Zhu Yuanzhang's real name is Zhu Zhongba, his father Zhu Wusi, and his great-grandfather Zhu Sijiu, how is it like a joke
The older generation all have such old ideas, thinking that giving children a low name is so easy to feed, such as "two dogs" and "silly roots". Friends familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty may notice that Zhu Yuanzhang's real name is Zhu Zhongba, his father's name is Zhu Wusi, and the name is followed by two numbers to become an adult name.
In the book "Zhu Yuanzhang and Fengyang", Xia Yurun examines in detail Zhu Yuanzhang's family migration changes and Zhu Yuanzhang's own life with detailed historical materials and many field investigations.
Based on Xu Zhenqing's "Zhai ShengYewen", Lang Ying's "Seven Revised Drafts", Zeng Weicheng's "Dixiang Jiluo", Pan Taozhang's "National History Examination" and other historical materials, he traced Zhu Yuanzhang's five generations:
The fifth ancestor Zhu Zhongba, married to the Chen clan, had three males: Changzhu 62, Cizhu 12, and Ji Zhu 16.
Zhu Bailiu was Zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandfather, married to hu and had two sons: Changzhu 45 and Sub-Zhu 49.
Zhu Sijiu was Zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandfather, married to The Hou clan, and had four sons: Zhu Chuyi, Zhu Chu'er, Zhu Chuwu, and Zhu Chushi.
Zhu Chuyi was Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather, married to Wang, and had two sons: Changzhu Wuyi and Sub-Zhu Wuyi;
Zhu Wusi was Zhu Yuanzhang's father.
In the 25th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1288), Zhu Chuyi led his family to cross the Huai River north and settled in Sunjiagang in northern Sizhou. In this year, Zhu Yuanzhang's father Zhu Wusi was 8 years old, and his uncle Zhu Wuyi was 12 years old. The Zhu family has lived in Sizhou for more than ten years, and rending has also flourished. Zhu Wuyi already had three sons: Zhongyi, Zhongyi, and Zhongsan; Zhu Wuyi had a son and a daughter, and the son was named Chongsi. After the death of Zhu Chuyi and his wife, the May 1st and 54th brothers could not bear the heavy pressure of enlistment, and the brothers once again fled out of the family, the eldest Zhu Wuyi and his whole family went to Zhongli in Haozhou, and the second Zhu Wuyi went into exile in Wuhe County, and after giving birth to Zhongliu and Zhongqi, he also moved to Zhongli. Finally, in the year of Pengchen (1328), Zhong Li gave birth to The Eighth Heavy Eight (Zhu Yuanzhang).
This series of meticulous empirical studies made Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral situation, family changes, and his birthplace clear and clear, jumping on the paper.
Judging from the Zhu family genealogy, Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were mostly named in numbers, including his own name of Zhongba.
According to the Qing Dynasty scholar Yu Fan's "Essays on Chun Zaitang", the Yuan Dynasty stipulated that those who did not have a job were not allowed to take names, and only used the name of "the total age of the line and their parents". In this way, many unemployed civilians in the Yuan Dynasty, especially those poor, were mostly named by numbers. He also introduced the Folk Custom of Using Number Characters as Names in Shaoxing in the Qing Dynasty to illustrate this way of naming names: "For example, the twenty-fourth year of the husband, the twenty-second year of the woman, the combination of forty-six, the birth is the name of the fourth six; the twenty-third year of the husband, the twenty-second year of the woman, the combination of forty-five, the birth of a son or five nine, five nine forty-five also."
Among the military generals of the early Ming Dynasty, many people were named by numbers. The great-grandfather of Chang Yuchun, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, was called Sisan, his grandfather was called Zhongwu, and his father was called Liuliu; Tang He's great-grandfather was called Wuyi, his grandfather was called Liuyi, and his father was called Qiyi. Zhang Shicheng, who dominated suzhou at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, was originally named Jiusi, and said that the queen asked the literati to give a graceful name "Shicheng".