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Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society Following the Era of Mongol Rule.
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Zhu and Yuanzhang
* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang or Hong-wu, the founder of the dynasty, laid the foundations for a state interested less in commerce and more in extracting revenues from the agricultural sector.
The emperor's role became more autocratic, although Zhu Yuanzhang necessarily continued to use what he called the " Grand Secretaries " ( 内阁 ) to assist with the immense paperwork of the bureaucracy, including memorials ( petitions and recommendations to the throne ), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.
* 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
* 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
* The Battle of Lake Poyang, a naval conflict between Chinese rebel groups led by Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, took place in August to October of 1363, and was one of the largest naval battles in history.
* Chen Youliang, Chinese rebel leader and arch nemesis to Zhu Yuanzhang ( aka Emperor Hongwu )
* After years of begging and being a Buddhist monk, the penniless Chinese peasant Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellion against the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty of China ; he will later become the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
* Zhu Yuanzhang, one of the leaders in the Red Turban Rebellion, captures the city of Nanjing from the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty in China ; from then on it becomes his base of power and the capital of a new dynasty he will establish in 1368, the Ming Dynasty.
* August 30 – October 4 – the Battle of Lake Poyang is fought between the Dahan rebel forces of Chen Youliang and the Red Turban Rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang on Lake Poyang, during the final decade of Yuan Dynasty control over China.
* Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion that will overthrow the Yuan Dynasty and establish the Ming Dynasty 2 years later, begins building the walls for a new capital city at Nanjing.
* Hongwu ( also known as Zhu Yuanzhang ) establishes the Ming Dynasty in China after the disintegration of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a penniless peasant and Buddhist monk who joined the Red Turbans in 1352, but soon gained a reputation after marrying the foster daughter of a rebel commander.
In 1363, Zhu Yuanzhang eliminated his arch rival and leader of the rebel Han faction Chen Youliang in the Battle of Lake Poyang, arguably the largest naval battle in history.
The victory destroyed the last opposing rebel faction, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang in uncontested control of the bountiful Yangtze River Valley and cementing his power in the south.
Zhu Yuanzhang took Hongwu, or ' Vastly Martial ,' as his reign title.
The History of Ming states that as early as 1364 Zhu Yuanzhang had begun drafting a new Confucian law code, the Da Ming Lü, which was completed by 1397 and repeated certain clauses found in the old Tang Code of 653.
Although his father Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant to do so when he was emperor, Yongle upheld the civil service examinations for drafting educated government officials instead of using simple recommendation and appointment.
The Yongle Emperor was born Zhu Di on 2 May 1360, the fourth son of the new leader of the central Red Turbans, Zhu Yuanzhang, who would later rise to become the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
The Hongwu Emperor (; 21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398 ) — known variably by his given name Zhu Yuanzhang () and by his temple name Taizu of Ming () — was the founder and first emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China.
With his seizure of the Yuan capital ( present-day Beijing ), he claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Ming Dynasty in 1368. Most of the historical sites related to Zhu Yuanzhang are located in Nanjing, the capital of his dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor peasant family in a village in Zhongli ( 鍾離, present day Fengyang, Anhui Province ).
Destitute, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted a suggestion to take up a pledge made by his late father, and became a novice monk at the Huangjue Temple, a local Buddhist monastery.
Zhu and Early
Early in his reign, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor, laid down instructions to later generations that included advice to the Chief Military Commission on those countries that posed a threat to the Ming polity, and those that did not.
Zhu and Ming
Only during the Ming Dynasty was the School of Mind revived by Wang Shouren, whose influence is equal to that of Zhu Xi.
* 1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China.
The imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty, the House of Zhu, who had ancestry from Jiangsu, also contributed greatly in introducing Huaiyang cuisine to Beijing when the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing in the 15th century, because the imperial kitchen was mainly Huaiyang style.
* July 12 – The rebel army of Zhu Di occupies the Ming Dynasty China capital Fengtian.
Ming Cheng Zu, Zhu Di, the third emperor of Ming Dynasty shifted the Ming capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
* According to Wang Yangming ( 1472 – 1529 ), the Ming Dynasty philosopher and governor of Jiangxi, China, he intends to use fo – lang – ji cannons in suppressing the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chenhao in this year.
The historical account – lacking any real evidence – has been constructed in such a way that around 1370, Zhu Yuan Zhuang sent representatives to Brunei via Indonesia, and Brunei paid tribute to the Ming Chinese.
The last Yuan emperor fled north to Shangdu and Zhu declared the founding of the Ming Dynasty after razing the Yuan palaces in Dadu to the ground ; the city was renamed Beiping in the same year.
Zhu Di assumed the throne as the Yongle Emperor ( 1402 – 1424 ); his reign is universally viewed by scholars as a " second founding " of the Ming Dynasty since he reversed many of his father's policies.
According to History of the Ming, her family name is Zhu, while the History of the Qing say it is Wei ( 魏 ).
Zhu claimed descent from Ming dynasty Emperors, since his surname was the surname of the Ming Imperial Family.
The Yongle Emperor ( Traditional Chinese: 永樂帝 ; Simplified Chinese: 永乐帝 ; pinyin: Yǒnglèdì ; Wade-Giles: Yung-lo Emperor ; ) ( 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424 ), born Zhu Di ( 朱棣 ), was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.
Zhu and Chinese
By the mid-to-late 13th century, the Chinese had adopted the dogma of Neo-Confucian philosophy formulated by Zhu Xi.
Especially the works of Liu Zhu such as Tiānfāng Diǎnlǐ （ 天方典禮 ） sought to harmonize Islam with not only Confucianism but Daoism and is considered to be one of the crowning achievements of the Chinese Muslim culture.
The " third generation " of leadership under Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, and associates largely continued Deng's progressive economic vision while overseeing the re-emergence of Chinese nationalism in the 1990s.
Zhu Shijie (, fl thirteenth century, 1270-1330 ), courtesy name Hanqing (), pseudonym Songting (), was one of the greatest Chinese mathematicians living during the Yuan Dynasty.
With this book, Zhu brought Chinese algebra to its highest level.
), Guo Jinhai ( annotation ), Zhu Shijie: Jade mirror of the Four Unknowns, Chinese and English bilingual, vol I & 2, Liaoning education Press, China, 2006.
* Zhu Xi, Neo-Confucian Chinese philosopher
* Zhu Yu, Chinese maritime author
** Zhu Chen, Chinese chess grandmaster
* Confirming the descriptions of bulkhead hull compartments for Chinese sailing ships in Zhu Yu's Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119, a large Song Dynasty trade ship of c. 1277 A. D. is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China that had 12 bulkhead compartment rooms in its hull.
* November 19 – Ren Zhu, Chinese leader of the Nien rebellion ( b. 1830?
* Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian scholar ( d. 1200 )
* Hou Zhu succeeds Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty
* date unknown – Zhu Derun, Chinese painter and poet ( b. 1294 )
* In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese author Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.
* Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.
* April 23 – Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher ( b. 1130 )
* Zhu Shuzhen, Chinese female poet
* c. 1270 – Zhu Shijie, famous Chinese mathematician ( very approximate date )
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