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The yellow calendar compiled by Zhu Yuanzhang

The word written down is "silk" At first glance, it seems ordinary. At most, it is associated with "jade", and then it is wealth. However, if you study it carefully, you will find that this word is really unusual, because if you disassemble it from top to bottom, you can get the words "white" and "towel", which are part of the word "emperor" respectively. It is precisely because the fortune teller saw through this floor that he was scared and shouted: Long live! ?

Although Zhu Yuanzhang had not become emperor at that time, he was expected to ascend to the throne, because at that time, his strength was the strongest among heroes. Of course, he deliberately dressed in rags to tell fortune, hoping to see if God intended him to be the master of the world. As a result, after writing the word, the fortune teller hesitated first. When Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the other party couldn't figure out how to leave, he knelt down and exclaimed, Long live, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy and more confident about his accession to the throne. ?

However, how did this little story come down? Did the fortune teller tell anyone? Or did Zhu Yuanzhang reveal it himself? The former is unlikely. Zhu Yuanzhang was in rags and didn't identify himself. How did the other party know who he was? The latter is very likely and motivated, just to convey to the world that he is the only thrill. This move is quite similar to the myth and legend of Han Gaozu's killing white snake, which can be done by people in the late Qin Dynasty, let alone in the late Yuan Dynasty.

What's more, the story itself may have been fabricated by Zhu Yuanzhang himself. Where is a fortune teller? He doesn't go to see anyone in rags, but he just wants to give his legitimacy a mythical color. Otherwise, it is really strange that a beggar in rags can write a word "silk" to make the fortune teller exclaim long live.