We all know the famous saying, "One general's success is worth ten thousand bones." It describes that the achievement of a famous general requires countless lives. Now this sentence has two meanings. One means that war is cruel and human life is like grass; the other means that if a person wants to achieve something, he must be ruthless and not care about casualties and losses.

So, who said this sentence in the first place? What allusion does it come from?

Today we will talk about the ins and outs of "One general's success will destroy ten thousand bones".

First of all, we need to understand that the sentence "One general's success and the death of thousands of bones" comes from the following poem: "When the country's mountains and rivers enter the war map, how can the people live in peace and happiness. Don't rely on the king to talk about the matter of ennobling the marquis." , One general succeeds and thousands of bones are withered. It is said that a battle will bring sorrow to all the gods, and there will be no end to the strong troops on both sides of the Cangjiang River. There has been a lot of bloodshed recently."

This poem. It is "Two Poems on the Year of Ji Hai·The First Year of Xizong Guangming", whose author is Cao Song, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

Cao Song lived in the late Tang Dynasty, and was mainly active during the eras of Tang Xuanzong, Tang Xizong and Tang Zhaozong. At that time, the Tang Empire was on the verge of death. There were eunuchs with exclusive power inside, vassal towns outside, and peasant uprisings like a prairie fire. fire.

The author witnessed the war in the Central Plains and the people were suffering so much that he wrote this famous poem out of emotion.

The so-called "Zeguo" mainly refers to the Jiangnan area. After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the north has never been peaceful and has been in a state of war or warlord separatism, while the south has been relatively stable. But by the time of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, even the south had become a battlefield, with fighting and fighting everywhere, and there was no longer any peace in the Tang Dynasty.

The phrase "One general's success will destroy thousands of bones" refers to the cruelty of war and the ruthlessness of rulers.

The Tang Dynasty favored martial arts and achieved great military success, and many famous generals emerged. However, who would have thought that behind every famous general there would be countless casualties and blood and tears of soldiers and even civilians.

Whether it is the rulers of the Tang Dynasty or the peasant uprising army, there will always be someone who obtains the highest power, but for this power, countless people died.

Cao Song saw this problem, and he wrote it out. The sentence "One general's success makes thousands of bones wither" has become a famous saying that has been passed down through the ages.

The ancient Chinese’s descriptions and reflections on the cruelty of war have never diminished. Nowadays, our American war films always have anti-war ideas implemented in them. In fact, this has long been the case in China’s Tang Dynasty, especially in Tang poetry. embodied.

For example, "Don't laugh when you are lying drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in ancient times", such as "The poor bones by the Wuding River, just like the people in the spring boudoir's dream", such as "The Great Wall battle in the past, salty words of spirit" High. The Huangcheng is full of ancient and modern times, and the bones are scattered in the poles." Another example is "The garrisonmen look at the border town, and their faces are filled with sorrow when they return home." Another example is "The border court bleeds into the sea water, and the Emperor Wu has no intention of opening the border" and so on.

All these popular classic Tang poems all reflect the reflections of the cultural elite of that era on war, their sympathy for ordinary soldiers, and their pity for the people who suffered from the war.

The original meaning of "One general succeeds and ten thousand bones wither" is definitely not a heroic statement, but the author's sadness.