First, the emergence of vampires: from primitive tribes to slave society
The origin of vampires is still inconclusive. It is generally believed that vampires originated at the end of primitive society. At that time, some primitive tribes found that eating specially treated human flesh and blood can greatly improve people's vitality, which is as difficult to kill as cockroaches and can greatly enhance people's strength, speed, endurance, physique and longevity. The most effective thing is to suck human blood. By attacking and preying on rival tribes, and even executing members who ate their own tribes, the first batch of such soldiers were born, and they became the source of vampire legends today. Until now, some isolated tribes in black Africa and Amazon still have the custom of cannibalism. They believe that cannibalism can gain the power of the eaten, but they have not developed a high degree of civilization because they have not mastered direct blood sucking.
These tribes with superhuman strength soon conquered other tribes in the same area. In order to ensure the source of food for vampires, they did not slaughter all losers like other primitive tribes, but left prisoners as food and labor, and the earliest slave country of mankind was born. In these countries, vampires are the ruling class and slave owners of the country, and ordinary people, that is, slaves, become livestock raised by vampires, which not only have to bear heavy labor, but also are slaughtered by vampires as food in the name of offering sacrifices to gods. This is a common human sacrifice in human history. The appearance of vampires is a great progress in human history. The war of primitive tribes left no prisoner, and all the defeated tribes, men, women and children, were slaughtered. The appearance of vampires gives the failed tribes a chance to survive and continue, which is more humane objectively. At the same time, due to better physical and nutritional conditions, the intelligence development of vampires has also been improved, and the civilization of these vampire-ruled countries has been greatly developed, leaving the barbarians around them far behind and making great contributions to the progress of human civilization. It is generally believed that early vampire civilizations include ancient Egypt, Sumerian and Babylonian in the Middle East, Carthage in North Africa, merchants in East Asia, ancient India in the South Asian subcontinent, Inca, Maya and Aztec in America and so on.
Second, the golden age: the rise and spread of early slave civilization.
It is generally believed that the ancient Egyptian civilization is the first vampire slavery country that we can determine. Egyptian pharaohs regarded themselves as gods and regarded the royal family and subjects as two different creatures. In order to maintain the purity of blood, the royal family did not hesitate to marry, perhaps because vampires killed each other in the upper and lower Egypt wars, so that the population was sparse, but they were still afraid that their ruling power would be touched by "livestock." Some people think that the earliest vampire civilization was some slave cities in the Middle East, such as Sumer and Babylon. Today I don't know whether they developed independently or learned from ancient Egypt.
Influenced by both, fishermen and pirates around the Aegean Sea established splendid ancient Greek civilization, but living sacrifices were regarded as barbaric in most ancient Greek city-states because they did not have their own blood-sucking rulers. It may be that some Greeks who were favored in Egypt or the Middle East, or Egyptian nobles who fell out of favor or were unexpectedly favored, were exiled or exiled to North Africa and founded Carthage. The documents of the Romans recorded their horrible sacrificial customs. Later, Persia, which competed with Greece for hegemony, had evidence that it had been studied by vampires in the Middle East.
Another vampire civilization that may develop independently is the Shang civilization in the Far East, the ancient Shu civilization in the South Asian subcontinent and ancient India. There are not many historical materials about ancient India and ancient Shu civilization, so let's not talk about it for the time being. The powerful Shang dynasty has always been famous for its love of living sacrifices. Vampire rulers in Shang Dynasty slaughtered a large number of slaves for entertainment every festival, sacrifice and victory in war, and often plundered people from barbarians around them to satisfy their appetite. In the Shang Dynasty sacrificial pit excavated by archaeology, the bones of slaves are side by side, as far as the eye can see. In the early days of human civilization, the history of vampire foraging/infection/migration/inheritance is the communication history of human civilization. Ironically, the slavery civilization established by vampires to satisfy their appetite sounded the death knell for the first great recession of vampires all over the world.
I'm going to sleep, and tomorrow I will continue to write about the first extinction of vampire civilization, the revival of post-modern vampires in the Turkish War in Eastern Europe, and the current situation of vampires in China after Konoha.
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Third, the gentleman's grace, the third world and beheading: the first extinct vampire civilization in the world
In the early days of slave countries, vampire slave owners were Theory of Three Represents Theory, but when slave countries developed to a mature stage, they became clumsy under the wheel of history.
There are two threats to the vampire regime: at home, ordinary slaves are unwilling to be enslaved, and they launch riots and uprisings from the bottom up, and from the top down, respected senior slaves also launch coups. Externally, the backward ethnic groups without vampire rule around the regime absorbed the advanced culture of vampire countries and established barbarian countries with equally developed organizational forms. The most typical ones are Greece, Macedonia and Rome, which have inherited their cultures. The vampire rulers' greedy plunder of the backward nations around them made the barbarians regard these "civilized people" as demons and beasts (this view seems to be right) and live in fear and hatred of them. The terrible thing is that the excellent individual qualities of vampires are invincible in tribal wars, but they are offset by the increase in the scale of wars between countries in the new era created by themselves; Vampire aristocrats are greedy, even rarely go to the battlefield, and they will not drive slaves to fight. As a result, the advantage was offset a little, but it was conquered and destroyed by the growing barbarian regime.
In the Middle East, the vampire slavery country was completely wiped out by the surrounding nomadic people and Semitic people who hated vampires. This history is also reflected in the Old Testament of Semitic descendants, such as God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Sin City, which laid the foundation for the relationship between the three religions of Abraham and vampires in the future.
In Egypt, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, the vampire ruler, worried about sharp internal contradictions and unsustainable rule. He took the initiative to reform in the name of religious reform, but the reform failed, and Pharaoh lost his vampire status and ruled Egypt as a mortal until his death.
In Persia, Xue Xisi, who wanted to conquer Greece, was defeated by the Greek city-states, and was conquered by Alexander, the successor of Greece. After Islamization in the future, the vampire power will be completely eradicated.
In North Africa, Carthage was defeated in the hegemonic war. Out of fear and disgust, the Romans sprinkled salt on the land of Carthage-it is said that salt can destroy all kinds of evil things in the world. But the horror legend about Carthage has not disappeared. The ogre hero in The Silence of the Lambs was named after the Carthaginian star Hannibal.
In the South Asian subcontinent, it is generally believed that the invasion of Aryans ended the local vampire rule, but India lacks historical materials. In order to study ancient history, we even need to rely on China's contemporary hearsay records. As for why Indian historical materials are so scarce, we can refer to the situation in East Asia.
In East Asia, the powerful and prosperous Shang Dynasty unified the Central Plains and established a highly developed civilization. But around the dynasty, Siyi could not bear to be plundered and often rebelled. Among them, Zhou, a barbarian tribe in the west, absorbed the advanced culture of Shang and rose quietly.
At that time, the ruler of Shang Dynasty was Di Xin, also known as Zhou Wang. Xunzi's Flying Chapter says that he is "a great and beautiful man, a world-famous man". Super strength, the enemy of a hundred people. "Historical Records of Yin Benji" says that "the emperor is very sensitive in distinguishing diseases, with extraordinary material strength and beasts", and he is tall and handsome, with extraordinary strength and superior intelligence. These are typical vampire characteristics. In order to suppress the rebellion of "food" around, Di Xin conquered Dongyi with merchants as the main force, which was used by the Western Zhou Dynasty. After Konoha's defeat, Di Xin set himself on fire in the high platform, perhaps because ordinary methods could not kill himself. After the Shang Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty, all the records about vampires in the official history were deleted, which is why the history of Xia and Shang Dynasties is so vague that it is difficult to determine the date of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
The ancient Shu civilization, which lived next to Shang Dynasty, has a faint history. During the Warring States Period, it was destroyed by the State of Qin. Descendants of Shu people, many of whom stab people, are famous for hanging coffins, "worshipping death" and other strange customs. Later, it was slaughtered by the Ming government under the pretext of genocide. In the middle and late period of slave society, almost all vampire slave countries were replaced by slave countries ruled by relatively kind ordinary people, and vampire nobles were also purged and extinct. During the long period of slavery and feudal society, vampires disappeared from the world.
Except for one place. After the Battle of Makino, the main merchants who conquered Dongyi at that time crossed the sea to America under the leadership of Houxi Xiao, the commander in chief. In North and South America, which are separated by oceans, there are three ancient civilizations: Inca, Maya and Aztec, which are famous for their bloody sacrifices to the living.
Fourth, resurgence: the resurrection of modern vampires.
In the west, there were signs of dark activities of depressed vampires during the Roman Empire, but with the collapse of the Empire and the spread of Christianity, especially the persecution of pagans and the crazy witch hunting movement since the Middle Ages, vampires disappeared completely in Europe. Legends about vampires in the early Middle Ages can be said to come from ignorance and rumors, including Joan of Arc's comrade-in-arms Jill delaisse. Now, it is widely believed that he is accused of killing children and practicing black witchcraft, but he has not even begun to become a vampire.
It was not until the appearance of the familiar Duke Dracula that modern vampires were resurrected.
Dracula is a real person in history. His full name (pronounced Romanian) is Vlad. Zebies VladTepesDracula, Dracula is just one of his nicknames. 143 1 was born in Romania. At that time, the emerging Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople, coveted Europe and was regarded as the enemy of all Christians.
According to historical records, Vlad and his younger brother were sent to Constantinople, the capital of Ottoman Turkey, as hostages on 1442 for political reasons, and stayed there for six years.
During this period, in addition to the hostile environment around, there was news that my father and brother were assassinated by rebellious nobles. At the age of seventeen, with the support of the Sultan of Turkey, he led the army back to Wallachia and regained power. The first thing he did after he took office was to purge dissidents, use harsh means and treat criminals in an orderly country with various severe punishments, the most famous of which was puncture.
In order to resist the powerful Ottoman and protect the weak motherland Romania, Duke Vlad turned to some taboo forces.
When the Germans were savage tribes in the forests of Eastern Europe, there were many primitive beliefs, including a druid belief that worshipped wolves and the moon, and it was said that they could gain the power of wolves. Blessed believers, under the influence of the moon tide, can gain great strength, grow thick hair all over their bodies, and their faces are torn and deformed, but they will also be as fierce and bloodthirsty as wild animals and lose self-control. Old believers "share" this blessing by biting new believers. It can be seen that although primitive inefficiency is difficult to control, this belief in primitive wolf worship in Eastern Europe is similar to that of vampires. But with the persecution and slander of Christianity, this belief was on the verge of extinction at that time, leaving only the ugly legend of the so-called "werewolf".
In the process of suppressing pagans, Duke Vlad learned about this "werewolf" belief, together with the secret records of Zheng Dong's old enemies with the Catholic Church and the ancient documents preserved by Arabs when he was a hostage in Turkey, he resumed the ceremony of turning people into vampires and became the first vampire in the modern sense.
Vlad defeated the Turkish army several times on the Danube, saved his country and became a national hero of Romania. When fighting people, make good use of "surprise attack tactics" and "complete murder and robbery"
What really scared the Turks was the battle of 1462, when Vlad was betrayed by his allies and fled to the capital. When the Turkish army chased the gate, they saw that more than 20,000 soldiers captured in the war were stripped naked for public display, and they were interspersed among the one-kilometer-long wooden stakes around the city, and sticks were everywhere pierced from their mouths or buttocks. Crows and vultures kept pecking at these dead bodies, making the surroundings filled with a strong rancid smell and still moving forward.
To the Turkish emissary who didn't want to take off his hat in front of Duke Vlad, he ordered, "Since he doesn't want to take off his hat, let him never take it off." So the messenger was nailed into the top of his hat.
Stories like this prevented the powerful Turkish army from invading Christian countries from Muslim countries, and at the same time, Drakula's name of "blood madness" spread like wildfire, so the name of "vampire" spread all over Europe.
The great power gained after becoming a vampire not only brought fear and death to the enemies on the battlefield, but also made the life of Romanians under Duke Vlad more precarious. With the darkness of the Middle Ages, the power of lords was enormous, and the status of civilians was low, so the duke's peacetime rations were needless to say. The Catholic church is at odds with the vampire, but in the face of the threat of Islam, the church acquiesced in his blasphemy. Other lords in eastern Europe began to follow his example, and the first vampires appeared in modern times.
He finally died on the battlefield in the suburb of Bucharest. /kloc-in the winter of 0/476, without foreign aid, he fought against the Ottoman Turkish army with his own small military strength until the last soldier. The Turkish army later divided Dracula's body and sent his head to Constantinople (now Istanbul). Only the soul of Dracula is enshrined in the Romanian monastery of Nakov. It guards Romania.
Next is the familiar history of modern vampires. As the war with Turkey gradually subsided, the blood-sucking guardians naturally lost all the birds. They were either liquidated by the Vatican or killed in bourgeois revolutions in various countries, including the legendary countess Li Kesite bathed in the blood of young girls. Some vampires survive to this day. With the development of capitalism, the population of various countries is increasingly concentrated in cities. Some vampires gave up their superficial aristocratic status early, left their fiefs and lived in seclusion in densely populated cities, returning from "grazing" to "fishing and hunting" life. With the arrival of the era of great navigation, others have crossed the ocean and spread all over the world. Modern vampires are embarrassed to find that they are no longer the ruler of mankind, no longer the symbol of civilization and nobility, and can only hide in the dark corner of the world.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Look at the world and be based on the present: the development and present situation of vampires in the world and China.
In Europe, the center of modern civilization, the development of vampires varies from country to country. Due to long-term political conservatism and stability, there has been no major change. Among European countries, British vampires are the most powerful, and most of them live in the form of families. French vampires were almost uprooted in the Great Revolution, and a few survived by mixing with the revolutionary ranks. It is said that some of them joined Napoleon's army and underground resistance organizations during World War II. There are a large number of vampires in Italy, but at the foot of the Vatican, they can only be secretly afraid. It is said that the mafia has their support behind it. German vampires were regarded as Nietzsche's "superman" during Nazi period. The perfect form of the Germans was favored by the Third Reich, and almost all of them joined the fascist army. They were annihilated by allied vampire hunters during World War II, and the survivors have been hunted by Mossad in Israel. Nordic vampires can get the human rights protection of the left-wing government under the premise of abiding by the law, and get blood bags from the hospital blood bank every week; Vampires in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union were either exiled overseas, secretly executed or exiled to Siberia and other places after the government of the * * * Production Party came to power.
The three vampire empires in America lasted for thousands of years, but after the Spanish landed, smallpox and other diseases slaughtered a large number of living people under vampire rule, and the surrounding Indian tribes took the opportunity to resist, so the Spanish vampire hunter army and the huge empire collapsed in the blink of an eye, and the Native Americans were massacred. The Aztecs worshipped the mummies of their ancestors at home. Give them food and water, put on beautiful clothes, and parade in the streets on holidays-it goes without saying what these mummies are. These mummies were all thrown into the fire by Christian Spaniards.
The vampire power in the United States has been completely eliminated, not almost eliminated. In the new world for thousands of years, they are no longer the help of human civilization and progress, but have caused the rigidity and decline of the empire. At present, vampires in the American continent are completely imported from Europe. Vampires in North America used to run a lot of plantations and slaughter slaves until Lincoln liberated them. They also strictly abide by racism, and a few colored vampires who should have been born unexpectedly or immigrated will be persecuted or even pursued by the mainstream vampire society. It was not until Martin Luther King's civil rights movement that colored vampires were gradually accepted. Racial discrimination in Latin America is relatively light, and social unrest leads to a wide gap between the rich and the poor. Many vampires are guests of drug dealers, and many vampires live in slums. Some even joined the leftist movement in Latin America and joined the guerrillas in Che Guevara. The slogan is "Love food means love yourself".
Modern vampires are gradually diversified in race; In the classroom, it is more civilian.
It is generally believed that western vampires were first introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, but they were not spared in the catastrophe of the Qing Dynasty. Later, with the help of complex folk beliefs such as Anbailism, it was mainly active in economically developed areas in southern China, and was completely eliminated by old rivals in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the Republic of China, the development of vampires in China entered a golden age, and it was not hit hard during the Anti-Japanese War. Most of them retreated to Chongqing or took refuge in Wang puppet regime. After liberation, vampires in Chinese mainland were completely eliminated for the fourth time after all previous political movements, and only after the reform and opening up were they restored. At present, vampires in China mainly exist in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and developed coastal areas.
It is generally believed that the original vampire has been eliminated after the battle of Makino. Recently, however, some people think that Yue Fei, a famous anti-gold star in the Southern Song Dynasty, is a vampire. Like Vlad of Romania, in order to protect his motherland, he became a vampire through some folk methods and even established a vampire army. Yue Jiajun's fighting capacity far surpassed that of other armies in the Southern Song Dynasty, which made the Jin people frightened. Yue Jiajun "freezes to death without demolishing the house, starves to death without plundering"; Yue Fei left an eternal famous sentence, "Eat pork when you are hungry, drink Hun blood when you are thirsty". . . If it is true, then Yue Fei, a native of China, came out more than 300 years earlier than Dracula in the west. Compared with Dracula, Yue Jiajun is the real people's army, which is cruel and tyrannical.