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Yelü Chun

Type Figure Region China/Liao Time 1063–1122 Also known as Emperor Tianxi、Yelü Nielie、Xuanzong of Northern Liao

Yelü Chun (1063–1122), Khitan name Nielie, grandson of Emperor Xingzong of Liao and cousin of Emperor Tianzuo, served successively as Defender of the…

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  1. 1111–1117Southern Capital Xijinfu · BeijingYelü Chun was devoted to literature and long garrisoned the Southern Capital. During the Tianqing era, as the Jurchens rose and eastern Liao fell, Chun strengthened defenses at Yanjing. He once recruited famine refugees from Liaodong into the Resentment Army to campaign against the Jurchens, but it mutinied and he returned in defeat.
  2. 1118–1120Southern Capital Xijinfu · BeijingAfter Emperor Tianzuo returned defeated from a personal campaign, imperial clansman Yelü Zhangnu and others plotted to depose Tianzuo and install Yelü Chun as emperor. Chun secretly bound the participants Xiao Dili and Xiao Yanliu, beheaded them, and presented the heads to Tianzuo; Zhangnu fled in defeat. Tianzuo deemed Chun loyal and loyal and raised him to Prince of Qin and Jin.
  3. 1120–1121Southern Capital Xijinfu · BeijingAfter the Song-Jin Sea Alliance of 1120, Tong Guan and others of the Northern Song patrolled the frontier and spied on Yan. Yelü Chun sent Yelü Dashi as Commander of the Southwestern Circuit to garrison Xincheng at Zhuozhou against the Song, while also sending envoys to sue for peace with the Jin. After the Liao lost the Upper Capital, the era name was changed to Baoda, and Yanjing became the Liao court's last bulwark.

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