Revival Lê dynasty

Later Lê Restoration
House of Later Lê
1533–1789
Map of Vietnam 1560
Capital		Đông Kinh
Languages		Vietnamese
Religion		Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism
Government		Monarchy
Emperor
•	1533–1548	Lê Trang Tông (eleventh)
•	1786–1789	Lê Chiêu Thống (last)
History
•	Mạc Đăng Dung retreated to Cao Bằng	1533
•	Kỷ Dậu Victory	1789
Currency		Văn (Sapèque)
Preceded by Succeeded by Mạc dynasty Tây Sơn dynasty Nguyễn lords Trịnh lords
Today part of		Vietnam  Laos  Cambodia  China

The Lê dynasty Restoration (Chinese: 中興黎朝, Vietnamese: Triều Lê trung-hưng; 1533 – 1789) is a distinction current in Annamese historiography.

The dynasty to distinguish the 256-year-long period of the Later Lê when, following a six-year civil war, the emperor were restored as figureheads, but power was held by a succession of warlords, from the 100-year-long Later Lê, when the emperor-kings had actually ruled and held power.

In 1533, the Nguyễn-Trịnh alliance captured the Dongkinh (Eastern Capital) of Annam and crowned Lê Trang Tông as the next Lê emperor. In official Annamese history, this date marks the end of the Mạc dynasty though the reality was quite different. Mạc Đăng Dung ruled in Hanoi till his death in 1541 and his descendants ruled in Hanoi until 1592. The country was divided into two portions though gradually the Trịnh-Nguyen alliance took over more and more of the country from the Mạc (for more complete histories of this time: see the Trịnh lords article and the Nguyễn lords article).

In 1592, with the conquest of Dongkinh, Annamese emperor Lê Thế Tông, was installed in the ancient capital. The Lê emperors sat as figurehead rulers in Hanoi until the Tây Sơn Revolt finally swept the Trịnh and the Le out of power. The following is the official list of Lê emperors from 1533 until 1789 :

The stalemate between the Trịnh and the Nguyễn clan that began at the end of the XVII-century did not, however, mark the beginning of a period of peace and prosperity. Instead the decades of continual warfare between the two families had left the ruists and peasantry in a weakened state, the victim of taxes levied to support the courts and their military adventures. Having to meet their tax obligations had forced many peasants off the land and facilitated the acquisition of large tracts by a few wealthy landowners, nobles, and scholar—officials. Because scholar—officials were exempted from having to pay a land tax, the more land they acquired, the greater was the burden that fell on those peasants who had been able to retain their land. In addition, the peasantry faced new taxes on staple items such as charcoal, salt, silk, and cinnamon, and on commercial activities such as fishing and mining. The disparate condition of the economy led to neglect of the extensive network of irrigation systems as well.