The Order of Temple Names in Ancient Yellow Calendar

The ceremony said, "Ancestors have merit, and ancestors have virtue!" The ancestors of the emperor should give the temple name "Zu" as long as they are meritorious, and "Zong" as long as they are virtuous. According to this understanding, ancestors can be multiple emperors, and ancestors should also have multiple emperors! There are emperors without temple names, because there is no virtue and no work! This happened in the Han Dynasty! No temple number!

How many emperors in history are called "merit"? What is "work"? The "merit" here should be said to be the emperor who can create a lasting inheritance, which means that there is probably only the founding emperor! But history is complicated. Some non-founding emperors, without "merit", were named "the founder" by their descendants. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao called Mao, Cao Pi called Mao, and Cao Rui called Zu. A dynasty has three ancestors. It's really bad to give the name of the temple to future generations. (Southern Song Dynasty, also known as the second ancestor)! What is even more against the etiquette system is that the temple name of Cao Rui's "granddaddy" was actually claimed by Ming Di when he was alive! The name of the temple depends on the negotiation between the minister and the new emperor after death! )

Confucianism was dominant in ancient China. And the "ceremony" was formulated by a saint. The emperor disobeyed and was criticized by Confucian scholars. Therefore, during the reign of Li Tang, this problem was corrected. There is only one ancestor, that is, the founding emperor Tang Taizu Li Yuan, and other emperors have given the temple the name "Zong". After the Tang Dynasty, there was an ancestor and many clans. This should meet the requirements of Confucian "ceremony"! (However, being called "Zong" has also been criticized. Some emperors are children, how can they be virtuous? Why is it called a sect? )。 Of course, after the Tang Dynasty, there was still a break between one ancestor and one sect. For example, Ming Dynasty! Zhu Yunwen called it "Hui Di" and Judy called it "Cheng Zu"! Of course, this is a special case, because this is the battle of Jingnan, and Judy, the prince, usurped power! However, we can understand it from the Confucian thought of "ancestors" making contributions and "ancestors" making contributions. This method of breaking the ancestral temple name is appropriate. Because Judy is indeed the greatest emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he edited the Yongle Grand Ceremony, sent Zheng He to the Western Ocean, personally expedition to destroy Tatars, etc., which can be described as one of the founders of the 300-year history of the Ming Dynasty. What's wrong with "Zu"?

In addition: Qin Shihuang abolished the former king's code and burned the words of a hundred schools. Claiming to be the "first emperor", I can't give the temple a name! Since the Han Dynasty, the pre-Qin laws have been gradually restored! It should be said that the gift of temple names began in the pre-Qin period. But there was no emperor in the pre-Qin dynasty, but there was a tradition of evaluating the former king! It was not called the temple number at that time, but it was the prototype of the temple number in later generations! It should be said that the temple name began in the Western Han Dynasty and ended in the Qing Dynasty!