Why did Emperor Zhu Qizhen of the Ming Dynasty recognize a nun surnamed Lu as the imperial sister

Mondo History Updated on 2024-01-31

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In 1449, when Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of the Ming God of War, and his partner led Wang Zhen to lead an army of 200,000 to Xi'an, suddenly a nun surnamed Lu blocked Zhu Qizhen's way.

The nun surnamed Lu cried to Zhu Qizhen and begged not to drive the expedition in person, because she had a dream, and she dreamed that the Bodhisattva had a dream, and the emperor's trip must be very dangerous and devastating, so she specially asked her to come to dissuade the emperor.

How could Zhu Qizhen, who led an army of hundreds of thousands, give up the grand cause of defeating the Mongols because of the dream of a nun?This is a glory that will go down in history.

So Zhu Qizhen ignored it and continued his journey, under the leadership of Mr. Wang Zhen, he successfully reached a dangerous situation, and in the place of Tumubao, hundreds of thousands of Ming elites were wiped out.

His eunuch teacher Wang Zhen, who wanted to glorify his ancestors, was also knocked to death by the angry military general Fan Zhong, and Zhu Qizhen, the god of war in Tumubao, became a prisoner of the Mongols.

Even after returning to Beijing, Zhu Qizhen was imprisoned for several years, spending every day in terror until his younger brother Zhu Qiyu became seriously ill, and in 1457, Zhu Qizhen became emperor again.

After Zhu Qizhen became the emperor, he remembered the nun surnamed Lu who stopped him from conquering eight years ago, and was very grateful, so he recognized her as the imperial sister and received her to the capital, and also built a temple for her in Xihuang Village in Shijingshan, and felt that the imperial sister blessed the Ming Dynasty in the dark, so it was named Shuntian Baoming Temple.

However, the descendants were named the imperial sister because of the nun surnamed Lu, so most of the people in this temple are called Huanggu Temple.

To this day, the Huanggu Temple still exists, although it suffered a fire in the Qing Dynasty and was later rebuilt, and one day you pass by Shijingshan, you can see this ancient temple that has lasted for hundreds of years.

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