Emperor Zhaozong of Tang
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| Emperor of the Tang dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Emperor Xizong | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Emperor Ai | ||||||||||||||||
| Reign | April 20, 888 – December 1, 900 | ||||||||||||||||
| Reign | January 24, 901 – September 22, 904 | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 31, 867 | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 22, 904 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | Tang dynasty | ||||||||||||||||
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| Lóngjì (龍紀) 889 Dàshùn (大順) 890–891 Jǐngfú (景福) 892–893 Qíanníng (乾寧) 894–898 Guānghùa (光化) 898–901 Tiānfù (天復) 901–904 Tiānyòu (天佑) 904 |
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| Emperor Shèngmù Jǐngwén Xìao (聖穆景文孝皇帝) (commonly known) Emperor Gōnglíng Zhuāngmǐn Xiào (恭靈莊閔孝皇帝) (used from 905 to ~923) |
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| Zhāozōng (昭宗) (commonly known) Xiāngzōng (襄宗) (used from 905 to ~923) |
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| Literal meaning | "Manifest Ancestor of the Tang" | ||||||||
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| Li Jie | |||||||||
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| Li Min | |||||||||
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| Li Ye | |||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táng Zhāozōng |
| Wade–Giles | T'ang Chao-tsung |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Jíe |
| Wade–Giles | Li Chieh |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Mǐn |
| Wade–Giles | Li Min |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Yè |
| Wade–Giles | Li Yeh |
Emperor Zhaozong of Tang (March 31, 867 – September 22, 904), né Li Jie, name later changed to Li Min and again to Li Ye, was the penultimate emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China. He reigned from 888 to 904 (although he was briefly deposed by the eunuch Liu Jishu in 900 and restored in 901). Zhaozong was the seventh son of Emperor Yizong of Tang and younger brother of Emperor Xizong of Tang.
During Emperor Zhaozong's reign, Tang Dynasty fell into total disarray and rebellions, which had been ongoing since the reign of his older brother Emperor Xizong, broke out throughout the country while the imperial government's authority effectively disappeared. In the midst of all this, Emperor Zhaozong tried to salvage the dying dynasty. His efforts to reassert imperial power, however, generally backfired, as his unsuccessful campaigns against Li Keyong, Chen Jingxuan, and Li Maozhen, merely allowed Li Keyong and Li Maozhen to reaffirm their power by prevailing over imperial forces, while Chen was merely conquered and replaced by Wang Jian. Eventually, the major warlord Zhu Quanzhong seized control of the imperial government and in 904 had Emperor Zhaozong killed as the prelude of taking over the Tang throne. Zhu also killed many of Emperor Zhaozong's ministers, including the chancellor, Cui Yin. Zhu then placed Zhaozong's 13-year-old son as a puppet emperor (as Emperor Ai). (By 907, Zhu himself took over the throne, ending Tang and starting a new Later Liang.) Emperor Zhaozong's reign lasted almost 16 years and he was buried in Heling (和陵). He was 37.
Li Jie was born in 867, during the reign of his father Emperor Yizong, in the eastern palace at the imperial capital Chang'an. His mother was Emperor Yizong's concubine Consort Wang, who was said to have come from a humble background and whose rank within the palace was not recorded. She appeared to have died shortly after giving birth to Li Jie. (As Li Jie was also said to have been from the same mother as his older brother Li Yan, whose mother was a different Consort Wang, it might have been that he was raised by Li Yan's mother.)
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