flourishing silk road links were severed when the ming dynasty ceased trading.
当明王朝中止贸易后,一度繁荣的丝绸之路中断了。
thus, quite a few qing schol-ars attributed the fall of the ming dynasty to emperor chongzhen「s execution of his ablest general,yuan chonghuan.
清代就有不少学者把明朝的覆亡归咎于崇祯皇帝处决了他手下最具才干的大将袁崇焕。
「the deer &the cauldron」 is set in the mid-17th century, some 20 years after the chinese ming dynasty has fallen to fearsome tartar invaders, the manchus.
indeed, the fact that the wall continues to stand at all is a tribute to the ingenuity of ming dynasty engineers, who mixed sticky rice into the wall」s mortar.
that, he argues, was what happened to ancient rome, the ming dynasty in 17th-century china, the bourbons in 18th-century france, 20th-century britain and, most recently, the soviet union.
in the ming dynasty about 500 years ago, it became such a holy food that emperors would offer it to their officials during festivals.
在大约500年前的明代,腊八粥成为如此神圣的食品,以至皇帝在节日期间向他的官员们提供。
dating back to 1545, this ming dynasty temple was built against the side of a massive cliff that stands like a pillar on the bank of the yangtze river.
石宝寨的历史可以追溯至1545年,其始建于明朝,是一座建造在四壁如削耸立在江边的悬崖上的建筑。
when china's imperial1 court moved from nanjing to beijing during the ming dynasty in 1420, sites were required for supplication to the gods.
公元1420年,明朝将京城由南京迁至北京,同时大兴土木,在四个主要方位修建一些向神明祈祷的建筑。
shark fin, of course, is the namesake ingredient of shark fin soup, a popular delicacy in china since the ming dynasty and now eaten in chinese restaurants around the world.
「our forefathers had been mining for mercury since the ming dynasty [1368-1644] and in olden days there was no pollution from such small mines, 」 said a 72-year-old farmer, named shen.