What is the story of Emperor Liu Heng of Han Dynasty?

1. Favored and trusted Deng Tong

Deng Tong was a sycophant who was deeply trusted and loved by Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty. One day, Emperor Wen asked a fortune teller to read Deng Tong's face. The fortune teller bluntly said to Liu Heng: "Doctor Deng will starve to death due to poverty in the future."

After hearing this, Emperor Wen was very unhappy. , angrily said to Deng Tong: "I want to make you rich, what's the difficulty?" After saying that, he issued an edict, giving Deng Tong the Tongshan in Yandao County, Shu County, and allowed him to mint money. Deng Tong became as rich as the enemy. Since Deng Tong was favored by Emperor Wen, he was so grateful that he wanted to repay him.

2. Traditional festivals

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Yuan Ye Festival and Lantern Festival. According to legend, in order to celebrate Zhou Bo's pacification of the Lu rebellion on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Liu Heng would go out of the palace to play and have fun with the people on this night. Wu is designated as the Lantern Festival, and this night is called the Lantern Festival.

The "Taichu Calendar" was created and the Lantern Festival was listed as a major festival. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has become more prosperous. "Book of Sui Dynasty Music Chronicles" states: "Whenever the first lunar month comes, all nations come to court and stay until the 15th day outside Duanmen and inside Jianguomen, which stretches for eight miles and is used as a theater."

There are tens of thousands of singers and dancers participating, from dusk to dusk, and then end at dusk. With the changes of society and times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have already undergone major changes, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival.

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Administrative measures

1. Return the princes to the country

Tenth year of the second year of Emperor Wen (178 BC) In the month of March, because most of the princes lived in Chang'an at that time, they were far away from the fiefdoms, and the supply and transportation of officials and soldiers was very hard, and the princes had no chance to moralize the people in their fiefdoms. So he issued an edict to all the princes to go to their own fiefdoms. Among them, some who held high positions and were granted permission to stay in the capital were sent to the feudal cities by their princes. ?

2. Entering millet to worship the nobility and improve the situation of farmers

In the second year of Emperor Wen (168 BC), Chao Cuo, the prince's family leader known as the "think tank", suggested to Liu Heng: " Recruiting people from all over the world to gather millet on the border, in order to receive a title and avoid guilt. If they are less than three years old, there will be a lot of millet. "And he promoted this idea in his "On Gui Su Shu". This set of ideas is very consistent with the enrichment of Liu Heng's period. the purpose of national power. So Liu Heng adopted this suggestion and adopted the method of selling nobles at public bidding prices to supplement the border defense rations.

3. Peace of mind for the people

The young Jia Yi wrote "On the Passage of the Qin Dynasty" and proposed to Emperor Wen that the fundamental policy of governing the country was "the way of herdsmen is to ensure peace of mind." This social trend of thought that calls for peace of mind is the common request of both the government and the public since Emperor Hui, and is also the need to consolidate the rule of the Western Han Dynasty.

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