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The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Ming, personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, courtesy name Guorui, [f] was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1368 to 1398.
The Hongwu Emperor (r. 1368–1398). The reforms of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder and first emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, in the 1360s–1390s were a comprehensive set of economic, social, and political changes aimed at rebuilding the Chinese state after years of conflict and disasters caused by the decline of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and the Chinese resistance against Mongol rule.
Hongwu (Chinese: 洪武; pinyin: Hóngwǔ; Wade–Giles: Hung-wu; lit. 'vastly martial'; 23 January 1368 – 5 February 1399) was the era name (nianhao) of the Hongwu Emperor (reigned 1368–1398), the Chinese emperor who founded the Ming dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644.
The Hongwu Emperor limits tribute missions from Goryeo to once every three years [38] Ming officials draw up the first "house law" in Chinese history [39] 1375: Ming starts issuing a new note called the Da Ming Baochao [40] The Hongwu Emperor halts constructions at Fengyang due to expenses and waste; construction plans shift to Nanjing [24 ...
It was founded in 1368 during the Red Turban Rebellion by Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor). The military was initially organised along largely hereditary lines and soldiers were meant to serve in self-sufficient agricultural communities. They were grouped into guards (wei) and battalions (suo), otherwise known as the wei-suo system. This ...
The Hongwu Emperor publicly executed Xia general Wu Yuren in Nanjing; the other Xia generals had either drowned themselves while defending Chengdu to avoid capture [5] or were made to garrison Xuzhou. [3] Li Wenzhong supervised the construction of a new wall surrounding Chengdu. After the wall's construction, Huo Wenhui commanded the Chengdu ...
As they occurred during the reign of the Hongwu Emperor, they were also called the Four Major Cases of the Hongwu era (Chinese: 洪武四大案; pinyin: Hóngwǔ Sìdà'àn / Chinese: 洪武四大獄; pinyin: Hóngwǔ Sìdàyù). [1] [2] They are bracketed together as practices of the emperor's key idea: ruling with severe punishment.
The Hongwu Emperor, under whose direction the Code was prepared. The promulgation of the Great Ming Code in 1397 was the culmination of a series of efforts toward legal reform and codification spanning more than 30 years. No previous Chinese law code had gone through so many revisions in such a comparatively short time. [1]