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The Song commander "ordered that gunpowder arrows be shot from all sides, and wherever they struck, flames and smoke rose up in swirls, setting fire to several hundred vessels." [82] Song forces took another victory in 1161 when Song paddle boats ambushed a Jin transport fleet, launched thunderclap bombs, and drowned the Jin force in the ...
Emperor Taizu of Song (21 March 927 [2] – 14 November 976), [3] personal name Zhao Kuangyin, courtesy name Yuanlang, was the founding emperor of the Song dynasty of China. He reigned from 960 until his death in 976.
The Song dynasty (/ s ʊ ŋ /) was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Fishermen's Evening Song, one of Xu Daoning's (970–1051) most famous paintings A Liao dynasty polychrome wood-carved statue of Guan Yin, Shanxi Province, China, (907–1125) Consolidation in the south was completed in 978, with the conquest of Wu-Yue. Song military forces then turned north against the Northern Han, which fell to Song forces ...
Emperor Gong of Song (2 November 1271 – 1323), personal name Zhao Xian, was the 16th emperor of the Song dynasty of China and the seventh emperor of the Southern Song dynasty. The sixth son of his predecessor, Emperor Duzong , Zhao Xian came to the throne around the age of four, and reigned for less than two years before he was forced to ...
In 1233, the Song finally became allies with the Mongols, who agreed to share territories south of the Yellow River with the Song. Song general Meng Gong defeated Jin general Wu Xian and directed his troops to besiege Caizhou, to which the last Jin emperor had fled. With the help of the Mongols, the Song armies were finally able to extinguish ...
Despite both the History of Song and the History of Jin being completed at the same time they are different in many ways. the History of Song records Yue Fei emerging victorious from every battle with the Jin dynasty, [note 1] yet the History of Jin barely mentions Emperor Taizu of Jin's capture of Bozhou, Shunchangfu (順昌府), Ruzhou and ...
Formatted mainly in the style of Qi Jue (七绝), Yang's Gong Ci poems depict the rich beauty of the imperial court, focusing on the elaborate lives of court figures, as well as courtesans and ministers of the inner court, and celebrate the peace and stability of the Southern Song Dynasty perceived from the standpoint of Empress. [12]