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Zhu Youlang

Yongli Emperor
Commandery Prince of Yongming
(永明王)
Prince of Gui lineage (桂王系)
Reign ? - 1646
Predecessor title created
Successor title repealed, as promoted as Prince of Gui
Prince of Gui (桂王)
Reign 1646
Predecessor Zhu You'ai, Prince Gong
Successor Zhu Ci...
Emperor of Southern Ming
Reign 18 November 1646 - 1 June 1662
Predecessor Shaowu Emperor &
Successor Ming dynasty collapsed
Born (1623-11-01)November 1, 1623
Died June 1, 1662(1662-06-01) (aged 38)
Empress Empress Xiao Gang Kuang
Issue Zhu Cijue
Zhu Ci...
Zhu Cixuan, Crown Prince Aimin
Zhu Ci...
Zhu Ciwei
Zhu Ciyi
Zhu Cichao
Full name
Zhu Youlang (朱由榔)
Era name and dates
Yongli (永曆): 18 November 1646 – 1 June 1662
Posthumous name
Emperor Yingtian Tuidao Minyi Gongjian Jingwen Weiwu Liren Kexiao Kuang
应天推道敏毅恭检经文纬武礼仁克孝匡皇帝
Temple name
Zhaozong (昭宗)
House Southern Ming dynasty (House of Zhu)
Father Zhu Changying, Prince Duan of Gui / Emperor Lizong
Mother Lady Maria Ma, Empress Dowager Zhaosheng Cihui Renshou
Full name
Zhu Youlang (朱由榔)
Era name and dates
Yongli (永曆): 18 November 1646 – 1 June 1662
Posthumous name
Emperor Yingtian Tuidao Minyi Gongjian Jingwen Weiwu Liren Kexiao Kuang
应天推道敏毅恭检经文纬武礼仁克孝匡皇帝
Temple name
Zhaozong (昭宗)

The Yongli Emperor (Chinese: 永曆; 1623–1662; reigned 18 November 1646 – 1 June 1662), personal name Zhu Youlang, was the fourth and last emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty of China. His era name means "Perpetual calendar".

Zhu Youlang was the son of Zhu Changying (朱常瀛), the seventh son of the Wanli Emperor. He inherited the title Prince of Gui (桂王) from his brother and lived an obscure life as a minor member of the extremely large imperial family until the fall of Beijing and the suicide of Chongzhen, the last Ming emperor, in 1644. The true beneficiaries of the collapse of the Ming were the Manchus, a northeastern people that rapidly conquered northern China, the Lower Yangtze valley, and Central China. Descendants of the Ming continued to hang on in the south, and Youlang ascended the throne as the fourth Southern Ming emperor, with the reign-title Yongli in November 1646. Then he converted to Christianity thanks to the efforts of Jesuit Michał Boym. By 1661, pressed back into Yunnan province, he fled to Burma. A Manchu army followed and captured him there, and he was executed in June 1662.

In April 1644 the last Ming emperor to rule all China committed suicide as a rebel army entered Beijing. Six weeks later, on 5 June, the army of the Manchus, a people from beyond the Great Wall, entered the city and proclaimed the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing. In the following two years, as the Qing extended their control over northern China, the remaining Ming loyalists attempted to regroup in the south, but in rapid succession the Hongguang, Longwu, and Shaowu emperors were captured and executed.


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