In ancient times, due to the backwardness of technology, many natural phenomena that could not be explained were said to be celestial phenomena. In addition to the celestial ancients also believed in feng shui, and divination, the face is equal. Since ancient times, almost all those who have achieved great things have believed in divination and fortune telling, and you see that Wu Zetian himself did not say that when he was young, Yuan Tiangang said that he was a rich and noble person, and great people always liked to mythologize themselves, and Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty was no exception, and he was also convinced of these.
We all know that Zhu Yuanzhang came out of a poor family, did things for rich people when he was young, and also worked as a monk, in short, he suffered a lot. Later, he became the leader of the Nongming Rebel Army, successfully proclaimed himself emperor after unremitting efforts, and later unified China. So he began to think deeply about the reasons for his success. In the end, he boiled it all down to fate, and he thought that his birthday was very good, and it was the emperor's order.
In a book called "No Miscellaneous Tricks", it was recorded that Zhu Yuanzhang believed in numerology. This incident occurred after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang himself believed that the reason why he could become emperor was that his numerology must be extremely expensive. So Zhu Yuanzhang speculated that a person like himself with the same birthday eight characters as himself would definitely become emperor, and when Zhu Yuanzhang thought of this, he was very afraid, so he sent a Jinyi guard and began to visit people who were the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's numerology.
After becoming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang always felt weak-hearted, afraid that someone with the same fate as him would replace him. Later, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and finally sent someone to privately check the household registration of the people to see if there were any people who were similar to his birthday. Later, in the Jinyi wei inspection he arranged, he found such a person, and it was also very coincidental that he and Zhu Yuanzhang were born on the same day of the same month of the same year.
He was very happy to learn that there was such a person, Zhu Yuanzhang. He very much wanted to know what kind of person he was, and most of all he wanted to see if he had the appearance of an emperor. If he looked extraordinary, he would definitely kill him, but when Zhu Yuanzhang saw himself, he was very happy. This man looked like a man with a vicissitudes of face and a gray beard, just an old country man. Zhu Yuanzhang refused to believe that such a person could threaten his imperial power, and the old man claimed to be a beekeeper.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang learned that he was only a beekeeper, and did not take it to heart, and finally sent someone to give the old man some generous rewards. In the end, he was sent home safely, and at first Zhu Yuanzhang's frightened heart finally fell. Later, after a long period of investigation, no one was similar to his birthday eight characters anymore. Li Shimin, who was born in Guizhou later, had extraordinary temperament, to beat Zhu Yuanzhang, if Liu Gongsheng had been born in the Ming Dynasty, he might have been in a different place!