FUZHOU – For Japanese historian Kenichi Uezato, the coastal town of Meihua in Fuzhou, Fujian province, serves as a deep reminder of the people-to-people friendship between Fujian and Ryukyu that has ...

Constructed between 1378 and 1398 during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the 54-meter-long Longnao which literally means Dragon Head is 3 kilometers north of the ...

Constructed between 1378 and 1398 during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the 54-meter-long Longnao which literally means Dragon Head is 3 kilometers north of the ...

Ultimately, the Yangtze exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the deep currents of history flowing through this vital waterway and calls for renewed public engagement in protecting and studying ...

At the Harmony of Figures and Spirits exhibition, attention was drawn to a juxtaposition of two distinctively different portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty: One by court painters ...

When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming empire, the ambitious emperor initially located the imperial city in his hometown in today's Fengyang county, Anhui province. But construction on the grand ...

An archaeological excavation at the ruins of the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in Nanjing, East China's ...

Zhu Yuanzhang ranked Li Wenzhong as the fourth statesman of great merit in the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, as during the early stages of the dynasty, he continued to pacify rebels, helping to ...

In the Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang issued a ban on the production of compressed tea in 1391. This decree led to the abandonment of compressed tea in China.

More than 600 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), stationed 30,000 soldiers in Guizhou after suppressing a rebel army.