Why are most clear queens from ordinary backgrounds except Queen Xu?

In ancient society, etiquette was strict, and people should be divided into high and low, so marriage paid attention to the right match. Ordinary people are still like this, let alone the royal family. Most of the people who can enter the palace as concubines come from official families. If you want to be the queen of the mother instrument industry, the requirements are even higher.

Generally speaking, in order to win power, emperors often choose a marriage that is beneficial to them. Just like the emperor in the early Qing dynasty, in order to win over the Mongolian forces, he always married Mongolian women. Xiaozhuang chose Queen hershey for Kangxi in order to win over Sony's forces and jointly contain Ao Bai.

But there was a dynasty in history that was different. Most of the queens in this dynasty came from ordinary families. That is the Ming Dynasty with a history of 276 years.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Huanghou are famous grass-roots emperors in history. Ma Huanghou was originally the adopted daughter of Guo Zixing, and Guo Zixing was not a royal aristocrat. This background is not noble.

In addition, the two Empresses of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty were born in ordinary families. Hu Huanghou is a junior officer's family background, and Queen Sun's father is a small master book in Yongcheng County. There is also Empress Chen of Jiajing, whose father is just a local scholar. Zhou, the empress of Chongzhen, was born entirely by ordinary people, and her father made a living by fortune telling.

Of course, there were many queens in the Ming Dynasty who were not very high-born, so I won't give an example here. The Empress Dowager is an example to the concubines in the Sixth Palace. By rights, it must come from everyone. And why are most of the queens of the Ming Dynasty from ordinary backgrounds?

In fact, this stems from an ancestral motto set by Zhu Yuanzhang. After Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he specially compiled "Female Training" to manage harem concubines. One of them clearly stipulates: "Every son of heaven, concubines, carefully select good women to do it, and those who enter will get it, so concubines recruit more people."

Then why did Zhu Yuanzhang do this?

Zhu Yuanzhang started from scratch and was born at the grassroots level. There will be no family prejudice. He and Ma Huanghou love each other deeply, and think it doesn't matter whether a woman comes from a noble family, as long as she is virtuous. Therefore, he stipulated that "choose a good woman carefully" and don't have to be born too noble.

Of course, the reason why he stipulated this is mainly to prevent "consorts from interfering in government affairs." Since ancient times, it is not uncommon for consorts to run the government, and the final result is often that the country turns from prosperity to decline. As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally wanted to rule the Ming Dynasty permanently, so it is particularly important to prevent consorts from interfering in politics.

Emperors of past dynasties also tried to avoid this. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty prevented "fewer children and stronger mothers", fearing that after his death, Mrs. Gou Jian would put young Liu Fuling on stilts, leading to the intervention of consorts, so she simply put Mrs. Gou Jian to death. Although this avoids the intervention of consorts, the means seem a bit too cruel.

When I got to Zhu Yuanzhang, I realized that the consorts were too powerful and threatened the central government. In order to solve this problem from the root, he can only avoid the excessive influence of his consorts. How to avoid it? Is to choose the "civilian queen". Because of this, there was never a phenomenon that consorts interfered in politics because of the queen in the Ming Dynasty.

So, can an ordinary queen be compared with a woman in a noble family?

Some people may think that the eldest miss of a noble family or an official family has received excellent education since childhood, and her words, deeds and smiles are in line with the etiquette of contemporary society. Do those ordinary women have the grace and ability to control the world?

Although most of the Empresses of the Ming Dynasty came from ordinary families, they were all chosen by thousands. Regardless of appearance, manners and conduct, we have to go through layers of screening, and the middle process is not sloppy at all. In the end, the person who can stand out from the whole country and be elected queen can imagine how excellent she is, no less than a celebrity.

As we all know, after the emergence of sages in the Ming Dynasty, we can know that the queen elected in this way can not only be the master of the world, but also be recognized by future generations.

Having said that, some people may think that most of the queens of the Ming Dynasty were not born high, but one person was not. She is Xu, the empress of the Ming emperor. Everyone knows that the Xu family is the eldest daughter of Xu Da. During the Hongwu period, Xu Da was a teacher for the official, a prime minister in the middle of the book, a military affairs minister and a prince of Shaofu, and was also named the Duke of Wei.

This background is extremely high. According to the ancestral training, Xu can't be a queen at all. Why is the queen an exception? Isn't this against Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral teachings?

When Xu married, he was just a prince, and the prince was still Zhu Biao. Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of passing the throne to Judy. Judging from the normal development, it is impossible for Xu to become a queen. Therefore, pointing the Xu family to be a princess is only to help his son find a virtuous wife, which also represents his attention to Xu Da.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect the later development that Judy would launch a battle of Jing Nan and seize the throne from her nephew. In this way, Xu, who had no chance to master the world, became the master of the sixth house.

However, Queen Xu is very virtuous. She never interferes in state affairs, but always silently supports her husband's career. Judy not only loved and respected her, but also won the respect of everyone in the world and became another generation of sages in the Ming Dynasty.