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| Emperor Yuan of Jin 晉元帝 | |||||||||||||||||
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 Portrait of Emperor Yuan from Sancai Tuhui | |||||||||||||||||
| First Emperor of Eastern Jin Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 26 April 318 – 3 January 323 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Emperor Min | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Emperor Ming | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 276 | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 January 323 (aged 47) Jiankang, Eastern Jin | ||||||||||||||||
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| Consorts | Empress Yuanjing Empress Dowager Jianwenxuan | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue | Emperor Ming Sima Pou Sima Chong Sima Xi Emperor Jianwen Princess Xunyang | ||||||||||||||||
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| House | House of Sima | ||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | Eastern Jin | ||||||||||||||||
| Father | Sima Jin | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Xiahou Guangji | ||||||||||||||||
Emperor Yuan of Jin (Chinese: 晉元帝; pinyin: Jìn Yuán Dì; Wade–Giles: Chin Yüan-ti; 276 – 3 January 323[1]), personal name Sima Rui (司馬睿), courtesy name Jingwen (景文), was an emperor of the Jin dynasty and the first emperor of the Eastern Jin. During the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians, he was stationed in Jiankang south of the Yangtze River where he avoided the chaos that befell northern China. Primarily through the help of the cousins, Wang Dun and Wang Dao, he emerged as an authority figure within the empire with the backing of the southern gentry clans and northern officials who fled to him for refuge. After Emperor Min of Jin was executed by the Han-Zhao dynasty in 318, he took the title of Emperor and made Jiankang his capital. Though at the time of his death he left the state under the heel of Wang Dun, the Eastern Jin dynasty as it became known lasted until its fall in 420, contending with the so-called Sixteen Kingdoms in the north and occasionally in the southwest.
- ^ Emperor Yuan's biography in Book of Jin indicate that he was 47 (by East Asian reckoning) when he died on the jichou day of the leap month of the 1st year of the Yong'chang era.