The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), a dynasty in Chinese history, was established by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. In the early days, Dingtianfu was built, and during the reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, the capital was moved to Shuntianfu. According to the legend of the Sixteenth Emperor, the reign lasted for 276 years.
The Red Turban Uprising broke out at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang joined Guo Zixing's team. In 1364, he was called King of Wu, and was called Xiwu in history. In early 1368, he proclaimed himself emperor, named his country Daming, and set its capital at Yingtianfu. In 1420, Zhu Di moved his capital to Shuntianfu, with Yingtianfu as his companion capital. The early Ming Dynasty experienced the Hongwu period, the Yongle period, and the Renxuan period, with clear politics and strong national power. In the middle period, it went from prosperity to decline after the Civil Engineering Revolution, and then recovered through Hongzhi Zhongxing and Wanli Zhongxing. In the late Ming Dynasty, political corruption, Donglin party strife, and natural disasters led to the decline of national power, and peasant uprisings broke out. In 1644, Li Zicheng invaded Shuntian Mansion, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. The Ming Dynasty clan established multiple political regimes in the south, known as the Southern Ming Dynasty in history. After the Qing troops entered the pass, they successively defeated various regimes such as Emperor Hongguang, Emperor Longwu, and Emperor Shaowu. In 1662, Emperor Yongli was killed and the Southern Ming Dynasty was destroyed. In 1683, the Qing army captured Taiwan, and Ming Zheng, the leader of Fengming Zhengshuo, was destroyed.
The territory of the Ming Dynasty included the Han Dynasty, reaching the Sea of ??Japan and the Xing'an Mountains in the northeast, and then shrinking to the Liaohe River Basin; reaching the Yinshan Mountains in the north, retreating to the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty; reaching Hami, Xinjiang, in the west, retreating to Jiayuguan; and reaching the southwest Burma and the northern borders of Siam, and later returned to about present-day Yunnan; and set up Jisi Guards in the Qinghai-Tibet area, and also recaptured Annan.
During the Ming Dynasty, the autocratic monarchy was unprecedentedly strengthened, and multi-ethnic countries were further unified and consolidated. In the early Ming Dynasty, the prime minister was abolished and the factory guard spy agency was established, which strengthened the centralization of authoritarianism, but it also paved the way for the eunuch dictatorship in the middle and later periods. During this period of the Ming Dynasty, the peasants' anti-feudal struggle also entered a new stage.
The handicraft industry and commodity economy prospered in the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of commercial capital was transformed into industrial capital, and commercial towns and the emergence of capitalism sprouted. Culture and art show a trend of secularization.
According to the "Records of the Ming Dynasty", the peak population was 71.85 million. Some scholars pointed out that the population was over 100 million, and some said that the population in the late Ming Dynasty was nearly 200 million.