Career
Mu Ying was one of the few capable generals who survived the massacre of Hongwu. Mu and his descendants guarded Yunnan, a province near Burma and Vietnam, until the end of the Ming dynasty. As late as the 1650s, his descendant Mu Tianbao was one of the main supporters of the Yongli Emperor, the last emperor of the Southern Ming, and accompanied the fugitive emperor all the way into Burma.
Tazaka, Chugoku ni okeru kaikyo, 861, for example, questions not only Chang Yuqun’s identification as a Huihui but that of many others as well.
The descendants of Mu Ying are featured in Louis Cha"s Wuxia novel The Deer and the Cauldron, set in the early Qing Dynasty.