The Qin Dynasty is well known for beginning the Great Wall of China, which was later augmented and enhanced during the Ming Dynasty.

While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.

Only during the Ming Dynasty was the School of Mind revived by Wang Shouren, whose influence is equal to that of Zhu Xi.

It is deeply influenced by, but not identical with, the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties.

The Compendium of Materia Medica is a pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen ( 1518 – 1593 AD ) during the Ming Dynasty of China.

Records of the Grand Historian is the first among Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of history from 3000 BCE to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.

It is also suggested that the Arabs, who reached Lakshadweep and Maldives around 900 AD, may have visited the Chagos, and that Zheng He may have sailed close in 1413 – 1415, since it is documented on a Ming Dynasty map.

However in Ming China, for example, there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing.

There were many renowned Ming Dynasty artists ; Qiu Ying is an excellent example of a paramount Ming era painter ( famous even in his own day ), utilizing in his artwork domestic scenes, bustling palatial scenes, and nature scenes of river valleys and steeped mountains shrouded in mist and swirling clouds.

Ieoh Ming Pei ( born April 26, 1917 ), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture.

It is a tacit assumption in many wuxia novels that the law and order in the actual historical setting were dysfunctional or poor, like the change of dynastic China from Song Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty, to Ming Dynasty and to Qing Dynasty, periods in time correlating to tremendous upheavals and turmoil in the society.

Chung Feng Ming Pen ( 中峰明本 1263 – 1323 ) wrote that kung-an is an abbreviation for kung-fu an-tu ( 公府之案牘, Pinyin gōngfǔ zhī àndú, pronounced in Japanese as kōfu no antoku ), which referred to a " public record " or the " case records of a public law court " in Tang-dynasty China.

A well-known example of this legal usage is The Cases of Judge Dee ( 狄公案 Di Gongan in Chinese ), a Ming dynasty novel based on a historical Tang dynasty judge.

Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming Dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China.

Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming Dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China.

Researchers note that the Great Wall familiar to us today is a Ming structure, post-dating Marco Polo's travels by more than two centuries.

Alternatively the guan dao is also known as " Chun Qiu Da Dao " or ' Spring Autumn Great Knife ', again probably related to Guan Yu's loyal image depicted in the Ming dynasty novel ' Romance of the Three Kingdoms ', but possibly a Ming author invention.

An example of these is the 3-Barrel Pole Gun, invented by the Chinese during the Ming Dynasty.

Located a few hundred meters east of the Sifangcheng Pavilion of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the villa still exists, and is commonly known as Meilinggong ( 美龄宫 ), " May-ling Palace ".

* The Battle of Ningyuan in Xingcheng, Liaoning, China: With a much smaller force, the Ming Dynasty commander Yuan Chonghuan defeats the Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci, who dies soon after and is succeeded by Huang Taiji.

* In Ming Dynasty China, the commercial transportation of grain to the northern border in exchange for salt certificates is monetized.

Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade — Acapulco — shipped out 150, 000 to 345, 000 kg ( 4 to 9 million taels ) of silver annually from this year to 1602.

In drama, Kong Shangren's Kunqu ( southern ) opera The Peach Blossom Fan, completed in 1699, portrayed the tragic downfall of the Ming dynasty in romantic terms.

One of the most infamous fox spirits in Chinese mythology was Daji ( 妲己 ), who is portrayed in the Ming novel Fengshen Yanyi.

Yi Ming portrayed Bao Zheng.

Ming is portrayed more in the manner of the Devil in this serial ( as opposed to Fu Manchu of the first serial ).

The Patriot Yue Fei, a 60-episode historical drama about the downfall of General Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, Lin portrayed the wife of General Yue Fei, played by Huang Xiao Ming.

* Yip Hau Ken ( 葉孝勤, portrayed by Chow Chung ): Brother of Howard Yip, and established Ming Dai Group ( 明大集團 ), which is now controlled by Howard Yip and his family.

* Howard Yip ( 葉孝禮, portrayed by Paul Chun ): Chairman of the Ming Dai Group, which is one of the largest corporations in Asia with hundreds of subsidiary companies.

She was portrayed as Ming the Merciless ' ostensibly-villainous daughter, who at first aided her father versus Flash and company, but later on would turn against him and join the rebel forces of Mongo-no doubt in part due to her attraction to Flash Gordon.

The location portrayed as the Border Hotel in El Paso is the Hotel Del Sol ( formerly Hotel Del Ming ) in Yuma, Arizona.

* 1461 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.

Adopted the model used by the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the Qing provincial bureaucracy also contained three commissions: one civil, one military, and one for surveillance.

: Unlike its Ming predecessor, which had full control over all military matters, the Qing Board of War had very limited powers.

* August 7 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor ; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Imperial City ( Beijing ) ( which are doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising ), Cao Qin finds himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, loses three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he flees to his home in the city and commits suicide by jumping down a well located within his walled compound.

** Wu Jin, Mongol officer in the Ming Dynasty Chinese military

Koxinga, also known as Zheng Chenggong, was a military leader from the Ming government located in the coastal region, capable of threatening the Qing.

The Ming expedition is regarded as the greatest military debacle of the dynasty.

Meanwhile, the Ming court reluctantly decided on a military intervention into the Vietnamese civil war, but Mạc Đăng Dung offered ritual submission to the Ming Empire, which was accepted.

In 1616, Nurhaci broke away from the power of the decaying Ming Dynasty and established the Later Jin Dynasty ( Manchu :, Möllendorff: amaga aisin gurun ), domestically called the State of Manchu ( Manchu :, Möllendorff: manju gurun ), and unified Manchu tribes, establishing ( or at least expanding ) the Manchu Banner system, a military structure which made their forces quite resilient in the face of superior Ming Dynasty numbers in the field.

Massive military campaigns were launched by the Ming dynasty during the Miao Rebellions ( Ming Dynasty ) against the southern aboriginal Miao, Yao, and other tribes, settled thousands of Han and Hui in their land after crushing and killing the aboriginals.

During the Ming conquest of Yunnan Chinese military soldiers were settled in Yunnan, and many married the native women.

Kinmen was first named Jīnmén ( 金門 ; lit, " golden gate ") in Chinese 1387 when the Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty appointed a military officer to administer the island and protect it from wokou ( pirate ) attacks.

Due to the military support of Ming China, Malacca was diplomatically and economically fortified.

Musketeers were utilized in the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) and Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ) and the 14th century Chinese military treatise Huolongjing describes a s-shaped serpetine matchlock.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the Oirats emerged as a formidable foe against the Eastern Mongols, the Ming Chinese and their successor, the Manchu who founded the Qing Dynasty, in a nearly 400-year military struggle for domination and control over both Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia.

Seonjo dispatched an emissary to the Ming court, asking urgently for military assistance.

His envoys were sent to sign open-trade contract with gifts, but one of them was killed by the Ming court, so he launched military expeditions into the Ming China.

Since he realized Joseon was unable to compete with the Manchu military power, he tried to keep friendly relationship with the Manchus, while the kingdom was still under the suzerainty of Ming, which angered Ming and dogmatic Confucian Koreans.

According to Sheng-Wu-Chi's Ming dynasty chronicle (" Our dynasty is informed by military realizations "), in this land the Tungus Weji, Warka and Kurka tribes were established.

According to Meir Shahar, this is explained by a confluence of the late Ming fashion for military encyclopedias and, more importantly, the conscription of civilian irregulars, including monks, as a result of Ming military decline in the 16th century.