meaning Respectful Emperor or Great Ruler. His real name was Zhu Youcheng, though he is remembered as Emperor Hongzhi. He was born in 1470, the third son of Emperor Chenghua, the eighth of the Ming ...

In 1420, while Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to discover America, China’s Ming Dynasty ruler was moving into his new home in the center of Beijing and beginning to ...

On the first day of China's Qingming Festival holiday, actors dressed in the traditional clothing or armors of the ancient Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) recreated one of the dynasty's grand ceremonies.

Nearly 1,000 cultural relics have been recovered from shipwrecks dating back to the Ming Dynasty — from 1368-1644 — including porcelain and pottery, copper coins, and deer antlers, China’s ...

Two of the largest bronze figures created during the early Ming dynasty will soon be offered up by Sotheby's during spring’s Asia Week New York. Depicting guardian deity Panjarnata Mahakala and ...