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The first Ming emperor, Hongwu (reigned 1368‒98), promulgated a series of laws and regulations governing the rites and protocols of the court to regulate its relations with royal family members, which formed the main clauses of the publication entitled Zu xun lu (Collected ancestral injunctions), completed in 1373. It was followed by a series of revisions made in 1376, 1381, and in 1395, when the title changed to Huang Ming zu xun, or Huang Ming bao xun (Ancestral injunctions of the Ming dynasty). This edition was printed during the ...