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The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against the Han people that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by crop failure, inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation ...
Ming forces reach Guangzhou and receive He Zhen's surrender [16] 25 April: Ming forces defeat Köke Temür and capture Luoyang [16] 26 May: Ming forces capture Wuzhou [16] July: Ming forces conquer Guangxi [16] 20 September: Ming forces capture Daidu (renamed Beiping) and the Yuan court flees to Inner Mongolia; so ends the Yuan dynasty [14 ...
The emperors of the Ming dynasty, who were all members of the House of Zhu, ruled over China proper from 1368 to 1644 during the late imperial era of China (960–1912). ). Members of the Ming dynasty continued to rule a series of rump states in southern China, commonly known as the Southern Ming, until 1662; the Ming dynasty succeeded the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and preceded the Manchu-led Qing d
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people , the majority ethnic group in China.
Beijing academics in high official positions dominated the literary world, led by the "Three Yangs" (Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, and Yang Pu), as well as Wang Zhi, Jin Youzi, Xie Jin, and Zeng Qi. Their poetry was known as "cabinet-style poetry" ( taige ti ), and their prose was simple and direct, reminiscent of the style of the Song dynasty.
The History of Ming is the final official Chinese history included in the Twenty-Four Histories. It consists of 332 volumes and covers the history of the Ming dynasty from 1368 to 1644. It was written by a number of officials commissioned by the court of Qing dynasty , with Zhang Tingyu as the lead editor.
Yang Jing (Chinese: 杨璟; Chinese: 楊璟; pinyin: Yáng Jǐng; d. 1382), a native of Hefei, Anhui, was a Ming dynasty general. During his early years, he pledged his allegiance to Zhu Yuanzhang and joined the army in Jiqing (present-day Nanjing ).
The Ming conquest of Sichuan saw the Ming Dynasty conquer Sichuan from the Ming Xia Kingdom from 1370 to 1371. Besides being situated in a rich province, Xia also prevented further Ming Dynasty expansion into southwestern areas such as Yunnan. The Ming Dynasty's ultimate victory marked the unification of China proper by the Hongwu Emperor.