Emperador Shunzong de Tang
Había esperado veinticinco años como príncipe heredero, y un accidente cerebrovascular en 804 lo dejó incapaz de hablar antes de que su padre muriera. Los reformadores que había reunido alrededor de él llevaron a cabo la reforma de Yongzhen en su nombre durante seis meses — un intento de recuperar los ejércitos del palacio de manos de los eunucos — y fueron destruidos. Fue obligado a abdicar y murió el año siguiente.
唐順宗
简体 唐顺宗
“Six months on the throne, conducted without a voice”
He had waited twenty-five years as crown prince, and a stroke in 804 left him unable to speak before his father died. The reformers he had gathered around him ran the Yongzhen reform in his name for six months — an attempt to take the palace armies back from the eunuchs — and were destroyed. He was made to abdicate and died the following year.
The Yongzhen reformers abolished the palace requisitions that let eunuchs seize goods in the markets, dismissed corrupt officials and moved on the army commands. That last step is what finished them: the eunuchs forced the succession, exiled the reformers to remote prefectures — among them the writers Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi, whose best work came out of that exile — and the whole reform lasted less than half a year.
His consort Empress Wang, honored as Zhuangxian, was the mother of the son who replaced him and lived on as empress dowager through his reign.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
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Every Tang emperor
| Reign | Emperor | Painted empresses |
|---|---|---|
| 618 – 626 | Gaozu 唐高祖 Li Yuan 李淵 / 李渊 | |
| 626 – 649 | Taizong 唐太宗 Li Shimin 李世民 | |
| 649 – 683 | Gaozong 唐高宗 Li Zhi 李治 | |
| 690 – 705 | Wu Zetian 武則天 / 武则天 Wu Zhao 武曌 | |
| 684, and 705 – 710 | Zhongzong 唐中宗 Li Xian 李顯 / 李显 | |
| 684 – 690, and 710 – 712 | Ruizong 唐睿宗 Li Dan 李旦 | |
| 712 – 756 | Xuanzong (Li Longji) 唐玄宗 Li Longji 李隆基 | |
| 756 – 762 | Suzong 唐肅宗 / 唐肃宗 Li Heng 李亨 | |
| 762 – 779 | Daizong 唐代宗 Li Yu 李豫 | |
| 779 – 805 | Dezong 唐德宗 Li Kuo 李适 | |
| 805, for 186 days | Shunzong 唐順宗 / 唐顺宗 Li Song 李誦 / 李诵 | |
| 805 – 820 | Xianzong 唐憲宗 / 唐宪宗 Li Chun 李純 / 李纯 | |
| 820 – 824 | Muzong 唐穆宗 Li Heng 李恆 / 李恒 | |
| 824 – 826 | Jingzong 唐敬宗 Li Zhan 李湛 | |
| 826 – 840 | Wenzong 唐文宗 Li Ang 李昂 | |
| 840 – 846 | Wuzong 唐武宗 Li Yan 李炎 | |
| 846 – 859 | Xuanzong (Li Chen) 唐宣宗 Li Chen 李忱 | |
| 859 – 873 | Yizong 唐懿宗 Li Cui 李漼 | |
| 873 – 888 | Xizong 唐僖宗 Li Xuan 李儇 | — |
| 888 – 904 | Zhaozong 唐昭宗 Li Ye 李曄 / 李晔 | |
| 904 – 907 | Ai (Aidi) 唐哀帝 Li Zhu 李柷 | — |