Why is it said that Zhu Yuanzhang made a great contribution to the periodic table of elements?

Zhu Yuanzhang has nothing to do with the periodic table of elements. Ordinary people don't know why the emperor, who is not a physicist or chemist, contributed to the periodic table of elements.

Actually, this is a joke. Zhu Yuanzhang was one of the few relatively courageous and capable emperors in the Ming Dynasty. During his reign, he made a lot of institutional regulations, and you know why. Maybe it's for convenience. Of course, this habit was also carried over to family management. You must know that the emperor has a harem with three thousand beauties, unlike ordinary people who have three wives and four concubines, and the number of children is also quite large.

Zhu Yuanzhang had 26 children in his first marriage. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not highly educated, left 20 characters for each of his children as a distinction of seniority, so that he could know who was from whom at once. It's convenient for children. The matter did not end here. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that the radical of the third character of the name should first be chosen in the order of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth! !

You must know that the names of descendants cannot be the same as those of their ancestors and ancestors. It is a great disrespect to the ancestors and is absolutely unacceptable. But you have to know that you alone have more than 20 children, children of children, children of children of children, sooner or later these words will be used up, what should I do? You must know that the number of words in the dictionary at that time was far less than the number of words in the dictionary now.

What to do? It’s also simple, just make words! Strange and uncommon Chinese characters like "radium", "niobium", "cadmium" and "palladium" were created abruptly. When the elements were translated without corresponding Chinese characters, everyone thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's great decision, which solved an academic problem at once. This is the "inseparable" connection between Zhu Yuanzhang and the periodic table of elements.