TaizongWade-Giles romanization T’ai-tsungPinyin Taizong (temple
name, or miao-hao), personal name (hsing-ming) Chao Huang, Chao
Kuei, or Chao K’uang-i xingming) Zhao Jiong, original name Zhao
Kuangyi, or Zhao Guangyi  ( born 939 , China—died 997 , China ) 
temple name (miaohao) of the second emperor of the Sung Song
dynasty (960–1279) and brother of the first emperor, T’ai-
tsuTaizu. He completed consolidation of the dynasty. When T’ai-
tsu the Taizu emperor died in 976, the throne was passed to
T’ai-tsung, Taizong rather than to the first emperor’s infant
son, presumably against the will of the first emperor. This
speculation is reinforced in that, after becoming emperor, T’ai-
tsungTaizong, formerly a very mild and forbearing man, treated
his younger brother and his nephew with such cruelty that they
committed suicide.  Three years after assuming the throne, T’ai-
tsung the Taizong emperor took over the two remaining
independent states in South China, thereby nearly completing the
empire’s unification. But in f