Some people on the Internet said that when you put the names of the princes of the Ming Dynasty together, you will find that you get a periodic table of elements. This discovery is quite surprising. Could this result actually tell us that the Ming Dynasty already had a periodic table, and then the Ming Dynasty royal family used such words as the names of their children? In fact, this is not really true. It can only be said that the periodic table of elements in Chinese characters is closely related to the names of the princes of the Ming Dynasty. But the other content really has no connection.
In the Ming Dynasty, the first thing Zhu Yuanzhang did after he ascended the throne was to name his descendants. Although our Lao Zhu is an ordinary person with little education, he is still very particular about his name. The names of the children of the Ming Dynasty royal family must have three characters. Basically, they are the surname plus their seniority, and then add a character that contains or represents the five elements. The seniority in the middle is fixed, and different statuses are different.
For example, if you are a prince, the seniority of that lineage is "Yunwen follows the instructions of the ancestors, the powerful king wins, the road is auspicious, and the teacher is good and makes good use of it." For Zhu Di, who later became the emperor, the hierarchy of his generation was: "Gaozhan Qi Jianyou, Houzai Yi Changyou, Ciheyi Bozhong, Jian Jingdi Xianyou". These are only two of the sons' quatrains of different generations, and other sons also have them. Basically, if you run out of it, recycle it. But the history of the Ming Dynasty was not long enough to use up these generations.
Of course, if you look at it now, a name has three characters, two of which are already fixed, and the remaining character can be selected, but there are still restrictions. In this way, in order not to repeat names, our descendants of the old Zhu family can only choose more obscure words when naming them. This has led to many obscure names in the names of the princes of the Ming Dynasty. Difficult periodic table words.
The names of the sons of the posthumously named Emperor Xingzong are as follows: Zhu Changying, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Yunxian, etc. You tell me, except for the first two names, the last two names are: Do you know these two? The names of other princes of the Ming Dynasty are all like this, Zhu Gongxi, Zhu Tongke, Zhu Zhilan, etc. Please tell me whether these words are biased enough. After the periodic table of elements appeared abroad, it was introduced into our country and needed to be changed into our language. When looking for replacement words, some experts accidentally discovered the names of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants. At this time, these words changed from names to Each element.
So, the Chinese characters for the periodic table of elements are actually plagiarized names of Ming Dynasty princes. It is precisely because of this that the Ming Dynasty prince looks like a periodic table of elements.