Someone took it away.
The lessons of the Qin Dynasty were really profound, so starting from Liu Bang in the Western Han Dynasty, officials made ideological articles more consciously.
Ideological work is simple to say, but it is not easy to penetrate the hearts of the people. Liu Bang's father was the first person who started from birth, made great sacrifices and established his own ideological control system. Sima Qian once described Liu Bang's birth in Historical Records: One day, Liu Bang's mother fell asleep by the pond, and suddenly it was dark, with lightning and thunder. Liu Bang's father hurried to find his wife, only to find that his wife Hu Tianhu had a dragon. Later, she became pregnant and gave birth to Liu Bang. From then on, Liu Bang can confidently climb relatives with the immortals, which is the most famous political induction myth in the history of China. However, in theory, this means that Liu Bang and his father are not related by blood at all.
The myth of emotional life was not created by Liu Bang. Before the Western Han Dynasty, when merchants and Zhou people recalled their ancestors, they only knew their mother, but not their father. The mother of Qi, the ancestor of Shang Dynasty, was named kiku. One day, she saw a swallow's egg and ate it. Then she gave birth to Qi. Therefore, the Book of Songs says that "the life of birds leads to the life of business". The birth of abandoned ancestors in the Zhou Dynasty was similar. All these just reflect people's vague memories of human reproduction in the period of ignorance. After entering civilized society, the origin of life is no longer mysterious, and there will be no articles about birth. In Sima Qian's account, even the famous politicians like Huangdi and Zhuan Xu were not deified, that is, they were born with high IQ and were gifted children without the protection of their immortal fathers. Liu Bang was the initiator of consciously modifying the birth certificate for political purposes. Of course, just a short story is not enough to make Liu Bang's image tall and plump. Sima Qian went on to tell several unusual stories. For example, Liu Bang was born with a Zhang Long face and 72 moles on his left thigh. ); Liu bang often goes to pubs to drink overlord wine. The old man and woman selling wine found that no matter where he went, there was always a dragon hovering over his head in the sky, so the money for wine was waived. Liu Bang's wife, Lv Zhi, also said that the place where he lives is always overcast. After telling several stories, Liu Bang's image of the dragon son is relatively complete. It should be noted that it is not that Sima Qian deliberately fabricated these stories, but that the legend has long been raging against the sky and can't help but believe it.
It should be said that it is necessary for Liu Bang to show his birth certificate, because society paid more attention to his birth at that time. One of the important reasons why Xiang Yu won the support of many people is that his grandfather Xiang Yan is a general of Chu and belongs to the princelings. Chen Sheng and Guangwu, who were born in the common people, used the slogan "Princes and princes will have seeds" during the uprising. It can be seen that the issue of "species" was really appealing at that time.
Liu Bang paid the price of his father and got the treatment of "divine right of monarch", that is, the legitimacy of ruling the world, which has an example for future generations. Inspired by Liu Bang's creativity, almost all the founding emperors of past dynasties have been deified repeatedly, and the deification principle is just like what Xu Shen, who compiled Shuo Wen Jie Zi, said, "All saints are born without fathers", or in layman's terms, it is intentionally or unintentionally suggesting that the emperor's "father is not his biological father, and grandma is not his biological grandmother". Generally speaking, after mastering this basic principle, the specific method of making up stories is easy to operate.
One way is to emphasize the emperor's strange appearance. As the saying goes, "I was born with WHO and was afraid of WHO". As long as you look weird, some people believe that you have talent. This tradition existed before Liu Bang. For example, Shun has two pupils in each eye, and his ribs are connected. Later generations deliberately did it and carried it forward, all of which were written into the official history of the country. For example, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty said that Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a big mouth, a high nose and a raised bone in the middle of his forehead, suggesting the blood relationship between Liu Xiu and Long. This appearance is still geometric, and Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty is much weirder. Sui literati said that he was born with horns, scales all over his body, words on his palm, long upper limbs and short lower limbs. From the perspective of modern people, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty is definitely a freak.
Another way is to emphasize that the emperor was born with strange celestial phenomena, suggesting his unusual identity. For example, when Zhao Kuangyin was born in Song Taizu, the house was full of exotic fragrance and surrounded by red light. This, even a few regimes have learned, Lu Ye Baoji, Liao Taizu, came to the world with divine light and extraordinary fragrance. When Zhu Yuanzhang was born, the red light was even more mysterious, because the villagers even thought that Zhujiajian Island was on fire and were carrying buckets to put out the fire. In fact, anyone who has studied modern science knows that these astronomical anomalies are often precursors of earthquakes.
Another way is to interpret dreams. The emperor's mother always tells everyone like Xianglinsao: "I had a dream!" " "The content of the dream is similar. Nothing more than the fairy gave a pill to eat, or dreamed that the sun fell into her arms and she was pregnant with a dragon fetus. In short, it is not enough to be an emperor to express wealth and pressure. Interpretation of dreams is the most effective method, because no one can refute the content of dreams.
In a word, feeling and dissimilarity are two essential medicinal materials for concocting political myths.
Of course, not all emperors need to issue birth certificates. Generally speaking, it is absolutely necessary for the founding emperor to issue a birth certificate, because according to the principle of destiny transfer, the former dynasty was also built by heaven; If you want to change the dynasty, you must first prove that God likes the new and hates the old, and instead favors himself. Therefore, in the legend of Liu Bang, there is also a story of beheading, to show that the handover of fate has legal procedures. As for the person who inherits the throne according to the law of succession, there is generally no need for documents or stories, because the identity of the dragon species is the best proof.