Dan Snow
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15,041 appearances
104 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard today
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Finally, in fourteen oh two, Zhu Di's troops arrived at the gates of Nanjing.
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They stormed the place, burned the palace, and the young emperor vanished.
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His fate still remains one of Chinese history's greatest unsolved mysteries.
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Zhu Di then seized the throne of his father and took the title Yong Le
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Meaning perpetual happiness.
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The usurper, now emperor.
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began constructing his capital.
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In Beijing.
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And to signal that he held the mandate of heaven, the divine right to rule, he started building a series of imperial complexes to convey the mighty cosmic power that he held.
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He was the mediator now between the heavens and the people.
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And one of those complexes was the gobsmacking, the jaw dropping palace, the forbidden city.
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Another one of them is the beautifully ornate Temple of Heaven.
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So Jeremiah, why do we hear so much about the mandate of heaven?
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What does it actually mean?
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it's something that reinforces success.
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If you can seize the throne, if you can make it work, then well, maybe heaven
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So managing that relationship with heaven must be very important to the emperors.
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And how's that reflected in like
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We just come to what's called the Temple of Heaven, but it looks to me like a sort of a complex.
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Is this the ritual center of Beijing
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