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| Hongwu Emperor 洪武帝 | |||||||||||||||||
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 A Seated Portrait of Ming Emperor Taizu, c. 1377[1] by an unknown artist from the Ming dynasty. Now located in the National Palace Museum, Taipei | |||||||||||||||||
| Emperor of the Ming dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 23 January 1368[a] – 24 June 1398 | ||||||||||||||||
| Enthronement | 23 January 1368 | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Jianwen Emperor | ||||||||||||||||
| Emperor of China | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 1368–1398 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Toghon Temür (Yuan dynasty) | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Jianwen Emperor | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | Zhu Chongba (朱重八) 21 October 1328[b] Hao Prefecture, Henan Jiangbei (present-day Fengyang County, Anhui)[2][3][4] | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 June 1398 (aged 69) Ming Palace, Zhili (present-day Nanjing) | ||||||||||||||||
| Burial | 30 June 1398 Ming Xiaoling, Nanjing | ||||||||||||||||
| Consort |
Empress Xiaocigao
(m. 1352; died 1382) | ||||||||||||||||
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| House | Zhu | ||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | Ming | ||||||||||||||||
| Father | Zhu Shizhen | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Empress Chun | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Buddhism | ||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 洪武帝 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Vastly Martial Emperor | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398),[b] also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Ming (明太祖), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋; Chu Yüan-chang), courtesy name Guorui (國瑞; 国瑞), was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1368 to 1398.[8]
As famine, plague, and peasant revolt surged across China proper during the 14th century,[9] Zhu Yuanzhang rose to command the Red Turban Rebellion that conquered China proper, ending the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and forcing the remnant Yuan court (known as Northern Yuan in historiography) to retreat to the Mongolian Plateau. Zhu claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Ming dynasty at the beginning of 1368[10] and occupied the Yuan capital of Khanbaliq (present-day Beijing), with his army that same year. Trusting only his family, he made his many sons feudal princes along the northern marches and the Yangtze valley.[11] Having outlived his eldest son Zhu Biao, Zhu enthroned Zhu Biao's son via a series of instructions. This ended in failure when the Jianwen Emperor's attempts to unseat his uncles led to the Jingnan Rebellion.[12]
The era of Hongwu was noted for its tolerance of minorities and religions; the Chinese historian Ma Zhou indicates that the Hongwu Emperor ordered the renovation and construction of many mosques in Xi’an and Nanjing.[13] Wang Daiyu also recorded that the emperor wrote the Hundred-word Eulogy praising Islam.[13]
The reign of the Hongwu Emperor is notable for his unprecedented political reforms. The emperor abolished the position of chancellor,[14] drastically reduced the role of court eunuchs, and adopted draconian measures to address corruption.[15] He also established the Embroidered Uniform Guard, one of the best known secret police organizations in imperial China. In the 1380s and 1390s, a series of purges were launched to eliminate his high-ranked officials and generals; tens of thousands were executed.[16] The reign of Hongwu also witnessed much cruelty. Various cruel methods of execution were introduced for punishable crimes and for those who directly criticized the emperor, and massacres were also carried out against everyone who resisted his rule.[17][18][19][20][21][excessive citations]
The emperor encouraged agriculture, reduced taxes, incentivized the cultivation of new land, and established laws protecting peasants' property. He also confiscated land held by large estates and forbade private slavery. At the same time, he banned free movement in the empire and assigned hereditary occupational categories to households.[22] Through these measures, Zhu Yuanzhang attempted to rebuild a country that had been ravaged by war, limit and control its social groups, and instill orthodox values in his subjects,[23] eventually creating a strictly regimented society of self-sufficient farming communities.[24]
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- ^ Tsai, Shih-shan Henry (2001). Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle (illustrated ed.). University of Washington Press. p. 28. ISBN 0295981091.
- ^ Becker, Jasper (1998). Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (illustrated, reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 131. ISBN 0805056688.
- ^ Becker, Jasper (2007). Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today. National Geographic Books. p. 167. ISBN 978-1426202100.
- ^ Teng Ssu-yü (1976). "Chu Yüan-chang". In Goodrich, Luther Carrington; Fang Chaoying (eds.). Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368–1644. Vol. I: A–L. Association for Asian Studies and Columbia University Press. pp. 381–392. ISBN 0231038011. OL 10195404M.
- ^ Mote, Frederick W. (1988). "The Rise of the Ming Dynasty, 1330–1367". In Frederick W. Mote; Denis Twitchett (eds.). The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1. The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–57. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521243322.003. ISBN 978-1-139-05475-1.
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- ^ Dardess, John W. (1972). Parsons, James Bunyan; Simonovskaia, Larisa Vasil'evna; Wen-Chih, Li (eds.). "The Late Ming Rebellions: Peasants and Problems of Interpretation". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 3 (1): 103–117. doi:10.2307/202464. hdl:1808/13251. ISSN 0022-1953. JSTOR 202464.
- ^ "An introduction to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) (article)". Khan Academy. Archived from the original on 22 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^ Chan Hok-lam. "Legitimating Usurpation: Historical Revisions under the Ming Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) Archived 15 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine". The Legitimation of New Orders: Case Studies in World History. Chinese University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-9629962395. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
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- ^ a b Hagras, Hamada (2019). "The Ming Court as Patron of the Chinese Islamic Architecture: The Case Study of the Daxuexi Mosque in Xi'an" (PDF). Shedet. 6 (6): 134–158. doi:10.36816/SHEDET.006.08.
- ^ Pines, Yuri; Shelach, Gideon; Falkenhausen, Lothar von; Yates, Robin D. S. (2013). Birth of an Empire. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28974-1.
- ^ Fang, Qiang; Oklahoma, Xiaobing Li, University of Central (2018). Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4985-7432-7.
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- ^ Farmer, Edward L. (1995). Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation. Brill. pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-90-04-10391-7.
- ^ Farmer (1995), p. 36
- ^ Zhang Wenxian. "The Yellow Register Archives of Imperial Ming China Archived 26 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine". Libraries & the Cultural Record, Vol. 43, No. 2 (2008), pp. 148–175. Univ. of Texas Press. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
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