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The famous literary inquisition in history
Zhu Yuanzhang, a farmer and monk, was particularly afraid of being called a monk, a thief and a light, and he was not allowed to be born with the consent of a Taoist, a light and a bald man. After he acceded to the throne, whoever has such words in the chapter table will kill the author. Because he was called a thief by the Yuan Dynasty, the words of thief and thief were responsible and angry when they were chosen.

A monk wrote a poem of thanks, which contained the word "extraordinary". Zhu Yuanzhang saw this poem thanking flattery and thought: Extraordinary is the combination of evil and Zhu, and the monk changed his way to curse and kill. ?

In the third year of Hongwu (1370), people were forbidden to use the names of heaven, country, monarch, minister, health, Shen, Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Zhou, Qin, Han and Jin. In the 26th year of Hongwu (1393), the names of Taizu, Sun Sheng, Sun Long, Sun Huang, Wang Sun, Shu Tai, Taixiong, Taidi, Taishi, Taifu, Taibao and Doctor were banned.

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The concept of literary inquisition and its popularity

Literary inquisition is a policy of being convicted for writing words. You can easily be convicted of this. Find out your poems and articles, then find out chapters and sentences and blame Luo Zhi, so you can die.

The literary inquisition has a history of more than two thousand years. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty and the Kangyong Ganjia period of the Qing Dynasty, the literary inquisition was very popular. However, Kang Yong's absurdity, strangeness, wide involvement and cruelty in handling this case in Qing Dynasty are beyond measure.

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