Why did Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of A Liang in the Southern Dynasties become a monk? What is the reason?

Xiao Yan was born into an official family, and his ancestors were distant relatives of the Nanqi royal family. With his family background, Xiao Yan served as the assistant of Wang Jian, the founding hero of Nanqi and the general of Wei, when he first became an official. Wang Jian saw that Xiao Yan was very talented and had outstanding manners, so he promoted him to be an official of Hu Cao. Due to his alertness and harmonious relationship with his colleagues and superiors, ZSZSZSZ was quickly promoted to join the army and stayed with Wang Xiaolong. During his military career, Xiao Yan made many contributions to the army, and his position became prominent and became a powerful faction in the army.

Xiao Baojuan of Nanqi was overbearing after he acceded to the throne. After he acceded to the throne, he killed many ministers, frightened the ruling and opposition parties, distracted people, and even killed Xiao Yan's brother and minister Xiao Yi. When Xiao Yan heard that his brother had been killed, he called all the generals to fight, and got more than 10,000 soldiers, more than 1,000 horses and 3,000 ships, all the way to the capital. Because Xiao Baojuan kept killing meritorious military generals, everyone was in danger, and many ministers surrendered to Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan also took Xiao Baorong, the king of Nankang, as the son of heaven, and even broke Jingling and Jiangling, where the two armies met, directly pressed Hankou, conquered Yunzhou, the gateway of the capital, and marched straight into Jiankang. Wang Zhenguo and others guarding the city cut off the emperor Xiao Baojuan's head with a knife and sent people to Xiao Yan to surrender. When Xiao Yan entered the city, the Queen Mother Xuande ordered the abolition of Xiao Baojuan as the East Faint Hou. In 502 AD, Qi and Xiao Baorong were abolished and the Liang Dynasty was established.

Xiao Yan practiced martial arts and believed in Taoism in his early years. Later, he converted to Buddhism and became a devout Buddhist disciple. He once ordered the whole people to worship Buddha. Buddhism became a fashion in the Liang Dynasty and flourished in Liang Wudi in the Southern Dynasties. So that in the half century of the Liang Dynasty, there were 2,846 Buddhist temples and more than 820,000 monks and nuns.

The reason why ZSZSZSZ often gave his life to become a monk, often supported monasteries economically, and even used his supreme right to make Buddhism a state religion, in fact, the deeper significance is to win the political significance of Buddhist support to a certain extent, gain the conviction and support of monks' great strength, and consolidate the rule of Nanliang to a certain extent.

On the surface, Xiao Yan knelt down in the temple and indulged in chanting and praying, but in fact, in his heart, he wanted to see whether the ministers and nobles around him had rebellious intentions and whether these people really wanted to regain power. Xiao Yan's obvious superstition of Buddhism was actually forged in order to strengthen his authority, so as to consolidate his dominant position through political performance.

As the emperor who was most obsessed with Buddhism, Xiao Yan became a monk four times.

First of all, on March 8th, the eighth year of Pingnian (527), ZSZSZSZ personally became a monk in Tongtai Temple for the first time. Three days later, he returned, pardoned the world and changed his name to Datong.

Second, on September 15th, the third year of Datong (529), he went to Tongtai Temple for the second time to hold a "four exposure meeting", took off his robes, put on his robes and gave up his life as a monk. On September 16, he explained the Great Nirvana Sutra. On the 25th, his ministers donated 1 100 million yuan to pray for the "Three Treasures" and requested the redemption of the "Emperor Bodhisattva".

Third, in the 12th year of Datong (546), on April 10th, ZSZSZSZ became a monk for the third time. This time, his ministers redeemed him with 200 million yuan.

Fourthly, in the first year of Taiqing (547), ZSZSZSZ became a monk for the fourth time on March 3rd and lived in Tongtai Temple for 37 days. On April 10, the court contributed 1 100 million yuan for redemption.

Xiao Yan not only entered the temple several times and became a monk, but also studied the Buddhist theory seriously, which made him have no energy to manage state affairs, and the reused people appeared treacherous court officials, which led to the darkness of state affairs. Xiao Yan's old man was also bent on his own way, building a big building and not listening to advice, which directly led to the demise of Nanliang.