Shi Jingtang
Later Jin · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms · 1st ruler
後晉高祖 Hòu Jìn Gāozǔ石敬瑭 Shí Jìngtáng
Wade–Giles: Hou Chin Kao-tsu · Shih Ching-t'ang
Reigned 936–942 (5 years)
Reigned 5 years (936–942). Died at 51 (East Asian reckoning) of natural causes. 1st ruler of Later Jin.
Facts
- Reign
- 28 November 936 – 28 July 942 (1st ruler of Later Jin)
- Length of reign
- 5 years
- Born
- 30 March 892
- Died
- 28 July 942
- Age at accession
- 45
- Age at death
- 51
- Cause of death
- Natural causesNatural death or illness (including old age)
- Path to the throne
- Proclaimed by supportersFounded the titleDid not receive the throne from an earlier ruler, and did not claim it on their own initiative but was set up by others (e.g. the emperors of the Southern Ming)
- Successor
- Shi Chonggui
- Era names
- 天福 Tiānfú (proclaimed 936)
Ages are given in East Asian reckoning (sui): a person is one year old at birth and gains a year at each New Year, so the figure is one or two years higher than the Western age.
During the reign
Number of times each event is recorded in the official histories. How each item is counted
- Era name changes
- 1
- General amnesties
- 4
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 9
- Rebellions faced
- 11
- Capital relocations
- 1