Ming Dynasty (大明帝国), ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
Song Jiang sends some spies to infiltrate Daming Prefecture during the Lantern Festival.
In 923, Li Cunxu, who had by that point taken all of the Later Liang territory north of the Yellow River, declared himself the emperor of Tang at Daming (大名, in modern Handan, Hebei) and thus establishing a new dynasty (commonly referred to as the Later Tang Dynasty, even though Li Cunxu claimed to be the legitimate successor to Tang), as its Emperor Zhuangzong.
Daming Temple is so named because it was constructed during the periods in the reign of Liu Song Xiaowu Emperor of the Daming Dynasty (453 C.E.—464 C.E.).