In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne at Yingtianfu and was given the title of Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the last of China's feudal dynasties ruled by Han Chinese. The Ming Dynasty ended in 1644. The Ming Dynasty was a controversial dynasty in history, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were also controversial. Why did Zhu Yuanzhang set the name of the country as "Ming"? There are many reasons for this, and in general these two reasons have always been accepted.
Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a poem when he was recruiting soldiers: "The mountains and rivers are dying in China, and the sun and moon reopen the Great Song Dynasty." The meaning of this sentence is very obvious, that is, to restore the Song Dynasty. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it also regarded the Song Dynasty as orthodox and highly respected the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Among them, the sun and moon are the future Ming, and the Ming Dynasty did overthrow the Mongolian Yuan, establish the Han regime, and restore the land of China. There is also a clue about the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Sect, and Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the Ming Sect.
Mingism originated in Persia and was founded by Manichae. Mingism was introduced to China during the Tang Dynasty, and although it was suppressed during the Tang Dynasty, its foundation is still there, and it continues to grow and develop among the people. After the introduction of Ming Buddhism to China, it merged with Taoist and Buddhist components to become a unique sect. In the ancient peasant revolts, the insurrectors always liked to incite the people under the banner of a sect, and quickly gathered the people together and became a congregation.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Song Dynasty, and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Mingism became the religion of the rebels. Especially at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Ming sect became one of the main forces rebelling against the Yuan Dynasty. In Mr. Jin Yong's "The Book of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens", he describes stories about the Ming Sect, and Zhu Yuanzhang is also one of the ming sect's followers. The boss of the Ming Sect is Zhang Wuji, and Zhu Yuanzhang is only one of his subordinates, and at the end of the story, Zhang Wuji did not become the emperor, but Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, which made 99% of the people wonder.
Although the novel can be overhead, it is necessary to combine a certain history with major events. In history, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who was finally called emperor, so in the novel, Mr. Jin Yong can only let Zhu Yuanzhang be called emperor, not Zhang Wujie, otherwise it is not in line with a historical fact. Zhang Wuji's personality determined that he could not be emperor, and it also determined that he would eventually lose to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhang Wuji did not mean to be an emperor, and his mind was not a temple, but a jianghu.
In history, Zhu Yuanzhang's southern conquest of the northern war went from a cattle herder to a general, from a general to a prince, from a prince to a king of a country. Born in cloth, but mentioning the three-foot sword to make an immortal merit, Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to be the most legendary emperor in a thousand years, there is no one.