Is Liu Bang really from Chu?

Not from Chu.

Liu Bang (December 28, 256 BC - June 1, 195 BC), courtesy name Ji, was born in Zhongyangli, Fengyi, Peijun (now Zhongyangli Street, Fengxian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province).

In 284 BC, the Five Kingdoms invaded Qi, and the Chu State occupied the Song State's former homeland of Huaibei, and Pei was transferred to Chu.

So, Liu Bang is not from Chu.

Extended information:

Liu Bang’s political measures:

1. Politics

(1) Settling the capital in Guanzhong

< p>Liu Bang followed the reminder from Lou Jing (also known as Liu Jing because he was given the surname Liu) and made Chang'an his capital. Lou Jing came from Shandong to see Liu Bang and said that Liu Bang's control of the world was different from that of the previous Zhou Dynasty, so he should not use Luoyang as the capital like the Zhou Dynasty, but should make the capital in Guanzhong, so that he could hold on to dangerous areas in Qin and the country could Long-term peace and stability.

Zhang Liang agreed with Lou Jing’s suggestion. He said that Guanzhong is a “golden city thousands of miles away, a land of abundance”, where you can retreat to defend and attack to attack. Liu Bang agreed and quickly moved the capital to Chang'an.

(2) Local division

Liu Bang inherited the Qin Dynasty’s centralized system of power and prefectures and counties, and at the same time abolished the Qin Dynasty’s harsh legal and criminal laws.

(3) Legal Thought

After pacifying the world, Liu Bang focused on Confucianism and supplemented by Legalism. He abolished the Qin Dynasty’s practice of “severe punishments” and abolished Lian Lifa and the Yi tribe proposed the idea of ??"virtue as the principal and punishment as auxiliary". That is to say, education is the main method and punishment is the supplement, so as to achieve the ruling effect of combining leniency with gentleness and strictness with severity.

Liu Bang ordered Xiao He to refer to the laws of the Qin Dynasty and "choose what is suitable for the time and compose nine chapters of the law", which is the "Nine Chapters of the Han Code".

This is based on the six chapters of the "Book of Laws" formulated by Li Kui during the Warring States Period (theft law, thieves law, net law, arrest law, miscellaneous law, and specific law) and supplemented the household law (household registration). Management, marriage system and tax collection), Xinglu (mainly stipulating the collection and distribution of corvees, city defense and preparation) and Stable Law (mainly stipulating cattle and horse husbandry and postal transmission). Generally speaking, the Han law refers to the "Nine Chapters Law".

Liu Bang relied on Shusun Tong to organize the imperial court. Shusun Tong formulated a set of political etiquette systems suitable for the needs of the situation at that time, and wrote "Twelve Chapters of Han Yi", "Han Rituals", "Ling Ling Ping" Monographs on rituals and laws such as "Eighteen Chapters" played an important role in the establishment and consolidation of the Han Dynasty, and also left a valuable cultural heritage for future generations.

2. Economy

When Liu Bang invaded Xianyang, he abolished the harsh laws of the Qin Dynasty. He made a three-chapter agreement with the people and sealed the treasury. He did not do any harm to the people and won the hearts of the people.

Liu Bang exempted them from corvee service to reduce the people's burden, such as reducing land rent, tithing one, "resting with the people", and releasing slaves. All people who sold themselves into slavery due to hunger were exempted from becoming common people. , liberate productive forces, demobilize soldiers, and use their merits to carry out their work in the fields. "Demobilize soldiers and return home, give them land and housing, enable them to engage in productive work, and quickly restore and improve the national economy.

Continue to implement the Qin Dynasty's practice of military merit The system of granting land and houses stipulates that merchants are not allowed to wear clothes and rides, and increase taxes, etc., to restore the broken social economy, stabilize the feudal ruling order, and at the same time encourage births, expand the labor force, and vigorously develop agriculture to suppress profit-seeking merchants and remnants. Slave-owning class.

Liu Bang made the people live, united the people, and consolidated the country.

3. Culture

(1) Pay attention to culture

When Liu Bang was young, he was dissolute and despised Confucian scholars. After he became emperor, he thought that he would conquer the world immediately, and "Poems" and "Books" were of no use.

Lu Jia said: "I will conquer the world immediately." Can you rule the world immediately? "Liu Bang then ordered Lu Jia to write a book to discuss the reasons for Qin's loss of the world for reference.

Liu Bang established the large-scale "National Library" Tianlu Pavilion, Shiqu Pavilion, etc. "The world has been established, and Xiao He ordered the laws and regulations. , Han Xin applied for military law, Zhang Cang established the regulations, Shusun Tong established etiquette, and Lu Jia created "Xinyu". He also cut the talisman and made an oath with the meritorious officials, wrote an iron deed in elixirs, a gold cabinet and a stone room, and hid it in the ancestral temple. Although there is no time to give it, the imitation is far-reaching. ”

The Han Dynasty founded by Liu Bang established the main culture of ancient Chinese society, that is, the cultural system under the influence of Confucianism. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the introduction of Indian Buddhism had another impact on Confucian culture.

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