Is there a tragic history behind the idiom "Returning home with clothes on"?

What's Wang's line in The Man on the Embarrassed Road? Have money and no money, go home for the New Year! ? People's hearts are warm, but if you want to return home with clothes and honor, there are a row of faces that are true. If you don't drive home, you can't lift your head in front of your hometown.

Before the Spring Festival last year, there was a classic topic. A man bought a new car and planned to drive home during the Spring Festival, but he was worried that others would not know, so he asked everyone how to let the whole village know that he had bought a car. An enthusiastic netizen's answer is the most practical: it is absolutely best to break down the mirror and go door to door and ask who took his mirror. Seemingly funny, it actually reflects China's homecoming culture to some extent.

So, what's the history of China people's pursuit of returning home in splendor? This paper will make a profound interpretation of the history contained in this idiom, so that you can have a deeper understanding of this idiom and this history.

The story of returning home in glory stems from Xiang Yu's reluctance to stand in Guanzhong.

After Xiang Yu captured Xianyang, he was persuaded to make his capital Guanzhong and then dominate the world. But Xiang Yu saw Qin Gong's broken wall and said? Wealth does not return to hometown, like a night trip, who knows? .

Translated, if a person is developed and does not go back to his hometown to show off, it is like a person wearing gorgeous clothes at night, and no one can see it. What's the point of wearing it?

This vanity is very China. We don't have to laugh at others. We are such a culture in our bones. For example, some boys smoke, and five dollars of cigarettes at home can get cigarette butts. When you go out, you have to start in 30 yuan and throw it away. What's more, when you go out, put the five-dollar cigarette in the fifty-dollar cigarette case.

Xiang Yu is a typical person. According to historical records, Xiang Yu saw the gorgeous hood of Qin Shihuang's eastward tour in his early years and was very envious, so he said: You can take it. ? This sentence is very atmospheric. On the one hand, it can be said that Xiang Yu is an ambitious man, but it also shows that Xiang Yu probably just likes Qin Shihuang's way of showing off, rather than being interested in governing the country.

There is no textual research on Qin Shihuang's intention to show off such a big military parade in the East, but his achievements after the unification of the six countries must have made Qin Shihuang a little carried away, and he even thought that he had made greater contributions? Three emperors and five emperors? , claiming? First emperor? .

Xiang Yu should be replaced by this factor. In Xiang Yu's view, after overthrowing the Qin Dynasty, he was self-appointed. King Chu? , should be enough to show off.

After overthrowing Qin, the first thing Xiang Yu thought of should be to show off in his hometown and let his fellow villagers come to see me. Xiang Yu has succeeded now.

The story of glory returning home is essentially a regional concept.

Xiang Yu's thought of returning home dressed in gold is definitely not a case, but a regional cultural concept in ancient China, which sums up three major interpersonal relationships in China? Fate? One is blood, the other is academic affinity, and the other is geography.

Many such examples can be found in history. Xiang Yu's contemporaries, such as Chen Sheng and Han Xin, are actually such people. Bobby Chen and Han Xin both came from the bottom and had more contacts. Compared with Xiang Yu's conceit caused by aristocratic status, these two men should be inferior to succeed.

Chen Sheng once said to his friends when he cultivated land in his early years: If you have money, you will never forget each other. ? It means that one day when a brother is developed, no one can forget a brother who participated in it at the beginning, which did not exist in ancient times. Poor fate? By saying this, he is actually expressing a regional concept, because we are all in the same place, so we should take care of each other.

Others don't believe they can succeed, but Chen Sheng says? Swallows know the ambition of swans! ? Later, because Bobby Chen could not arrive at the designated place on time, it needed to be dealt with severely. Therefore, Chen Sheng planned an uprising, became the first peasant uprising leader in the history of China, and established the Zhang Chu regime, claiming to be the king.

At this time, the villagers who had been farming with him heard the news that Chen Sheng was king, so they came to Chen Shenggu to find Chen Sheng. Bobby Chen was very happy after seeing it and took good care of the villagers. As a result, the villagers were ungrateful and just kept their mouths shut, calling Bobby Chen by his nickname and telling some old stories of Bobby Chen's early years. It is estimated that Bobby Chen talked about it in his early years. Chen Sheng was so angry when he learned about it that he even killed the man.

Bobby Chen is glad to see this man, but someone can witness his success. Finally, he was killed because this man was not moved by the story of Bobby Chen's entrepreneurship, but stayed in the relationship between Bobby Chen and employees in the past, which touched Bobby Chen's vanity.

Compared with Chen Sheng, Han Xin was more down and out in his early years, which is recorded in historical records. Huaiyin Hou Han Xin, Huaiyin also. When I first started making cloth, I was poor and had no business. I can't choose to be an official, nor can I cure a businessman. I often send food and drinks from people, and many people are tired of it. ?

At the worst time, I can only endure the humiliation of my legs. When Han Xin came home with his clothes, I thanked the man who insulted him and said that I wouldn't have succeeded if I hadn't insulted him.

Xiang's regional hatred for Qin led to his loss of Guanzhong area.

Many people may think that the place where Xiang Yu returned to his hometown in golden clothes is Jiangdong, and even Li Qingzhao lamented in his poems: I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong? It is estimated that Xiang Yu is also wondering below. Laozi is obviously from Jianghuai, but Mao thinks Laozi is from Jiangdong.

Of course, both Jianghuai and Jiangdong belonged to the wuyue cultural circle in the pre-Qin period. In the early stage, the State of Yue annexed the State of Wu, and in the later stage, the State of Chu annexed the State of Yue.

It can be said that the Jianghuai area of Xiang Yu was influenced by Chu culture in wuyue. We know that Qin people are fierce, but in fact, culture and Chu culture are not easy to bully. Wuyue culture is famous for revenge. He Lv, the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period, died of injury while cutting Yue, and He Lv wanted his son Fu Cha to take revenge.

Gou Jian, the king of Yue, lost to Fu Cha, the king of Wu, and finally chose to surrender. Later, Gou Jian succeeded in restoration and defeated Wu, so he got it? Hard-working people, heaven rewards hard work, and never stops. Can the 3,000 Yue family swallow Wu? .

Chu culture is more vigorous. At first, Chu was just a viscount vassal under the packet of the Zhou Dynasty, which should be regarded as a vassal with a lower status. But then Chu distributed a strong map and became stronger. At that time, Chu hoped that Zhou could change the status of Chu. As a result, Zhou simply ignored Chu and Chu simply became king. This is why all the vassal states in the Spring and Autumn Period called it Gong, while Chu called it Wang. In Chu Zhuangwang's time, it simply existed. Win the Central Plains? This plan.

In the later war of Qin reunification, Chu was one of the most fierce regimes fighting against Qin. It once defeated Qin Jun's first attack, and it was not until Wang Jian led 600,000 troops that Chu was completely defeated. Xiang Yu's grandfather Xiang Yan also died in battle.

Although the State of Qin won a military victory, it did not win the hearts of the Chu people. Anti-Qin started from the territory of Chu, as the saying goes. Where there is a will, there is a way. If you burn your bridges, you will end up in Chu. ?

Under the influence of Chu culture in wuyue, Xiang Yu's resistance to Qin was full of revenge. Therefore, in the process of anti-Qin, events such as the surrender of the massacre occurred frequently, and Liu Bang was able to easily enter Guanzhong because he promised the Qin people that if Liu Bang accepted Guanzhong, Xiang Yu's killing could be avoided. Although the people in Guanzhong were full of fear of Xiang Yu, they did not give in.

Xiang Yu was finally defeated in the Chu-Han War.

Xiang Yu's ostentatious style of returning to his hometown with splendor has actually brought great tragedy to his life.

If Xiang Yu had stayed in Guanzhong, his advantage was the best, but his advantage was huge. I have analyzed the geography and politics of China in my previous articles. From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, China's political trend was east-west politics, which was generally unified from west to east. After the Tang Dynasty, the political unity between north and south was mostly from north to south.

In the political structure of the East and the West, Guanzhong area is the base area, and then the whole country is unified. Qin was the first dynasty to move towards unification by this strategy, while Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty by repeating the route of Qin. Later dynasties mostly chose Guanzhong as the capital.

Xiang Yu was an excellent strategist, especially in Julu War. When the last battle was completely exhausted, he defeated the main force and won the key victory against Qin Uprising. Obviously, he was very aware of the strategic importance of Hanzhong, but Xiang Yu rejected Qin's Guanzhong place from the heart because of geographical and cultural factors.

This result is actually painful. Although Xiang Yu had taken precautions against Liu Bang, he named Liu Bang Hanwang and ruled Bashu and Hanzhong, but the land in the middle of the gate was enfeoffed to three generals of the Qin Dynasty. Later, Liu Bang took advantage of Xiang Yu's eastward expedition to the west to send troops to Guanzhong, which probably formed the scale of Qin's early rule and achieved the foundation of competing with Xiang Yu for the world.

Chu and Han immediately entered a long-term seesaw battle. Although Xiang Yu has all the advantages, it is very difficult to attack Guanzhong like the six countries fought Qin in those years, and Liu Bang once captured Xiang Yu's lair, Cheng Peng. After Chu and Han made peace, Liu Bang attacked Xiang Yu behind his back and finally defeated Xiang Yu. After Xiang Yu was defeated, he committed suicide in Wujiang.

It's time to answer the eternal topic, why Xiang Yu refused to cross the topic of Jiangdong.

From a macro point of view, Jiangdong area was not fully developed at that time, and the population was not sufficient. Even if Xiang Yu sealed it for himself, he didn't take it to heart. In Xiang Yu's view, the Jianghuai generation is the capital of the revolution.

From Xiang Yu's personal character, Xiang Yu, who likes to return to China in rags, naturally can't go to Jiangdong when he is down and out, and can't afford to lose that person!