唐昭宗皇帝
当他登上皇位时，黄巢之乱已经摧毁了帝国，每当一位军阀需要首都时，它就会易手。昭宗聪慧且多次试图建立自己的禁卫军；每次尝试都失败了。904年他被朱温移到洛阳，并在其命令下在那里被杀害。
唐昭宗
“Able, and thirty years too late”
By the time he took the throne the Huang Chao rebellion had gutted the empire and the capital changed hands whenever a warlord wanted it. Zhaozong was intelligent and tried repeatedly to build a court army of his own; each attempt failed. He was moved to Luoyang by Zhu Wen in 904 and murdered there on his orders.
In 903 Zhu Wen had the palace eunuchs killed — several hundred of them — which ended the eunuch domination of the Tang court by ending the court. Three years after Zhaozong's death Zhu Wen took the abdication of his young son and declared the Later Liang.
Empress He had been with him through the years of being marched between warlords' camps. She was killed in 905, the year after her husband, and Xiang Li's silk of her is the last empress of the Tang.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
About this page
Written for this site to place Zhaozong'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 | — |