During the Yuan Dynasty in history, the government implemented different ethnic policies, and the people of the whole country were divided into four classes:
Needless to say, the first class must be Mongolian;
Second-class people are semu people. Semu means people of all colors and classes. In fact, it is the general name of the Mongolian court for all ethnic groups in Central and Western Asia. To put it bluntly, it refers to all other ethnic groups except Mongolian and Han.
Third-class talents turn to the Han people, which only refers to the Han people in the north;
The fourth category is the last category, especially the southern Han people. Because the south was finally occupied and surrendered, it was downgraded to the first class as punishment.
Since people are graded, the authority of each grade must be different. Of course, the worst is the Han people. In fact, whether it is third-class or fourth-class, everyone is Han Chinese. Who can tell who is north and who is south? Therefore, the Han people were brutally exploited by the Yuan authorities, and the tax burden was the heaviest. The court also banned Han people from possessing contraband such as weapons and armor.
It can be said that as long as it is iron products, except for breeding needs, everything else is contraband! Then the question is, does the kitchen knife used for cooking and cutting vegetables count? Count! However, it is impossible to completely prohibit people from returning to primitive society. Therefore, the court stipulated that every ten families could share a kitchen knife. This knife was decided by the Mongols, and now it is borrowed.
So, is this really the case?
About the story of ten households holding kitchen knives in the Yuan Dynasty, we have only seen rumors on the Internet, and there is no relevant record in the official history.
The Criminal Law History of the Yuan Dynasty did record that the imperial court did not allow private ownership of weapons and armor:
All counties and counties that are good at making weapons, such as Dalu Huachi and others, are prohibited. Sacrificial ceremonies in temples are only replaced by folk paper, and people who use real weapons are forbidden. People in the state capitals build slingshots and hold them, and the staff is 77, which is not half of their family wealth, so other counties can't help it. Beating, catching and stealing archers who patrol horses and salt, and those who hold bows and arrows are prohibited. Prohibit all Han Chinese who hold weapons; Han people have to be soldiers. Those who sell weapons can't help but sell them to the people who should have them. Iron ruler, iron bone flowers, and people with knives and iron crutches are forbidden. Those who have armor will be put to death; If you are not a deputy, you will be 57 and only serve for one year; It's 37 years old to wear a loose nail board to defend against the enemy. Ten guns, knives and crossbows are sentenced to death; More than five dollars, 97 sticks, three years; More than four dollars, 77, only two years; Unbearable to use, 57. People with ten pairs of bows and arrows were executed; More than five pairs, 97 pieces, three years; Under four pairs, seventy-seven, only two years; No pairs, 57. Every bow and arrow is a pair.
But anyone with a little historical logic will know that this is completely fabricated and impossible. Why? Let me just say two things. First, you said that kitchen knives were banned, right? What about hoes, axes and sickles? These tools are much more powerful than kitchen knives. Some people say that it must be banned together. Hehe, if you do this, everyone will stop eating. If ordinary people don't farm, who will the government ask to collect taxes?
Second, regarding Mongolian Changbao, the ratio of Mongolian and Han nationality in the Yuan Dynasty was too wide, even less in the south. According to some statistics left, there were only a few dozen Mongols in Zhenjiang in the south of China and the official road in Qing Ji. You should know that there are millions of people in this government along the way, so for the vast majority of ordinary people, Mongolians have never met. How can monitoring be successful?
Where did the phrase "one kitchen knife for ten households" come from?
In fact, it is not many years old. This statement first became popular in the early years of the Republic of China. Some historians such as Lv Zhenyu put forward the idea of banning kitchen knives in Mongolia. But at first, it was not a kitchen knife for ten households, but a kitchen knife for five households. Later, it was interpreted as eight households and finally jumped to "ten households".
And if you open the Yuan history and search it from beginning to end, you can't find the record of the official collection of kitchen knives, but in the criminal law, there is such a sentence:
Prohibit all Han Chinese who hold weapons; Han people have to be soldiers. It means that Han people are not allowed to have any weapons, but Han people who join the army are not prohibited.
From such a ban, it can be seen that the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were prepared for the Han people, but such preparations are understandable. After all, an ordinary family will never touch weapons or interfere in their lives.
In addition, in the history of the Yuan Dynasty, we can see many records of people killing tigers with sickles. For example, in the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Chuying and his son were chopping wood in the wild, and suddenly a tiger attacked Wang Chuying, Wang Chuying's father.
"Pull out the sickle and stab the tiger to death with your nose" shocked the whole country and was called "the hero who killed the tiger".
You see, if the Yuan Dynasty didn't even dare to let the people use the kitchen knife, how could it be possible to let the sickle with greater lethality get away with it? There are countless examples of yuan dynasty history fighting tigers in Rainbow. Until the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court did not show concern for people with sickles. On the contrary, it praised them strongly. It can be seen how a kitchen knife can make the Yuan Dynasty smell the color change.
For the Yuan Dynasty, ten households shared a kitchen knife. Except for various articles on the Internet, that is, the Guide to China's Historical Crossing, no historical sources were found. Some friends posted many books that mentioned this statement, but all of them were mentioned in modern works. I don't know if there are any writings about how many people shared a knife in ancient times, and there are different opinions. As far as I can see, there are three, four, five, eight, ten and twenty-six versions. If so many versions can be evolved, its authenticity will be greatly reduced.
The truth of the statement that ten families shared a kitchen knife in the Yuan Dynasty is extremely low.
Summary: It is more important to defend the people's mouths than to defend Sichuan. It is not feasible to rely solely on cruel repression. No wonder there is a spread of "one kitchen knife for ten households" among the people. I'm afraid it's more ironic for the people. Only by serving the people wholeheartedly can the country maintain long-term stability. Therefore, it is reasonable that the short Yuan Dynasty died in a hurry for more than 90 years.