Emperador Xianzong de Tang
La restauración Yuanhe: quince años de campañas que llevaron los circuitos autónomos de vuelta bajo la corte, incluyendo el asalto nocturno a través de una tormenta de nieve que tomó Caizhou en 817. No perduró más allá de él. Fue asesinado en su propia cámara en 820, casi con certeza por los eunucos que luego eligieron a su sucesor.
唐憲宗
简体 唐宪宗
“The last time Chang'an gave an order the provinces obeyed”
The Yuanhe restoration: fifteen years of campaigning that brought the autonomous circuits back under the court, including the night raid through a snowstorm that took Caizhou in 817. It did not outlast him. He was killed in his own bedchamber in 820, almost certainly by the eunuchs who then chose his successor.
The campaigns were paid for out of the salt and tea monopolies and fought with armies the court raised itself, and for a decade the provincial governors submitted census registers and taxes again. Within a few years of his death the northeast had gone back to inheriting its own commands.
Consort Guo was the granddaughter of Guo Ziyi, the general who had saved the dynasty in the rebellion, and Xianzong never made her empress — the histories say he was wary of a family that powerful. She became empress dowager when her son took the throne and outlived five emperors in the palace.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
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Written for this site to place Xianzong's reign around the paintings. For the full biography, the dynastic histories and the scholarship behind them, start at Wikipedia.
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 | — |