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." |