Külüg Khan — Emperor Wuzong of Yuan
元武宗
“Four years of printing money to pay for titles”
A general from the steppe frontier brought south by a coup against the dowager's candidate. He handed out honors and paper currency on a scale that produced serious inflation, and died at thirty. He had agreed that the throne would pass to his brother and then back to his own sons; only the first half happened.
That broken agreement is behind most of the coups of the following twenty years.
His empress Zhenge has a painting of her own.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
About this page
Written for this site to place Wuzong's reign around the paintings. For the full biography, the dynastic histories and the scholarship behind them, start at Wikipedia.
Every Yuan emperor
| Reign | Emperor | Painted empresses |
|---|---|---|
| 1260 – 1294 | Kublai 元世祖 Kublai 忽必烈 | |
| 1294 – 1307 | Chengzong 元成宗 Temür 鐵穆耳 / 铁穆耳 | |
| 1307 – 1311 | Wuzong 元武宗 Khayishan 海山 | |
| 1311 – 1320 | Renzong 元仁宗 Ayurbarwada 愛育黎拔力八達 / 爱育黎拔力八达 | |
| 1320 – 1323 | Yingzong 元英宗 Shidebala 碩德八剌 / 硕德八剌 | |
| 1323 – 1328 | Taiding 泰定帝 Yesün Temür 也孫鐵木兒 / 也孙铁木儿 | |
| 1328, one month | Tianshun 天順帝 / 天顺帝 Ragibagh 阿速吉八 | — |
| 1328 – 1332 | Wenzong 元文宗 Tugh Temür 圖帖睦爾 / 图帖睦尔 | |
| 1329, 184 days | Mingzong 元明宗 Kusala 和世㻋 | |
| 1332, 53 days | Ningzong 元寧宗 / 元宁宗 Rinchinbal 懿璘質班 / 懿璘质班 | |
| 1333 – 1368 | Huizong (Shun) 元惠宗 · 元順帝 / 元惠宗 · 元顺帝 Toghon Temür 妥懽帖睦爾 / 妥懽帖睦尔 |