Also called: Zhao Ji
Northern Song emperor (r. 1100–1125), a gifted painter and calligrapher (the “slender gold” script) who misgoverned, was carried off by the Jin in the Jingkang Incident and died in captivity
The Jin took Kaifeng and in 1127 carried off the Song emperors Huizong and Qinzong and their court to the north (the Jingkang Incident). Qinzong’s brother Gaozong took the throne in the south to continue the dynasty as the Southern Song, which made peace with Jin in 1141 with the Huai River as the border.
Southern Song general who led campaigns to recover the north from the Jin but was executed on the false charges of the peace-seeking chief minister Qin Hui, later a symbol of loyalty
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