Song Zhenzong
Sòng Zhēnzōng ( 宋真宗 ) | |
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Family name : | Zhào ( 趙 ) |
First name : | Dechang ( 德昌 ) 968-983 Yuanxiu ( 元 休 ) 983-986 Yuankan ( 元 侃 ) 986-995 Héng ( 恆 ) 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.
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 |
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Taizong |
Emperor of China 997-1022 |
Renzong |
Taizong |
Emperor of the Song Dynasty 997-1022 |
Renzong |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Song Zhenzong |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 真宗 (Chinese); Zhēnzōng (pinyin); Zhenzong (Wade-Giles); Zhao Heng; Zhao Dechang; Zhao Yuanxiu; Zhao Yuankan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | third emperor of the Song Dynasty in China |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaifeng |
DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1022 |
Place of death | Kaifeng |