Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 809 Zhu Yijun's "Foot Disease"

Gao Wushi is quite allergic to the word "princess" now, and he doesn't want to have anything to do with the word "princess" at all, and he doesn't want to have any relationship with it.

In his opinion, the thing about the little princess writing love poems the year before last was nothing more than a little girl who had never seen any man before, and suddenly saw a man whom everyone praised, and subconsciously had some good feelings. In fact, this kind of hazy feeling It's not love at all, it's more like an adolescent impulse.

Besides, taking a ten thousand step back, what is the use of love even if it is true?She is a princess, and she is determined to be a prime minister. The Ming Dynasty's political system and structure will never tolerate the appearance of a son-in-law elder.

What's more, the princess may be interested in him, but he doesn't have the slightest interest in that little girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old the year before last.Even now, since he hasn't seen her for more than two years, Zhu Yaoyan in his mind is still the half-grown girl who looks quiet and harmless to humans and animals.

If there is any outstanding impression, it is nothing more than that this little girl speaks very little.

Other than that, I really can't remember much.

Zhu Yijun was also a little embarrassed, he didn't even know what to say, and walked ahead with a stinky face.

Gao Wushi walked behind him with a look of lovelessness. After a while, he suddenly felt that there was something wrong with Zhu Yijun's movements. After looking carefully, he suddenly asked, "Your Majesty...do you feel any discomfort recently?"

Zhu Yijun suddenly stopped in front, turned his head, and asked, "What?"

Gao Wushi looked at his right leg and asked, "For example, leg disease, foot disease?"

Zhu Yijun's face changed slightly, and he finally sighed: "That's not true, but when the weather changes, whether it's cloudy or rainy, or sunny to cloudy, your legs will hurt or even cramps, and your toes will sometimes Swollen...often waking up in the middle of the night with pain."

Gao Wushi was startled. He remembered that there was a saying in later generations that the bones of Emperor Wanli showed that he had a serious leg disease, so the left leg of the corpse was stretched out and the right leg was curled up in the coffin.

Gao Yushi also believed in this statement in his previous life, but soon after he traveled, he knew that there was a serious problem with this statement - this posture was put out after death, and it was called "Seven Star Burial".

The regulation of this funeral should be that the top of the head faces west, the feet face east, and the whole body is supine, but the position of the limbs is very distinctive.

The head is facing up to the sky; the right arm is bent upwards, and the right hand is placed next to the face, supporting his own cheek; the left arm is bent downwards, and the left hand is placed on his lower abdomen. If you believe in Buddhism, you can also hold a string of rosary beads in your hand. If you believe in it, you can take the whisk.

The two legs are also different, the left leg is normally straight, but the right leg is bent outwards, with both feet facing outwards.

This regulation is the "Seven Star Burial", which means that the whole person is in the shape of the Big Dipper. The bones of Wanli unearthed from Dingling in later generations basically follow this regulation.

In fact, the burial of the two empresses who were buried together in Dingling at that time, Empress Xiaojing and Empress Xiaoduan, was not the usual supine position.Empress Xiaojing is similar to Emperor Wanli, her lower limbs are bent, her left arm is bent and drooping, her hand rests on her waist, her right arm is bent upwards, and her hand is next to her head.Empress Xiaoduan's left arm is the same as Empress Xiaojing's, but her right arm is vertically downward, with her feet overlapping.

But why is there a difference?
Logically speaking, the three burial postures should be the same. It may be because of the bumps in the transportation process after the corpses were put into the coffin, which led to the final posture differences.

Because according to records, the journey from the Forbidden City to Dingling was relatively long, and the rope carrying the coffin broke several times, and a corner of the coffin fell to the ground, causing bumps. In this way, the difference in posture is not enough No wonder.

In terms of regulations alone, Empress Xiaojing's posture should be the original posture, because overall, her whole body is like the shape of the Big Dipper in the sky.

Why did the emperors and empresses of the Ming Dynasty have such a funeral posture?

For future generations, the Big Dipper is nothing more than the most common constellation in the sky in the northern hemisphere. The handle of the dipper points to the North Star, which is very common. Adults teach children to recognize the stars in the sky, and many of them start with the Big Dipper.

But in fact, the Big Dipper has always been valued by Chinese people in ancient times. Many ancient Chinese geomantic omens and celestial phenomena are closely related to the Big Dipper, and each star is even given a name. The body of the bucket is Tianshu, Tianxuan , Tianji, Tianquan, and the bucket handles are Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang. The orientation and movement of several stars have very important symbolic meanings for the ancients.

More importantly, the Big Dipper has also been given political significance.The ancients believed that the residence of the emperor was facing the Ziwei star in the sky—this is why the imperial palaces of the Ming and Qing dynasties were called the "Forbidden City". They are the counterparts of human emperors in the sky. They live near the Big Dipper in the sky.

That being the case, the emperor and the empress had to be buried in the shape of the Big Dipper, which made it easier for them to walk to the horizon of the pole star, and provided a more convenient passage for them to go to the emperor in the sky after death.

However, this emphasis seems to have only begun in the Ming Dynasty.The Xiaoling Mausoleum where Zhu Yuanzhang was buried, although later generations did not excavate the underground palace, but judging from the buildings on the ground, it is not straight and symmetrical like ordinary cemeteries, but curved and not in a straight line.

On the one hand, it complies with the topography of Meihua Mountain and adapts measures to local conditions, but more importantly, the cemetery Shinto is also shaped like the Big Dipper, which is unique among Chinese imperial tombs.

Therefore, from the Shinto of Xiaoling Mausoleum, it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, paid special attention to the shape of the Big Dipper and built his tomb path into a curved shape. Then Wanli, as his descendant, was buried in the same way as the Big Dipper. Strange.

After listening to Zhu Yijun's words, Gao Wushi suddenly remembered that when he returned to Beijing last year, Zhu Yijun organized a suburban welcome. At that time, Gao Wushi found that Zhu Yijun's right leg seemed to be a little weak, but Gao Wushi saw his walking movements at that time. It's normal, so I don't care too much.

But now it seems that he is really sick.

Gao Wushi became serious, and asked: "Your Majesty, you are sick, and I have to hear about it. I wonder what the imperial hospital will say?"

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "I don't quite understand, what is 'arthralgia syndrome', what is 'damp turbidity', what is 'spleen dysfunction, internal damp turbidity', what is 'damp turbidity flowing, the flow of qi and blood is not smooth , Chengbi pain', a group of people talked about it for a long time, but I didn't understand what was going on. Finally, I was so angry that I slapped the table and asked them, and they said that this is the emperor's general since ancient times. There is no medicine or stone to cure common diseases, so I just advise me to drink less."

Gao Wushi frowned when he heard that, he didn't understand the terminology of Chinese medicine, but Zhu Yijun's disease, judging from the performance, he knew what was going on!

It's very simple: gout!

The word gout comes from the Latin Guta (a drop), which means that a drop of harmful liquid causes joint damage. The pain is like a gust of wind, which comes and goes quickly, hence the name gout.In ancient times, gout was more likely to occur in emperors and generals, but with the improvement of living standards, gout has long become a common disease in later generations.

In his previous life, Gao Wushi's father had this disease, and he got it when he was young, and he often woke up in the middle of the night with pain.Gao Wushi remembers that when he was a child, he was woken up several times by his father turning on the light, and saw his father's calves were cramped so badly that he could hardly see the flesh—it was all near the knee joints.

He even remembered an embarrassing incident of his father when he was a child. At his grandfather's house, his father suffered from gout and cramps the night before, and walked with a limp the next day. A colleague of his grandfather asked quietly: "Your husband (the old man speaks) style, referring to the son-in-law) are your legs inconvenient?"

This matter, until Gao Wushi grew up, he often used it to make fun of his father.

It turned out that Zhu Yijun's so-called "foot disease" that was recorded in various history books was actually gout.

But thinking about it carefully, it's not surprising that Zhu Yijun suffers from gout.Although there is no way to completely cure gout until later generations, human understanding and control of gout is much more advanced than in ancient times. At least the following factors have a great relationship with gout: obesity, alcohol consumption, high blood pressure, high blood pressure Blood sugar, purines.

Well, Zhu Yijun has perfectly accounted for all the above items...

The first four items can basically be detected visually, because Zhu Yijun has already started to gain weight. Although it is not an exaggeration, being slightly fat is also fat, and he does not usually exercise, so he may continue to gain weight in the future.

Needless to say, drinking, no one can even restrict him now - Cheng Ding was 16 years old in the Ming Dynasty, and Cheng Ding could drink alcohol.

As for diet, let alone, Gao Yushi is Zhu Yijun’s companion. Zhu Yijun, like his father Longqing, loves to eat donkey intestines and pig intestines, and also experiences "frugal diet" in the market under the advice of civil servants. Soy products.

Wonderful, it's all a high-purine diet.

This is so... If you don't have gout, who will have gout?

Now that he has figured out the reason, although Gao Yushi is not capable of treating this disease, which cannot be cured even in later generations, he has a solution after all, so he immediately said: "Your Majesty, I understand this disease."

Zhu Yijun opened his eyes wide in surprise: "You know medicine? How come I don't know?"

Gao Wushi waved his hands and said: "It's not that he knows medical skills, but he just happened to know what this disease is. When I was in Annan, I once met a missionary of Folangji - a fan monk. That monk knew some medical skills. When I talked about this disease with my ministers, I said that my country called it 'gout'."

"Gout?" Zhu Yijun asked, "Is there any cure? Where are those monks?"

"Fan monks are wandering around, and it may be difficult to find people. However, he said that there is really no cure for this disease, but it can be improved in the usual diet, work and rest, which can greatly reduce the chance of the disease, and can also greatly alleviate the disease. time pain."

Zhu Yijun was a little disappointed when he heard that there was no cure, but when he heard that he could improve greatly by paying attention to his diet and work and rest, he immediately became interested again and asked, "What are some things to pay attention to?...Don't talk about girls I don’t believe in things like Chukui.”

Gao Wushi laughed loudly: "The emperor doesn't believe it, and the minister doesn't believe it either. In fact, this method is quite simple. Eat less offal and soy products, and then maintain a certain amount of exercise to avoid obesity."

(End of this chapter)