Song Qinzong

Song Qinzong
Family name :	Zhao ( 趙  /  赵 , Zhào , Chao 4 )
First name :	Dan ( 亶 , Dăn , Tan 3 ; 1100–1102) Xuan ( 烜 , Xuǎn , Hsüan 3 ; 1102) Huan ( 桓 , Huán , Huan 2 ; 1102-Tod)
Posthumous title : (short)	Kaiser Ren ( 仁 帝 , Réndì , Jen 2 -ti 4  - "Kaiser der Mitmenschliche")
Posthumous title : (complete)	Emperor Gongwen Shunde Renxiao ( 恭 文 順德 仁孝 皇帝 )
Temple name :	Qinzong ( 欽宗  /  钦宗 , Qīnzōng , Ch'in 1 - tsung 1  - "ancestor of the highly esteemed")
Reign:	January 19, 1126 - January 9, 1127
Era names :	Jingkang ( 靖康 ; 1126–1127)

Qinzong ( Chinese  欽宗  /  钦宗 , Pinyin Qīnzōng , W.-G. Ch'in ¹ -tsung ¹  - "ancestor of the highly esteemed"; * 23 May 1100 in Kaifeng ; † 1161 ) was the 9th emperor of the (northern) Song Dynasty . He was the son of Song Huizong and the older brother of Song Gaozong .

As the eldest son of Huizong, Qinzong succeeded his father at the height of the war against the Jin Dynasty in January 1126, after Huizong abdicated. Qinzong only ruled for a short time. At the beginning of 1127 Kaifeng fell to the Jin forces after Qinzong was forced to surrender. He still ruled formally until March 1127 and then followed his father into the captivity of the Jin, where he also died.

family

empress

• Empress Zhu

Offspring son

• Zhao Chen
• Zhao Jin
• Zhao Xun

Daughters

• Roujia princess
• Zhao lady
• Zhao lady

literature

• Dieter Kuhn : The Age of Confucian Rule. The Song Transformation of China. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2009, p. 67ff.
• Frederick W. Mote: Imperial China 900-1800. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1999, pp. 290ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Huizong	Emperor of China 1126–1127	Gaozong
Huizong	Emperor of the Song Dynasty 1126–1127	Gaozong