Empress Meng was a daughter of Meng Yuen and the Chinese empress consort of the Song dynasty, married to Emperor Zhezong of Song. She served as a regent of China in 1127, and during the minority of Em
The Jin–Song Wars were a series of conflicts between the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty and the Han-led Song dynasty. In 1115, Jurchen tribes rebelled against their overlords, the Khitan-led Liao dynasty, an
The Song and Jin were allies against the Khitan Liao. Painting of Khitan hunters, from the National Palace Museum
Jurchen chieftain Wanyan Aguda, who in 1115 became first emperor of the Jin dynasty
Modern statue of Jin emperor Taizong at the Museum of the First Capital of Jin. Taizong ordered military campaigns that led to the fall of the northern Song in 1127.
Emperor Huizong left Kaifeng on January 28, 1126, as the Jurchen army approached the city.