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Since Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has vigorously pursued the principles and policies of strengthening centralization, such as abolishing the prime minister, creating a cabinet university, changing the province into three departments, and reusing factory health agents, which has brought the monarchy to an unprecedented height.

Although the "Battle of Jingnan" broke out in the early Ming Dynasty, it was politically powerful, and Zheng He made seven voyages to the West. After the "uprising", the national situation turned from prosperity to decline, and eunuchs were in power for a long time. During the Wanli period, Zhang reformed. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, internal and external contradictions intensified, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the peasant war.

On the basis of the previous generation, the social economy of the Ming Dynasty made great progress, and the degree of commercialization of agricultural products expanded. Handicraft industry has improved its production level, exquisite technology, prosperous business and active market, and even produced the seeds of capitalism.

In the Ming Dynasty, feudal culture was extremely prosperous. Wang Shouren, Li Zhi and other famous figures have emerged in the ideological circle. The novel has made brilliant achievements. The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West and other works are famous in history. Tang Xianzu, Yuan Hongdao, Xu Wei and other writers and artists led for a while; Scientists such as Xu Guangqi, Song, Li Shizhen and Xu Xiake made outstanding contributions.

At this time, the largest book in the history of China, Yongle Dadian, appeared.

Founding figures of Ming Dynasty:

Zhu Yuanzhang (1328 65438+ 10/2124 June 398), a native of Fengyang, Anhui Province, Han nationality, was originally named Chongba, and later named Xingzong. He joined the Guo Zixing army and changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang. Politician, strategist, military commander-in-chief, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very poor when he was a child. He used to herd cattle for the landlord. /kloc-entered the ancestral temple in 0/344. At the age of 25, he took part in the Red Scarf Army uprising led by Guo Zixing against the Yuan Dynasty. In 356, he was honored as Wu Gong by his subordinates. In the same year, Qing Ji Road was captured and changed to Tianfu (now Nanjing, Jiangsu). 1367, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were ordered to send troops to the Northern Expedition with the slogan of "expelling Land Rover and restoring China".

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/368, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtianfu, with the title Daming Hongwu. In autumn, most of them were captured, ending the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the whole country. Mongolian nobles fled to the north, and sixteen states of Youyun ceded by the late Jin Dynasty were also recovered. And pacify the southwest, northwest, northeast and other places, and finally unify China.

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Ming dynasty emperors