What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
"With copper as a mirror, you can wear a crown; with the ancient as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall; with people as a mirror, you can see the gains and losses."
In the thousands of years of China's history, there are many emperors who have to trace the blood of their ancestors back to the greater after they ascend to the throne, but if you want to make contributions to this society or not, you must make the image of your ancestors a little more brilliant, so as to set off your gorgeous identity. Zhu Yuanzhang, the famous emperor of our country, was born as a poor peasant, and even more so, worked as a beggar. After becoming emperor, for the sake of family fame, he wanted to recognize Zhu Xi as his ancestor, but he gave up his idea because of only one person. So who is this person, and how much influence does he have on Zhu Yuanzhang?
Zhu Yuanzhang was not only the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but also a famous grassroots emperor. Because of his own lineage, he was born poor, when he was a child, his family was poor, and he could not even eat, and it was precisely in this way that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was very young, could only go to the homes of those big landlords to herd cattle, and during this period, he was not less deceived by these landlords. Soon after, a sudden famine took the lives of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and brothers, zhu Yuanzhang survived, without the company of his family, had to go to the temple to become a monk, and from then on began Zhu Yuanzhang's road of transformation.
It is precisely in this way that Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament has been tempered, and his insight has been increased, and it can also be said that it has laid the foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang's future conquests. In the following years, Zhu Yuanzhang participated in many wars, defeated strong enemies including Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youyu, and after removing various obstacles, Zhu Yuanzhang established the famous Ming Dynasty. At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang changed from a child of a poor family to the identity of an emperor above ten thousand people.
After becoming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to associate his ancestors with zhu Xi, a famous theorist of the Song Dynasty. Zhu Xi and Zhu Yuanzhang were both from the Jianghuai region, and it was precisely because Zhu Xi's status was very high at that time that Zhu Yuanzhang had such an idea, and when he proposed it, even the group of courtiers echoed it, saying, "It is very reliable to recognize Zhu Xi as the ancestor." ”
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor, even if the idea was good, in the final analysis, it was still necessary to carefully consider it, and this kind of thing could not be forced. Because there was a big joke before, there was a great general in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong, who hit zhang fei temple when he was wandering, and when he knew that the temple was supplying Zhang Fei, he knew the surname of the clan, and immediately went to the temple to worship, and also let people write a sacrifice for this. But Zhang Xianzhong, who had little culture, was ashamed and angry when he saw the entire entire sacrifice text presented in the form of classical documents. Because he couldn't understand it at all, he killed many literati, and then he also wrote a "Your surname is Zhang, I am also surnamed Zhang, so let's even zong." It is also this incident that makes Zhang Xianzhong a laughingstock of Qianqiu.
As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally would not be as stupid as Zhang Xianzhong. When the courtiers were all in agreement with Zhu Yuanzhang to pull Zhu Xi into the ranks of his ancestors, Zhu Yuanzhang did not take decisive action, considering that it was difficult for him to be associated with Zhu Xi, and it was difficult to convince future generations just because they were all from the Jianghuai region. This will also become the laughing stock of others like Zhang Xianzhong.
Just when he was helpless, Zhu Yuanzhang met a barber, who was also surnamed Zhu. Zhu Yuanzhang stepped forward and asked, "Are you a descendant of Zhu Xi?" But the barber replied without hesitation, "I am not a descendant of Zhu Xi." Even if Zhu Yuanzhang once again stressed that Zhu Xi was a generation of literary heroes and a university inquirer, the barber always replied, "I am not a descendant of Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xi is definitely not my ancestor." ”
It was in this way that Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of recognizing Zhu Xi as an ancestor began to waver, as an ordinary barber, he would not recognize his ancestors in this way, and as a founding emperor, he had such an unfounded idea, once posterity found out that he had nothing to do with Zhu Xi, wouldn't he be ridiculed by the world.
It was in this way that Zhu Yuanzhang no longer planned to recognize Zhu Xi as his ancestor. And repeatedly stressed to his subordinates that he was born as an ordinary old farmer in Huaixi, and he had also seen what his parents and his family were like, and he definitely did not rely on the inheritance of his ancestors to start his family. Therefore, the later Zhu Yuanzhang, whether speaking or writing an edict, would add the words "Huaixi Cloth Cloth of the Yuanben Dynasty".
When Zhu Yuanzhang repaired his parents' graves, his Confucian courtiers wanted to help Zhu Yuanzhang write the inscription, but Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that they would exaggerate their identity when writing, so Zhu Yuanzhang refused their request and wrote it himself. In the process of writing, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote down all his experiences from childhood to adulthood, including starving from childhood to living in the temple, without any shame in his own life.
Zhu Yuanzhang walked from the cloth to the founding emperor, he did not give up the desire for life because of his own life, nor did he feel inferior because of his own life. The experience from childhood is quite important to Zhu Yuanzhang, failure has left traces on him, but at the same time failure has also created everything for him, if he does not learn from failure, how can Zhu Yuanzhang come to such a high position?
From the moment we are born, we are integrated into the family, we are already our own ancestors. We must bravely acknowledge our ancestors, rather than blindly envying others, and we must not want to abandon our identity because others are rich in life. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was such an admirable emperor, who adhered to the facts and bravely faced himself.