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Seated portrait of Emperor Huizong of Song, kept in the National Palace Museum, Taipei

The Painter King

Jan 9, 2026By Andy Barca

On 9 January 1127, Jin forces took Bianjing, the Song capital, and seized both Emperor Qinzong and his retired father Huizong - China's greatest painter and its worst tactician. The Northern Song dynasty ended. The humiliation never did.