明初,从太祖朱元璋开始,大规模的宫妃殉葬制度死灰复燃,历经成祖、仁宗、宣宗、代宗几帝,至天顺八年(1464年),终被明英宗(朱祁镇)明令禁止。至此,在明初肆虐的宫妃殉葬之制才在完全意义上从制度上被废除,并以“祖制”的姿态效法于后世。由此可知,明朝的祖制其实是一个动态的概念,是一个在朱元璋制定的祖训基础上不断添加或更改的层累体。 At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, starting from the Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, a large-scale palace empress sacrificial death system was resumed. After Chengzu, Renzong, Xuanzong and Daizong several emperors, Tianshun eight years (1464) was eventually banned by Ming Yingzong (Zhu Qizhen). At this point, the system of sacrificing the palace princess raged in the early Ming Dynasty was completely abolished from the system and was followed by the “ancestral system” in the future. It can be seen from this that the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty was actually a dynamic concept and a layer of body that was constantly added or changed on the basis of the ancestral home established by the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.