Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty was a famous self-made emperor in history and an idol admired by many people. Beggars who used to live on the streets and monks in temples are now leaders in temples and heroes who dominate the world. However, Zhu Yuanzhang originally had a name that was not very meaningful, that is, he was born on the eighth day of August and was named Chongba. For Zhu Yuanzhang, it's quite bitter. Life didn't give him a good name. His parents' names were basically Zhu May 4th and Zhu Chuyi, so they were named according to the month of birth. So Zhu Yuanzhang changed his name and his father's name after he ascended the throne. His father's name was changed to Zhu Shizhen, and his name was changed to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang seems to have a special insistence on names, so he not only changed his own and his father's, but also stipulated the names of his descendants.
Zhu Yuanzhang personally compiled a huge name system for his descendants. He assigned each descendant of each of his sons a word, each son has a system, and each system has 2 words. These 2 words represent the second word of each son's descendants and correspond to them one by one. We take Crown Prince Zhu Biao and pass? Battle of Jing Nan? Take Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan who ascended the throne, as an example, Zhu Yuanzhang's huge naming system:
The 2 words of Prince Zhu Biao's generation are: Allow Wen to follow the instructions of his ancestors, drink from the mighty army to win, be lucky by the way, and be good at using Sheng.
The 2 words of Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor, are: looking forward to Qi and seeing you, being generous and loving, being equal in kindness and grace, and being considerate by Jane Jingdi.
These 2 words are the words corresponding to each generation in the future. After the second word was determined, Zhu Yuanzhang helped them to determine the third word. Zhu Yuanzhang opened the Spring and Autumn Stories by Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar in the Han Dynasty, and found such a passage < P > that the five elements are the beginning; Water is the end of the five elements; Earth is also among the five elements. This is the second order of the day. Wood fires, fire produces soil, soil produces gold, gold produces water, aquatic wood, and his father and son also.
Dong Zhongshu's description of the relationship between father and son with five elements, and the principle of unifying the world coincides with Zhu Yuanzhang's experience of naming and unifying the world, so Zhu Yuanzhang determined the third word of descendants with the principle of five elements, which contained? Wood, fire, soil and gold water? These five Chinese characters are the main characters. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang named all his sons by wooden characters. Then let's finally look at this rule with the names of Ming emperors:
Zhu Di (wood)? Zhu Gaochi (fire)? Zhu Zhanji (indigenous)? Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qiyu (Kim)? Zhu Jianshen (water)? Zhu Shitang (wood)? Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houzong (fire)? Zhu Zaihou (indigenous)? Zhu Yijun (Kim)? Zhu Changluo (water)? Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian (Mu, Ming Wu)
Zhu Yuanzhang had many descendants, and the population increased, so the names of some emperors in the Ming Dynasty included words like chromium, iron and potassium, just like the periodic table of elements, so many people said that the names of emperors in the Ming Dynasty were related to the periodic table of elements, and they came from here, but they were just accidentally similar.