{"slug": "emperor-xuanzong-of-tang", "label": "Emperor Xuanzong of Tang", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9746", "qid": "Q9746", "description": "7th emperor of the Tang dynasty, reigning from 713 to 756 CE", "entries": 18, "years": 17, "span": [685, 762], "span_label": ["685 CE", "762 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "tang-dynasty", "label": "Tang dynasty", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "taoism", "label": "Taoism", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "emperor-ruizong-of-tang", "label": "Emperor Ruizong of Tang", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chinese-poetry", "label": "Chinese poetry", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "an-lushan-rebellion", "label": "An Lushan rebellion", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chang-an", "label": "Chang'an", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chinese-buddhism", "label": "Chinese Buddhism", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chinese-painting", "label": "Chinese painting", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "monarchy", "label": "Monarchy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "beijing", "label": "Beijing", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "luoyang", "label": "Luoyang", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 685, "year_label": "685 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Xuan Zong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (d. 762)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749113#Births", "title": "685", "revid": 1364749113, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 710, "year_label": "710 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – Zhong Zong is assassinated, allegedly poisoned by Empress Wei, who fails to install her daughter Li Guo'er as heir to the throne. Princess Taiping and her nephew Li Longji launch a coup, and restore Rui Zong as emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807117#Asia", "title": "710", "revid": 1340807117, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 712, "year_label": "712 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Emperor Rui Zong abdicates after a brief reign, in favor of his 27-year-old son Xuan Zong, who ascends the imperial throne of the Tang dynasty (China).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357552155#Asia", "title": "712", "revid": 1357552155, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 713, "year_label": "713 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xuan Zong liquidates the highly lucrative \"Inexhaustible Treasury\", which is run by a prominent Buddhist monastery in Chang'an. This monastery collects vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of rich people's repentances, left on the premises anonymously. Although the monastery is generous in donations, Xuan Zong issues a decree abolishing their treasury, on the grounds that their banking practices were fraudulent, collects their riches, and distributes the wealth to various other Buddhist monasteries, Daoist abbeys, and to repair statues, halls, and bridges in the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807131#China", "title": "713", "revid": 1340807131, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 714, "year_label": "714 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xuan Zong forbids all commercial vendors and shops in the Chinese capital city of Chang'an to copy and sell Buddhist sutras, so that the emperor can give the clergy of the Buddhist monasteries the sole right to distribute written sutras to the laity.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468088#China", "title": "714", "revid": 1364468088, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 719, "year_label": "719 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Yang Guifei, concubine of Xuan Zong (d. 756)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367050525#Births", "title": "719", "revid": 1367050525, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 730, "year_label": "730 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xuan Zong has four palace walls in the northeast sector of the capital city Chang'an dismantled and reassembled to construct a new Daoist abbey, the grounds of which are formally a large garden for the Bureau of Agriculture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808684#China", "title": "730", "revid": 1340808684, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 734, "year_label": "734 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Bilge Qaghan, khagan of the Second Turkic Khaganate, is poisoned and killed by Buyruk Chor, an emissary once sent to Tang Emperor Xuanzong. He is succeeded by his son Yollıg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809669#Asia", "title": "734", "revid": 1340809669, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 737, "year_label": "737 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xuan Zong discards the policy of conscripting men into the Chinese army to be replaced every three years, replacing them with long-service soldiers who are more battle-hardened and efficient (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809689#Asia", "title": "AD 737", "revid": 1340809689, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 742, "year_label": "742 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xuan Zong begins to favor Taoism over Buddhism, adopting the new reign title Tianbao (\"Heavenly Treasures\"), to indicate his divine mandate. The total number of enlisted troops in the Tang armies has risen to about half a million, due to Xuan Zongs's earlier military reforms.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809740#Asia", "title": "742", "revid": 1340809740, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 745, "year_label": "745 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "China has accomplishments in poetry, painting and printing, but its monarchical system tends toward failure. Emperor Xuan Zong has fallen under the spell of his son's wife Yang Guifei (one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China), a Taoist priestess. He is ignoring the economy and the Tang dynasty is declining.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364906475#Asia", "title": "745", "revid": 1364906475, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 747, "year_label": "747 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xuan Zong abolishes the death penalty in China, during the Tang dynasty (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468436#Asia", "title": "AD 747", "revid": 1364468436, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 755, "year_label": "755 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – General An Lushan begins the Anshi Rebellion against Emperor Xuan Zong of the Tang Dynasty (China). His army surges down from Fanyang (near modern Beijing), and moves rapidly along the Grand Canal. Meanwhile, Xuan Zong sends Feng Changqing, governor of Fanyang, to build up defenses at the eastern capital of Luoyang.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847491#Asia", "title": "755", "revid": 1340847491, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 756, "year_label": "756 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – Emperor Xuan Zong hires 4,000 Muslim mercenaries to help defend Chang'an against the rebels. Loyalist forces take defensible positions in the mountain passes, but chancellor Yang Guozhong gives orders for them to leave their posts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654675#Chinese_Empire", "title": "756", "revid": 1366654675, "section": "Events › By place › Chinese Empire"}}, {"year": 756, "year_label": "756 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Yang Guifei, consort of Xuan Zong (b. 719)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654675#Deaths", "title": "756", "revid": 1366654675, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – Du Fu, Chinese poet, returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuan Zong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#China", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 760, "year_label": "760 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Former emperor Xuanzong is placed under house arrest by the eunuch official Li Fuguo, with the support of Xuanzong's son, Suzong. Li Fuguo is appointed commander of the Imperial Guards, possessing nearly absolute power during Suzong's reign.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358120145#China", "title": "760", "revid": 1358120145, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 762, "year_label": "762 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Xuan Zong, emperor of Tang dynasty (b. 685)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847727#Deaths", "title": "762", "revid": 1340847727, "section": "Deaths"}}]}