Kublai Khan Renames the State 'Great Yuan'

Timeline

1. 1271Yuan Dadu · North ChinaAfter Kublai quelled internal strife and consolidated his throne, elder courtiers repeatedly petitioned at court, arguing that the great enterprise was accomplished and a Han-style state name should be established early to proclaim orthodoxy, laying public opinion and institutional groundwork for renaming the state Great Yuan.
2. 1271Yuan Dadu · North ChinaKublai formally issued the Edict on Establishing the State Name at Dadu, proclaiming the state name Great Yuan, taking the meaning of 'qianyuan' from the Book of Changes, replacing place or tribal names with a philosophical concept as the state name; the edict declared 'continuing the lineage of the hundred kings'.
3. 1271–1272Yuan Dadu · North ChinaAfter the renaming to Great Yuan, the Yuan ruled the Han lands as the 'Emperor of Great Yuan', incorporating the Mongol-Yuan regime into the orthodox sequence of Chinese dynasties, profoundly influencing the Ming and Qing practice of naming states by righteous terms, and strengthening the legal basis for national unification.