Chapter 33 Ming Dynasty Triple Fire

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Scarf Army revolted. Because the Red Scarf Army respected the virtue of fire and the color of fire was red, they wrapped red scarves around their heads.However, this has nothing to do with Huo Kejin. The Red Scarf Army just followed the virtues of the Song Dynasty—they have always been under the banner of "reviving the Song Dynasty". But it wasn't long before Han Shantong rebelled, and before the situation was opened, he was "clicked" by the Yuan army.His old friend and good helper Liu Futong continued to carry the banner, occupied Bozhou in 1355 AD, established a political power, and the country was called "Song".Liu Futong made Han Shantong's son Han Lin'er the emperor, named King Xiao Ming, but this King Xiao Ming never restored the legendary Zhao surname. It can be seen that the so-called Sun Yunyun of Song Huizong's many generations is all nonsense.

At that time, the Red Scarf Army was everywhere in the Central Plains, and finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty regime, but the fruits of victory were stolen by a guy who was a monk and a beggar, that is Zhu Yuanzhang.In the first month of 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtianfu (that is, today's Nanjing) and established the Ming Dynasty. Then in August, the Ming army invaded the capital and drove Emperor Yuanshun back to the grassland.The morality of the Ming Dynasty continued the Red Scarf Army, which was also the virtue of fire. It is said that the country name "Ming" represented the "triple fire".Ming is the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty is the virtue of fire, which is called Yanhan. This is the first level; the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was surnamed Zhu, and Zhu is red. It is also the extreme of yang", the sun is matched with vermilion, and there is another heavy fire.

However, this is just a folk saying. In fact, there is no evidence to prove that the Ming government had seriously declared virtue.In the third year of Hongwu (1370 A.D.), Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to ask the ministers to study the issue of color preference, so the Ministry of Rites stated: "We pay attention to the color preference of the past dynasties. The Xia Dynasty favored black, the Shang Dynasty favored white, the Zhou Dynasty favored red, and the Qin Dynasty favored black. , The Han Dynasty was still red, the Tang Dynasty was still red, the flags were still red, and the Song Dynasty was still red—it seems that there are more people who are still red, and we should also be red." Zhu Yuanzhang swiped his pen and agreed.Even the question about favoring color does not involve virtue, which is evident.

In the seventh year of Hongwu (1374 A.D.), Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a letter to Beiyuan (the regime after Emperor Yuanshun fled north). Virtue, but after the Song people's tossing and the Yuan Dynasty's ignorance, he didn't take virtue as too important. He thought it was good for everyone to understand, and he didn't need to issue a special edict.Sure enough, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty knew this well, and they often mentioned "Taizu Yihuo De Wang", but no one cared about whether there was an official notice of this Huo De, and whether there was an explanation for its inheritance.

As far as Zhu Yuanzhang himself is concerned, he is very superstitious, especially believing in Yin-Yang and Five Elements, so it is impossible for him to ignore the Five Virtues based on Yin-Yang and Five Elements, but he is just too lazy to make an official announcement.How does he believe in the Five Elements?In fact, this can be seen from the name of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang was the first emperor. His sons, including Zhu Biao, Zhu Xing, Zhu Di, Zhu Quan, etc., were all wooden characters, while the third generation included Zhu Yunqi, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaosui, etc., the second character of the name It's all around the word "fire"—there are shadows of the five elements.Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated in advance that the names of the descendants of the following dynasties should be next to the five elements, one generation is one line, and it will never be confused.

So look, after Hongxi, it was Emperor Zhu Zhanji of Xuande, with the word earth; then the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen, emperor Zhu Qiyu of Jingtai, with the word gold; then the emperor Zhu Jianshen of Chenghua, next to the word water; The circle is back to the side of the wooden characters; Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao, the four-point bottom represents fire, and his peer Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong is also fire; Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaihou is earth; Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun is gold; Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo is water; Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao and Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian are the same.Not only the royal family, but also all the vassal kings of the past dynasties. From the second generation onwards, the wheels of wood, fire, earth, gold, and water came, but it was a pity that they only turned two rounds, and the third round just started. North Korea is gone.

Therefore, although there is no formal declaration to the world, it does not mean that the dynasty has no virtue.But it is precisely because the old Zhu's family eats Coptis chinensis--knows it well, but refuses to say it clearly, so the foundation of this virtue is not stable, and there are always people thinking about overturning the verdict.What is the reason?It turns out that when the people of the Ming Dynasty discussed orthodoxy, they did not exclude the period when the Mongolian nobles occupied the Central Plains, and still counted the Yuan Dynasty as the orthodox dynasty. But he also said that "this dynasty did not start by destroying Yuan, but by destroying thieves (referring to the southern Han separatist forces including the Red Turban Army)".At that time, the hypocrisy of relying on morality to take over the world had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Violence could be done, but it could not be said, so he had to pretend that he was a normal, smooth, and peaceful takeover of the power of the world from the Yuan Dynasty.

But in this way, the fire virtue of the Ming Dynasty does not make sense.Since the Yuan Dynasty is orthodox, of course you can’t kick it away and continue the Huo De of the earlier Song Dynasty. Besides, your family’s surname is not Zhao, and the country’s name is not Song. How can you directly continue it?And since it was peacefully inheriting the orthodoxy of the Yuan Dynasty, it cannot carry out the Jinde of the Yuan Dynasty.So by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was inevitable that many people who liked to flip through ancient books would appear in an attempt to reverse the case. But at this time, the theory of the five virtues is no longer deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Scholars either regard it as a fantasy setting, which is not worth mentioning, or regard it as a vanity project, and are too lazy to care about it. The few interested idlers are not necessarily knowledgeable. If it is solid enough, the new statement put forward will inevitably be inexplicable, and the preface does not match the postscript.The most popular saying at the time was that the Ming Dynasty counted the virtues of soil, and fire gave birth to soil. This was to abandon the Yuan Dynasty and directly inherit the fire virtues of the Song Dynasty.In the Hongzhi Dynasty, there was a man named Luo Qi who said that "the country is the king of soil virtue". Tude, the discussion failed to reach a result."

Regardless of Shanghuo or Shangtu, all in all, under the premise of "five elements coexisting" rather than "five elements mutually victorious", they all kicked the Yuan Dynasty away. Zhu Yuanzhang said that he had inherited the orthodox affairs of the Yuan Dynasty peacefully. It was never mentioned again.This is very similar to the theory of Liu Xin, the great master of the country, because the Yuan Dynasty, like the Qin Dynasty, refused to rule the country with virtue, so it is considered "intercalary", which is an extra dynasty. Although it cannot be denied that it existed, you can pretend not to see it .

Let’s study the fantasy setting of the five virtues again today. Many people have said that before Wang Mang usurped the Han, everyone used the saying that the five virtues win each other, that is, they restrain each other. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Mang adopted the saying that the five virtues are mutually generated After the Yuan Dynasty, it was restored to the saying that the five virtues restrain each other.In fact, this is all after the fact, trying to make the system round, so I combined the old and new schools of thought of Professor Zou and Liu Xin.People at the time didn’t think so. Ever since the new system of Liu Xin’s Great National Teacher came out, the theory of Xiangsheng has occupied the absolute mainstream. , who dares to twist with him?

At this time, most of the people who still talk about Xiangke are uneducated and rough. They only know about Xiangke, but they don't know what Xiangsheng is.This is because the Confucian cultural people who were in the dominant position at that time were more shameless, and they did not advocate playing violence openly but advocating using knives secretly, so on the surface they were gentle and elegant, and only talked about mutual life; Yes, then of course I beat you.Fair and honest, simple and straightforward. In addition, the origin of the fire virtue of the Ming Dynasty is a bit inexplicable. It was neither to overcome the gold of the Yuan Dynasty, nor to succeed the fire of the Song Dynasty, but purely to fight the "Song Dynasty-Red Scarf Army-Ming Dynasty". , Change of dynasty does not change virtue, so it also caused misunderstandings for ordinary people, thinking that the five virtues are the right root.Ever since, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, according to the usual practice, fire gave birth to earth, and the next dynasty should be Tude, but the two regimes that rose successively ignored them and directly changed to Xiangke.