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| lign=center style="background:#ccf; border-bottom:2px solid" colspan=2|Emperor Taizu of Song China |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Birth and death: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Mar. 21, 927–Nov. 14, 976 |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Family name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Zhao (趙) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Given name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Kuangyin (匡胤) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Courtesy name (字): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Yuanlang (元朗) |
| lign=right style="border-top:3px solid"|Dates of reign: | style="border-top:3px solid"|Feb. 4, 960¹–Nov. 14, 976 |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Dynasty: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Song (宋) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Temple name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Taizu (太祖) |
lign=center style="border-top:1px solid"|Posthumous name:
(short) | style="border-top:1px solid"|Never used short |
lign=center style="border-top:1px solid"|Posthumous name:
(full) | style="border-top:1px solid"|Emperor Qiyun Liji Yingwu
Ruiwen Shende Shenggong
Zhiming Daxiao²
啓運立極英武睿文神德聖功
至明大孝皇帝 |
olspan=2 align=center style="border-top:3px solid"|General note: Dates given here are in the Julian calendar.
They are not in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. |
| olspan=2 align=center |——— |
olspan=2 align=center |1. In control of only Northern China at first, was in control of
most of Southern China only in 975.
2. Final version of the posthumous name given in 1017. |