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Brief introduction of yuan dynasty history
1, yuan dynasty history, from the eighth year of Zhiyuan (127 1), Kublai Khan, a Mongolian, established the Yuan Dynasty, and in the first year of Hongwu (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the autumn Ming Dynasty, conquered the capital, and the rule of the Yuan Dynasty came to an end. A total of 98 years.

2. The predecessor of Yuan Dynasty was Great Mongolia. In the first year of Genghis Khan (1206), Genghis Khan unified the ministries in Mobei and established Great Mongolia. Mongolia successively attacked Xixia and the Jin Dynasty, Genghis Khan conquered Xixia in August in the 22nd year (1227), and Yuan Taizong conquered the Jin Dynasty in March in the 6th year (1234), completely owning North China. In the west, Mongolia launched three western expeditions, making the Mongolian empire dominate Eurasia.

3. In the ninth year of Yuan Xianzong (1259), after Mongo died in Yuan Xianzong in the Song War, Kublai Khan, the fourth brother who owned the Han family, competed with Ali Bouguer, the seventh brother who was supported by Mongolian nobles in Mobei for the position of Khan, and was finally won by Kublai Khan in the first year of Zhiyuan (1264). From Kublai Khan to the eighth year of Yuan Dynasty (127 1), the country name was changed to "Dayuan" and the Yuan Dynasty was established, namely Yuan Shizu. This war broke the relationship between the four great khans of Mongolia and Kublai Khan, and it was not until the Yuan Chengzong period that Yuan Di was recognized as the Great Khan. In the 13th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1276), the Yuan Dynasty conquered the Southern Song Dynasty, unified the whole of China, and ended the division situation of more than 400 years since the end of the Tang Dynasty.

4. The period from Yuan Shizu to Yuan Wuzong was the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, which pacified the northwest militarily, but it was defeated repeatedly in conquering Japan and Southeast Asian countries, including the fiasco in the Yuan-Japanese War. In the middle of Yuan Dynasty, the throne changed frequently, and politics was never on the right track. In the later period of Yuan Shundi, due to the lazy administration and the indiscriminate issuance of paper money, inflation was caused. In order to control the Yellow River flood, the corvee was aggravated, which eventually led to the uprising at the end of Yuan Dynasty in the 11th year of Zheng Zhi (135 1). In the first year of Hongwu (1368), after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he sent Xu Da to the Northern Expedition to capture Dadu. Yuan Ting retired to Mobei, known as Beiyuan in history. In the fourth year of Wen Jian (1402), Li Chi, a ghost minister of Yuan Dynasty, usurped the throne and established Tatar, and died in the Northern Yuan Dynasty.