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  Emperor Huizong (Song Dynasty) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Huizong (November 2, 1082 – June 4, 1135) was the eighth and one of the most famous emperors of the Song Dynasty of China, with a personal life spent amidst luxury, sophistication and art but ending in tragedy.
Huizong was famed for his promotion of Taoism, and was one of the three Chinese emperors to prohibit Buddhism.
Huizong and Qinzong were demoted to the rank of commoners by the Jin on March 20, 1127.
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 China to 1126 CE
In 960, amid the chaos in China, troops of the commander of the palace guard at the new capital at Kaifeng, surrounded him and demanded that he become emperor.
China had a military but no warrior class, and its military was neglected, with little attention being given to the arts of warfare.
Huizong's ninth son survived and continued the Song dynasty in southern China - from around the Yangzi River southward, and as far eastward as Sichuan province.
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 Song Dynasty Online Research :: Information about Song Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The northern Jin dynasty was overrun by the Mongols in 1234, who subsequently took control of northern China and maintained uneasy relations with the Southern Song court (A hasty peace treaty was settled, when Kublai Khan received the news of Möngee's death, the ruler of the Mongols.
In 1276 the Southern Song court fled to Guangdong by boat, fleeing Mongol invaders, leaving Emperor Gong of Song China behind.
On March 19, 1279 the Song army was defeated in its last battle, the Battle of Yamen, fought against the Mongols in the Pearl River Delta ; subsequently a high official is said to have taken the boy emperor in his arms and jumped from a clifftop into the sea, drowning both of them.
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 Emperor Huizong of Song China -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Stricken with panic, Huizong abdicated on January 18, 1126 in favor of his son who became (additional info and facts about Emperor Qinzong) Emperor Qinzong (欽宗).
The Song empire, however, had to sign a humiliating treaty with the Jin, agreeing to pay a colossal war indemnity and to give a (Payment by one nation for protection by another) tribute to Jin every year.
One of the sons of Huizong managed to escape to Southern China where after many years of struggle he would establish the (additional info and facts about Southern Song Dynasty) Southern Song Dynasty, of whom he was the first emperor, (additional info and facts about Emperor Gaozong) Emperor Gaozong (高宗).
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Among the most memorable abdications of antiquity may be mentioned that of Lucius Cornelius Sulla the Dictator in 79 BC, that of Emperor Diocletian in AD 305, and Emperor Romulus Augustus in AD 476.
Probably the most famous abdication in recent memory is that of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom in 1936, who abdicated the British throne in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson, over the objections of the British establishment, the governments of the Commonwealth, the royal family and the Church of England.
He was already Emperor of Brazil when he succeeded to the throne of Portugal in 1826, but abdicated it at once in favour of his daughter Maria II of Portugal.
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When an emperor ascended to the throne, he would adopt a throne name (for example, the throne name for Akihito, current Emperor of Japan, is Heisei).
From the day that the new emperor ascended to the throne to the end of the calendar year, whether lunar or solar, was considered the first year of his reign (--元年).
Jianzhongjingguo (建中靖國 jian4 zhong1 jing4 guo2), the first era name of Emperor Huizong of Song China, means "establishing a happy medium and cleansing the country", reflecting his idealism towards moderating the rivalry among the conservative and progressive parties on political and social reformation.
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 Encyclopedia: Yue Fei
China is the worlds oldest continuous major civilization, with written records dating back about 3,500 years and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization.
Eventually, corrupt officials, the most famous being Qin Hui (秦檜), a traitor, persuaded the Emperor Gaozong to recall Yue Fei to the capital with twelve golden plaques (representing the Emperor's authority) just as he was about to attack the capital of the Jin Dynasty and win the war.
Emperor Gaozong (June 12, 1107 –; November 9, 1187), born Zhao Gou, was the tenth emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, and the first emperor of the Southern Song.
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The era lasted for as long as the emperor reigned; when a new emperor was crowned, a new name would be chosen, and a new era would begin.
Emperor Wu of Han China (Han Wudi) was conventionally regarded as the first emperor to declare an era name; however he was only the first to use an era name in every year of his reign.
In addition, while the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of China only recognize documents dated in the Era System, their treaties with other countries are in the CE system.
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 Emperor Song Huizong's Ideal in Qingming Shanghe Tu:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
During Huizong’s reign (1100 to 1125) as the last emperor of the Northern Song dynasty, the empire suffered foreign invasion and was forced to accept humiliating political compromises.
Huizong's response to this declining power and prestige of the empire was to focus on artistic projects in an attempt to create a visual illusion of ruiying ("auspicious responses") to his reign and to symbolically refer to himself as an "enlightened ruler of [heaven's] son" (Sturman 34).
In China during the Song dynasty, men and women were strongly differentiated and segregated, in accord with the Confucian belief that this segregation was essential to the maintenance of a peaceful empire (Ebrey 24).
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 Song Jiang - Art History Online Reference and Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Song Jiang (宋江) was the leader of a bandit group in the 12th century, during the Song Dynasty.
Song Jiang is mentioned in the historical texts toward the end of the reign of Emperor Huizong.
Song Jiang's bandits were active in the prefectures of Chuzhou and Haizhou (now in central Jiangsu province) in early 1112.
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 Song Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Emperor Zhenzong dispatched a minister (Zhang Qixian) to Jing-Yuan areas as jinglüe shi, and Zhang proposed that the city of Lingwu on the west Yellow River Bend be abandoned.
Song's new prime minister, Chen Yizhong, sent Liu Yue to Mongols in the attempt of expressing ackowledgement as a Mongol vassal, but Liu Yue was killed by a Song Chinese civilian on route, at Gaoyou of Jiangsu Province.
Song Court was frequently on the run, from one island to another, along the coast, and on May 8th of AD 1278, the new Song Emperor died of illness within two years of enthronement.
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 Ethics of China 7 BC To 1279 by Sanderson Beck
He forced the Eastern Qin emperor to abdicate and founded the Liu Song dynasty at Jiankang in 420; but it was overthrown in 479 by a general named Xiao Daocheng, who proclaimed the Qi dynasty.
As the Sui empire was disintegrating, Yang Di fled to southern China, where he was assassinated in his bath by a descendant of the Yuwen family and the son of his general Yuwen Shu in 618.
Ren Dejing, a former Song military commander whose daughter was an empress dowager, led the effort that suppressed the rebellion.
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 Emperor Huizong ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Jacques Callot, The Catafalque of Emperor Mathias, 1619
Guillaume Chasteau, Death of the Emperor Germanicus, 1663
Antonio Pisano (Pisanello) - Sketches of the Emperor John VIII Palaeologus, a Monk, and a Scabbard 1438 pen and brown ink on The Art Institute of Chicago Italian
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 biology - Chinese era name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Declaration of another era name when one was in use was regarded as a challenge to the current emperor.
Emperors from the Tang Dynasty up to but not including the Ming Dynasty are better identified by their unique temple names.
Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty emperors are known by their era names, because during these two dynasties the practice was to choose only one motto for the whole reign.
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 Search Results for Emperor Huizong of Song China - Encyclopædia Britannica
Penultimate emperor of the Northern Song dynasty in China.
Fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty in China.
Includes articles on emperors and profiles of their dynasties, and features family trees and maps of cities.
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 Huizong (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Huizong may refer to one of two Chinese emperors:
Emperor Huizong of Song China (徽宗 Huīzōng), who reigned from 1100 to 1125
Emperor Huizong of Yuan China (惠宗 Huì Zōng), who reigned from 1333 to 1368
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 Portraits of Emperors
Kangxi was the 4-th emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
The portrait shows the young emperor Kangxi, sitting at his writing table and holding a thick writing brush.
On the marble top of the table there are paper, ink, brush and inkstone, the "Four Treasures of the Study"; they are the tools of the painter and calligrapher.
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Table of Chinese monarchs The right hand column from the Han Dynasty onward lists all era names (394 KB, the second largest I.Q. Expand article).
Comparative historical timlines and era names of China, Japan and Korea (in Japanese) (http://homepage1.nifty.com/history/history.html)
This page was last modified 18:06, 7 Jan 2005.
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Emperors were often known by several different names - the family name, reign title, temple name and various honorary titles.
Many early emperors had more than one reign title but by the Ming and Qing periods, just one was kept throughout the reign.
Spring and Autumn Period 771 BC - 481 BC
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