Zhu Yuanzhang's wife Queen Ma not only knows nothing about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also a big foot, Ma Dajia is already a representative of Queen Ma, in the era of the old society that pays attention to foot binding, why does Zhu Yuanzhang like Queen Ma?

The first queen of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu Yuanzhang's wife Empress Ma, who was buried in Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum after her death. Of course, in the eyes of those old literati, although Queen Ma is good at everything, it is a pity that she was born with big feet, which is the only fly in the ointment.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a great uprising of the White Lotus Sect, and in order to escape the war, Empress Ma's father took his daughter to take refuge with his friend Guo Zixing, who was in the Haozhou uprising. Ma's father entrusted his daughter to Guo Zixing before he died, and Guo Zixing accepted Miss Ma as a righteous daughter, treating her as his own and loving him very much.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was just a pawn under Guo Zixing's account, but Zhu Yuanzhang had many strategies, was decisive, and fought bravely, and was soon promoted to the ninth commander of the personal soldiers. Guo Zixing also relied more and more on this monk-born ninth master, discussed everything with Zhu Yuanzhang, obeyed him, and in order to envelop Zhu Yuanzhang, he married his righteous daughter Miss Ma to Zhu Yuanzhang.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was twenty-five years old, and Miss Ma was twenty years old. She knew that although Zhu Yuanzhang had great ambitions, he was born poor like herself and did not know much literacy, so she routinely advised Zhu Yuanzhang to study more in addition to the war. Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Ma's advice very much, and soon could read and break sentences, and write poems, Ma himself was also very attentive to reading and literacy, and when she saw a document in the army, she asked someone to teach her to read.

Zhu Yuanzhang relied on his own talent and slowly became a cadre under Guo Zixing, Guo Zixing's son was very jealous and resentful of Zhu Yuanzhang, and often slandered in front of his father, so the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo's father and son was very tense. Ma was very worried about this situation, and often persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to be more respectful to Guo Zixing, and if there was any capture during the war, they were also dedicated to Guo Zixing and his favorite second wife, and Ma himself often gave gold and silver jewelry to the second lady, falsely claiming that Zhu Yuanzhang asked her to honor the second lady.

With Ma's mediation, Zhu Yuanzhang avoided turning against Guo Zixing, and Zhu Yuanzhang was able to accumulate his strength calmly. Once, Zhu Yuanzhang made Guo Zixing angry again, and was imprisoned by Guo Zixing, and he was not allowed to send tea and rice in. Ma Shi took the hot cooking cake in his arms and secretly gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang, but his chest was burned red.

Zhu Yuanzhang fought everywhere, and it was rare to have a good meal at home, so Ma always prepared some dry food and cured meat, thinking that her husband could eat enough. When her husband was at the front, she led the women to sew clothes and make shoes in the rear, and if the battle was won at the front, she rewarded the soldiers with her possessions, and everyone praised her for her virtue.

Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Nanjing, and Ma was also canonized as the queen, at this time Queen Ma was thirty-five years old, but Zhu Yuanzhang still respected her very much, and Queen Ma was more strict with herself. Every day, Queen Ma asked the female officials to teach her to read, so that she could know the deeds of famous women in the past dynasties, so as to demand herself.

Although Queen Ma was already a noble country at this time, she still insisted on taking care of Zhu Yuanzhang's diet and daily life, and others advised her not to work so hard, but she said: "It is my duty to serve my husband, and I can't shirk it." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that his wife was so virtuous, and often said to the ministers: "The queen and I have been clothed together and have gone through many hardships." I can't forget the time when she brought me hot food despite the burning of my skin. And when I was suspicious of Guo Gong and was almost put to death, the queen tried many ways for me to save me from danger. If it weren't for the queen, where would I be where I am today? How dare I forget my wife when I was poor because I am rich now?"

Queen Ma said: "The concubine heard that it is easy for the husband and wife to protect each other, but it is difficult for the monarch and the minister to protect each other. Your Majesty can not forget the concubine, and I hope that Your Majesty will never forget the ministers and the people. ”

In times of crisis, it is easy to share adversity, and when there is wealth, it is difficult for kings and ministers to protect each other. The bird is hidden in the bow, the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooked, Zhu Yuanzhang in order to prevent the situation of the powerful ministers from interfering in politics, he has several prisons and kills heroes. At that time, Song Lian was implicated in the rebellion of Prime Minister Hu Weiyong. Song Lian was a university scholar in the early Ming Dynasty, compiled the "History of the Yuan", and also served as the prince's teacher, although Song Lian had resigned and returned to his hometown at this time, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not ready to let him go.

When the prince heard that the emperor was going to kill his teacher, he was so anxious that he jumped into the water, but fortunately he was rescued by the guards. After Queen Ma heard about it, she secretly thought of a way. On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang entered the palace for dinner, found a table full of vegetarian dishes, and asked what was the reason? Queen Ma said: "Ordinary people invite a teacher, and they are always respectful. Mr. Song has taught the princes all these years, and it has been very hard, and we are vegetarian today to pray for him. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he pleaded for Song Lian again, was furious, and threw his hands away, but because of Queen Ma's intercession, he still let Song Lian go, and just sent him to Maozhou.

After Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, his temper gradually became more and more irritable, killing people at every turn, and Empress Ma was often tactful and enlightened. Once, Zhu Yuanzhang heard that Guo Jingxiang's son who joined the army was unfilial and wanted to kill his father, Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry and wanted to kill him immediately.

Queen Ma persuaded: "Guo Jingxiang only has such a son, if he is killed, Guo Jingxiang will be killed, and this matter may not be true." "When I investigated, it was really wronged.

Again, a palace maid made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry, so she wanted to punish the palace maid personally, and Queen Ma also pretended to be very angry, and immediately handed over the palace maid to the palace chief to discuss the crime. Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "Why is this?"

Queen Ma said: "You are angry, you may punish this palace maid too severely, hand it over to the palace priest, and they will deal with it impartially." ”

There is also a folk legend that says that the inverted posting of the word Fu is also related to Queen Ma. Once, during the Lantern Festival, Zhu Yuanzhang was admiring the lanterns on the street of Yingtianfu and saw one of the paintings, in which a woman was riding a horse, holding a large watermelon in her arms, and barefoot. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, thinking that this was used to ridicule Queen Ma for her humble background, no foot binding, and daring to insult Queen Ma who was a mother in the world, and she must be severely punished.

So Zhu Yuanzhang instructed the attendants to go to the street where the painting was hung, and put an upside-down blessing on the door of each house as a mark, and settle the account together tomorrow. After Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the palace, he was still depressed, and when Queen Ma saw him like this, she asked the attendants, and learned that the people who were upside down with the word Fu would be punished tomorrow, and this catastrophe was still caused by her, so she was very anxious.

Queen Ma pleaded hard for Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Yuanzhang's anger did not subside, so she had to secretly send attendants to paste the inverted blessing word on the doors of all households in Quanying Tianfu. The next day, when Zhu Yuanzhang sent his attendants to arrest people, he was confused by the inverted blessing characters in the whole city, and he didn't know who to arrest. Zhu Yuanzhang knew Queen Ma's hard work, and after a night, his anger slowly subsided, so he no longer pursued the matter.

Since then, every Chinese New Year, they have pasted an inverted blessing word to pray for good luck and good health for the family. Although it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the falsehood of this legend, through this legend, it can be known that the image of Queen Ma's benevolence is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In this way, Queen Ma conscientiously maintained the harmony between the court, the monarchs and ministers, and the monarchs and the people, and reduced a lot of killings for Zhu Yuanzhang. Later, Queen Ma was seriously ill, and Zhu Yuanzhang was restless about it, so he begged God and Buddha everywhere, prayed for the queen, and recruited famous doctors in the world to diagnose and treat her.

Empress Ma said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Life and death are fate, what is the use of praying for blessings? And medicine cannot cure immortality, and the concubines are not good, Your Majesty must not be guilty of the imperial doctor who treated me because of this." ”

When he was dying, Zhu Yuanzhang held Queen Ma's hand tightly and wept incessantly. Queen Ma looked at her husband who was getting old, remembered the years when she accompanied him to fight the world together, and finally said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "May Your Majesty seek advice from the virtuous, be cautious until the end, and the descendants will be virtuous, and the subjects will get what they want." ”

Queen Ma was fifty-one years old that year, Zhu Yuanzhang, who lost Queen Ma, became more irritable, and the situation that Queen Ma was looking forward to when she was dying did not appear, and the heroes were slaughtered by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty and Queen Ma died too early.