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Great Ming 大明 | |||||||||||
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| 1368–1644 | |||||||||||
 Ming China around 1580 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Nanjing (Yingtian prefecture) (1368–1644) Beijing (Shuntian prefecture) (1403–1644) | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Official language: Mandarin Other Chinese languages Other languages: Turki (Modern Uyghur), Old Uyghur language, Tibetan, Mongolian, Jurchen, others | ||||||||||
| Religion | Heaven worship, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Islam, Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||||
| Emperor (皇帝) | |||||||||||
• 1368–1398 (first) | Hongwu Emperor | ||||||||||
• 1402-1424 | Yongle Emperor | ||||||||||
• 1627–1644 (last) | Chongzhen Emperor | ||||||||||
| Senior Grand Secretary | |||||||||||
• 1402–1407 | Xie Jin | ||||||||||
• 1644 | Wei Zaode | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• | 23 January 1368 | ||||||||||
• Beijing designated as capital | 28 October 1420 | ||||||||||
• | 25 April 1644 | ||||||||||
• End of the Southern Ming | 1683 | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| 1415 | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1393 | 65,000,000 | ||||||||||
• 1403 | 66,598,337¹ | ||||||||||
• 1500 | 125,000,000² | ||||||||||
• 1600 | 160,000,000³ | ||||||||||
| Currency | Paper money (1368–1450) Bimetallic: copper cashes (文, wén) in strings of coin and paper Silver taels (兩, liǎng) in sycees and by weight | ||||||||||
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Remnants of the Ming dynasty ruled southern China until 1662, and Taiwan until 1683 a dynastic period which is known as the Southern Ming. ¹The numbers are based on estimates made by CJ Peers in Late Imperial Chinese Armies: 1520–1840 ²According to A. G. Frank, ReOrient: global economy in the Asian Age, 1998, p. 109 ³According to A. Maddison, The World Economy Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective Volume 2, 2007, p. 238 | |||||||||||
The Ming dynasty was the family of emperors who led China from AD 1368 to 1644. The name is also used to talk about the Ming Empire that they led and the 276 years in Chinese history that it lasted.
It is also famous for its pottery from Jingdezhen in Jiangxi and Dehua in Fujian.
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