Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 2085 Trembling Movement ([-])
Modern music is divided into seven tones, but traditional gag music only has five tones, that is, Gongshangjiao Huiyu, but music introduced from the Western Regions already has seven tones.

The 7 tones of Western Region music are different from the "Western" scale, hence the name Kucha Music, which is a music and dance unique to "Western Region".

According to legend, Marco Polo was born in a family of Venetian merchants. At the age of 17, he left his hometown with his father and uncle and traveled to the "East" along the overland Silk Road.They first entered the border of Persia, crossed the desert to the Khorasan region, and entered the Hexi Corridor along Xuanzang’s road back to the Tang Empire. However, they did not follow the Hexi Corridor to the Central Plains, but went north through the desert to Mongolia , came to Yuanshangdu, the capital of the Great Mongol Empire, to meet Kublai Khan the Great Khan.

Maybe Marco Polo heard the music of Kucha on the way, and also watched the dance of the Buddha in the Western Regions. Afterwards, Marco Polo visited many provinces and cities, even including Hangzhou, which he described as the most prosperous place in the world. City.

At that time, it was the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Mongols were busy incorporating the southern region into the empire. However, in Marco Polo’s travel notes, they divided the three national countries in the east into Tatars, which is the country of the Mongols, Khitan. This place was originally Jin The area ruled by the Han dynasty, later conquered by Mongolia, and the "barbarian country", which is what the Mongols called the Southern Song Dynasty.

This has formed a long-term unresolved confusion in the West. Mongols also call others barbarians?However, according to Marc Polo, there are many Christians in the Khitan area, but there are few Christians in the "barbarian country", so Westerners have a natural curiosity and sympathy for Khitan.

Later, when Matteo Ricci arrived in BJ, he already knew that there was no Khitan country in the north of Ming Dynasty, and Hangzhou was no longer the capital.In the conservative Ming Dynasty, the Catholic missionaries represented by Matteo Ricci were almost the only group of foreigners who were allowed to stay in Ming Dynasty. This privilege lasted until Matteo Ricci’s death.Missionaries often call themselves Italians and were sent by the Pope, but most of their actual nationalities are Portuguese.

The Portuguese also sent envoys. According to European customs, firing a salute is a kind of etiquette, but in the East it means a declaration of war. After they finally explained it clearly, they did not understand why the officials did not allow their boats to enter the Pearl River. Allow them to do business in Guangzhou.

They are all red-haired and green-eyed, who can tell which country they are from?So these Portuguese missionaries pretended to be Italians and stayed.

Tang Ruowang, a well-known missionary during the Kangxi period, was actually a German. He was sent by the Portuguese Jesuits to China during the Tianqi period at the end of the Ming Dynasty.He has experienced Emperor Chongzhen, Nurhachi, Dorgon, and Emperor Shunzhi. In addition to knowing astronomy and calendar, Tang Ruowang can also build cannons. Legend has it that Nurhachi was seriously injured by the cannon he built.

After the change of dynasty, Dorgon attached great importance to Tang Ruowang's talent in making artillery. Even though Tang Ruowang had made cannons for the Ming army to deal with the Qing army, many Manchu relatives and noble ministers obstructed him. official.

In fact, Tang Ruowang calculated a new calendar during the reign of Chongzhen, which can calculate solar and lunar eclipses more accurately, but was blocked during the promotion period.

There is an irreconcilable contradiction between the church and the imperial power. When the authority of the emperor is lower than that of the pope, the dark Middle Ages in the West perfectly interprets it, while in the East, the authority can only be the emperor.

In addition, Christianity's own teachings also have contradictions. If God is the only true God, then is Jesus also God?If it is forced to say yes, then this is not contradictory to God being the only true God?

This involves the interpretation of the "Trinity", which is logical, and Westerners will believe it, but the Eastern one does not work.

Prosperationism had already spread in the East before Matteo Ricci, and many things had been deleted, including the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross, but no matter how they adapted, it was still difficult to spread.

When he came to Matteo Ricci, he preached in Chinese completely, and also used natural science knowledge to win the favor of the upper class. This set of standards is called "Ricci's rules".

Easterners are not interested in God, but interested in Western geography, astronomy, and assembly. At that time, China did not have prisms and glass. Tang Ruowang took a prism to refract seven-color light, and people thought it was the Nvwa Stone.

In addition to these, another science and technology that interested the emperor was the calendar.Before Matteo Ricci's death, the original calendar officials failed to calculate the solar eclipse, and some people suggested that the Qin Tianjian be handed over to the missionaries. Not only that, the missionaries also had a group of staunch protectors.

Rome was changed to Rome, and the privilege of free preaching was also cancelled. Even though the "Chongzhen Calendar" formulated by Tang Ruowang, Luo Yagu and others had been formulated, it was not used until the Ming Dynasty fell. passed.

During the Qing army's occupation of BJ, the Empress Dowager Wang of Emperor Yongli suddenly remembered something. She had converted to Catholicism at that time, and under her leadership, Emperor Yongli's biological mother and concubine also joined the Catholic Church. There are too many imperial wives and concubines that do not meet the requirements for joining the religion, so he may also join the religion.

When the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil, the Queen Mother wrote two letters, one to Pope Innocent X and the other to the President of the Society of Jesus, but she did not ask the Pope to send troops, but hoped that they would Pray for Daming and bless the stability of the country.

If praying to God and worshiping Buddha is useful, what kind of doctor is needed? If everyone kneels before God and prays, they will heal themselves without medicine.

It was because it didn't work that the Black Death killed so many people.But even if the Queen Mother wrote a letter asking the Pope to send troops, it would be in vain. This is not a "Crusade". It is difficult for the Pope to recruit so many soldiers in a short period of time, as well as food and military expenses. It seems that the Pope had nothing else to do except pray. It can be done.

The decline and fall of such a huge empire can be described as a catastrophe. A small number of missionaries were involved, but most of them survived and began to serve the new ruler.

Compared with the late Ming Dynasty, the emperor in the early Qing Dynasty gave missionaries more freedom, so the Ming and Qing Dynasties became the only feudal dynasty change recorded in the West.

Unlike other feudal dynasties, the Ming Dynasty had two ruling groups, one in the north and the other in Nanjing. Most of the positions in Nanjing were empty positions, and they were just paid by titles.

However, when the regime in the north collapsed, "Nanming" was established again. At that time, a Chinese missionary named Wei Kuanguo lived in Wenzhou with the permission of Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty. When it was occupied by the Qing army, he posted a A piece of red paper, written in Chinese characters: This house is lived by the Europa people.

He placed exquisite books, optical instruments, and mathematical instruments in conspicuous positions, and put the image of the Savior on the altar. It was more peaceful, and the general of the Qing army asked him if he would like to shave his head.

Wei Kuanguo immediately expressed his willingness, so the general personally shaved his head. It would be weird to wear the clothes of the Ming Dynasty with a hairstyle of the Qing Dynasty. The general gave him a suit of clothes, which he also wore. After him, the general also sent him to the safer big city of Hangzhou.

Another Guangzhou missionary, Zeng Dezhao, was tied up when soldiers broke through the city and forced him to hand over his property.A high official came after a few days. He not only released Zeng Dezhao, but also gave him a Bible and a prayer book, gave him a lot of money, and returned the church to him.

The name of this person was Shang Kexi, and he was Sun Yuanhua's subordinate. Later, he was granted the title of Pingnan King, on an equal footing with Pingxi King Wu Sangui.He was originally a general of the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Yuanhua was a Christian, and he was very interested in Western technology and artillery military tactics.

Even Sichuan, which was ruled by Zhang Xianzhong, had missionaries serving as astronomers in Atlantis.

During the "Heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong", the good days of the missionaries came again. During that time, the Qintianjian was divided into two parts, one part was astronomy and calendar, which was mastered by foreign missionaries such as Tang Ruowang, and the other part was "numerology". The Chinese are responsible for calculating the fate of the country. For them, the era of gold everywhere in Marco Polo's works has come.

There was a Frenchman who didn't aspire to be a missionary since he was a child, but he had to go to missionary schools in those days.He studied painting in Lyon in his early years, and later studied abroad in Rome. In the third year of Qianlong's reign, he became an enshrinement in the court and took a Chinese name called Wang Zhicheng.

He is very good at painting, and has painted portraits for many princes and ministers. Later, he also participated in the construction of the Western Building in the Old Summer Palace, where the envoys from England were arranged to live.

The land is low-lying, and it is true that some insects are easy to grow, but the conditions are not so bad that they need to be protested.

Macartney had always asked to live in the inner city of the capital, and the emperor allowed them to be housed in the mansion of the former governor of Canton, who had been arrested.

After staying in the city for a few days, the mission went to Jehol to meet the emperor, but they disagreed on whether to kneel down.

Many Europeans lived in the Qing court. Macartney's request was that Britain, like Russia, set up a business office in BJ and send a resident envoy to resolve trade issues.

The Russians signed the "Treaty of Nerchinsk" with the Manchus. What's more, Russia and the Manchus are inextricably linked. Other European countries do not have shops in BJ. Why should Britain alone have them?
Since the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia, the treaty system has become the main international exchange system between European countries. At the same time, the colonial system is used to dominate the weak countries. This system is completely different from the tributary system.

Tsarist Russia asked Emperor Shunzhi to surrender to him and become a Russian colony. Of course, Emperor Shunzhi refused. In turn, he asked the Tsar to pay him tribute. Treaties of public international law.

The British called the Manchus Tatars, and the French knew they were Jurchens. Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, Goguryeo once stopped paying tribute because the suzerain country could not coordinate the conflicts between Liao, Jurchen and Goguryeo.

There was a French missionary named Qian Deming. He could not only understand Chinese, but also Mongolian and Manchu. He wrote the biography of Confucius and other books successively. Georgiana had a Sun Tzu’s Art of War on the bookshelf of St. Luke’s Palace. In addition to Sun Tzu, Wu Zi, Wei Liao Zi, Sima Fa and so on were translated.

He also wrote "A Study of Ancient and Modern Chinese Music", which not only introduced musical instruments, but also discussed the theory of law and mode.

Many people think that gag music sounds like noise, without combining different notes to produce variations and harmony, but Qian Deming thinks that the Chinese are the first to understand the concept of harmony.

Everyone can choose their favorite key when singing the Hogwarts school song, and it can be used for wedding marches and funeral marches.

Albus felt happy, so Georgiana didn't care, didn't she see that the old bat was applauding?

Napoleon couldn't find a tune when he sang.

She was too lazy to say anything to the French official. When will the banquet end?She wanted to go back to sleep.

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