House of Zhu

The House of Zhu (Chinese: 朱; pinyin: Zhū; Wade–Giles: Chu) was the ruling house of the Ming dynasty and the Southern Ming dynasty of China.

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).

Zhu
朱
The Forbidden City, Beijing
Country
Founded23 January 1368
FounderHongwu Emperor
Final ruler
Titles
Deposition

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.

See also

References
  1. Unforgettable Youth-hood Archived 14 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
  2. Zhen Zhou Local Geography, Xin Zhen: "Zhu to Wang"—Zhu's Descendants (in Chinese)
  3. Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants were founded in Qi Xian (in Chinese)
  4. Yan Zhou Government, Guang Jia Street (in Chinese)
  5. Royal Family Zhu Changed Family Name to 'Dong', went to Guang Dong, and Settled in Zhuang He (in Chinese)
  6. "About the Connections Among Zhu, Zhuang, and Yan" (in Chinese).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.