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Yuanyou Restoration of Old Institutions

Type Event Region China Time 1086–1093

From 1086 CE, under Empress Dowager Gao's regency, the Northern Song court abolished the Xining and Yuanfeng reforms and restored the old institution…

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  1. 1086Bianjing · Kaifeng CityIn the first month of the first year of Yuanyou the era name was changed, and the court publicly announced restoration of the old institutions of Renzong and Yingzong's eras, abolishing Shenzong's Xining and Yuanfeng reforms, marking the formal start of the Yuanyou Restoration.
  2. 1086Bianjing · Kaifeng CityThe court successively abolished the Green Sprouts Law, the Service Exemption Law, the Market Exchange Law, the Baojia system, and other Xining reform measures; key New Party figures such as Zhang Dun were demoted and exiled, and the conservatives gained full control of the central government.
  3. 1086–1087Bianjing · Kaifeng CityThe court restored the corvée labor law in place of the service exemption law, and adjusted examination and officialdom policies to return to the pre-Shenzong reform pattern; the Yuanyou Restoration was essentially complete at the institutional level.

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