Zhu Zhanji's literary achievements are also extremely outstanding. He not only has outstanding talents in governing the country and military, but also has quite good literature and art.

Zhu Zhanjiya was very particular about calligraphy and calligraphy. He was particularly good at painting landscapes, figures, animals, flowers, birds, grass and insects. His calligraphy and painting works were often given to important officials as books, and the date and name of the recipient were written, and seals such as "Guangyun Treasure", "Wuying Palace Treasure" and "Yongxi Shiren".

In other words, in addition to being an emperor, Zhu Zhanji was actually a talented man, and his poems, calligraphy and paintings were also quite famous. Of course, the most famous one was Zhu Zhanji's favorite to play with crickets.

When Zhu Zhanji became emperor, he was named "The Emperor Taiping, the Emperor of Weaver" among the people. The weaver is a cricket, and the people call crickets.

Zhu Zhanji likes to play with crickets, which is a famous thing in the world. However, no one is perfect, no one is perfect. No matter how much the emperor is, he is also a person. As long as he is a human being, he will inevitably have such hobbies.

As the emperor, Zhu Zhanji likes to play crickets. Although this is a bit unemployed, who can say what? After all, while playing crickets, he can also manage a huge country well. This is enough. It is better than his unfilial descendants, right?

In fact, there are none of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. It seems that none of them are normal. No wonder later generations have shown that the emperors of the dynasty are very strange.

Let’s first talk about Zhu Zhanji’s great-grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people were very randomly named, basically arranged by numbers, so Zhu Yuanzhang’s father gave him the name Chongba. This is like the principle of many animals being named after animals in the early years of our founding, such as Ergouzi, or Goudan, etc. However, the name Zhu Yuanzhang is of great significance. Chongba is 16, and there were a total of sixteen emperors in the Ming Dynasty. It was really not easy for Zhu Yuanzhang’s father, a farmer, to name such a profound name.

There is also Zhu Zhanji's father Zhu Gaochi, the fourth CEO of the Ming Dynasty. This emperor is the fattest emperor in the Ming Dynasty and the most edible emperor.

How fat is Zhu Gaochi? This guy is so fat that he needs two servants to help him walk around. He is so fat that he can eat it. He has never been on the front line, so why can he be an emperor? Good luck! His younger brother Zhu Gaoxi is brave and good at fighting, and has the spirit of his father Chengzu Zhu Di. His father Zhu Di originally had the idea of ​​making Zhu Gaoxu the crown prince, but he was not the eldest son. The older Zhu Di couldn't resist the censor's bombardment, and somehow made this fat man the emperor. However, Zhu Gaochi was the emperor for ten months and then stepped down because he died of illness - a disease caused by eating it!

Needless to say, Zhu Zhanji is the Cricket Emperor!

Zhu Zhanji's future generations were even more unbearable. One of his gray grandchildren was named Zhu Hougui, or Emperor Jiajing. He was a genuine Taoist emperor, but he was reigned for a very long time, forty-five years.

When Emperor Jiajing first came to power, he worked very hard to govern. Because he was a foreign vassal, he wanted to give his parents a good name, but the ministers disagreed because it stimulated him and later he stopped interacting with the ministers. He ignored the major national affairs and did not attend court, and entered the Taoist industry. Emperor Jiajing grew up in Jingchu and was the birthplace of Taoism. Therefore, in the late Jiajing period, he basically did not take care of national affairs. He practiced immortal pills every day to seek immortality, and was known as the "Taoist Emperor".

There is another one named Zhu Zhanji's grandson named Zhu Yijun, who is Emperor Wanli. Emperor Wanli became emperor at the age of ten, but there was always a big stone on his head. The government affairs were completely entrusted by Zhang Juzheng, and he himself was just an empty stance. Even if the poor Emperor Wanli was so depressed that he couldn't stand finding a palace maid to be happy, he could be raised to the height of his country's destruction by Zhang Juzheng.

Finally, Zhang Juzheng died, and he listened to the censors talking every day, and finally he quit. He refused to leave the palace for 30 years, ignored the government affairs, did not pay attention to the court, did not pay attention to the temple, did not attend the court, did not criticize, and did not talk. As for the court, it was even more impossible, and he was also the ultimate will! The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty has not yet perished...

As for Zhu Zhanji's other grandson, Zhu Youxiao, who is Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, it is even more strange, known as the "Lu Ban of the Ming Dynasty".

This emperor is even more bizarre, because his professional skills are carpenters, the only carpenter emperor in the history of Chinese history. The emperor is just a part-time job, and part-time jobs may not be considered a part-time job.

Emperor Tianqi's father was unpopular since childhood, so he suffered as well. He was dull since childhood and did not read books, and could not read many words. However, the man's fate was good, and after the "palace transfer case", he was promoted to the emperor.

When he was the emperor, Wei Zhongxian was a gangster on the street. Because he was good at camping, he went to the palace to be a eunuch; while Rong was the emperor's wet nurse, so he naturally had deep feelings. At this time, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and the snake and rats in the disaster Rong family often joined forces to persecute the Donglin Party. The carpenter emperor did not attend court, and Wei Zhongxian also specifically chose the emperor to do carpenters to report the situation. The emperor said in one sentence: You can do it. The carpenter emperor slowly sent the Ming Dynasty to death.

Anyway, from Zhu Yuanzhang to Emperor Chongzhen, almost no emperor of the Ming Dynasty was normal.

Zhu Zhanji just likes to play with crickets, which is pretty good.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji not only likes to play with crickets, but also has a great hobby, that is, he likes to enjoy the incense burner. After all, he is also a literati in his bones. If he doesn’t have a little elegance, can he still be called a literati?

When Zhu Zhanji became the crown prince, his grandfather was very strict with him, so even if he liked to enjoy the incense burner, he would not dare to do it in a big way, because he knew very well that if his grandfather Zhu Di knew about this, he would definitely be charged with losing his ambition.

After Zhu Di passed away, Zhu Zhanji's father was the emperor for only ten months. After he ascended the throne, no one in the world could control his people anymore. Therefore, not long after Zhu Zhanji came to power, the impulse that had been suppressed for a long time finally broke out.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji came to the stage, in order to satisfy his appetite for enjoying incense burners, he ordered the import of 39,000 kilograms of wind-milled copper from Siam, which is now Thailand. He instructed the imperial craftsman Lu Zhen and the Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works to design and supervise the incense burner according to the styles of the famous porcelain of the Chai Kiln, Ru Kiln, Official Kiln, Ge Kiln, Jun Kiln, and Ding Kiln in the imperial palace, as well as historical records such as "Xuanhe Bo Ancient Catalogue" and "Archaeological Pictures".

In order to ensure the quality of the incense burner, Lu Zhen reported tremblingly that if he wanted to make a good incense burner, the copper had to be refined six times. Refined it once, less, and after six times, only half of the raw materials would be left.

But who is Emperor Xuande? He is the emperor. He is not only rich and powerful, but also has a strong sense of quality. So Emperor Xuande immediately issued an order to refine the times not only not decrease, but also double it, that is, to refine precious metals such as gold and silver. So the craftsman selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver, and carefully crafted with red copper more than ten times.

After great efforts, in three years of Xuande, the best copper incense burner was finally successfully made.

This batch of wind-milled copper casts more than 3,000 incense burners, and has never been produced again. When Emperor Xuande saw this batch of incense burners he had personally inquired about, each of them was extremely atmospheric and full of treasure light, and felt a sense of accomplishment.

Most of these incense burners were placed in various places in the palace, and a small part of them were rewarded and distributed to royal relatives, famous ministers, various temples with large scale and incense-prone envoys who came to pay tribute.

These Xuande furnaces are only known by their names but not in their shape. After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the copper incense burner that was truly cast in three years of Xuande can be almost impossible to see.

The first batch of Xuande furnaces cast were so exquisite that they aroused the coveting of many people. Even after the palace sealing furnace was not cast in Xuande for three years, some people still wanted to continue to imitate Xuande furnaces.

Among them, the creators responsible for supervising the first batch of Xuande furnaces gathered the original craftsmen and cast the Xuande furnaces separately. However, due to insufficient raw materials, the wind-milled copper had been used up and did not return. The casters could only replace them with yellow and mixed copper. Although the workmanship was as exquisite as before, the shape was more varied, but the copper quality was finally not as good as before. At the same time, the base model changed. The number of words increased, including "made by Wu Bangzuo, the supervisor of the Ministry of Supervision in the fifth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty" and "mainly manufactured by Li Chengde, the foreign minister of the Ministry of Works", etc., both regular and seal models were available.

In addition to the contemporary imitation of the Xuande dynasty, there were also imitation during the Zhengde period in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. A large number of imitation products appeared in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, as well as the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

Therefore, in modern times, there are many Xuande furnaces imitated by the Ming Dynasty, and many imitations from the Qing Dynasty and even the Republic of China period. However, the real Xuande furnace produced in the third year of Xuande is difficult to find.

At present, there is no real Xuande furnace produced in the three years of Xuande in the market. Many people even say that the real Xuande furnace produced in the three years of Xuande is gone!

Originally, Yang Jing thought so, the real Xuande furnace had long disappeared, and now all the collections on the market and museums are imitations. But, these two ancient and elegant Xuande furnaces appeared in front of him. What's going on?

The Xuande furnace in the third year of Xuande did not have a standard type, and the two Xuande furnaces in front of us were also different in style.

One of the copper furnaces is round, open, with a base, and two plain dragon ears on both sides, which are very unique in style. However, Yang Jing still recognized the style of this copper incense burner at a glance, which is the smallest dragon ear stove in the Middle Ages of Xuande furnace.

This kind of dragon ear stove is usually specially used for the emperor's study. It can be placed alone on an incense table, or five feet west of the document, or on a desk or a bright cabinet. Large objects of more than six inches can be placed in halls, rooms, halls, etc.

Like this dragon ear stove, the diameter is more than 20 cm, or more than six inches, and it is obviously an incense burner that can be placed outside the study.

As for the other copper incense burner, the shape of the instrument is very simple, with three legs and a round belly. Although the shape of the instrument looks simple, the lines are extremely elegant.

Yang Jing also recognized the style of this copper incense burner, which is the second only to the halberd furnace in the world.

Although the styles of these two copper incense burners are extremely rare, the color of the wind-milled copper is extremely positive, and the patina is very round. There is also a six-character regular script style "made in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty" at the bottom, which does not look like it was imitated by later generations.
Chapter completed!