Why? Historians have a variety of explanations. The Yongle Emperor was distracted by a land war against the Mongols, a conflict in which the navy was irrelevant, for instance. Others argue that ...

Experts said it was painted for the court of Emperor Yongle, the third emperor of the Ming dynasty who ruled from 1402 to 1424. “There are only six [other] such bowls known in the world.

It was usually said that the big bell had been cast in the second year of the reign of Yongle (1404). Another erroneous argument is that the big bell was cast after the death of Emperor Yongle.

During the reign of Emperor Yongle, bells were cast in many places to hold services for the enhancement of Buddhism and Taoism or give the correct time for better urban management. Three bells ...

When the Yongle Emperor moved the capital north to Beijing, he built an entire new city, re-dredging the Jing-Hang Canal across half a continent to feed it, as if rearranging geography itself were ...

Her first book, What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming (University of Washington Press, 2020), examines the building projects of the famous Yongle emperor to consider how ...

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