According to relevant statistics, there are a total of 494 emperors in ancient China, of which the Ming Dynasty accounted for 16, this dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang, he originally envisioned that the Ming Dynasty should be able to exist forever in the hands of thousands of descendants, but did not expect that the Ming Dynasty perished after more than 200 years, which is not the result that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted, but the fact has become established, and no one can stop the pace of the development of the times.
Some people have found that if we look at the names of the 16 emperors of the Ming Dynasty together, we will find an extraordinary law, and the last word of these emperors' names is related to gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, like Zhu Yijun's "jun" character, whose head is Jin, Zhu Youxiao's "school" character, its head is wood, Zhu Jianshen's "deep" word, its head is water, Zhu Gaozi's "blazing" word, its head is fire, Zhu Zhanji's "base" word has earth.
Seeing this, I can't help but wonder, why do you want to take a name like this? What's in it? In fact, this is inseparable from zhu Yuanzhang's credit. We know that in ancient times, there was a science called the Five Elements of Yin and Yang, which had a profound impact on most people for thousands of years. As a representative of the ancient simple materialist thought, the five elements of yin and yang became one of the frameworks of the traditional thinking of the ancients, and people at that time believed that everything in the world was inseparable from the five elements, and that everything went back and forth endlessly.
Zhu Yuanzhang's origin was not good, when he was a child, he was very poor, he could not eat enough, he worked as a beggar and a monk. So after becoming emperor, his only hope is that future generations can rule the Ming Dynasty, but to face a very difficult thing, if there are more descendants, the name will inevitably be duplicated, which is not only Zhu Yuanzhang's trouble, but also the royal family's trouble, although there is nothing to tangle, but also a problem. So Zhu Yuanzhang personally formulated a lineage for the descendants of the 24 sons, and thought of a total of 20 words, each of which was a representative of the first life.
Later, whenever a boy was born in the royal family, the name had to be named according to the rules. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also left two rules that could not be broken, the first was that the names of future generations could not be single names, but must be double names. The second is that the first word in the double name represents the generations, and the generations should be arranged in turn according to the established lineage, and the second word of the double name must be associated with the five elements, that is to say, the head of the side must have gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which solves the problem of duplication of the name.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang may not have thought that in fact, there are not many characters about the five elements, coupled with the huge number of descendants of the Ming Dynasty royal family, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, its descendants were as high as more than one million. Therefore, these words were not enough, and later the Zongrenfu had to rack their brains to play on their own, and developed the names of the royal family into similarities with the periodic table, like some names with zinc, potassium, etc.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang's idea was not realized, he thought about how to name his descendants, but he himself did not expect the Ming Dynasty to perish so soon, he wanted the Ming Dynasty to live forever, but it was overthrown in Zhu Youjian's generation.