In the fourth year of Yuan Shundi, the people of Haozhou suffered a serious disaster, followed by drought, locust plague and plague. In the past six months, Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and brothers have passed away. He was too poor to afford a funeral, and his neighbor gave him a piece of land to bury his relatives. In order to make a living, 17-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk in Huang Jue Temple. Who knows that he has only been a monk for 50 days, and "the monks in the temple are hungry for food", so Zhu Yuanzhang had to go out to beg and taste the sufferings of the world. This experience was later described by Zhu Yuanzhang himself in the tombstone inscription.
Zhu Yuanzhang does his homework and recites scriptures in the temple every day. The most important thing is to eat, because he went to the temple just to eat. However, due to the famine around, the temple can't last long. Just after 50 days, the temple owner called the monks together and told everyone that there was no food in the temple and everyone traveled around. From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled around with a bowl, and the life of traveling was also very hard. How to write the tombstone? Here's the thing:
Sudden smoke rushes in, and it grinds to the ancient temple at dusk.
It is said that when I got up in the morning and walked on the road, I saw smoke and fire in the chimney. This family must have cooked breakfast or dinner. I have to get a bite to eat while eating. If I'm late, I won't need it. So he said, "jump on the smoke" and walked quickly. "It's a hurry to go to the ancient temple at dusk." Go to the temple to rest at night. I couldn't sleep in Alatano, but I was tired and didn't have a rest. Tired as I was, I stumbled to the temple. He often travels on a moonlit night, with a cold wind and frost and snow. How to write the tombstone? There are two sentences like this:
Looking up at the cliff, Cui Wei leans against the blue, and listens to the ape sing jathyapple bleak.
Leaning against the rocks, looking at the high peaks, looking at the sky, the moon shining on my body, thinking about my parents, heaven and man are different! The ape cried, desolate, cold and helpless, like a floating tent. Zhu Yuanzhang wrote about his hard life as a monk and a traveling monk in the mausoleum of the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang trudged for three years under such difficult conditions. Three years later, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the temple to be his monk. These three years of travel are very important to Zhu Yuanzhang. With knowledge and experience, he knows how to make a living under the most difficult conditions, how to treat people and how to get along with society. Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to have made a very important leap in mind and body.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang received a letter from Tang He, a poor partner, saying that he had defected to Guo Zixing, hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang would "follow the levy quickly and achieve great things together". Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated. A few days later, my brother told him that someone was going to report that he had communicated with the Red Scarf Army and let him escape. At this moment, the Yuan army burned the ancestral temple clean, and Zhu Yuanzhang defected to the rebel army and began his military career and brilliant future.
He is 25 years old this year.