Person1236 – 1295

Bayan of the Baarin

Kublai’s general who led the conquest of the Southern Song from 1274 and received the surrender of Lin’an in 1276

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    1268 – 1279Fall of the Southern Songcommander

    Yuan forces took Xiangyang and received the surrender of the Song capital Lin’an. In 1279 the last Song fleet was destroyed at Yamen, and all of China came under the rule of a northern nomadic people for the first time.

People who appear alongside

  • Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan)1215 – 1294

    Fifth Great Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty, who made peace with Goryeo and launched the invasions of Japan

  • Lu Xiufu1236 – 1279

    Last chief minister of the Southern Song, who leapt into the sea with the boy emperor Zhao Bing on his back after the defeat at Yamen in 1279

  • Wen Tianxiang1236 – 1283

    Southern Song chief minister who resisted the Yuan to the end, was captured, and refused to submit, writing the Song of Righteousness before his execution

Themes this person appears in

  • Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

    The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon

  • The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294

    From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary