Chapter 983 Daming Natural History
It seems that such a life is perfect. Zhu Cixuan has a son and a future candidate for crown prince. He can block everyone's mouths and no longer have to persuade him to accept a concubine.
Everyone's pursuits are different. Most people become emperors. Naturally, they think of the three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, but Zhu Cilang is different.
In the civilized education he received, both husband and wife should be equal. He respects Xiao Shishi. Similarly, for Xiao Shishi, her entire world is Zhu Cilang.
How dare you let me down? If you accept concubines, Zhu Cilang will feel deeply guilty.
The birth of the little prince brought new hope to the Ming Dynasty. With different backgrounds and status, the birth of the little prince naturally grew up with a golden key. To be precise, he grew up with a country.
The royal family was very strict, and as a seniority of Zhu Di, it was naturally not in chaos. Zhu Di usurped the throne and became emperor and moved the capital to the capital.
Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang considered that the names might be repeated as his descendants grew, so he personally formulated the principles and methods for naming and naming characters for his descendants. He formulated twenty characters for the descendants of his twenty-four sons, each of which was a lifetime, and the title was: "Yu Di".
The jade letter is taken by the clan mansion according to the order of the generations. The first character in the double name is taken by Taizu, and the second character must be a character with the five elements as radicals.
The five elements are in the order of "fire, earth, metal, water, and wood", such as "fire" is used as the radical used by Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson. In the sect language that Zhu Yuanzhang was appointed for the descendants of the twenty-four houses, the descendants of Zhu Biao, the prince of the Changfanggong, the gentry of Zhu Biao, the descendants of the prince Yiwen, the Qinwu Dajun is victorious, and the way is good to meet good fortune, and the teacher is good at using Sheng."
For example, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen was the eldest son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the word "Yun" was used in the generation "Huo". For example, the last emperor, Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian, the fourth son of the tenth son of the family, belonged to the generation "Yu" and "Wu" was used in the generation.
The fourth house, the Yan Prince's Mansion, also the descendant of Zhu Di, who later became the imperial rank of the Ming Dynasty, was: "Gao Zhanqi Jianyou, Houzai Yichangyou, Ci and Yibopu, Jian Jingdi's previous wish."
Zhu Di started his descendants and went back to his name, the last word of the name: wood produces fire, fire produces earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water, water produces wood...
Interestingly, because the ancients needed to avoid royal taboos, you can no longer use any royal descendants' names that appeared.
This made people worried about the Zhu princes, so some people began to create new fonts ingeniously. The fonts they created should also be in the order of "fire, earth, metal, water, and wood".
Who would have thought that Yuanzhang also stipulated that the names of descendants must be based on seniority. In other words, the surname cannot be changed, and the second character of the name must also be based on seniority. The only free third character must be determined according to the five elements.
There are too many royal families in the Zhu family. As they were born, they found that the name was not enough. The problem is that you can't rename it with others.
This is embarrassing.
What should I do? There is no way, I can only create characters. Of course, you cannot make something out of nothing. Even if you create characters, you have to take them according to the radical "fire, earth, metal, water, and wood".
This has created an interesting phenomenon. Many of the words in the periodic table of chemical elements we have learned now are taken from the names of members of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty.
In 1896, Xu Shou introduced the periodic table of elements from Russia, but the Russian version of the element name does not have corresponding Chinese characters, so it needs to be translated.
Xu Shou thought at the time that he should have homophones, and then, it is best that radicals represent the normality of this element. So the names created by descendants of the Zhu family in history came in handy.
Zhu Yuanzhang was called the "father of the periodic table". Of course, all of this was blamed on Xu Shou in later generations. He was troubled by translation and accidentally read the genealogy of the old Zhu family, which made him burst into inspiration.
Therefore, according to seniority, Zhu Ciyang's son should be of the 'He' generation. Zhu Ciyang gave the eldest son the name Zhu Heji.
Then someone immediately jumped out to object. Zhu Zhanji was the name of Emperor Xuanzong, isn't this a duplicate name?
Zhu Cilang thought about it and was right, so he named his son Zhu Hebi again. Now, no one finally objected.
So the eldest son of the emperor was named Zhu Hebi. If not, the names of the royal males of the Ming Dynasty were very rare.
At this point, Zhu Hebi was still opposed by many people. He said that he was the same as a royal elder. Zhu Cilang became angry. He respected your uncle, I just named his son Zhu Hebi. As for the royal elder who was named by the royal elder, just ask him to change his name.
During the Longqing period, there was a royal family named Zhu Zaibi. Zhu Cilang didn't care about this. My son was Zhu Hebi. You, Zhu Zaibi, who had already passed away, had to change your name.
There was no way, and the ministers could not resist Zhu Cilang. They had to cut off the unlucky Zhu Zaibi from the genealogy and change the name to Zhu Zaiyan. This poor royal family probably never dreamed that a hundred years after his death would have someone changed his name.
This is the preferential treatment of imperial power, what do you do to me?
In the second year of Chimelong, Empress Shen gave birth to Zhu Hebi, who was the eldest son of the emperor. The following year, she was appointed as the crown prince.
Zhu Cixuan spent more than a year writing a book called "The Ming Dynasty Journal".
"Baowuzhi" is a naturalistic work in China. The author is Zhang Hua, a naturalist in the Western Jin Dynasty. It records strange things in other places, trivial news, and miscellaneous things, magical arts, geographical knowledge, and legends of people, all-encompassing.
In the eyes of Zhu Cixuan, the "Ming Dynasty Bible" written by Zhu Cixuan, is also a strange thing in a foreign land and bizarre way.
In fact, those who study hard have completely introduced you to an unprecedented new world. The Ming Dynasty records all the knowledge that Zhu Cixuan has learned.
From the initial simple mathematics to chemistry, biology, medicine, physics, human geography, natural science, mechanical technology, etc., it is all-encompassing.
This is a large encyclopedia. If you understand this book, you will know that the universe is boundless. The earth we live in is round, and all the planets in the solar system are revolving around the sun.
The sun rises and sunsets, it turns out that this is the case. Flowers bloom and fade, and they also contain the natural science of alternating four seasons.
In the field of medicine, there are bacteria and viruses. Chemistry is so complex. The principle of black gunpowder is that under the action of external energy, it can burn rapidly and regularly, and at the same time generate a large amount of high-temperature gas substances.
The steam engine used to convert the energy of steam into mechanical work. The mining of coal originally had so many uses. The black turbulent oil of the Western Regions was originally the oil of later generations and could replace the steam engine.
In addition, the world turned out to be like this. The vast world and the Ming Dynasty of China were just a small part of the entire planet.
Chapter completed!