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Late Yuan to Ming · 1328–1398
Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor)
朱元璋 · China
Founding emperor of the Ming dynasty
Born in 1328 into a poor farming family in Zhongli, Haozhou (today's Fengyang, Anhui). After his parents died in famine and plague he became a monk and begged for alms. He rose in revolt at the end of the Yuan dynasty, took Nanjing in 1356 and founded the Ming dynasty in 1368 with the reign name Hongwu. He died in 1398 and is buried with Empress Ma in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum on Nanjing's Zhong Mountain.
Where the story happened
Los lugares que dejó
Historia · Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing
From cowherd to founding emperor
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in 1328 into a poor peasant family in Zhongli, Haozhou; in the famines and epidemics of the late Yuan his parents died one after another, and he became a novice monk at a temple, then went out begging for alms, witnessing the people's suffering. He later joined the rebel armies, took Nanjing in 1356 and founded the Ming dynasty in 1368. In 1381 he began building his tomb on Zhongshan; after his death in 1398 he was buried here with Empress Ma — the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.
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