Many people may not know that some of the words we are accustomed to are not like this in the beginning, because under the strict feudal system of ancient times, many words have been changed, and they are called habits from generation to generation. If you look back at the original appearance now, you are not used to it, and there are many such examples in ancient times.
For example, in the ancient Chinese myths and legends of the Chang'e fairy, the story about "Chang'e running to the moon" must have been familiar to many people already, right? But in fact, Chang'e was not called Chang'e at the beginning, the original name was Jiao'e. However, during the Han Dynasty, because the name of Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han, was avoided, she was changed to Chang'e.
Nowadays, it seems that Chang'e's name is naturally better than That'e's, but many of the reasons are because you have heard it habitually, but in the beginning the ancients thought the same as you, because the ancients were more accustomed to "Concubine", and it can be said that there are too many examples of changing the name due to "avoidance".
It was not easy to live under the ancient feudal system, and the name of the emperor was only one of them, and the "Ram Biography min A.D. Year" recorded: "Spring and Autumn are reserved for His Holiness, for relatives, and for sages." It can be said that it is a criterion, "for His Holiness" is to avoid the name of the monarch, to hide the name of the relatives is to hide the name of the elders and ancestors, and to keep a secret for the sages is the name of the saint.
I have to sigh: it is so difficult to live in ancient times. Although there are many rules, the main thing is to avoid the name of the monarch. Because the name of the elders may be called rude, the name of the saint is washed out, for example, in ancient times, the reader could not directly say confucius's name Kong Qiu to show respect. Among them, especially the name of the monarch, it is impossible to contradict each other.
Take the two generations of the Ming and Qing dynasties closest to us, the Kangxi Emperor's name is Ai xin Jue Luo Xuanye, in order to avoid kangxi's name, he changed the Xuanwu Gate to Shenwu Gate, the Shunzhi Emperor's name was Fu Lin, in order to avoid shunzhi's name, the people could not even post the "Five Blessings Linmen" door link, once found, the light was imprisoned, and the heavy door was full of beheadings.
It is more interesting to say that the avoidance of the Ming Dynasty is more interesting, as we all know, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty was the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in Cao mang, his parents and brothers were starved to death, and he did not know how much suffering he had experienced to become an emperor. Therefore, it always felt that Zhu Yuanzhang's somewhat tyrannical tendencies, the number of corrupt officials killed under him reached 300,000.
Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to rules, believing that there were no rules and no square circles, and often used extremely tyrannical means to force people to enforce the rules. For example, the pork we often eat is not allowed to be raised during the Ming Dynasty, and it is a large-scale slaughter of pigs and then buried on the spot.
Why? Because the word "pig" and the Ming Dynasty royal family name "Zhu" are accentuated. And we know that pigs are very stupid animals in everyone's impression, so in order to avoid the emperor's surname, the people did not even dare to call "pig", but replaced the name of "pig" with the word 豕 (shǐ).
However, this rule is not standing well, as soon as everyone sees the pig, they immediately think of the "Zhu" surname, Zhu Yuanzhang actually played a negative effect in doing so, which really made people cry and laugh.