Overview
The translated histories identify Ming Taizu as a ruler. This record brings together 11 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Ming Taizu | 明太祖 | Míng Tàizǔ |
| Title | emperor | 皇帝 | |
| Title | Founder | 太祖 | |
| Regnal | Hongwu | 洪武 | |
| Temple | Hongwu Emperor | 明太祖 | Ming Taizu |
| Temple | Ming Taizu | 明太祖 | Míng Tàizǔ |
| Title | Taizu | 太祖 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · mingshi:064:s0011, mingshi:064:s0017
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · mingshi:065:s0016, mingshi:298:s0004
Roles
- Ruler
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 洪武元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1368Explicit · mingshi:065:s0035
- Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1393Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:065:s0045, mingshi:065:s0035
- Source Date: Text: 六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1373Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:065:s0039, mingshi:065:s0035
- Source Date: Text: 吳元年十二月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1367Explicit · mingshi:064:s0017
- Source Date: Text: 明初 · Western Year: AD 1368Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:064:s0011
- Source Date: Text: 明初 · Western Year: AD 1368Explicit · mingshi:065:s0026, mingshi:065:s0028
- Source Date: Text: 明太祖甫有天下 · Western Year: AD 1368Explicit · mingshi:065:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 明太祖興禮儒士 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1368 · End: AD 1398Explicit · mingshi:298:s0004
- Source Date: Text: 洪武三年 · Western Year: AD 1370Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:064:s0083
- Source Date: Text: 洪武元年十月 · Western Year: AD 1368Explicit · mingshi:064:s0029
- Source Date: Text: 洪武六年 · Western Year: AD 1373Explicit · mingshi:064:s0102
- Source Date: Text: 洪武十二年 · Western Year: AD 1379Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:064:s0085
- Source Date: Text: 洪武十六年 · Western Year: AD 1383Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:064:s0107
Career and standing
- Label: emperor / 皇帝Explicit · mingshi:065:s0016
Places and affiliations
- Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: ruled
Works and attributed material
- Kind: edict · Role: author · Label: edict requiring princes’ silver ceremonial vessels be changed to gold / 詔，親王儀仗內交椅、盆、罐用銀者，悉改用金 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 洪武十六年 · Western Year: AD 1383Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:064:s0107
- Kind: edict · Role: author · Label: edict ordering ritual officials to simplify the guard of honor / 詔禮官，鹵簿彌文，務從省節Explicit · mingshi:064:s0011
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: commissioned · Label: ordered two wooden carriages made / 命禮官考五輅制，爲木輅二乘 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1373Explicit · mingshi:065:s0039
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: commissioned · Label: ordered additional carriages for visit to the Neutral Capital / 命更造大輅一，象輅十，中宮輅一，後宮車十 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是冬 · Western Year: AD 1373
- Kind: ritual · Role: questioner · Action: consulted · Label: studied the Zhou five carriages and consulted officials about using the wooden carriage / 考周禮五輅，以詢儒臣 · Other Person Ids: Zhan Tong (詹同), Zhang Chang (張昶)
- Kind: ritual · Role: sovereign · Action: enthronement-rites-prepared · Label: enthronement rites presented for his accession / 即位禮儀 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 吳元年十二月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1367Explicit · mingshi:064:s0017
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: established · Label: first established full imperial guard of honor regulations / 始定鹵簿大駕之制 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1393Explicit · mingshi:065:s0045
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: fixed-state-rituals · Label: reviewed and fixed state rituals, keeping carriages and dress plain / 考定邦禮，車服尚質Explicit · mingshi:065:s0016
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: ordered · Label: ordered copper instead of gold ornament on imperial carriage / 詔用銅 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 洪武元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1368Explicit · mingshi:065:s0035
- Kind: administrative · Role: issuer · Action: ordered · Label: ordered kneeling mats for suburban altar rites / 命制郊丘祭祀拜褥 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 洪武三年 · Western Year: AD 1370Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:064:s0083
- Kind: administrative · Role: issuer · Action: ordered · Label: ordered the Ministry of Rites to expand red-courtyard ceremonial regalia / 命禮部增設丹墀儀仗 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 洪武十二年 · Western Year: AD 1379Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:064:s0085
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: ordered · Label: ordered scholar-officials to fix dress, housing, and utensil regulations / 命儒臣稽古講禮，定官民服舍器用制度Explicit · mingshi:065:s0023
- Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: punished · Label: severely punished abuses of sumptuary rules / 皆重懲其弊Explicit · mingshi:065:s0021, mingshi:065:s0022
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: recruited-scholars-and-reclusesExplicit · mingshi:298:s0004
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: valued frugality and led by personal example in sumptuary restraint · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · mingshi:064:s0011, mingshi:064:s0017
References in the histories
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