The superstitious saying of Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral tomb is too absurd to say that "dragon catchers" make it bad
The ancient emperor was the son of heaven and was a god in the hearts of the people, and the emperor who sat on a high position also had his own vanity. In order to make people really look up to them in their hearts, they think that these emperors sitting on the throne of God are justified, they are sons of heaven, they must be him, they will not only deify their own deeds, but also deify their origins.
The reason for Zhu Yuanzhang's humble status in the early years of the Ming Dynasty was that in order to remove his own "stain" in history, even his ancestral grave had to be deified.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a poor family and was a true grassroots emperor in history, herding cattle in the countryside. In 1343, drought, locust plague, and plague broke out one after another, and Zhu Yuanzhang's father, brother, and mother died in these disasters.
Zhu Yuanzhang's family was already too poor to open the pot, and even the coffins for burying relatives could not afford to buy, and even the family did not have the fields where these family members were buried.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not have enough to eat, wear or warm, and could not find a place for him to sleep and rest, so he went up the mountain to become a monk, shaved his hair as a monk, and rang the bell every day to eat a day's meal.
However, not long after, the local famine began again, and Zhu Yuanzhang was only seventeen years old at this time, but he had to go out to beg. He begged all the way, passed through many places on the way, and wandered for several years, which was the wave of peasant uprisings in Chinese history.
Each peasant could not bear to be exploited, was squeezed, and rose up one after another, and Zhu Yuanzhang was influenced by these peasants and joined the rebel army. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang began his life of conquest of the four directions, until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to reflect his righteousness as emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang not only deified his own origin and family origin, but also spared his ancestral grave.
Because ancient China paid attention to birth, paid attention to the door to the household, and paid attention to the different seats of the scholars, this shows that in ancient times, a person's origin largely determined a lifetime, or from the birth of the mother, your birth has already determined your fate, whether to stand in the clouds or fall into the dirt.
Therefore, as an emperor, he not only pays attention to a good birth, but also requires that he be born orthodox and clean, and several generations up and down are clean. So how did Zhu Yuanzhang deify his ancestral tomb?
Legend has it that one year, two Taoist monks dressed as a master and an apprentice passed by a dry land on the outskirts, and the master pointed to the front and said to the disciple, this is a rare feng shui treasure land, pregnant with dragon veins, if anyone is buried here after death, his descendants can become the son of heaven.
Master explained that this place contains the aura of heaven and earth, and even a dead branch can take root and sprout with such an aura.
It was a Daoist monk who passed by and said casually, but it just so happened that at this time, Zhu Chuyi, Zhu Chuyi, Zhu Chuyi, was lying in a place where the two Daoists could not see, and he could hear the Daoist's words clearly.
Zhu Chuyi quickly got up from the ground, picked up a dead branch and planted it in the feng shui treasure land that the Taoist priest said, and every day after that, Zhu Chuyi would go to this suburb to see the growth of this dead branch.
On the tenth day of Zhu Chuyi's observation, this dead branch really sprouted out, and Zhu Chuyi planted a dead branch again, but this time the branch did not take root and sprout like the last time.
Zhu Chuyi found this Taoist priest and asked why, but the Daoist priest said that this feng shui treasure belonged to the Zhu family. Ten years later, Zhu Chuyi's daughter-in-law gave birth to a son, zhu Yuanzhang, the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to the feng shui treasure land, the legend of "dragon catchers" has also been used. Legend has it that the dragon herder will drive the dragon from heaven, which is regarded as a sign of good fortune, and if the dragon chooses anyone, it will protect his descendants.
Therefore, the dragon catchers took the remains of their ancestors and hoped to bury them in the lake with dragons, and the dragon chasers who were not familiar with the water nature did not dare to risk going down to the deep Hongze Lake, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather Zhu Chuyi was playing by the lake, and the dragon catchers went to seek Zhu Chuyi's help.
There was such a good thing, of course, Zhu Chuyi was willing, he held the golden box containing the remains of his ancestors in one hand, and the remains of his ancestors wrapped in grass on the other.
What people did not expect was that just after the water dragon, he ate the straw bag in Zhu Chuyi's hand, and also carried the remains of Zhu Chuyi's ancestors.
At this time, Zhu Chuyi panicked, and dared to ask for a solution for the dragon catcher, but the dragon catcher shook his head and sighed, saying that the dragon swallowed the remains of Zhu Chuyi's first group, then the feng shui that protected his descendants fell on Zhu Chuyi's family, and Zhu Chuyi's descendants would have emperors.
The legend of this feng shui treasure land and the legend of the "dragon catcher" has been widely spread in the wild history of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it sounds funny today, and even a little too absurd, but in that era these legends also had its own reasons.
At that time, the government was in turmoil, the people were miserable, and the courtiers might think that the emperor was mismanaged, and the generals were no longer serving their orders.
In the long run, the hearts of the masses will reduce their admiration for the Son of Heaven. As an emperor above one person, who governs the entire dynasty, how can he endure the loss of his position among the people as the king of a country, so there are all kinds of legends.
Just like zhu Yuanzhang, the legends on the ancestral graves are all to show that Zhu Yuanzhang is the son of fate, that is, God let him become this emperor, so that the people will respect and love again.
