Zhu Yuanzhang was born in 1328 (the first year of the calendar year), ranking fourth in his family and eighth among his family brothers. So it was called Zhu Chongba, and later it was renamed Zhu Yuanzhang. Because his family was poor and he could not study, Zhu Yuanzhang herded cattle for the landlords in the village since he was a child. In desperation, Zhu Yuanzhang went to Gao Bin, a monk in Huang Jue Temple, where he was shaved and turned into a little boy. Learning to read and read should also start from this time.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty and had no education in Confucius and Mencius' poems, calligraphy and music, he was not just a careless hero. During his military career, he also wrote poems, and the collection of imperial history was handed down from generation to generation, including more than 100 poems by Zhu Yuanzhang. Its rhythmic artistic conception is naturally not as good as that of Li Bai and Su Shi, but its lofty aspirations also have considerable artistic shock.
Tao's Book History Society of Ming Dynasty called Zhu Yuanzhang's calligraphy divine and tacit. Zhu Yuanzhang's calligraphy is natural and fluent, and his manners are vivid. Fengshen is unique, such as Kang Youwei's "Zhou Guangyi Double Edition Running Grass 25th Edition": "Ming Taizu's book is strong and invincible". It's just that the strokes are slightly inadequate, but there is no lack of straightness in elegance and clumsiness.