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#239 - Ming 26: Red Lead Prescription

The History of China

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The Ming Dynasty and Fire

On april thirtieth, 15 forty one, a severe storm caused a conflagration to break out within the ancestral temple complex. It had taken only 24 years and two complete rebuilds of the Ancestral Temple Complex in China's Mingshui region. We're now going to take a closer look at the dodging emperor's still living family, and specifically his rather fraught maritable situation. As we will be noting here there is a lot of fire going on in this episode. And how much it was all subject to just poof, going up in smoke one day.

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