China is the country with the longest feudal history and the largest number of emperors in the world, from 221 BC when Qin Shi Huang (Yin Zheng) created the title of emperor, to 1911 AD, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Xuantong Emperor Puyi announced his abdication, a total of more than 2100 years, in this long historical time and space, there have been many emperors of all sizes such as the sand of the Ganges.
Qin Shi Huang
So, how many emperors did China have?
A closer look at the voluminous historical data reveals that there are all kinds of statistical methods, and if you count all the people who have been called emperors, there are always about 600. Here, according to the relevant information, the statistics are as follows:
Qin Dynasty - Three emperors: Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng, Qin II Hu Hai, and Qin III's widows and babies.
Han Dynasty – 29 emperors. Among them, there were 15 emperors of the Western Han Dynasty (including Wang Mang, who usurped the Title of Emperor of the Han Dynasty), and 14 emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Three Kingdoms – 14 emperors in total. Among them, there are 6 emperors of the State of Wei, 6 emperors of the State of Wu, and 2 emperors of the Shu Han Dynasty.
18 emperors of the Jin Dynasty. Among them, there are 7 emperors of the Western Jin Dynasty and 11 emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
There are 73 emperors in the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms. Among them, 8 Emperors of Chenghan, 4 Emperors of Former Zhao, 7 Emperors of Later Zhao, 9 Emperors of Former Liang, 4 Emperors of Former Yan, 8 Emperors of Former Qin, 4 Emperors of Later Qin, 4 Emperors of Later Yan, 4 Emperors of Western Qin, 4 Emperors of Later Liang, 3 Emperors of Southern Liang, 2 Emperors of Southern Yan, 3 Emperors of Western Liang, 3 Emperors of Xia (created by the Xiongnu helian Bobo), 3 Emperors of Northern Yan, and 3 Emperors of Northern Liang.
There were 69 emperors in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Among them, the Southern Dynasty: (Liu) Song 10 Emperor, Southern Qi 8 Emperor, Liang 7 Emperor, Chen 5 Emperor. Northern Dynasty: 19 Emperors of Northern Wei, 1 Emperor of Eastern Wei, 10 Emperors of Northern Qi, 3 Emperors of Western Wei, and 6 Emperors of Northern Zhou.
Sun Quan the Great
Sui Dynasty - a total of 3 emperors.
Tang Dynasty – 26 Emperors.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms - a total of 56 emperors. Among them, five generations: 2 Emperors of Later Liang, 5 Emperors of Later Tang, 2 Emperors of Later Jin, 2 Emperors of Later Han, and 3 Emperors of Later Zhou. Ten Kingdoms: Wu 5 Emperors, Southern Tang 3 Emperors, Wu Yue 5 Emperors, Chu 6 Emperors, Min 6 Emperors, Southern Han 5 Emperors, Former Shu 2 Emperors, Later Shu 2 Emperors, Nanping 5 Emperors, Northern Han 4 Emperors.
There were 18 emperors in the Song Dynasty. Among them, the Northern Song Dynasty 9 Emperors, the Southern Song Dynasty 9 Emperors.
Emperor Liu Bei of the Shu Han Dynasty
Liao Dynasty - 11 Emperors.
Jin Dynasty - 23 Emperors.
Western Xia - 12 Emperors.
Yuan Dynasty (Mongolian Yuan) – 23rd Emperor.
Ming Dynasty – 16 emperors.
Manchu Qing - 12 emperors.
In summary, there are 406 emperors in China's feudal history. Among these emperors are not the regimes established by the peasant rebels, the feudal separatist regimes, and the small regimes of the emperors that are repeated in some dynasties when the dynasties change, "You sing and I take the stage, and the city heads change the banner of the king", and some local regimes established by various ethnic minorities.
Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > longest-reigning emperor, the Kangxi Emperor</h1>
Of the 406 emperors listed above, the one who reigned the longest was the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Ai Xinjueluo Xuanye. Kangxi reigned for 61 years from the age of 8 to his death at the age of 69. In fact, his grandson Qianlong Emperor Hongli ruled for a longer period of time than his grandfather, Qianlong was 25 years old when he succeeded to the throne, and after 60 years of being emperor, his health was still strong, and he could have sat on the dragon chair for a few more years, but in order not to exceed the record of his grandfather Kangxi's reign of 61 years, he gave the throne to his son Jiaqing Emperor Yan at the age of 86, and he abdicated as Emperor Taishang, but still presided over the government for 3 years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > the shortest-reigning emperor, the late Jin Emperor Yan Chenglin </h1>
The emperor who reigned for the shortest time belonged to the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Yan Chenglin, who, according to historical records, reigned for less than 24 hours, saying that the emperor died in the rebellion after 1 day.
Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang
He is a direct descendant of Jin Taizu's Completed Yan Akuta and is a descendant of the imperial family. The "History of Jin" says that he is brave and talented. It is a pity that his birth was not timely, and his succession was even more untimely. In the sixth year of Jin Zhengda (1229 AD), after the second Mongol emperor Wokoutai Khan (Yuan Taizong) succeeded to the throne, he immediately carried out Genghis Khan's last wish and sent a large-scale army to attack the enemy Jinguo. Three years later, in December of the first year of Kaixing (1232), the Jin dynasty's Nanjing Kaifeng Prefecture (the Jin dynasty set up five capitals, that is, 5 capitals) was conquered by the Mongol army, and the Jin lord Yan Shouxu was forced to flee to Cai Prefecture (蔡州, in modern Ruyang, Henan) and made Cai Prefecture a temporary capital. In the second year of Tianxing (1233), the Mongol army and the Southern Song army besieged and attacked the city of Caizhou, and by the first month of the third year of Tianxing, the Mongolian army and the Song army broke through the city one after another, and then launched a fierce street battle with the Jin defenders who had already run out of food.
Genghis Khan
At this time, the Jin Emperor completed Yan Shouxu's biography in the clan room Completed Yan Chenglin, hoping that he could break through the siege in the rebel army and escape to heaven, in order to save the Yan clan from extinction and try to make a comeback. Just as Yan Chenglin was taking the emperor's seal and accepting the congratulations of the hundred officials in a series of earth-shattering shouts of killing and the violent collision of weapons, the Song army had already breached the southern gate of Caizhou, and the Mongol army had subsequently breached another gate. Yan Shouxu ordered a large amount of firewood and grass to be piled up in the palace, and instructed: "After death, Ru and others will immediately set fire." Saying that he had hanged himself from the hanging beam in the inner chamber, his men immediately followed the instructions and set fire to the body. The new emperor Yan Chenglin heard that the former emperor had committed suicide, and immediately led the Wenwu group of courtiers to come to worship bitterly, the sacrifice ceremony had not yet been completed, the Mongol and Song allied forces had already been killed to the inner temple, and Yan Chenglin personally put on the battlefield, led the remnants of the army to fight with the enemy in blood, was killed by the chaotic soldiers, reigned for less than a day, the history is called "Half Day Heavenly Son", can be described as "Emperor Of the Ephemeral Flower".
Finish Yan Chenglin
Kangxi
Qianlong
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