In the later period of the Yuan Dynasty, the land was centralized. The people were poor, andethnic conflicts and class contradictions were intensified.
元朝后期土地集中，人民贫困，阶级矛盾和民族矛盾激化。
The rule of the Yuan Dynasty grew more and more corrupt. The scrambling for the throne was terribly serious.
元朝的统治也日趋腐朽，帝位之争异常激烈。
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the plagues of locusts, drought, flood and earthquake took place one after another and year after year.
元朝末年连年出现蝗旱、水灾和地震。
The natural disasters and man-made calamities pushed the masses to the edge of the death. Therefore rebellions happened one by one.
天灾人祸把广大人民群众推到死亡的边沿，武装起义相继而起。
The rising up of the Red Turbans led by Liu Futong destroyed the reign of Yuan completely.
刘福通领导的红巾起义从根本上瓦解了元朝的统治。
In 1352, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was a tenant, joined the Red Turbans led by Guo Zixing, and he developed his power and influence step by step. In 1367, he issued the war proclamation against Yuan and raised a clarion call “to drive out the Dalu and restore China”. He sent the generals Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to fight in the North.
1352年佃农出身的朱元璋参加了郭子兴的红巾军并逐步扩大自己的势力和力量，于1367年发布讨元檄文，提出“驱逐鞑虏，恢复中华”的口号，派大将徐达、常遇春率军北伐。
In the year of 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang made himself the emperor in Yingtian and founded the Ming Dynasty.
1368年朱元璋在应天称帝，建立明朝，始称明太祖。
He was honored Ming Taizu (the first king of the Ming Dynasty). In the same year, the Ming armies occupied Dadu. The Mongol gentry escaped to the North, and the Yuan Dynasty died out.
同年，明军攻占大都，蒙古贵族逃亡塞北，元朝灭亡。
The features and historical meaning of the Peasant Uprisings at the end of Yuan：The Peasant Uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty is a great struggle a-gainst the Yuan feudal control and national oppression with the major force of the Hans and the other nationalities.
元末农民大起义的特点和历史意义:元末农民大起义是以汉族人民为主体、包括其他各族劳动人民在内的反对元朝封建统治和民族压迫的一场大规摸斗争。
The peasant armies raised the call to fight against the Yuan and restore Song, which had the color of national struggle, but actually a class one.
农民军在斗争中提出反元复宋等口号，带有民族斗争的色彩，但其实质仍然是阶级斗争。
The peasant uprising overthrew the Yuan Dynasty though it was made use by the class of landlords as tools to change dynasties. It made the four Khan countries lose their common leader, and this is a great event with world historical importance.
元末农民大起义虽然最后被地主阶级利用去作为改朝换代的工具，但它推翻了元朝，使四大汗国失去了共主，这是具有世界历史意义的大事。
It blew the feudal landlords with the Mongol gentry as the main force and the peasants got certain land.
这次起义打击了以蒙古贵族为首的封建地主阶级,使农民获得部分土地。
In the rising, many Qukou (they had lower social status than the tenants), slaves and craftsmen got their freedom and created conditions for the production development in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.
在起义中，大量驱口（比当时佃农的社会地位还要低）、奴隶、匠户争得了自由，为明初的生产发展创造了条件。
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