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Shi Chonggui

Later Jin · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms · 2nd ruler

後晉少帝 Hòu Jìn Shàodì石重貴 Shí Chóngguì

Wade–Giles: Hou Chin Shao-ti · Shih Ch'ung-kuei

Reigned 942–947 (4 years)

Reigned 4 years (942–947). Age and cause of death unknown. 2nd ruler of Later Jin.

Facts

Reign
28 July 942 – 11 January 947 (2nd ruler of Later Jin)
Length of reign
4 years
Born
22 July 914
Died
Unknown
Age at accession
29
Age at death
Unknown
Cause of death
UnknownThe primary sources record no cause of death or clue to it
Path to the throne
Installed by othersSucceeded the previous ruler of the same regime, but the choice was made by officials, the army, eunuchs, consort kin, an empress dowager or the imperial clan
Predecessor
Shi Jingtang
Era names
  • 開運 Kāiyùn (proclaimed 944)

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
1
Crown princes deposed
0
Personal campaigns
2
Rebellions suppressed
2
Rebellions faced
4
Capital relocations
0