Ming Yuzhen

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Ming Yuzhen
明玉珍
Jiangbei District, Chongqing
)
Names
Ming Yuzhen
(明玉珍)
Era dates
  • Tianqi[1] (天啟): 1361–1362
  • Tiantong (天統): 1363–1366
Posthumous name
Emperor Qinwen Zhaowu
(欽文昭武皇帝)
Temple name
Taizu
(太祖)
DynastyMing Xia
FatherMing Xuewen
MotherLady Zhao
In this Chinese name, the family name is Ming.
Rebels and warlords at the end of Yuan Dynasty, including the territory controlled by Ming Yuzhen in 1363

Ming Yuzhen (Chinese: 明玉珍; 2 October 1328 – 17 March 1366) was a peasant rebel leader who established the dynasty of Ming Xia during the late Yuan dynasty in China.

Ming was born in Suizhou (today

Red Turbans, a rebel group led by Xu Shouhui
. He was blinded in the right eye during a battle.

In 1360, Xu was killed by

era name of "Tiantong" (天統). In Great Xia, there was taxation, imperial examination, and a state religion of Buddhism
.

In 1363, he attacked Prince Liang, Bolud Temür (

Ming Empire in 1371. The Korean official Yun Hui-chong's daughter married Ming Sheng in March 1373. Ming Sheng was 17 and Chen Li was 21 when they were sent to Korea in 1372 by the Ming dynasty.[2][3][4][5]

Also, Ming Yuzhen is the founder of

Korean clans, the Yeonan Myeong clan, Seochok Myeong clan and Namwon Seung clan.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Adopted the era name of the Xu Song dynasty
  2. ISBN 023103833X
    .
  3. ISBN 9004103910
    .
  4. ^ Serruys, Henry (1959). The Mongols in China During the Hung-wu Period (1368-1398). Impr. Sainte-Catherine. p. 31.
  5. ^ Serruys, Henry (1967). Sino-Mongol Relations During the Ming, Volume 1. Institut belge des hautes études chinoises. p. 31.
  6. ^ Academy of Korean Studies 서촉명씨 西蜀明氏. Academy of Korean Studies.
  7. ^ Jin Guanglin [in Japanese] (2014). "A Comparison of the Korean and Japanese Approaches to Foreign Family Names" (PDF). Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia. 5: 20 – via Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia.


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