Is it true that Liu Bangmangdang Mountain chopped snakes?

When Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, was the curator of Peixian County, he escorted a group of farmers to Lishan to repair the mausoleum for the county. Most people escape on the way. Liu bang himself calculated that even if he arrived in Lishan, he would be killed according to his sin. So when we got to Fengxize, we stopped, got drunk and let the rest of the farmers go at night. Jesus said to them, Go, all of you. From now on, I will flee. More than a dozen of these farmers are willing to follow Liu Bang. Liu bang walked in Fengxize drunk and let a farmer explore the road. The man came back and said, "There is a big snake ahead. We'd better go back." . Liu bang said through the strength of wine: "A gentleman is the only one in the world, what is there to be afraid of!" So he went to the front and drew his sword to cut the snake. The snake is divided into two parts from the middle. After walking a few miles, Liu Bang fell asleep drunk. The last person in Liu Bang's team came to the place where the snake was cut. I saw an old lady crying on the roadside all night. Asked why she was so sad, she said, "My son was killed, so I cried." . When asked why her son was killed, she said, "My son was a white emperor and turned into a snake. Now he was killed by Chi Di, so I am very sad." . People thought she was talking nonsense, spreading rumors and trying to hit her, but the old lady suddenly disappeared. When the people behind rushed to the front, Liu Bang woke up and people reported his situation. Only Liu Bang is very happy and proud, and his followers are more and more in awe of him. Qin Shihuang once said: "There is a celestial spirit in the southeast." So he personally went to the East for verification. Liu Bang suspected that Qin Shihuang was talking about himself, so he hid in the desolate deep forest of Mangdang Mountain. Lv Zhi and others are looking for him. They can always find him in a remote place. Liu bang felt strange and asked what was going on. Lv Zhi said, "Where are you? There are always clouds on your head, so we can always find you according to this phenomenon." . Liu bang was very happy to hear that. After people in Peixian knew about it, many people came to join Liu Bang.

The story of Liu Bang's successful snake-chopping uprising in Mangdang Mountain fully illustrates the principle of governing the country that water can carry a boat and also overturn it. The arrogant Qin Shihuang confidently believed that he could freely "whip the world" by relying on the powerful army and the land in Guanzhong and controlling the spread of spiritual civilization throughout the country through laws such as "burning books and burying Confucianism". However, Chen Guang, a long-term worker, Xiang Yu, who can only write his name, and Liu Bang, who can't read, overthrew this unprecedented powerful Qin empire in less than three years in the vigorous anti-Qin struggle.

Liu Bang's success not only really gave a bad breath to the people who suffered in the world at that time, but also overthrew the feudal ruling thought of "divine right of monarchy" and made people begin to think that the revolutionary creed of "the emperor takes turns to sit in the manor and come to my house next year" is not unrealistic. Of course, it also caused a lot of trouble for several later Han emperors to consolidate their authority as real dragon emperors. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone" that the Confucian thought of loyalty, filial piety and benevolence was determined as the national educational criterion, and the social thought of the Han Dynasty gradually stabilized. This also had a far-reaching impact on the establishment of Confucianism in China's feudal society for thousands of years.

Cultural significance because Sima Qian inadvertently wrote a sentence in this paragraph of Biography of Gaozu: "The snake was split in two and opened." This gave birth to a fairy story: that is, "the emperor killed the snake and the emperor saved his life";

One of the two main characters in the story, an ordinary snake becomes a huge white python. Before Liu Bang chopped the snake, Bai Python said, "What you owe today will be paid back one day. If you cut off my head, I will usurp yours; If you cut off my tail, I will usurp you. " Liu bang cut the white python in two with one sword. So the Western Han Dynasty spread to Pingdi, and the white snake reincarnated Wang Mang, poisoned Pingdi, and usurped Han as the new one. After the revival of Guangwu and the demise of Wang Mang, the Han Dynasty was restored and Liu's Eastern Han Dynasty was established. Both the East and the West happened to spread for more than 200 years.

This story generally exists in works of art, and it is described in Bai Mangtai, Xiao He Chasing the Moon in Han Xin and Dabao Kingdom in Beijing Opera. The famous storyteller Zhang Zhenzuo's masterpiece Romance of the Eastern Han Dynasty strongly exaggerates the cause of Liu Wang's contradiction.