Song Zhenzong

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Sòng Zhēnzōng ( 宋真宗 )
Family name : Zhào ( )
First name : Dechang ( 德昌 ) 968-983
Yuanxiu ( 元 休 ) 983-986
Yuankan ( 元 侃 ) 986-995
Héng ( ) 995-1022
Posthumous title :
(complete)
Emperor Yingfu Jigu Shengong
Rangde Wenming Wuding
Zhangsheng Yuanxiao
( 膺 符 稽古 神功 讓 德 文明 武 定 章 聖
元 孝 皇帝
)
last version from 1047
Temple name : Zhēnzōng
( Chinese   真宗  - "true ancestor")
Reign: May 10, 997-23. March 1022
Era names : Xiánpíng ( 咸平 ) 998-1003

Jǐngdé ( 景德 ) 1004-1007

Dàzhōngxiángfú ( 大中 祥符 ) 1008-1016

Tiānxǐ ( 天禧 ) 1017-1021

Qiánxīng ( 乾 興 ) 1022

Zhenzong ( Chinese  真宗 , Pinyin Zhēnzōng , W.-G. Zhenzong ; * December 23, 968 , † March 23, 1022 ) was since May 10, 997 the third emperor of the (Northern) Song Dynasty (960-1279). He was the son and successor of Emperor Taizong .

Live and act

Emperor Zhenzong consolidated the government and strengthened the power of the Song Dynasty - the country flourished. Despite the increase in military power, the foreign policy of the Song in Kaifeng ( Chinese  北宋 , Pinyin Bei-Song ) with the Kitan empire of the Liao dynasty was less successful; after initial successes, it ended in the peace of Shanyuan (Fujian Province, near Shaowu ) in 1004 as a result of losing battles after initial successes that was like a humiliation. The treaty brought about a hundred years of peace, but at the price of recognizing the Kita empire of the Liao as the politically superior state. In addition, an annual tribute payment of 2.84 tons of silver and 200,000 silk balls had to be paid. The approval of one's own secondary status weighed heavily on foreign policy, the tribute payments ultimately emptied the state treasury completely and paralyzed the economy and trade.

Jingdezhen porcelain

Zhenzong favored Daoism at the imperial court. In 1004 he founded the most famous porcelain factory in China and the world in Jingdezhen ( Chinese  景德鎮 市 , Pinyin Jǐngdézhèn Shì ) in the north of Jiangxi province , which lasted more than 900 years until the end of the Qing Dynasty - the end of the Chinese Empire for the imperial court. In 1011 and 1012 he also ordered 30,000 bushels (around 1,080 m³) of seeds of a fast-growing rice variety from Fujian Province to be transported to the lower Yangtze River in order to improve rice cultivation there and to ensure food for the population.

literature

  • Jacques Gernet : The Chinese World. The history of China from the beginning to the present time (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch. 1505). 1st edition, reprint. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-38005-2 .
predecessor Office successor
Taizong Emperor of China
997-1022
Renzong
Taizong Emperor of the Song Dynasty
997-1022
Renzong