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The Jianwen Era was the Chinese era used for the reign of the Jianwen Emperor, the second emperor of China's Ming dynasty. It ran from 6 February 1399 to 29 July 1402, covering four years. After the Jingnan Campaign ended with his usurpation of the throne, the Yongle Emperor retroactively annulled the Jianwen Era. Official Chinese records subsequently treated the years of the Jianwen Era as continuations of the preceding Hongwu Era, Jianwen 1–4 becoming Hongwu 32–35. The Wanli Emperor issued an edict in 1595 (Wanli 23) to restore the Jianwen era name. Note that Chinese eras run from Chinese New Year to Chinese New Year using the Chinese lunisolar calendar and do not precisely correspond with Gregorian dates.

It is worth noting that the Yongle Emperor never announced the abolition of the Jianwen era name. Some scholars believe that the abolition of the era name was not Yongle's original intention but only the actions of his subordinates. Some people also believe that the Yongle Emperor recklessly tampered with the history of the Jianwen era by re-editing "Taizu Shilu" (太祖實錄) and "Fengtian Jingnan Ji" (奉天靖難記), which is actually equivalent to abolishing the Jianwen era name, but he is unwilling to personally implement it publicly and bear historical responsibility.

Comparison table

Other eras contemporaneous with Jianwen

• Vietnam
  • Kiến Tân (建新, 1398–1400): Trần dynasty — era name of Trần Thiếu Đế
  • Thánh Nguyên (聖元, 1400): Hồ dynasty — era name of Hồ Quý Ly
  • Thiệu Thành (紹成, 1401–1403): Hồ dynasty — era name of Hồ Hán Thương
• Japan
  • Ōei (応永, 1394–1428): Japan — era name of Emperor Go-Komatsu and Emperor Shōkō

See also

• List of Chinese era names
• List of Ming dynasty era names

References

1. 張廷玉. 成祖  – via Wikisource.「〔建文四年〕己巳，王謁孝陵。群臣備法駕，奉寶璽，迎呼萬歲。王升輦，詣奉天殿即皇帝位。……秋七月壬午朔，大祀天地於南郊，奉太祖配。詔：『今年以洪武三十五年為紀，明年為永樂元年。……』」
2. 《明史》卷20。
3. 潘忠泉,李怡 (2006). "建文朝年号革除考述". 北方论丛 (3): 82–85.

• 李崇智 (2004). 中國歷代年號考. 北京: 中華書局. ISBN 7101025129.
• 鄧洪波 (2005). 東亞歷史年表. 臺北: 國立臺灣大學東亞經典與文化研究計劃. ISBN 9789860005189. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2021-11-26.

• Chinese imperial eras