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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 .
The Zhaona Xinbao (traditional Chinese: 招納信寶; simplified Chinese: 招纳信宝; pinyin: zhāo nà xìn bǎo; lit. 'Treasure (coin) that serves as a letter of introduction') is a special type of Southern Song dynasty cash coin developed as a propaganda and psychological warfare tool for recruiting defectors from the army of the Jurchen Jin dynasty around the year Shaoxing 1 (or the ...
Peak of the Jin dynasty; the Jin dynasty was the most powerful and prosperous state in East Asia during the time. Yuan dynasty; Prosperous Age of Zhiyuan [35] 至元盛世: Emperor Shizu of Yuan: 1271–1294 CE Unification of China under the Yuan dynasty, and political and economic reforms. Prosperous Age of Dade [36] 大德盛世: Emperor ...
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The History of Song with its 496 chapters is the largest of the Twenty-Four Histories. [2] It contains 47 chapters of Imperial biographies, 162 chapters covering Song dynasty records (誌; 志; Zhì), 32 chapters of tables (showing genealogy, etc.) and 255 chapters of historical biographies.
The Song dynasty was founded by Zhao Kuangyin (Emperor Taizu) (r. 960–976) in 960, before the Song completely reunified China proper by conquest—excluding only the Sixteen Prefectures. The Song fought a series of wars with the Liao dynasty (1125–1279), ruled by the Khitans, over the possession of the Sixteen Prefectures of northern China. [2]
On 19 March 1279, the Song chancellor Lu Xiufu committed suicide with the eight-year-old Zhao Bing after the defeat of the remaining Song forces at the Battle of Yamen bringing an end to the Song Dynasty and marking the beginning of several decades of Mongolian rule over China before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty by the House of Zhu and ...
The Northern Song dynasty saw the reunification of most parts of China proper and also of its currency.The Northern Song dynasty saw the widespread usage of "matched cash coins" which used different types of Chinese calligraphy for the same inscriptions and the reintroduction of cash coins of different denominations. [3]