The Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 AD - 589 AD) was a period of great division in Chinese history, starting from Liu Yu usurping the Eastern Jin Dynasty and establishing the Southern Song Dynasty in 420 AD, and ending with the Sui Dynasty's destruction of the Southern Dynasty Chen in 589 AD. This period inherited the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and the Sui Dynasty at the bottom. Although the northern and southern powers had their own dynasties, they maintained a long-term confrontation, so they were called the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

In this short period of 169 years, China was divided into many countries, and Northern Qi was the more powerful and mainstream country among these countries. Although it has only a short history of 28 years, it has produced countless interesting stories. Recently, our reporter interviewed Dai Guoxi, a history lecturer at Shandong University, and asked him to tell us about things you don’t know about the Northern Qi Dynasty. As the homeland of Lanling King Gao Changgong, the Northern Qi Dynasty only had a short period of 28 years from its founding to its destruction by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. However, during these 28 years, the Northern Qi Dynasty had 6 emperors. "Actually, as a historian, Northern Qi is a very interesting country. Although this country is constantly changing emperors, its military strength is obvious to all." Dai Guoxi told reporters that this is different from the Northern Qi royal family. The Xianbei people have an inseparable relationship: "The Xianbei people are nomadic people, a people on horseback. Most of them are brave and good at fighting. Therefore, although the Northern Qi Dynasty did not last long, due to its strong military strength, it has been allowed to eventually annex it. The Northern Zhou Dynasty had a headache. "According to historical records, from the founding to the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the six emperors of the Northern Qi Dynasty all died abnormally, either due to sudden illness or being killed. And almost no emperor lived past the age of 35." None of these six emperors lived to be 35 years old.

The longest-lived emperor, Wucheng Emperor Gao Zhan, was only 32 years old. This also caused Northern Qi's political orders to change frequently and be unstable. "Situations like this are actually not uncommon in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. After all, it was an era of division and war. Social unrest often caused various problems, and palace coups were inevitable. "The Northern Qi Dynasty is a notorious 'beast dynasty' in Chinese history. Most of the emperors of the Northern Qi Dynasty were licentious and violent. For example, uncles and sisters-in-law committed adultery, sons raped their fathers and wives, and innocent people were tortured and killed from time to time. Especially the Northern Qi Dynasty was the most important. The two emperors: Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang and Emperor Wucheng Gao Zhan were the most brutal and chaotic." Regarding this phenomenon, most scholars believe that this is related to the fact that the Northern Qi royal family is Xianbei, "because in Xianbei culture, There is no concept of the Five Constant Ethics in Chinese culture, so they will not be subject to too many restrictions or moral criticisms when they do these things." In addition, Dai Guoxi also told reporters: "Of course, some scholars have also raised it. A new view is that the Gao royal family may have some family genetic history, which makes some of their behaviors more "crazy". Lanling was originally a sub-village of the Lu state? Speaking of the Northern Qi Dynasty, we have to say King Lanling. Speaking of King Lanling, we have to talk about his fiefdom, Lanling County in Xuzhou. In fact, the administrative division records of Lanling in historical materials are also relatively complicated. Initially, Lanling was originally a secondary town of Lu State. The area around Lanling Town, Cangshan County, Linyi City was once the territory of the state during the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties. The State of Lu sent troops and slaves southward to occupy Lanling and establish a sub-city.

It was between 319 and 312 BC that the word "Lanling" was actually recorded in history books. According to ancient legends, the name Lanling was given by Qu Yuan and it was not until Qin unified the six kingdoms. , after the establishment of the county system, Lanling belonged to Donghai County, with Lanling County (today's Lanling Town), Xiangben County (today's Changzhen Town) and County (today's Xiangcheng Town). It was the area with the densest concentration of Donghai County and County offices. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Lanling was once under the jurisdiction of the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and other regimes, and its county seat was also moved to Lanling County (now Yicheng District, Zaozhuang City), while Gao Changgong was placed under the jurisdiction of Lanling County. He was named the King of Lanling in Xuzhou. "In fact, in the history of China, there were two Lanlings, one was the North Lanling, which was Gao Changgong's fiefdom, and the other was the South Lanling, which was in Wujin, Changzhou today, so Lanling was also known as Lanling. It was one of the ancient names of Changzhou. " Dai Guoxi said that no matter in the official historical records such as "Book of Northern Qi" or "History of the North", there is always some vagueness about the life experience of King Lanling. An obvious example is the story about Emperor Wenxiang's Gao Gao in "History of the North". Records of the six sons of Cheng (after Gao Yang ascended the throne, his elder brother Gao Cheng was posthumously named Emperor Wenxiang): "Empress Wen Jingyuan gave birth to King Xiaowan of Hejian, the Song family gave birth to Wang Xiaoyu of Henan, the Wang family gave birth to Wang Xiaoheng of Guangning, and Prince Changgong of Lanling did not have his mother's surname. , the Chen family gave birth to Ande Wang Yanzong, and the Yan family gave birth to Yuyang Wang Shaoxin. Among Gao Cheng's six sons, five have their mother's surname. However, Lanling King Gao Changgong "cannot have his mother's surname". Why is this? What is even more strange is that in the history books, there is another record about the mother of Gao Yanzong, the younger brother of Gao Changgong, King Ande, that is, "Chen, the prostitute of the King of Guangyang". Because of this, many people believe that perhaps Gao Changgong's mother was a person of extremely low status, not even as good as a woman, so she was not recorded in history books.