In 1368, Ming Taizu was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, and the country was called Daming. In 1644, Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, the Ming Dynasty fell, and the Qing army entered the customs. The Ming Dynasty existed for 276 years and has been in existence for 378 years.
The Ming Dynasty was the last Han dynasty of the Chinese imperial era. This dynasty created the feat of "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies".
As a dynasty established on the basis of expelling the Tatars and restoring China, the Ming Dynasty was very tough on the issue of principles for safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity. In order to reduce the threat of Mongolia, Zhu Di, the male lord of a generation, personally conquered Mongolia five times, and finally died on the way to the north. In order to prevent the Japanese army from invading China along the Korean Peninsula, during the Wanli Emperor's period, he sent 40,000 troops to Korea to help the Korean Kingdom defeat Japan, so that the Japanese did not dare to covet China for 300 years. Even during the most chaotic years of the Apocalypse in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming army achieved a brilliant victory over the Dutch invading army.
The Ming Dynasty did not have the power of the ministers to mess with the government, and there was no Pan Zhen to bring disaster to the country, but it was ruined by the eunuchs. During the reigns of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were either suppressed or reused, but the negative effect was not obvious, and the Ming Dynasty could still develop normally. However, with the chaos of Wang Zhen after the accession of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, the chaos of Cao Jixiang after the restoration of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, and the misdeeds of eunuchs such as Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian in the late Ming Dynasty, the rule of the Ming Dynasty was full of holes, accumulated evils, and irremediable decline. Successive years of natural disasters led to endless peasant uprisings, and the main forces of the Ming Dynasty were exhausted in the struggle against the peasant uprisings. The heavy soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who guarded the border pass surrendered to Houjin, and the Manchu Qing picked up a big bargain.
The lord of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen had a great responsibility for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and the border troubles of the Ming Dynasty could not lead to the demise of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Chongzhen is suspicious of employing people, and will lose his heart, and he has no bearing to know and employ people. Rigid and self-serving, arrogant and stubborn, did not know how to maneuver, when Li Zicheng's troops came to the city, he did not accept Li Zicheng's conditions, nor did he accept the plan of abandoning the capital and renegotiating, and even did not leave most of the inheritance arrangements that the Ming Dynasty still had. The Ming Dynasty quickly fell apart, the border passes were heavily surrendered, the military forces in various places were separated, and the Southern Ming regime could only rely on local warlords and could not call on resistance forces, and half of the country only lasted for 16 years before it completely disappeared.
The Manchu dynasty became the master of the Central Plains, and the Ming dynasty became the last dynasty of the Han Chinese.