In ancient times, emperors claimed to be lonely and ruthless. Are these qualities necessary for an emperor?

The so-called widower does not mean that the king is a lonely person. As a prince, although he may not be able to have three thousand beauties in the harem like the emperor, he will not lack the company of women, so they Definitely not a "lonely person" in the true sense.

The monarchs in ancient China were divided into emperors and kings of vassal states. After Qin Shihuang unified China, the emperor took the ?朜? which was originally available to everyone as his own and used it to call himself the emperor. , no one else can use it, otherwise it will be treason and you will be beheaded.

The kings of those vassal states claimed to be "witnesses, lonely people", etc. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the King of Chu did not call himself "witnesses". He found a new way to call himself "bugu", and the King of Kings, the Emperor of Zhou, wanted to show it even more. He was so different that he called himself "Yu Renren";

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han king Liu Bang who was entrusted by Xiang Yu, and the Qi king Han Xin who was already entrusted by Liu Bang, also called themselves widowers. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Liu Bei, etc. Without exception, they all called themselves widowers. After the Tang Dynasty, only the emperor could call himself a widower or a lonely man.

1) The ancient and modern meanings of "Idiot" are different. In modern times, it can be understood as meaning "a few" or "one person", while in ancient times, "Idiot" means a person with few virtues, which is the pretense of emperors. , Self-humility means that one has few virtues, few talents and virtues, and has failed to live up to the trust of his subjects. It is a false self-effacing term used by the ancients.

2) It is said that people who sit in high places cannot do whatever they want like ordinary people. When a person’s status reaches a certain level, as time goes by, his own He will feel lonely in his heart, because there are very few people with whom he can talk, or even none. The remaining ones are either afraid of him or trying to please him. Although he has supreme power at this time, in his heart Lonely, so he called himself a widower and told the world how lonely he was.

It can also be understood that the emperor is a symbol of status. The commanding heights of power cannot accommodate two people, but only one. He is not sitting on the throne, but lonely, so he calls himself a widower.

3) Ancient Chinese emperors were generally short-lived. He had three thousand beauties in his harem. It was rare for so many concubines to be blessed by the emperor. Therefore, most of the concubines were basically widows. Even if the emperor did not die, they would She was also a living widow, not much different from a widow, so the concubine was a widow, and the emperor himself was a widow. This self-proclaimed way of being a widower can be extended to Zhou Gong’s ruling thoughts. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Gongdan, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, once proposed the theory of destiny, which roughly means: the destruction of the Xia and Shang dynasties was due to the loss of the so-called "mandate of heaven", while the revival of the Zhou Dynasty was due to the gain of the "mandate of heaven". . If a king wants to ensure his status, he must respect God and protect the people, so that he can receive God's favor and enjoy long-term peace and stability.