1. Emperor Wu of the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed the Buddha.
Emperor Wu of the Northern Wei Dynasty was a very strong man. He admired martial arts very much, and his demand for the people was that all the people should be soldiers.
At that time, the number of monks was actually large, but monks had many privileges. For example, monks do not need to perform military service, nor do they need to pay various miscellaneous taxes.
Emperor Wu of the Northern Wei Dynasty originally asked all people to be soldiers, but monks refused to serve in the army and could not do this, which made him very unhappy.
When a large number of weapons were found in a temple in Chang 'an, Emperor Wudi of the Northern Wei Dynasty made an excuse and insisted that the monks were going to rebel, so a large-scale clean-up of these monks turned into an incident of destroying Buddha.
2. The Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Wu destroyed the Buddha.
Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was not very interested in Buddhism. He believes in Confucianism and pays attention to governing the country with Confucianism.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the number of monks in China reached 5 million, while the total population was only 50 million at that time.
If everyone becomes a monk, who will do farm work? Are they all waiting to die? Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty launched a campaign to destroy Buddhism, and directly reduced all the more than three million monks to vulgarity.
Tang Wuzong destroyed the Buddha statue.
Tang Wuzong believed in Taoism, but not Confucianism at all. In addition, Buddhism was particularly large at this time, and it did not pay taxes, which seriously affected the enthusiasm of national economic production. In this case, Tang Wuzong also launched a campaign to destroy the Buddha.
Tang Wuzong asked the soldiers to destroy all the Buddha statues in the temple, burn wood and directly melt gold and copper to make other objects.
Because the emperors of these three battles all carried the word "martial arts", they were called "three unique skills" in history.