Song, Liao, and Jin · Ruler

Song ruler 宋主

Attested AD 1128

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Song ruler was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1128 天會六年
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 19, passages 224-225

Places and affiliations

Song
Relation Affiliated with
Strongly inferred · History of Jin 19, passage 225

References in the histories

History of Jin, Chapter 19Volume 19 Annals 19: Ancenstral Records: Emperor Jingxuan Zongjun, Ruizong, Zongyao, Xianzong, Yungong · 4 passages

聞宋主在揚州，時東作方興，留大軍夾河屯田而還，軍山西。 Hearing the Song ruler was at Yangzhou and that spring planting was underway, he left the main army to farm both banks of the river and withdrew, encamping in Shanxi.

宋主奉表請和，密書以誘契丹、漢人。 The Song ruler submitted a memorial begging peace and sent secret letters to entice the Khitan and Han.

使拔高速等襲宋主於揚州，而宋主聞之，比拔高速至揚州，前夕已渡江矣。 Bagaosu and others were sent to make a surprise attack on the Song ruler at Yangzhou, but the Song ruler learned of it and had already crossed the Yangtze the night before Bagaosu reached Yangzhou.

宋主乃貶去帝號，再以書來請存社稷，語在《宗翰傳》中，既而宗弼追宋主，宋渡江，入於杭州，複遁入海，宗弼乃還。 The Song ruler stripped his imperial title and wrote again to beg the realm be spared—the story is in Zonghan's biography; then Zongbi chased him, Song crossed the Yangtze into Hangzhou, fled to sea, and Zongbi withdrew.