There are many amazing coincidences in history, such as the woman named "Lihua", whether it is Yin Lihua or Zhang Lihua, it is a very well-known big beauty, of course, this is easy to understand, after all, "Lihua" itself has the meaning of beauty, perhaps the ancients saw that this girl is very beautiful, they will give her such a name, but there is another coincidence, but it is very confusing.
That is the name of the Ming Dynasty Prince, which is actually related to the periodic table of chemical elements, that is, "beryllium magnesium calcium strontium barium radium... The words in the middle of the boroalumin gallium indium thallium " are highly overlapping, and together they can form a periodic table of chemical elements. To know that the periodic table of elements was formulated by the Russian chemist Mendeleev in the mid-19th century, and the ming princes lived from 1368 to 1644, there is not only a difference in space but also a time difference between the two, why is there such a coincidence?
Everything has to start with the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, born in 1328, when he was a child, his name was called Zhu Zhongba, his father Zhu Wusi, grandfather Zhu Chuyi, great-grandfather Zhu Sijiu, these names are very simple at first glance, simple to the equivalent of no name, this is mainly because the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty rejected Han culture and did not allow ordinary people to take official names.
This kind of family background will obviously make Zhu Yuanzhang's name very important, so he changed his name when he grew up, and Zhu Yuanzhang is "Jie Yuanzhang", which means a sharp weapon that destroys the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang is extremely particular about his own name, and has strict rules for the names of his descendants, and the names of his twenty-six sons are all single characters, and all of them are Chinese characters next to the word "wood".
From the third generation of the Zhu family, that is, the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang strictly stipulated that all people's names must be double-character, the first word is the word in the generation table he set, the second word is a word containing five lines, and stipulates that the order of "fire, earth, gold, water and wood" is circulated in turn, so that the naming of the descendants of the Zhu family has extremely strict rules.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to formulate the naming rules for the people after him was, on the one hand, because he himself suffered the loss of the name, so he was extremely particular about it, on the other hand, it was also because he had the yearning for "Ten Thousand Ages Forever Chang" like Qin Shi Huang, who stipulated names for his descendants after 10,000 generations: Qin II, Qin III... Qin Wanshi, but later died twice.
So Zhu Yuanzhang learned the lessons in this regard, and did not directly take the name of the future of the Ming Dynasty, but formulated the naming law of "five elements of mutual life", hoping to make his Ming Dynasty forever solid, so that his children and grandchildren would continue to live, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the millions of clan disciples of the Ming Dynasty were basically one-tenth left.
Zhu Cihuan, the fifth prince of Zhu, had already run away, and because he had already insisted on this naming method, he was reported by others, and eventually the whole family was arrested. It can be seen that this naming method has drawbacks to a certain extent, and Zhu Cihuan's arrest is not the biggest drawback, its biggest problem is that Zhu Yuanzhang forcibly stipulates that the last word in the name must have five lines next to it.
However, there are so many Chinese characters, if you want not to share the same name with your ancestors, the princes and grandchildren of the Zhu family have tried all kinds of methods, and what strange characters have been used up, and in the end they can only create some words corresponding to the five elements, what zinc, lanthanum and the like, these Chinese characters have been preserved through the Zhu family tree.
Late Qing Dynasty chemist Xu Shou in the translation of the periodic table, for how to translate those foreign letters, translated into the corresponding Chinese characters are extremely headache, accidentally saw the Ming Dynasty prince's family tree, extremely surprised to find that the original Chinese characters there are so many words related to metal minerals, he directly borrowed the names of the Ming Dynasty princes, to translate the periodic table of chemical elements, which also caused the periodic table and the names of the Ming princes, it looks very "coincidental" situation.