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Hongwu Emperor
ཀྲུའུ་ཡོན་ཀྲང་། bo 朱元璋 zh
Founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty; ruled 1368–1398
- Child of Zhu Shizhen and Empress Chun
- Married to Empress Ma, Cheng Mu, Li Shufei and 2 more
- Dated 29 October 1328 CE – 24 June 1398 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 23 January 1368 CE – 24 June 1398 CE Emperor of China jurisdiction: Ming dynasty Succeeded Toghon Temür
Family
The family of Hongwu Emperor
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 53
Family 53
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Empress Chun mother of Hongwu Emperor
- child of (father) Zhu Shizhen father of Hongwu Emperor
- of the house House of Zhu imperial house of China
- parent of (child) Princess Anqing Chinese princess (14th century)
- parent of (child) Princess Baoqing daughter of Zhu Yuanzhang
- parent of (child) Princess Chongning
- parent of (child) Princess Daming daughter of Hongwu Emperor and Consort Guo Ningfei
- parent of (child) Princess Fuqing
- parent of (child) Princess Hanshan
- parent of (child) Princess Huaiqing Chinese princess (1368–1425)
- parent of (child) Princess Linan daughter of Ming Dynasty Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Princess Nankang A Chinese princess
- parent of (child) Princess Ningguo Ming dynasty person CBDB = 33887
- parent of (child) Princess Runing
- parent of (child) Princess Ruyang A Chinese princess
- parent of (child) Princess Shouchun daughter of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Princess Yongjia
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parent of (father) Yongle Emperor emperor of Ming dynasty China from 1402 to 1424 - parent of (child) Zhu Biao Ming Dynasty prince
- parent of (child) Zhu Bo Ming dynasty person CBDB = 67720
- parent of (child) Zhu Chun prince of the Ming Dynasty
- parent of (child) Zhu Dong Ming dynasty prince, 24th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Fu Ming dynasty person CBDB = 67663
- parent of (child) Zhu Gang Ming Dynasty prince, 3rd son of Hongwu Emperor, founder and first emperor of China's Ming dynasty
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- parent of (child) Zhu Gui Ming dynasty prince, 13th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Hui Ming Dynasty prince, 19th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Ji Ming dynasty person CBDB = 67667
- parent of (child) Zhu Jing Ming dynasty prince, 23rd son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Mo prince Jian of Shen
- parent of (child) Zhu Nan Ming dynasty prince, 26th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Pian Ming dynasty prince, 18th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Quan Ming dynasty prince (1378-1448)
- parent of (child) Zhu Shuang Ming dynasty prince, 2nd son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Song Ming dynasty prince, 20th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Su Ming dynasty person CBDB = 30174
- parent of (child) Zhu Tan Ming dynasty prince, 10th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Yi Ming dynasty prince, 25th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Ying Ming dynasty prince, 14th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Ying Ming dynasty prince, 22nd son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Zhan Ming dynasty prince, 16th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Zhen Ming dynasty prince, 6th son of Hongwu Emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Zhi a prince of Ming, son of Hongwu emperor
- parent of (child) Zhu Zi Ming dynasty prince, 8th son of Hongwu Emperor
- sibling of Princess Caoguo Grand Princess Caoguo
- sibling of Princess Taiyuan
- sibling of Zhu Xinglong
- sibling of Zhu Xingsheng
- sibling of Zhu Xingzu
- married to Cheng Mu Ming dynasty imperial consort
- married to Consort Guo Huifei consort of Hongwu Emperor
- married to Consort Guo Ningfei
- married to Empress Ma Ming Dynasty empress, died 1382
- married to Li Shufei
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
Hongwu Emperor founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty; ruled 1368–1398 Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
56 statements on this record
- 12 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 44 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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