During the 15th century, China's Ming Dynasty assembled one of the largest and most powerful naval fleet in the world for the diplomatic and power projection voyages of Zheng He.

* October 22 – A Ming dynasty fleet under Zheng Zhilong beat a Dutch East India Company fleet at the island of Quemoy.

* July 11 – Ming Dynasty fleet commander Zheng He sets sail from Suzhou to explore the world for the first time.

* Cheng Ho ( or Zheng He ), admiral of Ming empire fleet, deposes the king of Sri Lanka.

* The Ming Dynasty in China disbands their naval fleet after the last great maritime expedition led by Admiral Zheng He, altering the balance of power in the Indian Ocean and making it easier for Portugal and other Western naval powers to gain dominance over the seas.

In 1661, a naval fleet led by the Ming loyalist Koxinga, arrived in Taiwan to oust the Dutch from Zeelandia and establish a pro-Ming base in Taiwan.

In the 15th century, the Chinese Ming Dynasty Admiral Zheng He was assigned to assemble a massive fleet for several tributary missions abroad, sailing throughout the waters of the South East Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

Zheng's fleet also became involved in a conflict in Sri Lanka, where the King of Ceylon traveled back to Ming China afterwards to make a formal apology to the Emperor.

* Treasure ships, used by the commander of the fleet and his deputies ( Nine-masted junks, claimed by the Ming Shi to be about 420 feet long and 180 feet wide ).

In 1661, a naval fleet of 400 junks and 25, 000 men led by the Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong ( Cheng Ch ' eng-kung in Wade-Giles, known in the West as Koxinga ), arrived in Taiwan to oust the Dutch from Zeelandia.

News of Admiral Yi's death spread quickly throughout the allied fleet and both Joseon and Ming sailors and fighting men wailed in grief.

After Yoshinori's time, the totosen ( 渡唐船 ) ( the fleet of ships going from Japan to Ming China ) consisted of the ships belonging principally to three different kinds of owners: the Muromachi shogun, temples, and the shugo daimyo.

During the Ming Dynasty, his spirit was said to have aided Zhu Yuanzhang ( founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty )' s fleet at the Battle of Lake Poyang.

In 1360 the Dahan fleet and army began a long war against Wu forces-based at that time in Jiqing ( present-day Nanjing ) and was later renamed " Ming " in 1368.

At the middle of 2012, Yang Ming operates a fleet of 85 vessels with a 4. 2-million-D. W. T / operating capacity 346 thousand TEUS, of which container ships are the mains service force.

* Chinese treasure fleets of the Ming Dynasty, and especially the fleet of treasure ships led by Zheng He.

In 1661, a naval fleet of 200 ships, led by the Ming loyalist Koxinga, landed at Lu ' ermen to attack Taiwan in order to destroy and oust the Dutch from Zeelandia.

After the destruction of most of the Joseon fleet at Chilchonryang, the Ming kept their navy stationed at important port cities to guard against possible Japanese naval attacks.

The victory at Myeongnyang convinced the Ming government that they could ease security at their major ports and mobilize a fleet to Joseon's aid.

The Ming fleet consisted of six large war junks ( true battle vessels most likely used as flagships ) that were driven by both oars and sails, 57 lighter war ships driven by oars alone ( most likely transports converted for battle use ), and two panokseon given to Chen Lin by Admiral Yi.

The team was consisted of: Ng Ming Chen Edwin, Lo Chih Hung, Boon Thar Er and Peng Bo.

The headwear of a Han Chinese official during Ming Dynasty China consisted of a black hat with two wing-like flaps of thin, oval shaped boards on each side called the wushamao ( 烏紗帽 ， formally known as futou 襆頭 ).

In real life, Ming Tea consisted of actor Mike Myers, Hoffs, Canadian musician / producer Christopher Ward, and singer Matthew Sweet.

The Tang and Song codes consisted of a number of articles ( 律 ), many of which were adopted, sometimes without alteration, by the Ming and Qing codes.

* The Hongwu Emperor purges the chancellor of China, Hu Weiyong, and abolishes that office as he imposes direct imperial rule over the six ministries of central government for the Ming Empire.

Esen himself faced growing criticism for his failure to exploit his victory over the Ming and he was assassinated six years after the battle in 1455.

** Yao Ming and his Shanghai Sharks teammates defeat Bayi Rockets, 3 games to 1, snapping a string of six consecutive Bayi championships.

In 1955, six young men sailed a Ming Dynasty-style junk from Taiwan to San Francisco.

Naro's six doctrines ( Mandarin: Ming Xing Dao Liu Cheng Jiu Fa ; rendered in English as: Wisdom Activities Path Six Methods of Accomplishment ), are a set of advanced Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana practices compiled in and around the time of the Indian Mahasiddha Nāropa ( 1016-1100 CE ) and conveyed to Marpa the translator.

He also learns that the six major orthodox sects in the wulin are planning to attack the Ming Cult on Bright Peak.

Zhang resolves the conflict between the Ming Cult and the six sects by representing the cult in taking up challenges from the other sects.

After leaving Bright Peak to fetch his godfather back to the Ming Cult, he learns that the members of the six sects have been captured by the Yuan military after their earlier departure.

After the Chinese Ming Cult lost the six tablets, the Persians retrieved them and mastered the skills.

He later resolves the conflict between the Ming Cult and the six major orthodox sects, who are intent on destroying the cult.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

Neo-Confucianism became highly popular during the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty due in large part to the eventual combination of Confucian and Zen Philosophy.

In the 1593 Siege of Pyongyang, 40, 000 Ming troops deployed a variety of cannon to bombard an equally large Japanese army.

From 1405 to 1433, Admiral Zheng He led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty on several voyages to the Western Ocean ( Chinese name for the Indian Ocean ) and reached the coastal country of East Africa ( see Zheng He for reference ).

After capturing Beijing in 1644 and as the Manchu rapidly gained control of large tracts of former Ming territory, the relatively small Banner armies were further augmented by the Green Standard Army, which eventually outnumbered Banner troops three to one.

The government broadened land ownership by returning land that had been sold to large landowners in the late Ming period by families unable to pay the land tax.

While the Manchus followed the governmental structure of the preceding Ming dynasty, their ethnic policy dictated that appointments were split between Manchu noblemen and Han Chinese officials who had passed the highest levels of the state examinations, and because of the small number of Manchus, this insured that a large fraction of them would be government officials.

* Kaifeng flood of 1642: Some 300, 000 people die when the Ming Dynasty army in China intentionally breaks the dams and dykes of the Yellow River to break the siege by the large rebel force of Li Zicheng.

* During the Ming Dynasty, a large failure of the harvest in Henan province, China occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drives up the price of wheat and forces many to flee their rural counties ; those who stay behind are forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh.

* The Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh ( r. 1404 – 1447 ), sends a large embassy to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ).

* October 22 – Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, an envoy of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh ( r. 1404 – 1447 ), to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), records his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou ( constructed earlier in 1372 ) as he crosses the Yellow River on this day.

Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a large number of his brothers, nephews, and other male relatives — many of them children.

The Ming army of about 500, 000 was hastily assembled ; its command was made up of 20 experienced generals and a large entourage of high-ranking civil officials, with Wang Zhen acting as field marshal.

Although widely blamed for causing national disunity and losing the country later to the Chinese Ming Dynasty, Hồ Quý Ly's reign actually introduced a lot of progressive, ambitious reforms, including the addition of mathematics to the national examinations, the open critique of Confucian philosophy, the use of paper currency in place of coins, investment in building large warships and cannon, and land reform.

These were produced in large quantities for the Chinese export trade to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and during the Ming Dynasty, Europe.

From 1411 to 1433, the Ming eunuch Yishiha 亦失哈 ( who himself was a Haixi Jurchen by origin ) led ten large missions to win over the allegiance of the Jurchen tribes along the Sunggari and Amur rivers.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, large areas of Yunnan were administered under the native chieftain system.

Ottoman İznik pottery produced most of the best work in the 16th century, in tiles and large vessels boldly decorated with floral motifs influenced, once again, by Chinese Yuan and Ming ceramics.

The dadao saw continued use, and during the Ming dynasty the large two-handed changdao and zhanmadao were used both against the cavalry of the northern steppes and the wokou ( pirates ) of the southeast coast ; these latter weapons ( sometimes under different names ) would continue to see limited use during the Qing period.

Zen Buddhism played a large role in spreading not only religious but also artistic influences, especially those derived from painting of the Chinese Song ( 960-1279 ), Yuan, and Ming dynasties.

Kite-flying became prevalent in Weifang in the Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 ), and by the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) kite-flying had become even more popular, and there had appeared fairs on kites on a rather large scale. Kites were sold not only across Shandong, but also to Jiangsu, Fujian, Anhui and other places.

The wall niches now hold Chinese trees and flowers made of semi precious stones, where there used to be Guillermo Tolentino sculptures representing the different fine arts and later, large Ming and Ching porcelain vases.