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Kangxi was not the founding emperor, so why is the temple name zu?

China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, and our country's emphasis on etiquette is unimaginable to foreign countries. As the ruler of the feudal dynasty, there is undoubtedly more exquisite about the emperor, ordinary people should avoid the emperor's secrets, and the emperor's name for wearing things is also different from others, just take the chair, ordinary people are called chairs, but the emperor is called a dragon chair.

Kangxi was not the founding emperor, so why is the temple name zu?

Generally speaking, after the death of an emperor, there will be ministers in later generations to add a temple number to him, and this temple number is also very exquisite, that is, zong can basically be used for each emperor, but zu cannot be used casually. Take Zhao Kuangyin Zhao Guangyi as an example, because Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor, so Zhao Guangyi also avoided changing his name, from Zhao Kuangyi to Zhao Guangyi. And after Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, his brother was already song taizu, so he could only be called Song Taizong, because zu was generally only used for the founding emperor, representing the meaning of ancestors.

But the Qing Dynasty is different, the most peculiar point of the Qing Dynasty is that it actually has three emperors with temple names as ancestors, one is Nurhaci, which is actually easy to understand, because there is no Nurhaci's birth, unifying the Jurchen departments, establishing the Houjin, there is no future Qing Empire, and Nurhaci is the father of the Emperor Taiji who later established the Qing Dynasty, and this ancestor is well-deserved.

Kangxi was not the founding emperor, so why is the temple name zu?

Emperor Taiji was not given the title of Ancestor, but was posthumously named Emperor Taizong, which is actually quite puzzling, because the Qing Dynasty was founded by him after all. Subsequently, Fu Lin was named the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, which is actually well deserved, because the Qing Dynasty really entered the customs and unified the world, and it was Fu Lin who did it, so although Fu Lin was not the founding emperor, he was like the founding emperor.

The third emperor of the Qing Dynasty to be posthumously honored as Zu (Shengzu) was the well-known Kangxi, which is actually quite puzzling, at this time, it is necessary to explain another situation of Zu. In fact, Fu Lin also belongs to this situation, and the ancestor can sometimes be used for emperors who have the same great merit as the founding emperor, such as the Yuan Shizu of that year, and Fu Lin and Kangxi are the same.

As the founder of the prosperous era of Kangqian, this emperor reigned for the longest time, and was also known as the emperor of the ages, and his reputation in the folk was extremely high, even more than that of Qin Shi Huang. Kangxi and his grandson Qianlong reigned for a long time, and there were many similarities, but in his old age, Qianlong was somewhat less holy and clear, and deliberately held power and raised the most corrupt official in the ages.

Kangxi was not the founding emperor, so why is the temple name zu?

Both of them liked the southern tour, Kangxi's southern tour was conducive to economic development and consolidation of political power, while Qianlong was not the same, basically spending money indiscriminately. The greatest achievement of Kangxi's life was to recover Taiwan, make Taiwan return to China's territory again, and expand China's copyright, followed by the expulsion of Tsarist Russia, the protection of the border people from the pain of invasion, and the defense of China's territory, and then it was very good to the Han people, which in disguise promoted national unity and the integration of manchus and Han people. This is mainly related to the fact that Kangxi himself was also related to han chinese, and his mother was a Han Chinese who later joined the Manchus.

As for the capture of Aobai, in addition to these merits of San Francisco, it is also a remarkable place in Kangxi' body, and it is this kind of merit that makes Kangxi comparable to the founding emperor, after all, without Kangxi, there would be no Kangqian prosperous world, and there would be no future vast territory in China, so Kangxi's ancestors are also well-deserved.

Although Kangxi was more holy than Qianlong in his later years, he was still a little hesitant, and the seizure of the Ninth Son was the biggest stain on Kangxi's life, which to a certain extent led to the chaos of the situation. Fortunately, however, the Yongzheng Emperor was also very holy, and soon after ascending the throne, he consolidated his power, so that the prosperity of Kangqian could continue.

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