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*''Died: [[1398]]''
*''Died: [[1398]]''
*''Reign: [[1368]]-1398''
*''Reign: [[1368]]-1398''
*''Other Names'': 明太祖 ''(Ming Taizu)'', [[朱]]元璋 ''(Zhu Yuanzhang)''
*''Other Names'': 明太祖 ''(Míng Tàizǔ)'', [[朱]]元璋 ''(Zhū Yuánzhāng)''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 洪武帝 ''(Hongwu-di / Koubu-tei)''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 洪武帝 ''(Hóngwǔ-dì / Koubu-tei)''
Zhu Yuanzhang was the first emperor of China's [[Ming Dynasty]], and the first dynastic founder to come from a genuinely humble, peasant, birth. Having led a successful rebellion to overthrow the [[Mongol]] [[Yuan Dynasty]] in [[1368]], he named himself the Hongwu Emperor, marking the beginning of a new dynasty, and came to be known as well as "Ming Taizu," or "Great Ancestor/Founder of Ming."
Zhu Yuanzhang was the first emperor of China's [[Ming Dynasty]], and the first dynastic founder to come from a genuinely humble, peasant, birth. Having led a successful rebellion to overthrow the [[Mongol]] [[Yuan Dynasty]] in [[1368]], he named himself the Hongwu Emperor, marking the beginning of a new dynasty, and came to be known as well as "Ming Taizu," or "Great Ancestor/Founder of Ming."
