Also called: Weiming Yuanhao, Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia
Founder of Western Xia (r. 1038–1048), who led the Tanguts, proclaimed himself emperor in 1038, had the Tangut script created and fought the Song into paying annual tribute
Li Yuanhao of the Tanguts proclaimed himself emperor of Great Xia (Western Xia) in 1038. He had a Tangut script created, fought the Song into a treaty of annual payments in 1044 and held the Hexi Corridor, the east–west trade route.
The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon