Mao Peiqi's Detailed Explanation of the Seventeen Emperors of the Ming Dynasty - (Part 1)

Author: Mao Peiqi
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: The governance surpassed Tang and Song, but who can judge its merits and demerits? Succeeding Yuan and establishing Qing, its political virtue lasted for six hundred years. "The governance surpassed Tang and Song" was the evaluation given by the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. In the impression of modern Chinese, the Ming Dynasty was the worst era imaginable: whether it was the cruelty of the founding and second emperors, the ambition of the sixth and seventh emperors, or the decades of neglecting court sessions by the eighth and ninth emperors, until the stubbornness of the last emperor, Chongzhen, all these absurdities made people wonder how this dynasty could last nearly three hundred years. This book is the first part of Professor Mao Peiqi's lecture series "Ming Dynasty's Seventeen Emperors' Mysteries" on the "One Hundred Family Forum" program, focusing on some historical mysteries of the early Ming Dynasty, covering approximately 120 years from the reign of the founding emperor to the reign of the constitutional emperor. Was the Ming Dynasty an era of great darkness or a golden age? The authoritative historians of CCTV are on the "One Hundred Family Forum" to reveal the mysteries of the rise and fall of the dynasty. "Mao Peiqi's Detailed Explanation of the Mysteries of the Ming Dynasty's Seventeen Emperors" is the first part of the lecture series "Ming Dynasty's Seventeen Emperors' Mysteries" on the "One Hundred Family Forum," focusing on some historical mysteries of the early Ming Dynasty, covering approximately 120 years from the founding emperor to the constitutional emperor. Additionally, the manuscript of the second part is currently being compiled and will be published successively thereafter.