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In the history of our country, there are those who have been named champions because of their profound knowledge, and there are those who have become champions through the back door, but there are very few who have been dismissed by the emperor because of their unlucky names. Wu Qing's classmate of the Ming Dynasty was such an unlucky person.
Wu Qing (1504-1582), also known as Zhongzhong, Zefeng, a native of Wuxi. It is said that Wu Qing was not originally called this Wu Qing, but Wu Ruwei. The reason why he changed his name to Wu Qing was because after he was promoted in the 27-year-old examination, the next three consecutive (nine years) of the entrance examination were all named Sun Shan. In order to be auspicious, I hope that God will open his eyes and have more friendship with himself, so he changed his name to "Wu Qing".
What he didn't expect was that God had actually opened his eyes. Ming Jiajing twenty-three (1544), Wu Qing, who took the exam for the fourth time, actually went all the way through the barrier and killed into the temple examination. Moreover, he also ranked first in the temple examination, washing away the shame of repeatedly falling off the list before.
However, immediately after that, The Heavens made a big joke with him--when the internal attendant read out the list of the results of the palace examination, the Jiajing Emperor, who was sitting on a dragon chair next to him, frowned when he heard the name Wu Qing, saying that "there should be no ruthless champions in the world."
Therefore, because of the pronunciation of a word (Wu and Wu), the title of Wu Qing's classmate was removed and demoted to Tanhua (at that time, there were not many people with the surname Wu in the north, and most of the people with the surname Wu were in the former Wu region of Jiangsu and Zhejiang).
After that, Wu Qing was assigned to the National Reserve Cadre Base - Hanlin Academy, and worked as a small editor.
Later, when Jiajing was forty years old, Wu Qing also presided over the Nanjing Township Examination.
In the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1582), Wu Qing died of illness at the age of 78 and was buried in Jilong Mountain in Lujiang, Wuxi, which was called Tanhua Mountain by posterity.
In fact, changing names in the Ming Dynasty was an easy thing to do, and in the history of the Ming Dynasty, someone changed his fate because someone changed his name - the most famous one was Xu Youzhen, who helped Ming Yingzong restore the throne and killed Yu Qian. Xu Youzhen's real name was Xu Heng, and this person was scolded by the Manchu ministers for advocating moving the capital to the south after the "Tumu Fort Change" in his early years. Later, under the persuasion of friends, he changed his name to Xu Youzhen, which escaped the pursuit and scolding of everyone - the official position was low, and everyone recognized the name and did not recognize the person. Later, this person was credited with helping Emperor Ming Yingzong restore the throne, and the official Washu Shangshu became the most powerful person in the dynasty
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