Yashan naval battle
The Battle of Yashan took place in the second year of Xiangxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1279), which was the last battle against Yuan in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Ironically, it was not the Mongols who started this movement, but the Han Chinese Zhang Hongfan.
In A.D. 1279, Song Jun, who was repeatedly defeated, was cornered and retreated to Yamen Mountain (now Yamen Town, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province). However, the Yuan regime seemed to want to destroy Song Jun, and sent general Zhang Hongjian to chase the troops to the yamen, which surrounded Song Jun.
Yamen Town is located at the mouth of the sea, with Cliff Mountain in the east and Tangping Mountain in the west. Two mountains and a sea, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack. But even if it occupied the terrain, God didn't give Song Jun a chance to make a comeback. In the end, the Yuan Army defeated 200,000 soldiers and civilians and 1000 warships in Song Jun with 20,000 troops and 50 warships, and Song Jun's army was defeated. Minister Lu Xiufu saw that the tide was gone and didn't want the little emperor to suffer any more? The shame of Jingkang? Captured as a prisoner, the eight-year-old emperor jumped into the sea on his back, and the other 100 thousand soldiers and civilians were also buried in the sea. At this point, Dasong officially perished.
Why is there a saying that there is no China behind the cliff?
First of all, the source of this sentence is not in the Yuan Dynasty, but in the late Ming Dynasty, written by Qian, a adherent of Nanming, and its source is as follows.
Cape Cliff Mountain is a line oblique, and it does not belong to China from now on.
What's more, there is no fish belly to die, and there is a sea of water in Longkou?
Seeing that Guanshan is not a sign of China is a fool to brag about the sun and the moon.
Brother Chang 'e has nowhere to go, and Yin Lun cries osmanthus.
He wrote this poem because his situation, like the Song people in the Yashan naval battle, faced the crisis of national subjugation and alien rule. Lament over the death of China and the breaking of mountains and rivers.
But this poem was not widely circulated at that time, until the Japanese made excuses for invading China and concocted it? There is no China after Cliff Mountain, and there is no China after Ming Dynasty? This slogan is full of political overtones. He is full of political color because the Japanese invaders won people's hearts in order to find an excuse to invade China, saying that Japan is the only successor of Chinese civilization.
It is not difficult to see that this slogan is nationalist, political and one-sided. Chinese civilization has never stopped for thousands of years. Both the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty only conquered the Central Plains, not Chinese civilization. On the contrary, after they conquered the territory of the Central Plains, they were sinicized and conquered by Chinese civilization. Whether the Song Dynasty perished or the Ming Dynasty perished, it was just a change of dynasty. Chinese civilization has been going on and never stopped.