House of Zhu

The House of Zhu (Chinese: 朱; pinyin: Zhū; Wade–Giles: Chu) was the ruling imperial family of the Ming dynasty and the Southern Ming.

This article is about the Ming and Southern Ming imperial family. For the imperial family of the 10th-century dynasty, see Later Liang (Five Dynasties).

House of Zhu
朱
Imperial House
Country
Founded23 January 1368 (23 January 1368)
FounderHongwu Emperor
Final ruler
Titles
Estate(s)
Deposition
  • 1644 (Ming dynasty)
  • 1662 (Southern Ming)

After the fall of the Ming dynasty, the Manchu-led Qing dynasty started persecuting the Zhu clan, hence a number of members of the clan have changed their surnames to Zhou (周),[1] Wang (王),[2] Gao (高),[3] Guang (廣),[4] Dong (東),[5] Zhang (張), Zhuang (莊),[6] and Yan (嚴).[6] Some of them changed their family names back to Zhu after the collapse of the Qing dynasty.

Family tree

See also

References
  1. Unforgettable Youth-hood (in Chinese)
  2. Zhen Zhou Local Geography, Xin Zhen: "Zhu to Wang"—Zhu's Descendants (in Chinese)
  3. Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants were founded in Qi Xian (in Chinese)
  4. Yan Zhou Government, Guang Jia Street (in Chinese)
  5. Royal Family Zhu Changed Family Name to 'Dong', went to Guang Dong, and Settled in Zhuang He (in Chinese)
  6. "About the Connections Among Zhu, Zhuang, and Yan" (in Chinese).
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