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In the Mongol siege of Kaifeng from 1232 to 1233, the Mongol Empire captured Kaifeng, the capital of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty. The Mongol Empire and the Jin dynasty had been at war for nearly two decades, beginning in 1211 after the Jin dynasty refused the Mongol offer to submit as a vassal .
Kaifeng (Chinese: 开封; pinyin: Kāifēng) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China. It is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China, having been the capital eight times in history, and is most known for having been the Chinese capital during the Northern Song dynasty.
The Jurchens used fire arrows against the Mongols during the defence of Kaifeng in 1232. The Mongols adopted this weapon in later conquests. [12] In 1233, after Emperor Aizong had abandoned Kaifeng and failed to raise a new army for himself in Hebei, he returned to Henan and established his base in Guide (present-day Anyang). Scattered Jin ...
The famous painting Qingming Scroll is believed by some to portray life in Kaifeng on a Qingming Festival day. The painting, of which several versions are extant (the above is an 18th-century copy), is attributed to the Song dynasty (960–1279) artist Zhang Zeduan. Kaifeng became the capital of the Northern Song dynasty in 960. An imperial ...
Pages in category "History of Kaifeng" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
To describe the historical people who founded the Jin dynasty, they reborrowed the Mongolian name as Jurcit(Jyrkät). [ 15 ] [ 9 ] In the dictionary of I. I. Zakharov “Complete Manchu-Russian dictionary” the word чжурчэнь (Jurchen’) is defined as resistance , disobedience , insubordination (сопротивление ...
He enlisted the help of local experts and successfully regulated the river from Kaifeng, redirecting the main flow southeast to Suzhou in northern Jiangsu and then through the river bed of the Huai River, effectively preventing future floods in Shandong. [g] The project involved 120,000 men and took two years to complete. Liu's success earned ...
Siege of Kaifeng may refer to: Jingkang Incident in 1127, a conflict in the Jin–Song wars between the Southern Song and the Jin dynasty Siege of Kaifeng (1232) in 1232, a major battle in the Mongol-Jin War