Bayan

Bayan

▪ Mongolian minister
flourished 14th century, China
died 1340, Nanchang, Jiangxi province

      powerful Mongol minister in the last years of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty (Yuan dynasty) (1206–1368) of China. His anti-Chinese policies heightened discontent among the Chinese, especially the educated, and resulted in widespread rebellion.

      In the early years of the reign (1333–68) of the emperor Togon-temür, Bayan assumed almost complete control of the government, the emperor being uninterested in affairs of state. Bayan's desire was to stop the absorption of the Mongols into Chinese culture and buttress their declining power within China. He suspended the civil service examinations and decreed that only Mongols could hold offices. He issued a number of other proscriptions making it illegal for Chinese to learn to read either Mongol or Arabic script, to wear certain colours, and to use certain ideographs, including those for “long life” and “happiness.” Finally he proposed that all Chinese with the surnames Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao be executed. Since these were among the most common family names in China, the carrying out of this order would have caused the extermination of 90 percent of the population. Although this last proposal was not adopted, rebellions broke out repeatedly, and Bayan was finally deposed and banished by his nephew in 1340 and died on the road for exile. It was possible to reverse his policies, but the deterioration of the dynasty had become irreversible. It was supplanted by the Ming (Ming dynasty) in 1368.

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