, the head of the Luan family, the Zhengqing Secretary of Jin, had long feared Zhao's power and had been trying to do something about them. Of course, he refused to let go of this opportunity, so he and the master of the Jia family came up with an idea to persuade Duke Jing of Jin to make up his mind to eradicate Zhao.

Duke Jing of Jin first ordered the capital to be moved to Xintian, leaving behind the capital of Jiangdu, which had been run by Zhao for many years and whose strength was disjointed. Unfortunately, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo, who were competing for family assets among officials and businessmen whose survival was at stake, lost all insight and were at a loss for what to do about it.

Then the monarch ordered the other clans of the Qing army to march together and kill Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo, which was known as the "Difficulty of Entering the Palace".

Zhuang's son was the nephew and first informer who was adopted into the palace. He was young, but certainly not implicated.

Jing had wanted to cede Zhao's territory to Qi, and Han Jue, the master of the Han family, had been favored. He believed that Zhao Shuai and Zhao Dun, father and son, had made a great contribution and that they had done nothing wrong. Soon after, he was made the new master of the Zhao family and returned his territory without waiting until he came of age.

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After the incident, Scott's territory practically fell into the hands of the office because Wu Zhao was still young. Almost all of Zhao's clansmen and recalcitrant vassals were wiped out, and in fact they were reduced to subservience to the office. Zhao's power was hit hard and declined for decades until it became the Zhengqing of Jin.

Women can never be offended. For their lovers and children, they can put aside all worries and ignore everything in the world.

Arrogant men would do well not to push them to such a dead end unless absolutely necessary.

The bloodshed seems to have started when a woman avenged her lover, or fought over the birth of her young son; it was Zhao's power behind the scene that upset the political balance of the Jin state, leading to a siege by officials and other officials. The real culprits of the incident are none other than Gong Jing, Luan Shu and Zhuang Ji.

Zhao also became a mortal enemy with Luan from then on. Zuo Zhuan Cheng Gong four years" version of "Zhao's orphans" in the case of the treacherous minister and later legend, at this time can be regarded as the historical prototype of "Zhengqing Luan Shu". His literary and resourcefulness is actually a generation of lords and a political strongman, comparable to Zhao Dun in the history of Jin.

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This was an inevitable reaction to the excessive authority of Zhao Dun's time: eating alone when you don't have absolute control can be infuriating.

Later Zhao learned this lesson so profoundly that the three clans were divided into Jin and the state was established successfully. On the contrary, Zhi Bo made a tragic example in history when he led Han Wei's attack on Jinyang. I thought I could be the head of the family, but I turned out to be an ally who fell on his sword and died.

The heroine of the affair, Zhuang Ji, became an awkward presence for the descendants of her son Wu Zhao. On the one hand, she is a direct matriarchal ancestor they must honor and sacrifice.

On the other hand, it is also responsible for the near extinction of the family due to a chaotic private life and more detractors. After all, the difficulty was known as the "Slander of Gimeng".

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While the story has a fairly happy ending, a baby can grow up without any problems, and when her relatives are wiped out, with the help of other ministers in endless battles, it is unlikely that anyone at the time could have foreseen that she would once again become a minister of the Crown, take charge of the dynasty and revive her family's fortunes.

From the perspective of the Zhao family as a whole, the mother of the family went to the point of losing her family's fortune in the fight for the family fortune, causing the decline of the originally strongest Zhao family for decades. It was indeed the culprit.

So, when the three families were divided into three, Zhao turned his family into a state and became the Marquis and King of Zhao, a touching version of the "Orphan of Zhao" story was born and circulated to confuse the public and praise the loyalty of his subjects. Because this story was the official version of the history of Zhao, it was widely circulated. Sima Qian wrote it down when he revised the Records of the Grand Historian.

Of course, the Book of the Grand Historian was originally written as a private history of a family, and the Grand Historian did not have the obligation that later historians have had to distinguish between several contradictory sources of ancient history.

Because of the great influence of the Historical Records, the novels and plays about the Zhao orphans were all based on the original text of the Historical Records.

Because of the great influence of the Shiji, all the novels and plays about the "Zhao orphans" were based on the original text of the Shiji.

(The four basic historical errors in the "Records of the Grand Historian", the Beacon Fire Playing with the Lords of the Zhou, the Zhou Zha*** and the Zhao Orphans, and Su Qin and Zhang Yi's battle of wits, have all been disproved by other hard historical data and archaeological discoveries, and proved to be purely a falsehood that inverts the facts.)

Ming Wanli built the Handan Seven Wise Men Shrine, with Han Ke Ke, Cheng Ying, Gongsun Pestle Su as the "righteousness to save the Zhao orphans" of the Zhao three loyal, Li Mu, Zhao Xue, Lian Po, Lin Xiangru as the four wise men of the Zhao state.

The others are fine, but if Han Que knew what he was doing, he would have something to say: How did I, a minister of the State of Jin and the ancestor of the Republic of Korea, end up eating cold pork with Zhao's ministers? The course of history is really unpredictable.

What was the case of Zhao's orphans in the official history, and what kind of conspiracy was behind it

The Yuan miscellaneous drama "Zhao's Orphans" tells the story of Zhao's family, a noble family of the state of Jin, which was set up by a treacherous minister, Tu Shuanjia, and tragically exterminated during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. Under the protection of his disciple Gongsun Pestle and his friend Cheng Ying, Zhao left behind an orphan, Zhao Wu, who grew up to take revenge for his family's deaths.

"The Orphan of Zhao" is not made up out of thin air, but its story comes from the "Records of the Grand Historian" (史记), which is a "useless riot" (离骚), and the "last song of the historians" (史家之绝唱). The story of "The Orphan of Zhao" in the Records of the Grand Historian:

After the death of his father Zhao Dun, Zhao Shuo, a nobleman of the state of Zhao, inherited his father's position and continued to assist Duke Jing of Jin, which led to conflicts between him and the powerful minister Tu Gan Jia, who was determined to kill Zhao. flee, which led to the Zhao clan being basically massacred by Tu Gan Jia, with Zhao Shuo, Zhao Tong, Zhao Kuo, Zhao Yingqi and others being killed by Tu Gan Jia.

Only Zhao's wife and protégé, Sun Pestle, escaped, as well as Zhao Shuo's close friend, Cheng Ying. Unfortunately, Zhao Shuo's wife was pregnant, which left a bit of flesh and blood for Zhao. However, Tu Shuan Jia intended to eliminate Zhao from his family, so when he learned of this, he sent his men after Zhao's orphans. At first, Zhao Shuo's wife hid the child in her crotch, allowing her to escape, but this was not to be for long.

Sun Pestleshu and Cheng Ying, in order to protect the Zhao orphans, agreed to find a baby to wear Zhao orphans' clothes, and after all the preparations were made, Cheng Ying was asked to denounce Sun Pestleshu for hiding the Zhao orphans, which led to Sun Pestleshu being killed by Tu Shuanjia, along with the child who had taken his place. After getting rid of the "Zhao orphans", Tu Gan Jia let his guard down, which allowed the real Zhao orphans, Zhao Wu, to grow up under the protection of Cheng Ying.

After growing up, Zhao Wu led his troops to kill the entire Tu Gan Jia clan, accomplishing his revenge, and Cheng Ying also accomplished his mission, choosing to commit suicide in order to tell Sun Pestle Suu the good news. After Cheng Ying's death, Zhao Wu was so grief-stricken that he mourned him for three years and made annual sacrifices to him.

This story is very much in line with our traditional values, so it is very popular among readers, but the real history of "Zhao's Orphans" is not as beautiful as this story presents. "The story is full of treachery, infighting and intrigue.

The "Left Turn" has a record of "Zhao's Orphans", although the author is as stingy as gold, the content is very little, but gives us a completely different version of "Zhao's Orphans". The incident began in the 13th year of Duke Wen of Jin (587 BC), when "Zhao Ying of Jin committed adultery with Zhao Zhuangji," Zhao Shuo's wife and Zhao Yingqi (Zhao Shuo's uncle), which was a scandal for the Zhao family. After the affair was exposed, Zhao Yingqi was expelled from the state of Zhao by Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo (Zhao Yingqi's brothers).

Three years later, Zhao Yingqi died in his hometown. After Zhao Yingqi's death, Zhao Zhuangji's position in the Zhao family became even more embarrassing. In order to protect the child born to her and Zhao Yingqi, she made a big fuss over Zhao Yingqi's death, and ran away to think that Jin Jingjie would report Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo for plotting a rebellion. The other two major clans of Jin, the Luan and _ clans, also tried to bring down the Zhao family by testifying for Zhao Zhuangji that what she said was true, which made Duke Jing of Jin believe in her and sent his troops to attack Zhao.

The Zhao clan was soon defeated by Duke Jing of Jin, but instead of killing the entire Zhao clan, Duke Jing of Jin only exterminated the entire clan of Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo. Zhao Zhuangji and her young son, Zhao Wu, were taken into the palace by Duke Jing of Jin to be raised. In this story, there is no Tu Shuan Jia, and no Zhao Wu, the "Zhao Orphan", was hunted down and killed.

After the disaster in the lower palace, Duke Jing of Jin intended to reward Qixi with the Zhao family's domains and fiefs, but general Han Ke advised Duke Jing of Jin that the Zhao family was a meritorious minister of the state of Jin (Zhao Shuo's grandfather, Zhao Dun's father, Zhao Fai, had been in exile with Duke Wen of Jin, Chong'er, for nineteen years, and had offered his advice many times to help the Duke of Jin get out of danger on the way to escape from danger, so the Duke of Jin, with the help of the State of Qin, rejoined the state of Jin as the King of Zhao, and made Zhao Fai his superior minister! ) The Zhao family had done a great deal for the state of Jin, and if their descendants lost their inheritance, it would frighten the other meritorious officials of Jin.

Duke Jing of Jin was also worried about hurting other meritorious ministers of the state of Zhao because of this incident, so he revoked the previous decision and established the young Zhao Wu as the patriarch of the Zhao clan, and gave Zhao Wu the fiefs of the fields belonging to Zhao Kuo and Zhao Tong.

This story is not as dramatic and interesting as the one recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian, but it is more realistic and more in line with the historical facts. The historical "Orphans of Zhao" is not a revenge drama, and there is no such thing as killing one's own body and sacrificing one's life for the sake of righteousness, but only a scandal triggered by the tilting and infighting among the several major clans of the state of Jin. There is only a scandal that triggered the internal strife of several big families in the state of Jin, and all the parties involved are only for their own interests, there is no loyalty, treachery or right or wrong.

The ending of Zhao's Orphan is that Tu Shuanjia tells the princess that Daye is Cheng Ying's son. The princess asks to go to see Cheng Ying alone. But Daye is also gone by this time.

Tu Shuan Jia asked Cheng Ying about Daye leaving home, Cheng Ying said that Daye knew about the past and scolded him, Tu Shuan Jia wanted to persuade him, Cheng Ying said that Daye is very through him, even if you go to him, it is useless, and said that what he got in return is God's retribution.

Tu Shuan Jia asked Cheng Ying to meet Li Lou. Cheng Ying said he should do something for Lord Tu Shuan Jia. The princess asked who Daye was, and Tu Gan Jia told her that Daye was Cheng Ying's son. The princess asked to see Cheng Ying on her own, but Daye had already left by then too.

The treatment of Cheng Ying's offer of his son in The Case of the Orphaned Children of Zhao is more rigorous and reasonable, especially the treatment of Cheng Ying's plotting with Gongsun, which not only enriches the context of the original play, but is also very much in keeping with the style of classical drama.

While it has made many adaptations to the Yuan miscellaneous dramas and added many details to the characters and dramatic conflicts, it still respects the soul of the original drama and demonstrates the value of traditional Chinese culture on the perception of vengeance and justice. The Orphanage of Zhao respected the cultural values of the original, and did its best to restore the characters and the story of the "God".

Regrettably, the length of the TV series, if it had started with the incident of Zhao Dun's regicide, would have made the story more climactic. It's not easy to do this in an era when history-telling has become a trend, without playing up the classics, deliberately distorting the characters' personalities, or deviating from their historical and cultural values.

This drama clearly understands the core values behind this classic tragedy, and utilizes the language of television to do a proper treatment, and I believe it will lead more viewers into the era of greatness and broad personality.