In the long history of China, the change of dynasties and emperors, in terms of the emperor's reign years, the one who sat on the throne for the longest time was none other than the Qing Shengzu Kangxi Emperor, who ruled China for 61 years. However, for the emperor with the shortest reign, presumably many people are not too clear, Xiaobian sorted out the ten emperors with the shortest reign in Chinese history, and the shortest reign was less than an hour.
Tenth place: Northern Wei young lord Yuan Zhao
Yuan Zhao, the young lord of Northern Wei, reigned for 45 days. The eleventh emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, on February 27 of the first year of Wu Tai's reign, Empress Dowager Hu made yuan zhao, who was only three years old, emperor, and the world was shocked. The Jinyang warlord Erzhu Rong, believing that the empress dowager had killed Emperor Xiaoming, led an army to fight, and on April 11 of the same year, Erzhu Rong occupied luoyang, and Yuanzhao and Empress Hu were captured. Erzhu Rong escorted the young lords Yuanzhao and Empress Hu to the Yellow River and ordered the young lords Yuanzhao and Empress Hu to be sunk into the Yellow River.
Ninth place: Tianshun Emperor Bo'er only Jin Asoki VIII
Emperor Tianshun reigned for 42 days. The seventh emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the eleventh Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. In September of the first year of Zhihe (1328), he was proclaimed emperor by the powerful vassals of Shangdu, and fought against Emperor Tu timur of Dadu, and launched the Battle of The two capitals. A month later, Shangdu's side was defeated and Asokyo was killed. After the death of Asokji VIII, there was no temple number or a courtesy name, and in history, he was called The Tianshun Emperor by the era name, also known as the Yuan Shao Emperor.
Eighth place: Emperor Mingwenzong Zhu Yulei
Emperor Mingwenzong reigned for 39 days. The third emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, wanli thirty-three years (1605), was established as emperor in Guangzhou by the university scholar Su Guansheng and the Guangdong envoy Gu Yuanjing, and on the fifteenth day of the same year, Li Chengdong led the Qing troops who invaded Guangdong from Fujian to mix into the city and occupy Guangzhou, Zhu Yulei hanged himself (one said to be killed), ending his more than one-month imperial career, known as "Shaowu Emperor".
Seventh place: Ming GuangZong Zhu Changluo
Emperor Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo reigned for one month. The fourteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in the forty-eighth year of the Wanli Calendar (1620), officially ascended the throne with the era name Taichang. During his reign, he appointed wise ministers, eliminated maladministration, actively reformed, abolished mining taxes and levies, straightened out chaos, and revived the discipline of the imperial court. On the first day of September in the first year of Taichang 's reign (September 26, 1620), he died of illness at the age of thirty-nine.
Sixth place: Liu He, the deposed emperor of the Han Dynasty
Liu He, the King of Changyi, reigned for 27 days. The ninth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, he was also the shortest-reigning emperor in the history of the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Han Zhao died in the first year of Yuanping, because he was childless, Liu He was conscripted into the dynasty, after which Liu He accepted the emperor's seal and inherited the emperor's honorific title, that is, 27 days after the throne, he was deposed because of his absurdity and unsafe social welfare, and still returned to his hometown of Juye as the king of Changyi, Yuan Kang was deposed as the Marquis of Haixia in three years, and moved to Yuzhangguo (present-day Nanchang, Jiangxi).
Fifth place: Northern Qi young lord Gao Heng
Northern Qi's young lord Gao Heng reigned for 24 days. The son of Gao Wei, the lord of Northern Qi, he was the last emperor of Northern Qi during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Gao Heng, who was the emperor at the age of eight, declared that year was the first year of Chengguang. Gao Heng only served as emperor for 24 days before declaring that Zen was located in Gao Xiang,000, the king of Rencheng (actually at the direction of his father Gao Wei), but before the Zen throne could be held, the Northern Zhou soldiers caught up with him, captured and killed all the Northern Qi royal families, and Northern Qi died.
Fourth place: Jeroboam
Jeroboam reigned for more than 20 days. After the death of Emperor Xingzong of Liao's great-grandson Yelü Yali the Prince of Liang in October 1123, Yelü Beilie and others made him emperor. In November of the same year, Jeroboam's men staged a mutiny and killed Jeroboam, who was also killed by the rebels. He has been in power for just over 20 days. The burial place is unknown. There is no temple number or no temple number.
Third place: Tang Shao Emperor Li Chongmao
Tang Shaodi Li Chongmao reigned for 17 days. The sixth emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the fourth son of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Li Xian. In June of the fourth year of Jinglong, Empress Wei made Li Chongmao, who was only 16 years old, emperor and changed her era name to "Tang Long", which was ruled by Empress Wei. Less than a month after Li Chongmao ascended the throne, Li Longji, the king of Linzi, and Princess Taiping joined forces to launch the "Tanglong Coup" and killed the ruling Empress Wei, after which Li Chongmao, at the instigation of Princess Taiping, issued an edict to pass the throne to his uncle Li Dan. In the second year of the New Century (714), he served as the Assassin of Fangzhou, and died in office at the age of twenty, with the posthumous title of Martyr.
Second place: Northern Wei Emperor Yuan girl
The Northern Wei Emperor Yuan's reign lasted less than a day. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the imperial daughter was once proclaimed emperor by her grandmother Empress Dowager Hu as a crown prince. After the violent death of his father, Emperor Xiaoming, he was falsely called "Crown Prince" by his grandmother Empress Dowager Hu, who held real power, and was proclaimed emperor, pardoning the world, and taking the era name Ofai. On the day that Yuan Girl ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Hu, faced with the people's hearts, announced the identity of Yuan Girl and established Yuan Zhao, the son of Yuan Baohui, the King of Lintao, as emperor. Hastily ascended to the throne, hastily deposed, and no name is left in the history books. Yuan's status as empress dowager was generally not recognized by later generations, and the history books never included her in the orthodox imperial lineage, firstly because she was a puppet of Empress Dowager Hu and reigned for less than a day, and secondly because she was an impostor baby boy.
The first: The late Jin Emperor completed Yan Chenglin
The late Jin Emperor completed Yan Chenglin's reign for less than an hour. The last emperor of the Jin Dynasty. On the first month of the third year of Tianxing (February 8, 1234), Emperor Aizong of Jin did not want to be the king of the country, so he passed the throne to him. The enthronement ceremony was held the day after the succession of the throne, but the ceremony was not completed before the Song and Mongol alliances had already invaded the city. After Yan Chenglin finished the ceremony, he immediately led the troops out to meet him, and later died in the rebellion. Historians speculate that Yan Chenglin reigned for less than an hour, making him the shortest reigning emperor in Chinese history.