The guards of Zhou emperors were called "Tiger Ben" and the guards of princes were called "Travel Ben". According to Xia Guan, when Wang travels, he guards before and after; When the king is resting, the palace of King Solvay in Huben. The king is in the country, and the tiger is guarding the palace. When the country encounters great enemies, great mourning and other extraordinary events, the warriors guard the king's gate. In addition, Hu Ben can also follow the scholar-officials to send missions to the Quartet, or convey them to the Quartet in the form of decrees when the road is blocked. According to records, when the king traveled, he held a shield and guarded the sides of the king's car. When the bus stops, support the wheels. All the worshippers will wear fast clothes and follow the king around by car. When the king died, he wore mourning clothes to cut off the decline of Ge Jing and held a shield to protect the successor king. In military action, he accompanied him in armor. According to Gu Ming in Shangshu, Zhou Chengwang died. "Two thousand warriors, hundreds of people were fighting in the south gate." This shows that Zhou Li's record is well-founded. "Under Mandarin and Lu Language" records that Sun Bao, the uncle of Dr. Lu, said: "The son of heaven has warriors and also practices martial arts; The vassal has a brigade and is also prepared for disasters. "Proved this problem. It shows that the guard-banning system of Zhou Dynasty still existed in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the guards of the governors of various countries were not called "Ruben", but each had its own name. For example, the imperial army of Chu is called "Chengguang", which is divided into two parts, left and right, and each chariot is thirty times. Youguang will drive on duty when the cock crows, and get off the bus to have a rest in the middle of the day. Zuo Guang continued to be on duty and got off the bus at sunset to have a rest. According to the records in the late Spring and Autumn Period, each chariot has 3 soldiers, 72 infantry and 4500 soldiers in 60 chariots. This is not a small military force. When he returned to China to succeed him, he specially sent 3,000 guards to Jin as "Shi Jigang's servants". These 3000 people are actually guards, so Du explained in advance that "this is a problem of using soldiers to defend Wen Gong's servants". "Zuo Zhuan" recorded Gong Xuan's two years, and Jin Linggong was cruel and heartless, killing innocent people. Attending doctor Zhao Dun protested many times, but Gong Ling wouldn't listen. Worried that Zhao Dun would protest again, Gong Ling thought that Zhao Dun had been entertained and secretly ambushed the army to kill him. Soldiers ambushing in the Jin Dynasty were also called "Gong Jie" and "Bowing the Earth". In fact, they were court guards of the Jin Dynasty. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, divided Wu Naizhong's division into two armies, with his 6,000 private soldiers as the central army. Gou Jian's private soldiers are his guards. According to these four cases, it can be inferred that during the Spring and Autumn Period, there were bodyguards in the courts of governors of various countries. Not only governors have guards, but also some countries, such as Chu and Prince Edward. During the battle of Chengpu, there was an army in the Chu army called the "East Palace", which was the "palace armor" of the Chu king. According to Zuo Zhuan and Lu Wen's A.D. (626 BC), it was this kind of "Gong Jia" that the princes and ministers of Chu launched a palace coup, killed the king of Chu and usurped the throne. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the guards of princes were mostly composed of children of nobles or officials. Guarding the palace at ordinary times and being by the king's side in wartime is the main force in the army. Such as gold's Gong Zu (1)

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According to a broader definition, the guards of the Qing Dynasty included the guards guarding the imperial palace, the Manchu Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, and even the infantry responsible for the security of the capital commanded green camp's subordinate troops. Strictly speaking, the imperial guard refers to a modern imperial guard established by the Qing government in the background of the surging constitutional movement, modeled on the Prussian military system. The training of the Guards began in March (1907), December (1908) and July (191) in Xuantong. Guards officers mostly come from the first town of the new army, mainly Manchu, and soldiers are mainly Manchu in Beijing, as well as Mongolian cavalry and able-bodied farmers from Zhili and Shandong. At most, the Guards had four bids from two associations of infantry, cavalry and artillery 1 bid, engineers, trench, artillery, military music and police 1 team, with a total of more than12,000 people. At that time, there were only 18 doors in China and even in Asian countries. In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), the Qing court issued an imperial edict, which was commanded by regents Zai Feng and Baylor Zai Tao, Baylor Yu Lang (dismissed in July of Xuantong's second year (19 10)) and Ministry of War Minister Tie Liang (Xuantong-0/909). Liang Bi, the first association; Wang Tingzhen, Wang Tingzhen, the second association; Song of the artillery team. After the establishment of the Guards, the task of guarding the palace in the first and sixth towns of the new army was handed over to the Guards. During the Revolution of 1911, the Guards hardly played any particularly important role. After Wuchang Uprising, the Qing court was forced to use Yuan Shikai as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. In order to seize the only military power in the hands of the royal family, Yuan added Xu Shichang as the minister who specially trained the Guards, and the Guards Training Institute was reorganized into the Doudufu, with Feng as the Chief Officer of the Guards. After the founding of the Republic of China, according to the regulations on preferential treatment for house cleaning, the guards kept the original establishment and salary, and were compiled by the War Department, and Feng continued to serve as a guard. 19 14 years, the guards were reorganized into the 16th division of Beiyang Army, with Wang Tingzhen as the teacher, and the history of the guards officially ended. Among them, 1 group protected the clean room temporarily left in the palace until 1924 when Puyi left the palace. The picture below shows the guards of 19 10 visiting Austria-Hungary and taking photos with Austrian officials. Zhang Han in the front row, Li Jingmai in the third left, Zai Tao in the fourth left and Liang Bi in the right; In the second row, there are six Jing Cheng sticks on the left. Left three rows, three Tang, left six, Liu Enyuan.