Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin (March 21, 927 - November 14, 976), Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was named Yuanlang and his nicknames were Xianghaier and Zhao Jiuchong. A native of Zhuojun, he was born in Jiamaying, Luoyang (now Dongguan, Zhanghe District, Luoyang City, Henan Province). He was a military strategist and martial artist from the Five Dynasties to the early Northern Song Dynasty, and the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty (reigned from February 4, 960 to November 14, 976). The second son of Zhao Hongyin (Xuanzu of Song Dynasty), the commander of the Protector of the Holy Capital in the Later Zhou Dynasty, his mother was Du Shi (Empress Dowager Zhaoxian).
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1. Historical evaluation of Zhao Kuangyin
The greatest contribution and achievement of Zhao Kuangyin’s life was to restore the unification of the Chinese region and end the Since then, the feudal feudal system has been in chaos for nearly seventy years. The people who had suffered so much from the war finally had a peaceful production and living environment, creating good conditions for social progress, economic development, and cultural prosperity.
As the end of the melee between the Ten Kingdoms in the Five Dynasties and the Five Dynasties in the late Tang Dynasty and the pioneer of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin is an important figure in Chinese history who connects the past and the future. He has perfect personality charm: he is pure in heart, hates evil as much as he hates hatred, is generous, open-minded, studious and tireless, diligent in government and loves the people, strict with himself, not close to others, advocating frugality, setting an example, etc. He is not only instrumental in changing the extravagant culture since the Five Dynasties. It has a great demonstration effect and is deeply talked about by later historians.
2. Zhao Kuangyin’s married wife
Queen Xiaohui (929-958), He family, a native of Kaifeng, was the married wife of Song Taizu. After Taizu ascended the throne, on April 18th in the third year of Jianlong (962), He was posthumously named empress. Feng Ji, minister of Taichang Temple, gave her the posthumous title of Empress Xiaohui. In March of the second year of Qiande (964), he was given the posthumous title. In April, he was buried in the northwest of the mausoleum, and the god was enshrined in a separate temple. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, she was the concubine of the Imperial Ancestral Temple along with Empress Xiaozhang, Empress Taizu of Song Dynasty, Empress Shude of Song Dynasty Taizong, and Empress Zhanghuai of Song Zhenzong.