Meng Chang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Meng Chang

Emperor of Later Shu

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-0919

Place of Birth: Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Date of Death: 12-Jul-0965

Profession: poet, ruler

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Meng Chang (??) (919–965), originally Meng Renzan (???), courtesy name Baoyuan (??), formally Prince Gongxiao of Chu (????) (as posthumously honored by Emperor Taizu of Song), was the second emperor of Later Shu during imperial China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
He ruled from 934 until 965, when his state was conquered by the Song Dynasty.
He died soon afterwards. Meng ruled largely peacefully for three decades.
The Later Shu became one of the centers for the arts and literature, where it flourished with support from the court.
An anthology of lyric poetry known as the Amidst the Flowers Anthology was compiled in 940.
It was also among the most stable of the southern kingdoms, but it also stagnated militarily and politically.
When the Song Dynasty replaced the Later Zhou, the last of the Five Dynasties, in 960, Song's founding emperor Emperor Taizu of Song made it his mission to reunify the realm.
Song forces forced Meng Chang to surrender in 965 on the road to the reunification of most of China.