Editing Sichuan (section)

===Ming dynasty===
[[File:"Suchuen, Imperii Sinarum provincia sexta. " (22065652598).jpg|thumb|Map of {{lang|la|Suchuen}} (Sichuan) from [[Willem Blaeu|Willem]] and [[Joan Blaeu]]'s 1659 ''[[Atlas Maior|Geographia Blaviana]]''.]]
The Ming dynasty defeated [[Ming Yuzhen]]'s Xia polity which ruled Sichuan.<ref name="MoteTwitchett1988">{{cite book |author1=Frederick W. Mote |author2=Denis Twitchett |title=The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyhT9SZRLS8C&pg=PA125 |date=26 February 1988 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-24332-2 |pages=125–127 |access-date=2 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128142547/https://books.google.com/books?id=tyhT9SZRLS8C&pg=PA125 |archive-date=28 November 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the [[Ming dynasty]], major architectural works were created in Sichuan. Buddhism remained influential in the region. [[Bao'en Temple (Pingwu)|Bao'en Temple]] is a well-preserved 15th-century monastery complex built between 1440 and 1446 during the [[Emperor Yingzong of Ming|Zhengtong Emperor]]'s reign (1427–64). Dabei Hall enshrines a thousand-armed wooden image of [[Guanyin]] and Huayan Hall is a repository with a revolving [[sutra]] cabinet. The wall paintings, sculptures, and other ornamental details are masterpieces of the Ming period.<ref name="pan">{{cite book |first=Pan |last=Guxi |year=2002 |title=Chinese Architecture – The Yuan and Ming Dynasties |edition=English |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chinesearchitect0000unse/page/245 245–246] |isbn=0-300-09559-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/chinesearchitect0000unse/page/245}}</ref>

In the middle of the 17th century, the peasant rebel leader [[Zhang Xianzhong]] (1606–1646) from [[Yan'an]], [[Shaanxi]] Province, nicknamed ''Yellow Tiger'', led his peasant troop from north China to the south and conquered Sichuan. Upon capturing it, he declared himself emperor of the Daxi dynasty ({{lang|zh|大西王朝}}). In response to the resistance from local elites, he massacred a large number of people in Sichuan, killing around one in three people.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dillon|first=Michael|title=China: A Cultural and Historical Dictionary|publisher=Routledge|year=1998 |isbn=978-0700704392 |page=379 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VA5tKw11K8YC&pg=PA379 }} from J.B. Parsons, The Peasant Rebellions of the Late Ming Dynasty (University of Arizona Press). 1970</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0411/cn8-3.html |title=Skeletons of massacre victims uncovered at construction site |date=11 April 2002 |publisher=[[Shanghai Star]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060422024601/http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0411/cn8-3.html | archive-date = 22 April 2006 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> As a result of the massacre as well as years of turmoil during the [[Qing conquest of the Ming|Ming-Qing transition]], the population of Sichuan fell sharply, requiring massive resettlement of people from the neighboring [[Huguang Province]] (modern Hubei and Hunan) and other provinces during the Qing dynasty.<ref name="parsons">{{cite journal |title=The Culmination of a Chinese Peasant Rebellion: Chang Hsien-chung in Szechwan, 1644–46 |author=James B. Parsons |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=387–400 |year=1957 |doi=10.2307/2941233 |jstor=2941233 |s2cid=162377335}}</ref><ref name="Dai"/><ref name="Dai2009">{{cite book |author=Yingcong Dai |title=The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYHfVVAAf_kC&pg=PA16 |year=2009 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0-295-98952-5 |pages=16– |access-date=2 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128213258/https://books.google.com/books?id=DYHfVVAAf_kC&pg=PA16 |archive-date=28 November 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>