This article is about the Ming and Southern Ming imperial family. For the imperial family of the 10th-century dynasty, see Later Liang (Five Dynasties).
Its founder was Zhu Yuanzhang, the leader of the rebellion against the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. He and his descendants lifted China to long-term economic prosperity and political stability. Over time, thanks to the polygamy common among the upper classes of Chinese society, the number of male members of the house increased to one hundred thousand. However, except for the emperors and heirs to the throne, they were excluded from politics for the sake of government stability.
From the late 16th century onwards, economic difficulties and the resulting peasant uprisings brought about a weakening of Ming power, which was used by the Manchus in 1644 to overthrow the dynasty and seize power in China.
After the fall of Ming
After the fall of the Ming dynasty, the Manchu-led Qing dynasty started persecuting the Zhu clan, hence a number of members of the clan have changed their surnames to Zhou,[1]Wang,[2]Gao,[3] Guang,[4] Dong,[5]Zhang, Zhuang,[6] and Yan.[6] Some of them changed their family names back to Zhu after the fall of the Qing dynasty.
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