Each person's surname after birth is determined by their own family. In this enlightened age, surnames are not even avoided because of certain plots or things. But in ancient times, there was a practice of avoiding the emperor's surname in China. The emperor is the son of heaven, loved and respected by the people, for his surname, if the people use it in life, even if the emperor is not taboo, the people do not dare to offend.
During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang leapt from a cattle herder to a generation of emperors. He is also a very prominent figure in history. When it comes to the taboo of surnames, some small friends will think of Zhu Yuanzhang's surname Zhu. And "Zhu" is homophonous with "pig", and pigs often appear in people's lives, is it also necessary to avoid it?
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang did not care about these things during his reign, and did not set up special regulations to change pigs to aliases, but the people still spontaneously avoided pigs! At that time, the people felt very strange about the words "kill pigs, slaughter pigs, and eat pigs", and they were worried that the Nobles of Wang Qing would blame them, so they changed the pronunciation of pigs to "shǐ".
After that, the 9th emperor Zhu Houzhao ordered that eating pork was prohibited, and he forbade the people to eat pork, not because his zodiac was a pig, and he would not be able to bear it when he saw the people eating pigs. However, the royal society often held sacrifices, and pork was generally the most frequently used sacrifice in ancient times. This also embarrassed the ministers, so Zhu Houzhao ordered that no one else should eat it, but he could eat it himself.
Later generations also put the title of "double standard" on Zhu Houzhao's head, and under everyone's opposition, he was forced to cancel this "pig ban order" out of necessity, and indeed if he could eat it himself, but others could not eat it, this was not a rule made by a sage! Do you also know the last names of historical figures?