When it comes to the self-made emperors of ancient China, I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang, especially friends who understand the history of the Ming Dynasty, are very familiar with Zhu Yuanzhang's experience in establishing his own feudal dynasty. He was originally a commoner, born in an ordinary peasant family, and since he understood things, he had gone through hardships to survive, and even became a monk in order to survive. In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, peasant uprisings were set off in various places, and Zhu Yuanzhang joined the large army at this time and began his legendary life.
01 Zhu Yuanzhang's legendary experience
Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a peasant, and also learned some fist and foot kung fu in the temple, so he had a courage on the battlefield that was not afraid of life and death, charging into battle, and most of the time he was not the courage of a puppet, he had wisdom beyond ordinary people, so he soon showed his extraordinary side in the team, and the leader Guo Zixing at that time was quite appreciative of him, and regarded Zhu Yuanzhang as his right and left arm, and he quickly stood out from the ordinary soldiers. After Guo Zixing's death due to illness, Zhu Yuanzhang inherited the position of leader and led the peasant rebel army to continue to advance, unstoppable, attacking Yingtian in a row, overthrowing the Yuan dynasty regime, and establishing his own dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who became emperor, did not begin to live an extravagant and lavish life, because he had experienced the pain of life, so he still insisted on thrift and thrift after becoming emperor. In the Xunzi, it is said: "Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn a boat." Zhu Yuanzhang was well aware of this truth, and he hoped that the people could have a stable life under his rule, so he set extremely strict punishments for officials, strictly prohibiting officials from embezzling, accepting bribes, and oppressing the people.
02 The Eighth Princess Fuqing is unusual
Speaking of the emperor, one thing that cannot be ignored is the harem beauty, although Zhu Yuanzhang is very frugal, but there are still many concubines in the harem, and dozens of children have been born in a row, which shows how high the number of concubines has reached. Among his many children, the eighth princess Fuqing was quite popular with Zhu Yuanzhang, because she was clever and clever since she was a child, not only talented and full of poetry, but also different from others, Fuqing was very concerned about people's livelihood and was very interested in politics and governance.
In ancient China, women could not participate in politics, but Zhu Yuanzhang would let Fuqing express his opinions in governing the country, and even consider the ideas she put forward to a certain extent, which is enough to see that Fuqing has his own wisdom, and such wisdom has also been recognized by Zhu Yuanzhang, which is rare among ancient women. It is conceivable that if Fuqing was a man, it would certainly leave a good mark in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
03 Living people are housed in the burial chamber
Fuqing died in 1471 and was buried in Nanjing. Because of her noble status and great attention during her lifetime, her tomb should have a lot of precious cultural relics, but unfortunately these treasures have long been stolen by tomb thieves. When archaeologists discovered tombs and excavated them, only a small number of artifacts were found in them, and the burial chambers were greatly damaged. After the inspection, the experts remodeled the tomb of Fuqing, repairing the parts destroyed by the tomb robbers and the places damaged due to their age, so that the tomb was no longer a scene of decay, and it was unexpected that there was one more thing worth paying attention to after this.
The burial chamber is the place where the deceased is buried, and most people will automatically avoid it after seeing the tomb, thinking that such a place is more obscure, but after the reconstruction of the tomb of the Eighth Princess, some people actually lived in it, and even lay directly on the coffin of the tomb. After receiving the report, the relevant departments investigated these people, they were originally a group of homeless people, who had been wandering around, and after seeing the tomb, they felt that this place could cover the wind and rain, so they could not bear the fear of living directly in, and they naturally did not care what kind of scene they were in.
When the local authorities learned of the events, they moved them out of the burial chamber and found another place for them, and the people began a new life. The burial chamber was originally built for the owner's tranquility, which can avoid disturbances and effectively reduce the damage to the burial chamber. In addition, according to our traditional conception, it is also very unlucky for the living to live in the tomb, and for the sake of those who are homeless, they should also have a normal life.
epilogue
There are many tombs in ancient China, but in the long-term historical process, most of them have been seriously damaged, the cultural relics inside are missing, even the tomb itself is in ruins, our contemporary archaeologists try their best to restore them, find the original appearance of history, as modern people we should have a sense of protection of history. Hurlbut said: 'History should be the teacher of mankind.' The wisdom we have drawn from history is far more precious than some gold and silver jewelry.