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Chapter 13 Posthumous Names

In the Taimiao, the emperor Yuwen Wen, the crown prince Yuwen Weicheng, the prince Yuwen Weihan, and the royal family, the king of Qi Yuwen Li, were burning incense at this time.

They arrived at the Taimiao today to worship their ancestors. Because they were temporarily intent rather than formally visiting the Taimiao, they were much less red tape.

Taimiao, that is, the Emperor's ancestral temple, and visit the Taimiao, you must prepare three days in advance so that the officials can prepare, prepare ceremonial guards, sacrifices, set up imperial thrones, etc. The emperor must quit the Tai Chi Hall, and the three ministers below quit the temple. The officials who are close to the temple should follow the officials to quit the temple for one night.

On the day of visiting the Taimiao, the emperor would set up a vast guard of honor and bring civil and military officials (qualified officials) to the Taimiao to worship the late emperors and ancestors of all dynasties.

But today Yuwen Wen started his intention temporarily, so he avoided the red tape and brought his son and nephew to burn incense to his ancestors and worshipped cold pork to his ancestors, the ancestors and the royal family members who enjoyed the Taimiao.

By the way, "sarcastic" it.

That's right, it's just a sarcasm. Yuwen Wen looked at Emperor Xuan's tablet and sneered in his heart: "The foolish lord! What else do you have to say!"

Emperor Tianyuan Yuwen Yun, posthumously named Emperor Xuan, died suddenly because he was killed by Yuwen Wen himself.

Now, the murderer is standing in front of the victim's tablet to burn incense. No matter how you look at this scene, it is funny. However, not many people know this inside story, and only a few people who know it will not say it.

So, this is not a problem.

Yuwen Yun, who acted recklessly during his reign, was a foolish monarch in Yuwen Wen's view. In history, Yuwen Yun's behavior of forcing his clan wife to occupy his wife, then killing his husband and wife and making him a queen can be said to be shameless.

Looking at the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were many such shameless emperors. After they died, they would have a beautiful posthumous title of "Xuan". Yuwen Wen felt that the naive man was really napping.

But this is related to the orthodox dynasty. Even if Yuwen Wen hates Yuwen Yun, he cannot change his posthumous title to a bad posthumous title. For example, Yang, Hun, Li, etc., he can only pinch his nose and recognize it.

After Yuwen Wen ascended the throne, he had to offer cold pork to Yuwen Yun every time he came to the Taimiao to worship. However, every time he offered sacrifices, Yuwen Wen would say to Yuwen Yun in his heart: Eat, eat more, you won’t be able to eat you to death!

It's boring to curse the dead. Of course, Yuwen Wen has a means of revenge, which is to make Yang Lihua the Imperial Concubine. If Yuwen Yun had a spirit in the sky, he would be so angry that he would jump out of the tomb.

Then Yuwen Wen used a grenade shot to make it into slag.

Yang Lihua is the queen of Yuwen Yun. After Yuwen Yun died, she became the queen mother. She was then kidnapped by Yuwen Wen, became a concubine, gave birth to children, and lived happily ever after the family.

Yuwen Wen became the emperor, and of course he made his wife Yuchi Chifan the queen. As for Yang Lihua, Xiao Jiuniang and other side rooms, he naturally became concubines.

Among all the concubines, "Niu Concubine" is the best, and Yang Lihua gave birth to the eldest son for Yuwen Wen. She was good at taking care of her husband and children and helped her husband with housework. She was worthy of the word "Niu", so she was named the Imperial Concubine.

That is, "Yang Guifei".

This is not a joke about Yuwen Wen playing with Yang Guifei, but a reasonable choice.

According to the original historical trajectory, Yuwen Wen's wife Yuchi Chifan was forcibly occupied by Yuwen Yun, and then Yuwen Yun killed his husband and seized his wife, and he impatiently included Yuchi Chifan in the harem and appointed him as a concubine.

Now, Yuwen Wen has been retaliated against each other, and has made Yuwen Yun’s wife (the vain) Yang Lihua the imperial concubine, which is also considered revenge.

He took Yang Lihua to worship Yuwen Weihan, the eldest son whom he gave birth to, and felt a little happy.

If Yuwen Wen had not had a moral bottom line, he really wanted to spend the "Thirty-six Hands of Dongxuanzi" with Yang Lihua in front of Yuwen Yun's tomb, so that Yuwen Yun's spirit in heaven would be so cool.

This approach is unnecessary. First, it will make Yuwen Wen look low-end and dirty. Secondly, it will hurt Yang Lihua because it is a serious humiliation.

Yuwen Wen disdains this for the "scared emperor" like Yuwen Yun who doesn't even have a temple name.

The so-called temple name is the name that the emperor called when he was worshipped in the temple. In history, not all kings had temple names before the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Generally, after the king dies, he will build exclusive ancestral temples to sacrifice, but after several generations, the original temple must be destroyed and the sacrifices must be combined in the Taimiao.

It is called "Ao" in the Taimiao sacrifice, and "Ao" is very necessary, because if every king's temple is left behind, a large number of ancestral temples will have difficulties in sacrificing after several generations.

Therefore, only emperors with outstanding achievements will especially catch up with the temple name after their death.

However, Emperor Wu of Yuwen Yong, who pacified Qi, was qualified to use the temple name as "Gaozu". His son Yuwen Yong was the emperor of tyranny for two years and had no time to make any great achievements.

The bureaucratic group of this era had a fair moral integrity in the ritual system and did not allow temple names to spread. Therefore, Yuwen Yun only had the posthumous title of "Emperor Xuan" and did not have the temple name.

Nowadays, the tablets of the emperors who have been in the imperial dynasty since Emperor Wen are enshrined in the Taimiao, and there are also meritorious officials and royal ceremonies.

The previous emperors of all dynasties were Emperor Wen Yuwen Tai, Emperor Xiaomin Yuwen Jue, Emperor Ming Yuwen Yu, Emperor Wu Yuwen Yong, Emperor Xuan Yuwen Yun, Emperor Xuan Yuwen Chan, Emperor Ai Yuwen Chan, Emperor Xuan's nephew, Emperor Yuan Yuwen Qiankeng, father of Emperor Yuwen Qiankeng, Emperor Zhaolie Yuwen Zhaozhao.

The young emperor Yuwen Chan died suddenly after abdicating. His original posthumous title was "Jing", which was not bad, but because it was given by Yang Jian, the usurpation of the throne, it could not be used, so it was changed to "Ai".

Yuwen Chan was a young emperor who was not in power for a long time and was killed in underage. According to the posthumous posthumous law, the short-term flaws were called Ai, and the short-term flaws were called Ai, so he had this posthumous title.

Yuwen Qiankeng's father, Yuwen Zhao, was originally a royal vassal king. After Yuwen Qiankeng became emperor, Yuwen Zhao naturally became the "Imperial College". He must pursue the honor and was "Emperor Zhaolie".

Yuwen Qiankeng died young and was posthumously named "Yuan". The capital was first established as "Yuan", and the moral character of the country was called "Yuan".

When the royal family was appointed as emperor by Zen, the Emperor of Great Zhou was transferred, so there were several more tablets in the Taimiao.

The transfer of the imperial system refers to the transfer of the throne from Yuwen Tai (the fourth brother) to Yuwen Hao (the eldest brother), so Yuwen Wen should posthumously confer his ancestors.

The emperor usually goes back to his grandfather's generation. When Zhou was given Wei Chan, the Zhou emperor Yuwen Jue then named his grandfather Yuwen Gong as Emperor De, and his father Yuwen Tai as Emperor Wen and Taizu. This is a tracing back to two generations, so Yuwen Wen followed the example.

He posthumously honored his grandfather Yuwen Dao as "Emperor Xiaojing" because he received the posthumous title "Xiao" after his death; he posthumously respected his successor Yuwen Yi as "Huangkao, Emperor Zhao" because he received the posthumous title "Zhao" after his death.

Then, he posthumously enthroned his biological father Yuwen Liang as...

Well...

Huangkao? Huang Bo?

This problem is a bit troublesome to solve, but it is not troublesome in fact. It is nothing more than doing it according to the patriarchal law or human nature.

According to the patriarchal etiquette, since Yuwen Wen has adopted Yuwen Yi as his heir, his father is Yuwen Yi (the heir father). He can no longer call his biological father Yuwen Liang a father, but he can only call him Bo.

Once he becomes an emperor, he will inevitably posthumously named his father Yuwen Yi as the "Emperor's Catalogue", while Yuwen Liang is not qualified to be posthumously named "Emperor's Catalogue", and he is not qualified to posthumously named the "Emperor's Catalogue".

According to human nature, Yuwen Wen's biological father is Yuwen Liang. Now that his son has become the emperor, he doesn't give his biological father a title. What is this?

This is a beast!!!

Around Yuwen Liang's issue of posthumous seal, officials who were able to speak in and out of the court and the country were divided into two factions, and they argued endlessly. Seeing that the "Pu Discussion" of the Northern Song Dynasty and the "Great Ceremony Discussion" in the Ming Dynasty were about to take place in advance, the political situation would be out of control. The anxious Yuwen Wen pulled the "reins".

The "Pu Yi" in the Northern Song Dynasty and the "Great Li Yi" in the Ming Dynasty are typical questions about how to posthumously enthrone the biological father after the side branch took over the throne. Because there is a "ready-made" answer, it is not difficult for Yuwen Wen to make a choice.

The Northern Song Dynasty "Pu Yi" was adopted by Emperor Renzong Zhao Zhen, the son of King Pu Zhao Yunrang, as the crown prince.

When Renzong died, Zhao Shu succeeded to the throne (after his death, he was posthumously named Yingzong), he wanted to give his biological father Zhao Yun's explanation and posthumously named his biological father "Huangkao".

A political struggle was caused for this, known in history as "Puyi", but the final result was somewhat surprising: Zhao Shu died four years after reigning, and his biological father Zhao Yunrang's posthumous title was never set as he wished.

In any case, Zhao Shu succeeded to the throne as the prince of Renzong. In other words, before Zhao Shu ascended the throne, his father was already Renzong Zhao Zhen, which was also the reason why all officials were excited and striving to stop him.

According to the patriarchal law, the successor father is the father, and the biological father is already an uncle. You are the son, so you don’t want to postpone the title of your father, and you are a beastly act!

The king, the king, the minister, the father, the son, the son, the ethical principles of ancient society.

As for the "Great Ceremony Discussion" in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houcan (Emperor Jiajing) who succeeded to the throne actually succeeded as the cousin of Emperor Wu Zhu Houzhao (Emperor Zhengde), rather than the younger brother. Therefore, the great ceremony ended with Zhu Houcan proclaiming his father as emperor as he wished and his mother as his descendant.

Yuwen Wen knows these two things, and considering the current situation, it is naturally not difficult to make a choice.

Therefore, King Yuwen Liang of Qi, was posthumously named Wu, and was named King Wu of Qi. Yuwen Wen chose to follow the patriarchal law and posthumously named King Yuwen Liang of Qi, the only "Huang Bo" and enshrine his tablet in the Taimiao.

Whether this move has a reputation behind him doesn't matter to him.

At this moment, facing the tablet of the biological father and his successor, Yuwen Wen led his son to pray respectfully, and Yuwen Li also prayed to the tablet of the grandfather Yuwen Liang.

As for the Emperor Xuan Yuwen Yun, Yuwen Wen still despised:

You are a foolish monarch who doesn’t even have a temple name!
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