What's the meaning of the temple number and year number of posthumous title in Qing Dynasty?

1, the temple name is the name of the emperors in East Asia when they worship in the temple, which originated from the Shang Dynasty, which attached importance to sacrifice and worship.

2. The year number is a title used by China feudal dynasty to record the year (it can also be used to represent the year). Generally initiated by the emperor. There was no title from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the early Han Dynasty, which was first created by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty after he ascended the throne. The founding year is Jianyuan. Since then, a system has been formed.

In ancient times, in countries and regions influenced by China culture, it was not always clear to evaluate a character's merits and demerits with just a few words. In order to draw a conclusion about historical figures, the ancients chose posthumous title to summarize them.

Generally speaking, emperors, queens, princes and ministers with high social status in ancient history will be given an evaluation title by the court according to what they did before their death. This is posthumous title in the usual sense, which is used to highly summarize the life of a historical figure.

3. posthumous title is the title of giving praise or demotion or sympathy to the dead emperors, princes, ministers and other high-ranking people, which began in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

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Posthumous title classification:

There are three kinds of praise, pity and derogatory.

1, beautiful women, such as Zhuang, Wu, Wen, Xuan, Xiang, Ming, Rui, Kang, Jing and Yi. Mainly praise.

2, Pingyi: such as: homesickness, mourning, mourning, thinking, mourning, a little sympathy.

3. Evil, such as Li, Ling and Yi, all contain negative meanings.

Because the obituary was a criticism of the dead, it was a disgusting thing in ancient times. Therefore, it was stipulated in the Northern Song Dynasty: Don't be evil, just be beautiful and fair.

Posthumous title's word count, starting from one word, has developed into many words, which has become a pile of commendatory words. In the case of one word or several words, people usually call the emperor posthumous title, such as Yang Di.

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