Emperor hongwu biography
Hongwu
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Hongwu Emperor
The Hongwu Emperor (October 21, &#;– June 24, ), known in China as Zhu Yuanzhang, was the first emperor of the Ming part of China's history.
Names
[change | change source]The Hongwu Emperor's real name was Zhū Chóngbā.[a] It is written 朱重八 in Chinese writing. His given name was Chongba and his family were the Zhus, but Chinese people write their family names first.
His name means "Double Eight", which is a lucky number in Chinese culture. People say his parents called him that because their ages at the time added together to make [b] He was also their eighth child.
Emperor hongwu biography
In old China, there were many rules about names and who could use them. People used boys' real names but, when they became men at age 20,[b] only older members of their families could call them that.
Other people used a special courtesy name to be polite. When he became a man, Zhu Chongba chose the name Xīngzōng,[a] meaning that he wanted to bring succ