According to the feudal etiquette system, after the death of the emperor, the reigning emperor should make a conclusive summary for him, and in the Han and Tang Dynasties, through the emperor's nickname, he can roughly know the merits and demerits of his life. However, as the number of words in the emperor's number of words increased, the number of words was not as concise as the temple number. Under normal circumstances, temple numbers are based on the words "Wen, Wu, Cheng, Ren" plus "Zu" or "Zong", such as "Chengzu" is Zhu Di's temple number.
Throughout the ancient emperors, most of the characters used in temple numbers were tall, and the emperors who used the word "filial piety" as the temple number were rare. Although "filial piety" is a virtue in ancient China, if it is placed on ordinary people, it is undoubtedly a noble character, but if it is an emperor, it is more important to govern the country and the world. Therefore, the temple name of "filial piety" does not reflect the emperor's great talent. In history, there are only three emperors with "filial piety" as the temple name, and one of them is known as "Zhongxing Daming" as a Ming Jun- Ming Xiaozong.
As we all know, Emperor Xiaozong of Ming was a rare Ming Emperor in the Ming Dynasty, and he made many major contributions to the country and the nation during his eighteen-year reign, but why did the temple name after his death be "Xiaozong" instead of using a better word? Speaking of this, people have to admire Zhu Youfan's bosom. Emperor Xiaozong of The Ming Dynasty was a broad-minded emperor, and his virtues of restraint and tolerance were few in the Ming Dynasty and in Chinese history, and have always been respected and imitated by posterity.
After Emperor Xiaozong ascended the throne, he successively punished his foreign relatives Wan Xi, Wantong, Wanda, eunuch Liang Fang, and others, so that the Ming Dynasty, which had become increasingly decadent since Emperor Xianzong, was revived on the road of rejuvenation, and Emperor Xiaozong was praised by people for this. Wan Xi and others were the younger brothers of Wan Guifei, and they relied on Wan Guifei's power to act recklessly, harass the people, and collude with internal prisoners to steal the treasures of the inner treasury.
Speaking of Wan Guifei, readers familiar with ming history know that she is Xianzong's favorite concubine and is domineering. Moreover, there was a deep hatred between Wan Guifei and Xiaozong, because Wan Guifei had killed Xiaozong's birth mother, Ji Shufei, and even Xiaozong himself was almost an abortion before he was born. When Emperor Xiaozong was made crown prince, Princess Wan Guifei repeatedly encouraged Emperor Xianzong to depose him as crown prince.
This kind of deep hatred will not be indifferent to any person, and once it is obtained, it will inevitably hurt the killer. However, after Emperor Xiaozong ascended the throne, he never had the idea of taking Wan Guifei to open a knife, but the courtiers did not think so, they believed that the reason why Emperor Xiaozong punished Wan Xi, Wantong, Wanda and others was a precursor to the knife of Wan Guifei, so they went to Xiaozong and asked for condemnation of the dead Wan Guifei.
In the early years of the Reign of Hongzhi, the overseer Yushi Caoxuan was the first to attack, and in his message to Emperor Xiaozong, he not only complained that the death of Emperor Xiaozong's biological mother Ji Shi was caused by Wan Guifei, but also exposed the crimes committed by Wan Guifei during her lifetime, so he requested that Wan Guifei's title be stripped away. Then there was Xu Huan Shangshu, whose recital was more specific, in addition to the many viciousnesses of tens of thousands of concubines, he also specially requested that the whole family of Wan Guifei and the imperial doctor who treated Empress Ji be arrested and tortured in order to find out the cause of Empress Ji's death.
Regarding the death of Emperor Xiaozong's biological mother Ji Shi, there are different historical legends, some people say that she was poisoned by Wan Guifei's people, some say that she was assassinated by Wan Guifei's people, and some say that she hanged herself to avoid the persecution of Wan Guifei. Either way, Wan Guifei is a key figure in it. Because of this, the courtiers all pointed the spearhead at Wan Guifei and her henchmen, and proposed to follow the precedent of historical slashing of the title, and cut off the title of Wan Guifei who deceived Emperor Xianzong and disrupted the imperial program, "Gong Su Duan Shen Rong Jing Imperial Concubine".
The courtiers' remarks were all true, and it was reasonable to request that the title of Wan Guifei be stripped away. Of course, Emperor Xiaozong was not a saint either, and he hated Wan Guifei, the enemy who killed his birth mother, very much in his heart, so he very much wanted to accept the courtier's advice, and with a big stroke of his pen, he cut off Wan Guifei's title and punished the Wan clan.
But after all, Emperor Xiaozong was an emperor with an opinion, and he thought about it for a moment and felt that it seemed inappropriate to do so, and if it was traced according to the courtiers' omissions, it would inevitably involve a wide range of things, and it would inevitably involve many immoralities of Emperor Xianzong; second, it would be contrary to the Confucian moral code of "father is hidden for the son, and the son is hidden for the father"; third, Emperor Xianzong was the one who favored Wan Guifei before his death, and if he stripped her of her title, it would not only go against Emperor Xianzong's wishes, but also involve some of the ming dynasty's regulations.
After this consideration, Emperor Xiaozong finally put aside his personal grudges, adopted an attitude of calming things down, and ordered that Wan Guifei should no longer be investigated on the grounds of "violating the will of the former emperor", so that the Wan family was lucky enough to escape this fate.
Because Emperor Xiaozong adopted a restrained and tolerant attitude in handling the matter of Wan Guifei, he was highly praised by the people. After his death, people added a "filial piety" character to his temple number, called "Filial Piety", it seems that this "filial piety" character of Xiaozong Zhu Youfan does imply university questions and grandeur.