Kings like to meditate on Mount Tai. Why did no king dare to meditate on Mount Tai after Song Zhenzong?

Not afraid to go, but don't want to go.

China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, and the biggest ceremony held in feudal times was Mount Tai meditation. In Zen Buddhism, "seal" means "offering sacrifices to heaven" and "Zen" means "offering sacrifices to land". It is a grand ceremony for the emperor to sacrifice to heaven and earth when heaven is auspicious or auspicious, and the highest realm is Mount Tai Zen.

Mount Tai meditation is not something that ordinary emperors can go to. Show the divine right of the monarch and praise the merits. Climbing Mount Tai is probably the highest dream of ancient emperors. Due to the strict regulations of Mount Tai meditation, only six emperors have actually held Mount Tai meditation in China in the past five thousand years. They are: Ying Zheng, Liu Che, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, Li Zhi, Tang Gaozong, Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, Zhao Heng and Song Zhenzong.

The first five kings had remarkable feats, and they all came from good families. Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng unified the world and swept the six countries. No one can compare with such a great achievement, and there is nothing to argue about climbing Mount Tai. Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, defeated the Huns with all his strength and expanded his territory, which laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty. It is understandable that Mount Tai worships Zen.

Liu Xiu, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, established the Eastern Han Dynasty and stood proudly among the crowd. The "Guangxu Zhongxing" initiated by him is also convincing to everyone for the Mount Tai meditation. Tang Gaozong didn't make any great achievements, but when he was in office, the territory of the Tang Dynasty was the largest, which played a connecting role in the development of the Tang Dynasty. He was also qualified to meditate on Mount Tai. Although Xuanzong was partial to Yang Guifei in the later period of Tang Dynasty, it was also related to the Anshi Rebellion. However, in the early days of his reign, the country was rich and the people were safe, and Kaiyuan Shi Sheng was founded, so Taishan meditation was qualified.

As for Song Zhenzong and Zhao Heng, compared with the top five, they are really dwarfed. They didn't achieve anything great. They also signed a "Love League" with Liao to pay tribute to Qidan, and he also climbed Mount Tai to meditate. This really doesn't make sense. However, Song Zhenzong doesn't think it's a shame to sign the Love Garden Alliance. Instead, he thought that he signed a treaty, which gave Song a peaceful period of 25 years, so he made great contributions and could definitely meditate on Mount Tai.

Then the Yuan Dynasty. The rulers of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties did not attach importance to the Taishan Zen culture in the Han Dynasty, thinking that it was nothing. Moreover, they really don't have a particularly meritorious emperor. Since the Yuan Dynasty was not suitable, what about the Ming Dynasty? In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang made such great achievements in expelling Tatars and restoring China. If he wants to worship Mount Tai, I'm afraid he deserves it. Then why didn't he? The reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang despises it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born a beggar and became an emperor by his own efforts. More justly, he absolutely despises Song Zhenzong, an emperor who signed such a humiliating treaty, and went to Mount Tai to meditate, so he felt that Mount Tai meditation was not as sacred as he imagined, and he didn't want to go. As for the later Ming and Qing dynasties, when Manchu entered the customs, he didn't care too much about this view. Moreover, with Zhu Yuanzhang's example, they don't want to do it, and they feel boring.