Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu who was born as a farmer and monk, was particularly afraid of being called a monk, a thief and a light, and neither was he allowed to be born, Taoist, bright and bald with the consent of sound. After he ascended the throne, whoever has such words in the chapter table will kill the author. Because he was called a thief by the Yuan Dynasty, thieves and thieves' near-sound words were responsible and angry when they chose.

A monk wrote a poem of thanks, and there was a word "extraordinary" in the poem. Zhu Yuanzhang saw this poem of thanks for flattery and thought: extraordinary is a combination of "evil" and "Zhu", and the monk changed his ways to curse and kill. ?

In the third year of Hongwu (1370), it was forbidden for the people to use the words Tian, Guo, Jun, Chen, Sheng, Shen, Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Zhou, Qin, Han and Jin as names. In the 26th year of Hongwu (1393), the names of Taizu, Shengsun, Longsun, Huangsun, Wangsun, Taishu, Taixiong, Taidi, Taishi, Taifu, Taibao and Doctor were banned.

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The concept of literary inquisition and its prevalence

Literary inquisition is a policy of being convicted for writing words. It's easy for you to be convicted of this. Find out your poems and articles, and then find chapters and sentences, and accuse Luo Zhi, so that you can die.

The literary inquisition has a history of more than two thousand years. During the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty, the literary inquisition was very popular during the Kang Yong dry period of Qing Dynasty. However, the absurdity, farfetched strangeness, extensive implicature and cruel handling of this case by Kang Yong in the Qing Dynasty were beyond measure.

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