1644年3月19日晨,崇祯皇帝朱由检踉踉跄跄地爬上煤山,吊死在寿皇殿旁的槐树上,时年仅34岁。许多人都把崇祯的失败归结于农民起义和盘踞于满洲的后金势力,这点不假,它们的确是推动崇祯朝历史变迁的直接力量,但是,人们也知道,不管多尔衮和李自成存不存在,大明王朝的气数已是油尽灯枯了,多尔衮和李自成只不过是压在骆驼背上的最后两根稻草罢了。他的悲剧命运就在于他不仅无法以一身之躯来阻止社稷颠覆之势,而且历史所能给予他的时间和空间也注定他成为不了一位中兴之主。 On the morning of March 19, 1644, Emperor Chongzhen of Zhuzhen climbed up to Meishan and arrested himself in the locust tree beside Shou Huangdi when he was only 34 years old. Many people attributed the defeat of Chongzhen to the peasant uprising and the insurgency entrenched in Manchuria. It is true that they are indeed the direct forces that propelled Chongzhen toward historical changes. However, people also know that regardless of Dorgon and Li Zicheng Does not exist, the Ming dynasty has been the number of lights exhausted, Dorgon and Li Zicheng is only the last two straw on the camel’s back nothing more. His tragedy lies in not only that he can not stop the subversion of the people in one body, but also the time and space that history can give him.