Zhu Yuanzhang was born in 1328 (the first year of the calendar year), ranking fourth in his family and eighth among his family brothers. So it was called Zhu Chongba, and later it was renamed Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Shi, Jurong, Jinling. He lives in Zhu Jiaxiang and belongs to Tongde Township. His land is in Jurong, Jiangsu today, and Zhu Yuanzhang made a living from agriculture for generations. His father, grandfather, great-grandfather and other generations are all delinquent teenagers, hiding debts everywhere in the Huaihe River basin, trying to find a place to be tenants, so that they can live a well-fed life here. He is the youngest child among the surviving brothers and sisters. Except the oldest child, all the other children were given away or married because they couldn't afford him.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very poor when he was a child. He used to herd cattle for the landlord. 1344 (four years from Yuan to Zheng Zheng), entered the ancestral temple. At the age of 25, he joined the Red Scarf Army led by Guo Zixing against the Yuan Dynasty. 1356 (16 years ago), was honored as Wu Gong by his subordinates. In the same year, Qing Ji Road was captured and changed to Yingtianfu. 1368 (28th year of Zheng Zheng), Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtianfu, with the title of Daming and the title of Hongwu. Later, it ended the rule of Mengyuan in the Central Plains, pacified Sichuan, Guangxi, Gansu and Yunnan, and finally unified China.

During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he ordered farmers to return to farming and reward reclamation; Vigorously engage in resettlement and military camp construction; Organize local farmers to build water conservancy projects; Vigorously promote the cultivation of mulberry, hemp, cotton and other cash crops and fruit and wood crops, he will only enrich the people and restrain the mighty; Ordered the liberation of handmaiden; Reduce the tax burden and severely punish corrupt officials; Send people to all parts of the country to measure land, audit accounts and so on. After the efforts of Hongwu period, social production gradually recovered and developed, which is called the rule of Hongwu in history. 1380 (in the 13th year of Hongwu), Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister and set up three departments, namely, the propaganda department, the sentencing department, the judicial department and the command post, to decentralize and further strengthen the centralization.

1398 (thirty-one year of Hongwu), Zhu Yuanzhang died in Yingtian at the age of 7 1, the temple name was Taizu, and posthumous title was the Great Sage of Kaitian, becoming the Emperor Shen Wenyi and Wu Junde. Bury the Ming tombs in Nanjing. [

Zhu Yuanzhang is smart and far-sighted, brave and good at fighting, collecting heroes, pacifying the four seas, collecting talents, respecting agriculture and mulberry, carrying forward rites and music, praising righteousness and respecting education, and formulating various laws and regulations that are suitable for it. Since ancient times, unprecedented. However, his violent personality and preference for killing made a generation of founding fathers rarely die well, which was Zhu Yuanzhang's shortcoming.