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Po Suixing (破碎星): Wu Long (In Shu version, "Yu Zongbo") Gods of the 28 Mansions. "The Five Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes" by Zhang Sengyou, Liang dynasty (5-6th century), in the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts. Azure Dragon of the East (東方青龍) Wood Dragon of Horn (角木蛟): Bai Lin. Golden Dragon of Neck (亢金龍): Li Daotong.
The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese names Fengshen Yanyi (Chinese: 封神演義; pinyin: Fēngshén Yǎnyì; Wade–Giles: Fêng 1-shên 2 Yan 3-yi 4; Jyutping: Fung 1 San 4 Jin 2 Ji 6) and Fengshen Bang (封神榜), [note 1] is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty ...
The princes of the Ming dynasty were titled and salaried members of the imperial bureaucracy with nominal lordship over various fiefs of Ming China. All were members of the imperial Zhu clan descended from the twenty-six sons of Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor). None of the princes controlled the administration of their nominal fief, unlike some ...
The Ming dynasty (/ mɪŋ / MING), [ 7 ] officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell ...
The popularity of zaju persisted even after the fall of the Yuan dynasty, thanks to the efforts of two Ming princes during the early years of the Ming dynasty. These princes were Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of the Hongwu Emperor, [66] and the Hongwu Emperor's grandson, Zhu Youdun (朱有燉). [73]
The Ming dynasty was established in 1368 when Zhu Yuanzhang, a poor farmer, led a rebellion and overthrew the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. He declared himself the Hongwu Emperor, a remarkable social climb that had only been achieved once before in Chinese history, 1,569 years earlier by Liu Bang , the founder of the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD). [ 3 ]
Many classical books have lists and hierarchies of gods and immortals, among which are the "Completed Record of Deities and Immortals" (神仙通鑑, Shénxiān Tōngjiàn) of the Ming dynasty, [29] and the Biographies of the Deities and Immortals (Shenxian Zhuan) by Ge Hong (284–343). [30]
List of emperors. Below is a complete list of the emperors of the Ming dynasty, including their personal, temple, posthumous, and era names. The longest-reigning emperor of the dynasty was the Wanli Emperor, who ruled for 48 years (r. 1572–1620); the shortest was his successor, the Taichang Emperor, who ruled for only 29 days in 1620.