Chinese characters are broad and profound, Chinese surnames are also numerous, from ancient times to the present there is a saying that there are hundreds of surnames, because there are many surnames, people will put these characters together and compile them into a book called "Hundred Family Names". In ancient times, there were many taboos in society that needed to be paid attention to, and if you were not careful, you would put yourself in a dangerous situation, such as what was the surname of the emperor of a certain dynasty at that time, it was the national surname of the country, and the more interesting thing was the Zhu surname of Zhu Yuanzhang during the Ming Dynasty.
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At that time, because the emperor's surname was Zhu in the Ming Dynasty, it was not possible to have people with the same surname in the folk, because the emperor's name was relatively expensive, how could it be used on the common people? This was a blasphemy against the royal family at the time, but it was about to lose its head. But this surname is special in that it is pronounced the same as one of our farm animals, that is, pigs.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a place called Kaiyuan County, in order to avoid the use of the emperor's name, it should be turned into Kaiyuan County, although the sound did not change, but the word changed. I remembered that I had seen why Guanyin Bodhisattva later became Guanyin Dashi because the word "Shi" in it contradicted the name of Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty who was ruling at that time, so the name was cut off from that time on.
Moreover, at that time, some small people in the city were often used to describe the people, but during the Tang Taizong period, this kind of title became very rare, and it was mostly because of the conflict with the emperor's name. Back to the point, since the pronunciation of Zhu and pig is very similar, what should everyone call it? And in the New Year's Festival, pigs are often slaughtered and sheep are slaughtered, so how should such activities be carried out? Of course, for their own name, they chose a stable fruit day, do not kill pigs or raise pigs, the people who raise them can only keep them all the time, who let the emperor's surname Zhu!
In fact, when Zhu Yuanzhang was in the dynasty, he was very enlightened, there really were not so many taboos, it is said that at that time, because at the time of the New Year's Festival, he would go out of the palace to inspect how the life of ordinary people's families lived, and saw that every household was ready to greet the New Year with lights, only one family did not even have a couplet on the door, so he was a little surprised, and only after inquiring did he know that the original family was a special butcher, who used to live by killing pigs and selling meat, but after the prohibition, there was no business anymore.
After learning about the situation, he changed the pigs to pigs, and he also allowed everyone to kill the pigs and eat meat. Although he didn't care much about these things, his descendant Zhu Houzhao did care a lot, because at a banquet the ministers were very happy eating pork, and he was very angry, so he issued a decree prohibiting the killing of pigs and the eating of meat.