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Emperor Huai of Jin
Western Jin emperor captured at the fall of Luoyang in 311 and poisoned in 313
Mural of the event “Wu Hu Disturbance”, which this person took part in.
After the War of the Eight Princes wholly drained the vitality of the Central Plains, frontier nomadic peoples seized the void. The five major peoples Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di, and Qiang moved south together to topple the already decaying Han central regime.
Also known as Sima Chi · Emperor Huai · Jin Huaidi · Sima Fengdu
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- Monarch / Emperor
Emperor Huai of Jin, Sima Chi, the twenty-fifth son of Emperor Wu, succeeded Emperor Hui in 307 as the third emperor of the Western Jin. Government was dominated by the grand tutor Sima Yue, Prince of Donghai. In 311 the Han generals Liu Yao and Wang Mi took Luoyang; the emperor fled, was captured and taken to Pingyang, an event known as the Disaster of Yongjia. In 313 the Han ruler Liu Cong had him poisoned at Pingyang.
Life and times
- 284Born
Jin - 304Wu Hu Disturbance
Took partHan-Zhao armies captured Luoyang and Chang'an and took Jin emperors prisoner, ending Western Jin and opening the Sixteen Kingdoms era in the north. - 313Died
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