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46 unusual facts about Ming dynasty


Arthur Waldron

Waldron studied Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) history at Harvard, during which he focused on why the relationship between the sedentary Ming and the nomadic Mongols who lived to the north often turned hostile.

Baotu Spring

(Ming Dynasty, west of the spring), and the Laihe Bridge (built during the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, east of the spring).

Cheongsong County

The Bogwangjeon building, is Korea's treasure no. 1570, and in its procession is the woodblock of a handwritten letter from Lee Yeo-song, a general of the Ming Dynasty, to Samyeong Daisa.

Chūzan

The first Ming Dynasty envoys arrived in Okinawa in 1372, marking the beginning of tributary relations with China.

Dalbergia odorifera

Most of the higher quality furnitures from the Ming and early Qing dynasties were made of huali, now known as huanghuali, to distinguish it from the modern popular wood called xinhuali.

Daming

Ming Dynasty (大明帝国), ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644

Dongmen Street

In the end of the Ming Dynasty, around 1700, when Shanghai became a small city for the first time, this street came to exist.

Great Lady of Gresik

After her father died, admiral Hajji Mahmud (admiral Zheng He) of Ming China decided to make her brother the new chieftain of Palembang, so she left Palembang and went to Gresik in east Java to preach her religion to the natives.

Hailongtun

It served as the castle of the Bozhou Tusi (native chieftain system) Yang family from the Southern Song to the Ming Dynasty.

Hokuzan

Chūzan entered a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China in 1372, and Hokuzan and Nanzan were granted similar commercial status shortly afterwards.

Hong Kong Archaeological Society

In 2007, excavations in Luk Keng Village, Lantau Island was discovered two furnaces with more than 2,000 items belonging to Tang, Ming, and Qing Dynasty, with some belongs to Bronze and Neolithic age as well.

Huajiachi

About six-hundred years ago, it was wasteland nearby, and a highly ranked official Mr. Hua during Ming Dynasty Hongwu Era (1368-1398) once passed-by and first settled down there, opened the wasteland.

Hutong

Some hutongs were named after people, such as Mengduan Hutong (named after Meng Duan, a mayor of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty whose residence was in this hutong).

Each pai (牌), in turn, contained an area including several hutongs, and during the Ming Dynasty, Beijing was divided into a total of 36 fangs (坊).

James Geiss

James Peter Geiss (14 March 1950 - 19 December 2000) was an American scholar who published several books and articles on Chinese history, specifically on the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE).

Japanese sword

The export of nihontō reached its height during the Muromachi period when at least 200,000 nihontō were shipped to Ming Dynasty China in official trade in an attempt to soak up the production of Japanese weapons and make it harder for pirates in the area to arm.

Judith T. Zeitlin

Her areas of interest are Ming-Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama.

Kumemura

According to traditional accounts, the community was founded in 1392 when a number of Chinese bureaucrats and craftsmen, under orders from the Ming Chinese Imperial government, traveled to Okinawa from Fujian and settled there.

Lindernia montana

For its unique appearance, its profile was once popularly printed on china, especially during the Ming Dynasty.

Lingjing hutong

In the Ming Dynasty it was divided into the eastern and western sections, each with very distincs characters.

Liuhe, Taicang

the explorer Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty set off from Liuhe to explore the seas of the world.

Malongkeng

According to tradition, the Dragon King went to the aid of imperial troops in the Ming Dynasty and was honoured by the Jiajing Emperor by edict.

Mambrui

In October 2010, the team went public about the discovery of an early 15th-century Chinese coin, the remains of an iron smelter accompanied by iron slag, and a jade-green shard of porcelain believed to come from Long Quan, a kiln that made porcelain exclusively for the royal family during the early Ming Dynasty.

Meng Huo You

However, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, the newly mature technology of gunpowder had for the most part replaced the use of these short-range flamethrowers, which saw little mention in the historical records of the last dynasties of imperial China.

Nancy Sit

In Virtues of Harmony, Sit plays a boss of a Chinese restaurant in Ming Dynasty, and playing a similar character in a modern setting in its sequel, Virtues of Harmony II.

Nikong Pool

One guess is that the lake was built in the ancient time for serving the agricultural irrigation nearby, most probably during the Ming Dynasty.

Phagmodrupa Dynasty

They periodically dispatched formal tributes to the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in China, and received from them the title Chanhuawang (Chinese: 闡化王, prince who expounds Buddhism).

Ryukyu Kingdom

As the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of the Ming Dynasty, the request was refused.

Hashi received the surname "Shō" (Chinese: "Shang") 尚 from the Ming emperor in 1421, becoming known as Shō Hashi (Chinese: Shang Bazhi) 尚巴志.

Shimazu Tadatsune

Like his father and uncle, he was known for bravery on the battlefield, and during the latter half of Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, fighting beside his father, he helped drive off the Ming army of over 100,000 men with only 8000 men.

Shimazu Tadayoshi

He held a great amount of power, trading with the Ryūkyū Kingdom and Ming Dynasty China.

Sō Yoshitoshi

The Joseon king refused to allow Japanese troops to pass peacefully through Korea in an attempt to conquer Ming Dynasty China, and the negotiations ultimately proved entirely fruitless, leading to Hideyoshi's decision to invade Korea militarily.

Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry

--"almost as many by..."--> each by Huang Tingjian and Mei Yaochen, 11 Yuan Zhen poems, 10 each by Shen Yue and Han Yu, and poems from previously untranslated poets from the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

Tachibana Muneshige

During the conquest of China's Ming Dynasty by way of Korea, Muneshige was a captain to one of the six 2,500 squadrons with Kobayakawa Takakage during the first invasion.

Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen

As ruler Changchub Gyaltsen was keen to revive the glories of the Tibetan Empire of Songtsen Gampo and assert Tibetan independence from the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and from Ming Dynasty China.

Tyr, Russia

Tyr's main claim to fame is that its location had been visited by both Yuan and Ming Dynasty expeditions, which sailed down the Sungari and Amur Rivers to establish a foothold in this region.

Ulchsky District

A number of interesting Yuan and Ming Dynasty archaeological monuments have been found on the Tyr Cliff near the village of Tyr in this district.

Walter McConnell

The individual forms presented in these works include such imagery as animal sculptures, Christmas trees, figures from popular culture, religious icons and faux Ming vases.

Wan Quan

Wan Quan (1495–1585) was a famous Ming Dynasty pediatrician.

Wolong Gang

Nowadays, Wolong Gang has historic buildings built during the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

Xidi

By 1465 CE, during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), family members had started in business as merchants, leading to construction of major private buildings and a public infrastructure.

Today, 124 well preserved wooden residences from the Ming and Qing dynasties with beautiful carvings form the major attractions.

Xinye Village

Founded in the Southern Song Dynasty, Xinye is noted for its well-preserved Ming and Qing era architecture and ancient residential buildings.

Yan Chongnian

#Wu Sangui, the Ming general who had opened the gates at Shanhai Pass to let 150,000 Manchu soldiers march into China proper, resulting in the annihilation of the Ming Dynasty, should be reevaluated for avoiding the mass bloodshed that may have resulted had he not surrendered.

Zhu Yunzhong

Zhu Yunzhong (born 1933; in Changsha, Hunan), is a descendant of the Hongwu Emperor and an heir to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhufan

Family of Yeyutang came from Dengzhou of Shandong Province during Chongzhen (BC1628~BC1644) (year's name of Emperor Sizong Zhu Youjian) in Ming Dynasty.


1453 Yellow River flood

The 1453 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in the area surrounding Shawan in Shandong, China, during the Ming dynasty.

Baliqiao

The exact beginnings of the bridge are difficult to discern, and while current structure is of the late Ming dynasty, records show that there has been a bridge on the site since the Yan Dynasty.

Bao'an County

Hongwu Emperor (1368–1399), the founder of the Ming dynasty, found it necessary in the 27th year of his reign, to appoint an officer with the title Shou-yu-suo (守御所), "Protector of the region", in order to protect the population, which was rapidly increasing, against the bands of robbers and vagabonds which infested the district.

Chadong language

According to inscriptions from the Ming dynasty, Chadong speakers originally came from Qingyuanfu, Nandan, Guangxi, which is located further to the west.

Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley

The temple's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD) architecture is faithful to the traditional style of buildings, Chinese gardens, and statuary of ancient Chinese monasteries.

Chinese pagoda

This includes the two Ming Dynasty pagodas of Famen Temple and the Chongwen Pagoda in Jingyang of Shaanxi Province.

Declarations of independence of Vietnam

#Bình Ngô đại cáo (Great Proclamation upon the Pacification of the Wu) was written by Nguyễn Trãi to speak in the name of Bình Định vương Lê Lợi in the Đinh Mùi year (1427), announcing the pacification of the Ming army, regaining the national independence, establishing the Later Lê Dynasty.

Ding Dexing

Ding Dexing was a Muslim Hui general of the Ming dynasty in service of the Hongwu Emperor.

Geyuan Garden

The Geyuan Garden was known as "the garden of the long-lived Ganoderma" during the Ming Dynasty.

Jean-Baptiste Régis

Ming Emperor K'ang-hi, who wished to take measures against the periodic overflow of the rivers of Zhili, was satisfied.

Jing Hao

In the early 17th century, noted Ming art historian Dong Qichang classified Jing Hao and Guan Tong as the two founders of the Northern Landscape style, juxtaposed against the two founders of the southern school, Dong Yuan and Juran, who developed their theories at the same time.

Jurchen script

Jurchen script must have become much less known after the destruction of the Jin Dynasty by the Mongols, but it was not completely forgotten, because it is attested at least twice during the Ming Dynasty: on Yishiha's Tyr stele of 1413 and in a Chinese–Jurchen dictionary included in the multilingual "Chinese–Barbarian Dictionary" (华夷译语) compiled by the Ming Bureau of Translators (四夷馆).

Mao Yichang

After the monarchy was overthrown and rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty in 1368, Mao Taihua married a woman in Yunnan, in 1380 bringing her to Hunan, settling in Xiangxiang county.

Mu Ying

Mu Ying (1345-1392) was a general during the Ming Dynasty, and an adopted son of its founder, the Hongwu Emperor (aka Zhu Yuanzhang).

Peony in Love

From her dead grandmother, she learns many painful details about her family's past as the Qing Dynasty violently replaced the Ming Dynasty, details later amplified by Peony's mother.

Phoebe nanmu

The Forbidden City was originally constructed using P. nanmu wood by Ming emperor Zhu Di.

Shō Gen

Shō Gen received his official investiture from the Ming Court in 1562, and received emissaries from the Shimazu clan of the Japanese province of Satsuma in 1570 and 1572.

Sichuanese Mandarin

This is mainly because many Xiang-speaking immigrants from Hunan moved to Sichuan during the great wave of immigration during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Xiang does not have such a close relationship with other southwestern varieties of Chinese, such as those spoken in Yunnan, Guangxi or Hubei.

Side carving

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the seal engraving art was commonly seen.

Suzhou Museum

The collection of paintings and calligraphy includes works of masters from Song Dynasty to Ming and Qing dynasties.

Tartary

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.

The Battles of Coxinga

The plot begins in the exceedingly luxurious and profligate court of the Chinese Emperor Shisōretsu (思宋烈; actually Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming dynasty), in May 1644.

Three Character Classic

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Three Character Classic formed the basis of elementary education, along with 2 other primers, Hundred Family Surnames and Thousand Character Classic.

Uisun

In 1828, during a visit to Chilbul-am Hermitage 七佛庵 in Jirisan Mountain, Cho-ui transcribed a Ming Dynasty Chinese text on tea.

Vasco Calvo

A former member of the ill-fated Portuguese embassy of 1517 to Beijing, capital of the Ming Empire, Calvo has since been living in internal exile in one of the capital's suburbs.

Wang Ying

Wang Ying (Ming Dynasty), author of Shiwu bencao Food Materia Medica, see List of sources of Chinese culinary history

Yongning Temple Stele

The Yongning Temple Stele is a Ming Dynasty stele with a trilingual inscription that was erected in 1413 to commemorate the founding of the Yongning Temple (永寕寺) in the Nurgan outpost, near the mouth of the Amur River, by the eunuch Yishiha.

Yunji Qiqian

The (1445) Ming Dynasty edition Zhengtong daozang 正統道藏 "Zhengtong Emperor's Daoist Canon" contains the earliest known complete copy of the Yunji qiqian, which subsequent Canon editions reproduced.