Why are people surnamed Zhu not descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang in modern society?

Because the descendants of the real Zhu Yuanzhang changed their names and surnames to save their lives, and their surnames were no longer Zhu. Zhu Yuanzhang is a very famous emperor in the history of China. As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang also suffered a lot from the first civilian to the later emperor. However, after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants had to change their names to save their lives.

During the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang reached 200,000. Because Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he and his descendants also benefited a lot, and at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a system to ensure that all his descendants could inherit the title. So in this way, Zhu Yuanzhang's collateral and direct descendants are very crazy, and Zhu Yuanzhang himself has 27 sons. So in the 200-year history of the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang reached 200,000.

During the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, the world was in chaos, and Li Zicheng slaughtered the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang. By the time of Emperor Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was about to perish, so Li Zicheng at that time also took the opportunity to make a fuss. So in this situation, the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, who were already very distinguished, began to flee everywhere, but many people still failed to escape his butcher's knife, so the number of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants was greatly reduced.

In order to survive, the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang had to change their names. The demise of the Ming Dynasty also meant that there were no more people who could shelter them, so Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants had to remain anonymous. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, many people wanted to rebel under the banner of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and regaining sight", so the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang would be killed once they were exposed. Therefore, the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to surname Zhu at all, so they continued to use other names. Therefore, no one surnamed Zhu in modern times is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang.