The Setting Sun Is Like Blood: the Last Ming Dynasty

Nan Ming's sadness lies not in "losing", but in "could not have lost". Too much internal friction, too much suspicion, and too much selfishness allowed the Manchu Qing to defeat them one by one. Book It's not a "heroic epic", it's a "tragic elegy" It's not "the belief that you must win", it's "doing it knowing you can't do it" It's not "patriotic education", it's "memory of the deceased" Emperors of Southern Ming Dynasty ├── Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong (1644-1645) - captured and died in Beijing ├── Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian (1645-1646) - was killed in Tingzhou and died for his country ├── Emperor Shaowu Zhu Yuxuan (1646) - Hanged himself in Guangzhou and died for his country ├── Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang (1646-1662) - strangled to death and martyred for his country └── Taiping King Zhu Shugui (1683)——Taiwan hanged himself and finally died as king Anti-Qing power ├── civil servant │ ├── Shi Kefa (died for his country in Yangzhou) │ ├── Qu Shichun (died for his country in Guilin) │ └── Zhang Huangyan (died in Hangzhou) ├── general │ ├── Li Dingguo (King of Two Knocks) │ ├── Zheng Chenggong (recovered Taiwan) │ └── Qin Liangyu (female general) └── righteous man ├── Yan Yingyuan (Jiangyin Classical History) ├── Hou Tongzeng (Jiayi scholar) └── Xia Wanchun (Young Hero) In 1662, Emperor Yongli was strangled to death by Wu Sangui, and Nanming was destroyed.