YUNG-LO

born May 2, 1360, Nanking died Aug. 5, 1424, en route to Peking Pinyin Yonglo (reign name), temple name (ming) Ch'eng Tsu, or (ming) T'ai Tsung, posthumous name, or shih, Wen Ti, personal name Chu Ti third emperor (140224) of China's Ming dynasty, which he raised to its greatest power. He moved the capital from Nanking to Peking, which was rebuilt with the Forbidden City. Additional reading The major source on the Yung-lo emperor and his reign is the official reign chronicle known as T 'ai-tsung shih-lu (Veritable Records of T'ai-tsung). Relevant modern scholarship, especially by Westerners, is not abundant. One of the more useful references is Gungwu Wang, China and South-east Asia, 14021424, in Jerome Ch'en and Nicholas Tarling (eds.), Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia, pp. 375401 (1970).