Original text:
The rooster crows once and pouts once, the rooster crows twice and pouts twice.
Call Fusang three times to sweep away the remaining stars and the dawn moon.
But, if you still don’t get up, when the rooster crows for the third time, it becomes more powerful and the sun comes out, sweeping away all the stars and moon at night.
It comes from "The Golden Rooster croaks the dawn" by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It is a limerick that Zhu Yuanzhang recited when he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
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Zhu Yuanzhang was born into poverty and was illiterate. Although he established extraordinary achievements, he was a common man, not to mention the founder of the country. Compared with the famous ministers Liu Bowen, Song Lian, and Gao Qi, even ordinary poor scholars were more talented than him. Therefore, his subordinates did not think highly of Zhu Yuanzhang and often secretly dismissed his low cultural level.
It is said that on the day Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, the sky was clear and the wind was gentle. That morning, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly heard a loud crowing in the distance. The rooster's crow signified the arrival of light. Zhu Yuanzhang thought this was auspicious, and he was so happy that he became inspired by poetry, so he composed an impromptu poem on the theme of "Ode to the Rooster". .
I saw him reading loudly: "When the rooster crows and pouts!" At this time, all the civil and military officials in the dynasty were talking about it. It was really shameful that the founding emperor could write such vulgar poems. But Zhu Yuanzhang ignored the reactions of the civil and military officials and continued to read the next sentence: "The rooster crows twice and pouts twice!" At this time, some ministers could no longer bear it and hurriedly turned their heads to cover their mouths and snickered.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw the minister's reaction, but he didn't take it seriously. He also felt that the first two sentences were really bland, no wonder it made people laugh. Then read out the next two lines: "Call out the Fusang Sun three times, sweep away the remaining stars and the dawn moon!"
As soon as these two lines of poetry came out, all the ministers were silent. In an instant, the whole poem has an extraordinary artistic conception, which is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The whole poem is majestic and has the domineering power of King Qin to sweep Liuhe. It also reflects Zhu Yuanzhang's ambition as the only person in the history of history to succeed in the Northern Expedition.