* 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China ( b. 1470 )

* September 9 – Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China ( Ming dynasty ).

* June 8 – Hongzhi Emperor of China ( b. 1470 )

* July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China ( d. 1505 )

* Grand Empress Dowager Zhou ( 1487 – 1504 ), during the reign of Emperor Hongzhi

It was not until 1475 that Chenghua discovered that he had a son ( later Hongzhi Emperor ) who survived and was raised in secrecy.

* Consort Ji, mother of Hongzhi Emperor, posthumously honored Empress Xiaomu ( 孝穆皇后 )

* Hongzhi Emperor

The Hongzhi Emperor ( 弘治 ) ( 30 July 1470 – 8 June 1505 ) was emperor of the Ming dynasty in China between 1487 and 1505.

Born Zhu Youcheng ( often mispronounced as " Zhu Youtang " since 樘 has two pronunciations, and according to records it is pronounced as " cheng ", meaning " foundation "), he was the son of the Chenghua Emperor and his reign as emperor of China is called the Hongzhi Silver Age.

In addition, Emperor Hongzhi also encouraged his ministers to be up front about all issues, even acknowledging criticisms directed towards the Emperor himself.

Hongzhi has been compared to his predecessors Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle as one of the most brilliant emperors of the Ming dynasty.

When he asked what was going on, it was explained to him that the new Emperor Hongzhi was ridding his government of corrupt and incompetent officials, and this was a final gesture of good will by the emperor by providing them with a comfortable passage back home by ship.

Unlike almost all of his predecessors who took up many concubines which bore many children to the Emperor, Hongzhi had only one Empress during his lifetime.

After Emperor Hongzhi died in 1505 he was succeeded by his son, the Zhengde Emperor.

As the nephew of the Hongzhi Emperor, Zhu Houcong was not brought up to succeed to the throne.

However, the throne became vacant in 1521 with the sudden death of the Hongzhi Emperor's son, Emperor Zhengde, who did not leave an heir.

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However, the powerful eunuchs Qiu Shiliang and Yu Hongzhi ( 魚弘志 ), who were not consulted in the decision, opposed Li Chengmei, and despite Li Jue's objection, forged an edict in Emperor Wenzong's name deposing Li Chengmei by claiming that Li Chengmei was too young, and creating Li Chan crown prince instead.

* Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty ( reign: 1487-1505 )

A stele with the Hongzhi Emperor's inscription regarding the repair of the Temple of Confucius, Qufu.

Born Zhu Houzhao, he was the Hongzhi Emperor's eldest son.

Falun Gong assistants were self-selecting volunteers who taught the exercises, organized events, and disseminated new writings from Li Hongzhi.

Ian Johnson disputes the theory that Li made any serious money from Falun Gong, and noted that during the period of Falun Gong's greatest book sales in China, Li Hongzhi did not receive royalties because all publications were bootleg ( the texts having been banned by the authorities in 1996 in an attempt to curb the practice's growth ).

Hongzhi was born in an era where Lady Wan and her associates were on the lookout to eliminate any child born to the emperor Chenghua.

Ian Johnson points out that during the greatest period of Falun Gong book sales in China, Li Hongzhi never received any royalties because all publications were bootleg.

From 1992 to 1994, Li Hongzhi presented his teachings across China, the contents of which were ultimately edited and compiled into the book Zhuan Falun.

* 1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.

* May 13 – Falun Gong is introduced by Li Hongzhi in China.

Falun Gong or Falun Dafa ( literally means " Dharma Wheel Practice ") is a spiritual discipline first introduced in China in 1992 through public lectures by its founder, Li Hongzhi.

Li Hongzhi has lived in New York since 1998, and Falun Gong has a sizable global constituency ; inside China, some sources estimate that millions may continue to practice Falun Gong in spite of suppression.

On 13 May 1992, Li Hongzhi gave his first public seminar on Falun Gong ( alternately called Falun Dafa ) in the northeastern city of Changchun.

In his hagiographic spiritual biography Li Hongzhi is said to have been taught ways of " cultivation practice " by several masters of the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, including Quan Jue, the 10th Heir to the Great Law of the Buddha School, a Taoist master from age eight to twelve, and a master of the Great Way School with the Taoist alias of True Taoist from the Changbai Mountains.

In Zhuan Falun ( 轉法輪 ), the foundational text published in 1995, Li Hongzhi writes " It doesn't matter how mankind's moral standard changes … The nature of the cosmos doesn't change, and it is the only standard for determining who's good and who's bad.

Falun Gong is centralized in that spiritual authority is vested in the corpus of teachings of the founder, Li Hongzhi, but organizationally it is decentralized with local branches and assistants afforded no special privileges, authority, or titles.

As such, spiritual and ideological authority in the practice is completely centralized with Li Hongzhi.

Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong to the public in May 13, 1992, in Changchun, Jilin Province.

Peerman cited reasons such as suspected personal jealousy of Li Hongzhi ; Saich points to Jiang's anger at Falun Gong's widespread appeal, and ideological struggle as causes for the crackdown that followed.

During a lecture in Australia, for instance, Li Hongzhi said, " Things such as organized crime, homosexuality, and promiscuous sex, etc., none are the standards of being human.

Li Hongzhi does not discuss a " time of reckoning ", and has rejected predictions of an impending apocalypse in his teachings.

Falun Gong was introduced to the general public by Li Hongzhi ( 李洪志 ) in Changchun, China, in 1992.

This was applied retroactively to Falun Gong, a spiritual practice introduced to the public in China by Li Hongzhi ( 李洪志 ) in 1992.

Dōgen had received Dharma transmission from Tiantong Rujing at Qìngdé Temple, where Hongzhi Zhengjue once was abbot.

On February 12, 1499 in the 12th year of the reign of the emperor Hongzhi during the Ming Dynasty, Taishan was founded as Xinning County ( Chinese Postal Map Romanisation: Sunning County ; ) from land in the southwest of Xinhui County.