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Emperor Taizu of Jin
Jurchen leader who proclaimed the Great Jin in 1115 and took the Liao capitals in 1120 and 1122
In a side chamber of a palace, a yellow ceremonial robe embroidered with a dragon hangs on a wooden stand, its hem worked with waves and rocks, before a carved folding screen, while a black lacquer chest sits on a low table by a lattice window and no person is in view.
Also known as Wanyan Aguda · Wanyan Min · Aguda · Yingqian Xingyun Zhaode Dinggong Ruishen Zhuangxian Xiaocheng Wuyuan Huangdi
- Roles
- Monarch / Emperor
Emperor Taizu of Jin, Wanyan Aguda, Chinese name Min, chief of the Wanyan clan of the Jurchen, was born in 1068. He united the Jurchen tribes, rose against Liao in 1114 and fixed the meng'an and mouke units, three hundred households to a mouke and ten mouke to a meng'an. In 1115 he proclaimed himself emperor of Great Jin with the era name Shouguo. In 1119 he issued the large Jurchen script devised at his order by Wanyan Xiyin. His armies took the Liao Supreme Capital at Linhuang in 1120 and the Central Capital in 1122. He died in 1123 on the way back to his capital.
Life and times
Dates 1068 - 1123