Some famous ancient Buddhist temples and tombs are found here. Xiaoling is the mausoleum of the first Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is one of the largest imperial mausoleums existing in ...

He was born in 1470, the third son of Emperor Chenghua, the eighth of the Ming Dynasty, and his mother ... Wu had been the emperor’s first wife but was dismissed only a month after marriage when he ...

Construction on the Ming Tombs, the burial grounds of 13 Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) emperors, began in 1409 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor and ... 2024 to 2030. The first phase, from 2024 ...

But it appears for the first time during the Yongle period ... Zhu Di was the third Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

It bears the marks of Xuande, the fifth Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1426-1435 ... and one is in a private collection. “When I first inspected the piece it looked too good to be true as ...