Zhu Zhanji's literary and military achievements were extremely outstanding. He not only had outstanding talents in governing the country and military affairs, but was also quite good in literature and art.

Zhu Zhanji was fond of calligraphy and painting. He was particularly good at painting landscapes, figures, animals, flowers and birds, and insects. He often presented his calligraphy and paintings as books to important officials, with the year and month and the name of the recipient written on them, and seals such as "Guangyun Zhibao", "Wuyingdian Bao" and "Yongxi Shiren" were affixed on them.

In other words, Zhu Zhanji was not only an emperor, but also a talented scholar. His poems, calligraphy and paintings were also quite famous. Of course, the most famous thing about him was that he liked to play with crickets.

When Zhu Zhanji was the emperor, he was known among the people as "the Emperor of Peace, the Cricket Emperor". Crickets are also called crickets.

It was well-known that Zhu Zhanji liked to play with crickets. However, no one is perfect, and no matter how much an emperor was an emperor, he was first and foremost a human being. As long as he was a human being, he would inevitably have hobbies of one kind or another.

Zhu Zhanji, as the emperor, liked to play with crickets. Although this might be considered as not doing his job properly, who can say anything? After all, he was able to govern a huge country while playing with crickets, which was enough. It was better than his unfilial descendants, right?

In fact, among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that none of them was normal. No wonder later generations said that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all weird.

Let's start with Zhu Zhanji's great-grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang. In the Yuan Dynasty, Han Chinese named their children very casually, and basically they were arranged in numbers, so Zhu Yuanzhang's father named him Chongba. This is just like the fact that many people were named after animals in the early years of our country, such as Er Gouzi, or Goudan, etc. However, Zhu Yuanzhang's name is very meaningful. Chongba means sixteen, and there were a total of sixteen emperors in the Ming Dynasty. It was not easy for Zhu Yuanzhang's father, a peasant, to give him such a meaningful name.

There is also Zhu Zhanji's father, Zhu Gaochi, who was the fourth CEO of the Ming Dynasty. This emperor was the fattest emperor in the Ming Dynasty and also the emperor who ate the most.

How fat was Zhu Gaochi? This guy was so fat that he needed two eunuchs to help him walk, and he was so fat because of his diet. He had never been to the front line, so why could he become emperor? He was lucky! His younger brother Zhu Gaoxi was brave and good at fighting, and had the spirit of his father, Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di. His father Zhu Di originally wanted to make Zhu Gaoxu the crown prince, but he was not the eldest son. The old Zhu Di could not stand the bombardment of the censors, and somehow made this fat man the emperor. However, Zhu Gaochi stepped down as emperor after ten months because he died of illness - a disease purely caused by his diet!

There is no need to talk about Zhu Zhanji, the Cricket Emperor!

Zhu Zhanji's descendants were even worse. One of his great-grandchildren was Zhu Houcong, also known as Emperor Jiajing. He was a Taoist emperor, but he reigned for a very long time, forty-five years.

When Emperor Jiajing first came to power, he was very diligent in governing the country. Because he was a foreign vassal, he wanted to give his parents a good reputation, but the ministers disagreed. Because of this, he was irritated, and later he didn't have much contact with the ministers. He didn't care about state affairs, didn't go to court, and immersed himself in the Taoist profession. Emperor Jiajing grew up in the land of Jingchu, the birthplace of Taoism, so in the late Jiajing period, he basically didn't care about state affairs, and practiced elixirs every day to seek the art of immortality. He was called the "Taoist Emperor."

Zhu Zhanji's grandson was Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor. Wanli became emperor at the age of ten, but he had a heavy burden on his head. The government was completely entrusted to Zhang Juzheng, and he himself was just an empty shell. Even if the poor Wanli Emperor was so depressed that he couldn't stand it and found a palace maid to visit him, Zhang Juzheng could still elevate him to the level of the country's demise.

After Zhang Juzheng finally died, he listened to the nagging of the censors every day, and finally quit his job. He didn't leave the palace for 30 years, didn't care about state affairs, didn't go to the suburbs, temples, court, meet, approve, or speak. As for attending court, it was even more impossible. He was so willful! The most important thing is that even so, the Ming Dynasty did not perish...

As for Zhu Zhanji's other grandson Zhu Youjiao, also known as the Tianqi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he was even more of a weirdo and was known as the "Lu Ban of the Ming Dynasty."

This emperor was even more bizarre because his professional skill was carpentry. He was the only carpenter emperor in Chinese history. The emperor was just a part-time job, so maybe it couldn't even be considered a part-time job.

The father of Emperor Tianqi was not well-received since childhood, so he suffered from it. He was dull and did not read, and could not read many words. However, he was lucky, and was supported as the emperor after the "Palace Move Case".

When he was the emperor, Wei Zhongxian was a street thug who entered the palace as a eunuch because of his good at scheming. Rong was the emperor's wet nurse, so they naturally had a deep relationship. At this time, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and Rong were in the same nest, and they often joined forces to persecute the Donglin Party. The carpenter emperor did not attend court, and Wei Zhongxian would report to the emperor when he was doing carpentry. The emperor just said: You can do it yourself. The carpenter emperor slowly sent the Ming Dynasty to its death.

Anyway, from Zhu Yuanzhang to Emperor Chongzhen, there was almost no normal emperor in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanji just liked playing with crickets, which was not bad.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji not only liked playing with crickets, he also had a great hobby, which was to appreciate incense burners. After all, he was a literati at heart. If a literati did not have some elegant hobbies, could he still be called a literati?

When Zhu Zhanji was the crown prince, his grandfather was very strict with him. So even though he really liked to appreciate the incense burner, he did not dare to do it lavishly, because he knew very well that if his grandfather Zhu Di knew about it, he would definitely accuse him of being obsessed with playing with things.

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