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{{Short description|Emperor of Song China from 1126 to 1127}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Emperor Qinzong of Song <br /> {{nobold|宋欽宗}} | image = Songqinzong Chinghong.jpg | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = Palace portrait on a [[hanging scroll]], kept in the [[National Palace Museum]], [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]] | succession = [[List of emperors of the Song Dynasty|Emperor of the Song dynasty]] | reign = 19 January 1126 – 20 March 1127 | coronation = 19 January 1126 | predecessor = [[Emperor Huizong of Song|Emperor Huizong]] | successor = [[Emperor Gaozong of Song|Emperor Gaozong]] | birth_name = Zhao Dan (趙亶, 1100–1103)<br>Zhao Huan (趙桓, 1103–1116) | birth_date = 23 May 1100 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1161|6|14|1100|5|23|df=y}} | burial_date = | burial_place = Yongxian Mausoleum (永獻陵, in present-day [[Gongyi]], Henan) | spouse = {{Marriage|[[Empress Zhu (Song dynasty)|Empress Renhuai]]|1116|1127|end=d}} | spouse-type = Consorts | issue = Zhao Jin<br/>Zhao Xun<br/>Princess Roujia | era dates = Jingkang (靖康; 1126-1127) | regnal name = Emperor Xiaoci Yuansheng (孝慈淵聖皇帝) | posthumous name = Emperor Gongwen Shunde Renxiao (恭文順德仁孝皇帝) | temple name = Qinzong (欽宗) | house = [[House of Zhao|Zhao]] | dynasty = [[Song dynasty|Song]] ([[Song dynasty#Northern Song, 960–1127|Northern Song]]) | father = [[Emperor Huizong of Song|Emperor Huizong]] | mother = [[Empress Xiangong]] | signature = [[File:宋欽宗御押.svg|50px]] }} {{Infobox Chinese | title = Emperor Qinzong of Song | t = 宋欽宗 | s = 宋钦宗 | l = "Venerate Ancestor of the Song" | p = Sòng Qīnzōng | altname = Zhao Huan | t2 = 趙桓 | p2 = Zhào Huán | altname3 = Marquis Chonghun | c3 = 重昏侯 | p3 = Chónghūn Hóu | l3 = Doubly Muddle-headed Marquis }} {{family name hatnote|[[Zhao (surname)|Zhao]]|lang=Chinese}} '''Emperor Qinzong of Song''' (23 May 1100 – 14 June 1161), personal name '''Zhao Huan''', was the ninth emperor of the [[Song dynasty]] of China and the last emperor of the [[Song dynasty#Northern Song, 960–1127|Northern Song dynasty]]. Emperor Qinzong was the eldest son and [[heir apparent]] of [[Emperor Huizong of Song|Emperor Huizong]]. His mother was Emperor Huizong's empress consort, [[Empress Wang (Huizong)|Empress Wang]]. In 1126, when the forces of the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]]-led [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]] invaded the Northern Song dynasty beginning the first siege of Bianjing. Frightened, Emperor Huizong intended to flee but was convinced by his officials to abdicate first and then flee.{{sfn|Levine|2009|p=636}} Huizong then abdicated and passed on his throne to Emperor Qinzong, and then assumed the title ''[[Taishang Huang]]'' ("Retired Emperor") himself and fled to the countryside. After the [[Jingkang incident|fall of Kaifeng]] that marked the end of the Northern Song and Qinzong and his father's subsequent capture by the Jin forces, they, along and his half-brother and their successor, [[Emperor Gaozong of Song|Emperor Gaozong]], were blamed for the Song dynasty's decline.
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