Zhu Yuanzhang didn't go to school when he was a child. How can he read and write poems?

Zhu Yuanzhang grew up in a poor family and lost his father in his early years. When I was young, I went to a temple and became a monk. Later, there was a famine in Fengyang, and the world was in chaos. He went around begging for a living. He has no formal private education and cultural influence, but he must have studied Chinese characters and Buddhist scriptures with his master in a temple when he was young. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's literacy should be normal, but his cultural level should not be too high.

Later, he responded to peasant rebels from all over the country and became a marshal under Guo Zixing. Guo Zixing thinks he is brave and resourceful. During this period, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very studious. Later, a large number of literati advisers gathered around him. With Zhu Yuanzhang's ambition and verve, he is open-minded and studious, and it is certainly not a problem to ask his advisers for knowledge, such as Liu Bowen, Song Lian and Li Shanchang around him. These are all famous cultural masters and a generation of Confucian scholars in Yuanmou and the early Ming Dynasty. These people around Zhu Yuanzhang are bound to play a great role in his literary accomplishment. I once read a poem by Zhu Yuanzhang: Jiangnan killed a million soldiers, and there was still blood on his waist. Monks don't know heroes, just ask their names.

Scholars think that Zhu Yuanzhang's poems are not elegant in rhetoric, but they are ambitious and domineering when read. This is exactly what an imperial hero should have. Like the poems of Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, beauty is beauty, neatness is neatness, but there is no imperial bearing.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's culture is learned bit by bit, and he can be exposed to the opportunity to learn culture at different stages. The key lies in his own efforts.