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Chapter 46 The Six Emperors of Mount Tai

[The six emperors who were enshrined in Mount Tai]

[The conferment of Zen on Mount Tai has always been regarded as the highest honor by emperors. Although the emperors all yearned for it, due to various reasons, there were only six emperors who actually conferred Zen on Mount Tai.

The so-called Taishan Fengzen Festival comes from the Fengchan Sacrifice of ancient emperors. The Fengchan Sacrifice is a ceremony held by ancient emperors on Mount Tai to worship the gods of heaven and earth.

What is the purpose of Mount Tai's enshrinement of Zen?
  Taishan Fengchan is a distinctive culture of Mount Tai. Another saying is that Mount Tai has been worshiped by emperors and people of various dynasties in history. Therefore, Mount Tai serves as a symbol of dominance, and in the hearts of the people, Mount Tai has become a high mountain. .

Taishan Fengzen is the highest-level sacrifice in ancient China, symbolizing the divine power of the king.

Therefore, when many famous mountains are mentioned, people always have a sense of pilgrimage to Mount Tai.

In ancient times, the emperor called himself the Son of Heaven, and ruling the world represented God's instructions. Being granted Zen status meant that the emperor was giving feedback to God.

There are certain conditions for being enshrined in Mount Tai. In ancient times, only two conditions could be met before being enshrined. One is peace and prosperity for the country, and the other is blessings from heaven.

The prosperity of the country represents the emperor's hard work and good governance, and the blessings from heaven represent heaven's recognition of the peaceful and prosperous times and the emperor's achievements. Afterwards, the emperor has to give feedback to heaven, which is the ceremony of conferring Zen.

There are five famous mountains in China, among which the highest peak is undoubtedly Mount Tai, which is closest to heaven. Therefore, the specifications of Fengchan are also the highest among the five mountains.

Next, let's explore how these six emperors achieved Zen status. 】

"Until one day there was a man from the Song Dynasty who also went to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen."

"Ministers of later generations: Your Majesty, the emperor, has great civil and martial arts skills. He has great talents and strategies. Please ask Mount Tai to enshrine him." Later emperors: Taishan Fengchan? unlucky"

"Liu Bang had no money, Li Shimin thought it was a waste, Zhu Yuanzhang looked down on the Song Dynasty, but the three most powerful emperors did not go up."

"Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di: I can't go. If I go to become a Zen monk, people will nag me for the rest of my life."

"Taishan Fengchan can be understood as the emperor as the emperor telling heaven about his achievements, which is actually a mission report"

"The incident of Zhu Yuanzhang's enthronement of the Purple Mountain Mountain shows that it is really people who choose places, not places who choose people"

"Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu is fully qualified to be granted Zen status. He regained the sixteen states of Yanyun that had been lost since the Five Dynasties, completed the great unification, expelled the Tartars and restored the Han family's clothes. This is a great achievement."

Ying Zheng: Only six emperors were granted Zen status at Mount Tai? It seems that the emperors of subsequent dynasties were not good enough! In the five thousand years of history of China, there are only five emperors behind me.

Ying Zheng couldn't help but shake his head, feeling quite disappointed with the emperor behind him.

Taishan Fengchan can only go there if you have made great achievements.

He unified China and accomplished unprecedented great achievements, so he was able to go to Mount Tai to become a Buddhist monk.

After him, in China's two thousand years of history, only five emperors went to Mount Tai to pray for Zen. This shows how poor the quality of the emperors of future generations was.

Is it so difficult to become a Zen monk at Mount Tai?
  As long as you perform great achievements, why can't future generations of emperors even do this?
  But he was also curious about which five other emperors went to Mount Tai to enshrine themselves.

At this time, he couldn't help but think of the video on China's five thousand years of history that he had just watched, which introduced several far-reaching emperors.

Liu Bang, Liu Che, Liu Xiu, Yang Guang, Li Shimin, several humiliated emperors of the Song Dynasty, Genghis Khan, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di. But looking at it this way, it seems wrong.

Yang Guang's tyranny led to the destruction of the Sui Dynasty, and it was impossible to go to Mount Tai to become a Buddhist monk.

He saw that later generations said that Liu Bang, Li Shimin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Di did not go to Mount Tai to become Zen.

As for the emperors of the Song Dynasty, it was even more impossible. The Song Dynasty was a humiliating dynasty, and they had no shame to go to Mount Tai to enshrine themselves.

The only three emperors left were Liu Che, Liu Xiu, and Genghis Khan.

But he also noticed something. It seemed that an emperor in the Song Dynasty went to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. As a result, no emperor in the subsequent dynasties of the Song Dynasty went to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. In other words, Genghis Khan was not included in the enshrinement list.

This made him quite unhappy. He knew exactly what was going on in Da Song from the video played before.

How could the Song Dynasty, which had lost power and humiliated the country, be so shameless as to go to Mount Tai to enshrine it?
  He was originally proud of himself for going to Mount Tai to enshrine his merits, but now that he learned that an emperor from the Song Dynasty went to Mount Tai to enshrine himself, he suddenly felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.

He unified the world and made great achievements before going to Mount Tai to be enshrined. How could the emperor of the Song Dynasty later have the nerve to go to Mount Tai to be enshrined.

He was extremely disgusted when he thought that he and the Emperor of Song Dynasty had both gone to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen.

"Humph! What a bad luck!"

But he was very curious about who the two remaining emperors were who went to Mount Tai to be enshrined.

The merits of Liu Che and Liu Xiu were enough to be enshrined in Mount Tai, but the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was somewhat ungrateful in going to Mount Tai to be enshrined.

What about the remaining two emperors?
  He thought for a long time but had no clue, so he stopped thinking about it. He would know the answer later.

Liu Bang: I also want to go to Mount Tai to become a Buddhist monk, but I have no choice but to be poor just after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. I don’t have the money to go!
  Liu Che: I should be among the emperors who went to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen, right? According to later generations, I destroyed the Xiongnu and brought long-lasting peace to the Han Dynasty, so I should be qualified to go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen.

Liu Xiu: What a coincidence. I restored the Han Dynasty and just went to Mount Tai to enshrine the throne not long ago.

Li Shimin: I wanted to go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, but Wei Zheng stopped me. It’s not that I thought it was a waste and didn’t want to go. Now it seems that I didn’t make it later. It’s really a pity!

Wei Zheng: Your Majesty was right not to go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. Fortunately, he didn't go. Didn't you see that later generations said that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was unlucky after he went there?

Li Zhi: If I knew that the emperor of the Song Dynasty went to Mount Tai to enshrine himself, I would not go.

Li Longji: I was preparing to go to Mount Tai to enshrine the Zen. It’s fine now. I didn’t expect that the emperor of the Song Dynasty ruined the reputation of Mount Tai to enshrine the Zen. Now I’m really confused whether I should go or not!
  Zhao Kuangyin: Which unworthy descendant went to Mount Tai to become a Buddhist monk? You are so shameless. How can you be so embarrassed? Even when I established the Song Dynasty, I didn’t dare to go to Mount Tai to be a Buddhist monk. Why are my descendants so shameless? They are not like me at all.

Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng: It’s over, it’s over, I will be scolded again later. When the marquee introduces me to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, I will probably be filled with scolds.

Song Shenzong Zhao Xu: Hey! I am about to suffer an unreasonable disaster again. I am not the one who went to Mount Tai to be enshrined. I hope that future generations can just point at one person and scold them, and not bring disaster to the fish pond. I am innocent.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Humph! I get angry when I think about it. Originally, the most ideal place for meditating on Zen was Mount Tai, but Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty ruined the reputation of Mount Tai for meditating on Zen, so we had to go to Purple Mountain to enshrined in Zen instead.

(End of this chapter)