In the early years of the Qing Dynasty during the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor, the central government's influence was not strong enough and the rulers were unable to control the provinces in southern ...
The Kangxi Dictionary editors, including Zhang Yushu (張玉書) and Chen Tingjing (陳廷敬), based it partly on two Ming Dynasty dictionaries: the 1615 Zihui (字彙 "Character Collection") by Mei Yingzuo ...
Kangxi was the great consolidator of the Qing Dynasty. The transition from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing was a cataclysm whose central event was the fall of the capital Beijing to the peasant rebels le ...
The contents of the national treasury during Kangxi's reign were:1668 (7th year of Kangxi): 14,930,000 taels1692: 27,385,631 taels1702–1709: approximately 50,000,000 taels with little variation durin ...
The main army of the Qing Empire, the Eight Banners Army, was in decline under Kangxi. It was smaller than it had been at its peak under Hong Taiji and in the early reign of the Shunzhi Emperor; howev ...
A tangzhuang (Chinese: 唐装; pinyin: tángzhuāng; literally: "Chinese suit" ) is a Chinese jacket that originated at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). The tangzhuang evolved from the magua (C ...
The Ming loyalist and grandson of Koxinga, Zheng Keshuang was inducted into the Chinese (Hanjun) Plain Red Banner after surrendering to the Qing.A descendant of the Ming dynasty Imperial Family, Zhu Z ...
The banner system was established by Nurhaci in the early seventeenth century. By 1601 Nurhaci was reorganizing his military forces into the basic structure of the banners and some evidence suggests t ...
Chinese language usage Two women wearing cheongsam in a 1930s Shanghai advertisement.The English loanword cheongsam comes from chèuhngsāam (Simp./Trad. Chinese: 长衫/長衫, 'long shirt/dress'), the C ...
Types include tops (yi) and bottoms (divided further into pants and skirts for both genders, with terminologies chang or qun), and one-piece robes that wrap around the body once or several times (shen ...
Hanfu has a history of more than three millennia, and is said to have been worn by the legendary Yellow Emperor. From the beginning of its history, Hanfu (especially in elite circles) was inseparable ...
Jurchen men wore their hair in queues like their Manchu descendants. In 1126 the Jurchen initially ordered male Han within their conquered territories to adopt Jurchen hairstyle by shaving the front o ...
Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jimao, the "Three Feudatories", rebelled against the Kangxi Emperor. They dominated southern China, and Wu declared the "Zhou Dynasty". However, their disunity destroye ...
Jianzhou Jurchen chief Nurhaci is retrospectively identified as the founder of the Qing dynasty. In 1616 he declared himself khagan. His unifying efforts gave the Jurchen the strength to assert themse ...
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.Lowest estimate Highest estimate Event Location From To Notes15,000,000 55,000,000 Great Chinese Famine People's Republic of China 1958 1962 Durin ...
