In fact, did Zhu Yuanzhang make progress after he took part in the uprising? A thousand miles a day? Not enough to describe.
It is true that he has not read the Four Books and Five Classics, nor can he write an eight-part essay, but he understands the importance of reading and respects intellectuals.
Li Shanchang dressed up as a scholar and chased Zhu Yuanzhang's team. After some conversation, Zhu Yuanzhang trusted Li Shanchang and made him a clerk (secretary). He should listen carefully to Li Shanchang's opinions and suggestions.
Mr. Zhejiang Dongsi? Song Lian, Liu Ji, Zhang Yi and Ye Chen are outstanding academically, and Zhu Yuanzhang appreciates them very much. After capturing eastern Zhejiang, they were called to Yingtianfu together and said earnestly? I bow to the world four times, sir? How can such an attitude of loving talents not touch the literati?
When getting along with these literati, Zhu Yuanzhang never pretends to be superior, but learns from them with an open mind and asks them for advice if he has any questions. He said in the preface to the World Training? Japanese attack and ask, learn from others? The Record of Ming Taizu also records that wherever he went, he recruited scholars everywhere and talked with them about history and classics, sometimes even staying up all night.
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he never relaxed his study of cultural knowledge. He once established Wenyuan Museum in Fengtianmen East, Nanjing, where a large number of ancient books were collected. As long as he has enough time to handle official business, he will go there to study hard. Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also asked civil servants to write down the ups and downs of the past dynasties for him on the wall of the palace hall? Any time? .
In this spirit, Zhu Yuanzhang grew from an illiterate cowherd to a well-read person. He can not only read some difficult works made by the ancients without hindrance, but also write and write poems. Is that really the case? Self-taught? A model.
The true cultural level of Zhu Yuanzhang
Looking at the historical materials such as Ming History, Ming Taizu Collection and National History Mystery, we can recognize the image of Zhu Yuanzhang, who is quite anxious:
1. Quick thinking and eloquent.
Zhu Yuanzhang likes to draft letters in one breath and never stops. The civil servant who helped him take notes felt that his writing speed could not keep up with his dictation speed.
Song Lian once sat under the couch and helped Zhu Yuanzhang write letters. In a short time, Zhu Yuanzhang has uttered more than 1000 words in one breath, which made Song Lian feel very admired.
2. Be good at directness and simplicity.
Dictating imperial edicts like this is fast and efficient, but it also has a disadvantage, that is, it is prone to colloquialism and some language diseases, so we will see that the language of some imperial edicts is not elegant enough, even a little rough, but it is simple and easy to understand, and it is quite interesting to read, with Zhu Yuanzhang's personal characteristics. Understand the obvious, channel technology, and achieve current events without taking superficial measures? .
Moreover, even ordinary people with no culture can see clearly such letters, but they are still approachable compared with those distorted letters.
Now the world is at peace, but the registered permanent residence doesn't know slang. I'm not going out now, but I taught them to walk around the fields of counties. Those who can compete are good people, and those who can't compete are all troops? Now the world is at peace, but the registered permanent residence doesn't know slang.
On November 26th, the Ministry of Finance Hongwu three years, the imperial edict was fulfilled.
3. Be familiar with various styles
Zhu Yuanzhang loves to write imperial edicts in vernacular Chinese, not because he doesn't know how to write them. In fact, he can write prose, parallel prose, couplets and poems, and he often writes poems himself.
When Xu Dagang was sworn in as Lord protector, Zhu Yuanzhang personally sent a parallel congratulatory letter, saying: Starting from the city, first hold the heart of Sun; I came here to set up a tripod in the south of the Yangtze River, so I became a pillar of indomitable spirit. ? This shows that his cultural level is much higher than ordinary people's imagination.
Zhu Yuanzhang also made some achievements in calligraphy. His calligraphy is natural and fluent, with unique style. Kang Youwei once commented in the Qing Dynasty. Ming Taizu's calligraphy is vigorous and invincible, but his brushwork is a little inept, but there is no lack of elegance and awkwardness. ?
Zhu Yuanzhang's calligraphy "Da Jun Tie"
The other side of buddy? Poet creator
You may not know that Zhu Yuanzhang is also an amateur poet.
His early poems have the flavor of doggerel, praising Huang Chao, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty.
For example, he wrote in the poem "Singing Chrysanthemums":? I don't send flowers when flowers bloom. If I send them, I will be scared to death. I want to fight against the west wind and wear them all over. ?
And Huang Chao's original poem is? Waiting for the autumn of the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, the blooming chrysanthemums are in full bloom, the fragrance of Chang 'an is fragrant, the city is bathed in fragrant chrysanthemums-Italy, and the land is golden chrysanthemums. ?
In all fairness, compared with Huang Chao's poems, Zhu Yuanzhang's poems are much worse in words, but the fearless spirit in the poems has learned a lot.
With the continuous improvement of Zhu Yuanzhang's cultural level, writing poems will not be as plain and straightforward as in the early days, but the words will be more elegant and the rhymes will be more accurate. Sometimes he also picks up some famous poems and uses them in his own poems, which is naturally appropriate to read.
General Nan Zheng is brave and good at fighting, with Lu Qian's sword hanging around his waist.
Thunder and iron armor are dry and quiet, and the wind blows the flag high.
There is a unicorn in the world. How can the ants in the hole escape?
On the day of the return of the big standard copper column, the courtyard deeply listened to Spring Shrike.
Zhu Yuanzhang's "Prefect Yang Nanzheng Matters"
Some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang's poems may have been polished by civil servants and cannot be used to judge his true cultural level. In fact, we can refer to the existing Zhu Yuanzhang manuscript to solve this mystery.
Most of Zhu Yuanzhang's manuscripts collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei are handwritten, so it is impossible for courtiers to dare to write ghost letters.
Among these manuscripts, there are poems written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself describing the life of monks in temples. One of the first drafts is? Savage sewing clothes in the morning, jathyapple singing scenery. The mountains are deep and the trees are dense, and no one is seen. Mountain people live in rock valleys all the year round, and the stone paths are covered with moss and sit on the floor. The posture is like a crane and the heart is dark green. ?
The revised draft changes the seventh and eighth sentences to:? There is no such thing as extinction in the future, and the heart grows green. ?
It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang is not only very serious about his own poems, but also, like Jia Dao, a bitter poet, repeatedly scrutinizes the wording and artistic conception. So there will be traces of revision in his poems.
Besides, only Zhu Yuanzhang, who has experienced all this personally, can understand the monk's seclusion described in the poem and write it profoundly. So? Ghostbook？ This statement is groundless.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang is not a professional poet after all, and his poems are far from excellent, but we can't deny his love for poetry, even if he is not a poet. Poetry creator? Zhu Yuanzhang can still afford this name.