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  Portraits of Emperors
Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties
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.
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  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Song Dynasty
During the Song Dynasty, there were many threats from the northern borders by the Khitans (契丹) from the Liao Dynasty (遼国), Tanguts from the Western Xia (西夏) Dynasty, and the Jurchens (女真) from the Jin dynasty (金国).
The reason was that Qinzong, the last emperor of the Northern Song was living in Jin-imposed exile in Manchuria and had a good chance of being recalled to the throne should the Jin Dynasty be destroyed.
Emperor Wányán Liàng failed in taking the Song and was assassinated by his own generals in December of 1161.
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 Chinese History - Song Dynasty 宋 event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
Emperor Song Taizong for his part tried to gain peace at the northeastern border by bestowing Li Jiqian with some nominal military commands and granting him the imperial surname Zhao 趙 (as the Tang emperors had granted his family the imperial surname Li 李), but the ruler of the Xia empire refused.
Emperor Jin Xuanzong 金宣宗 resumed war campaigns against the Song in the south, the first reason being a punishment for the delay of the annual tributes, the second reason was a territorial compensation for the losses to the Mongols.
The court of Emperor Lizong 宋理宗 was dominated by consort clans (Yan é—», Jia 賈) and the eunuchs Dong Songchen 董宋臣 and Lu Yunsheng 盧允昇.
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 A Concise History of China, Chapter 4
China still did not have a money economy, and it was impossibly slow and wasteful to transport the grain and clothing which made up the army's payroll by land; the only way to deliver it was by river or canal.
Consequently the Song was never in danger from rebellion, or the corrupt activities of eunuchs and concubines; the dynasty was ended by decades of the hardest kind of fighting against a clearly superior military force.
China's total population increased from 60 million at the beginning of the Song dynasty to about 100 million in the early twelfth century.
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 Emperor Xiaozong - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Emperor Xiaozong (November 27, 1127 – June 28, 1194) was the eleventh emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, and the second emperor of the Southern Song.
Xiaozong was the 7th generation descendant of Emperor Taizu, the founder of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Zicheng was the son of Zhao Linghua (趙令譮), known posthumously as Duke of Qing (慶國公), who was a fifth cousin of emperors Huizong and Zhezong.
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 All Empires History Forum: If not for General Yue Fei's Execution...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, although the Song Dynasty is considered one of the greatest heights of Chinese civilization, they weren't as relatively militarily strong as their predecessors of the Tang, Sui, and Han Dynasties in ancient China for several reasons.
Emperor Huizong himself neglected a lot of military affairs and only bothered fiscal constraints, busying himself in the luxury of his palace and devoting a lot of his time to refining the skills of poetry, calligraphy, music, and painting.
Emperor Zhezong was only 10 years old when he ascended to the throne under the supervision of the Empress Dowager Gao, as her regency was marked by her favoratism of the Chinese conservatives, appointing Sima Guang as Chancellor.
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 The Ultimate Song Dynasty Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The Northern Song (960-1127) signifies the time when the Song capital was in the northern city of Kaifeng and the dynasty controlled all China.
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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 Untitled Document
Su Song, a Chinese expert in the calculation of calendars, built an advanced astronomical clock in 1088.
Also, the only surviving plans for the tower were written for the emperor; hence there was no need to go into scientific details in describing it (How the Astronomical Clock Tower worked).
Because of the enormous span of time between the Song dynasty and the present day, creating a 100% replica is next to impossible.
www.thenagain.info /WebChron/Technology/SongClock.html   (740 words)

  
 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.
Not content with the annexation of the Liao kingdom, and measuring rightly the weakness of the Song empire, the Jin soon declared war on their former ally, and by the beginning of 1126 they crossed the Yellow River and came in sight of Kaifeng, the capital of the Song empire.
Huizong, his son Emperor Qinzong, as well as the entire imperial court and harem were captured by the Jin in the Jingkang Incident.
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 Emperor Zhezong of Song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Zhezong (January 4, 1076 – February 23, 1100) was the seventh emperor of the Song Dynasty of China.
Zhezong was powerless and it was not until Empress Dowager Gao's death in 1093 that Zhezong was able to reinstate Wang Anshi's reform and remove Sima Guang.
Zhezong died in 1100 in Kaifeng and was succeeded by his younger brother.
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 Song Sung Dynasty
The division was caused by the forced abandonment of north China in 1127 by the Song court, which could not push back the nomadic invaders.
The founders of the Song dynasty built an effective centralized bureaucracy staffed with civilian scholar-officials.
The Song dynasty is notable for the development of cities not only for administrative purposes but also as centers of trade, industry, and maritime commerce.
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 Sung - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As incorporated into the examination system (??), Zhu Xi's philosophy evolved into a rigid official creed, which stressed the one-sided obligations of obedience and compliance of subject to ruler, child to father, wife to husband, and younger brother to elder brother.
Meanwhile, two simultaneous rebellions of Jurchen nobles, led by soon-to-be crowned Jin Emperor Wányán Yong (???), and Khitan tribesman erupted in Manchuria, forcing the Jin Dynasty to withdraw its troops from southern China to quell the uprisings.
Although crowned in October, Emperor Wányán Yong was not officially recognized as the 5th successive Jin Emperor until the murder of Wányán Liŕng’s heir.
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 Articles > History > Dynasties > Northern Song Dynasty - Jongo Knows - Encyclopedia of China
Though a military man himself, the new Song emperor understood the threat that military governors posed to a central government.
Under their guidance, all reforms implemented during the reign of Emperor Shenzong were abolished (called the Yuanyou revision, Yuanyou genghua 元佑更化), disregarding even the profitable parts for the Song...
Song Dynasty and its northern neighbors, the Liao and the Jin (06-08-11)
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 Concubines for the Chinese Emperor - China History Forum, chinese history forum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics.
The number of concubines an emperor had were usually entirely up to his own discretion.
China History Forum is hosted on a AMD Opteron Server managed by MicfoGroup.
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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.
Zhezong (Sagacious A) Zhao Xu Son of Shenzong
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Revered in China during his lifetime in a way not easy for non-Chinese to understand, he was enormously influential around the world as well.
It is essentially a corridor running from the upper Yellow River in the east, along the verge between the Tibetan plateau on the one hand and the Gobi desert on the other, to the edge of the Xinjiang wastes in the west.
It formed with the encouragement of China, which needed a buffer zone between itself and the then-aggressive Tibetans, but Nan Chao soon became expansionist in it's own right, and proved to be a considerable threat to China at times.
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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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 Song Dynasty - China History - China
The Song dynasty (Chinese languageChinese: 宋朝) was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279.
The intervening years, known as the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten KingdomsPeriod of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, were a time of division between north and south and of rapidly changing administrations.
The Southern Song (1127-1279) refers to the time after the Song lost control of northern China to the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)Jin dynasty.
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