Leaving aside his status as emperor, Song Huizong can be said to be a great artist. Not only did he like to collect cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings from past dynasties, but his own artistic attainments were also very high. He was not only good at calligraphy Painting, and also created a calligraphy font called "Thin Gold Style". At the same time, during the reign of Song Huizong, he also raised the status of painters to the highest position in Chinese history. Therefore, as an artist, Song Huizong was Successful.
But when it comes to his status as emperor, many people think that the emperor who is suave and talented must be a faint emperor who does not love the country and is tired of political affairs. But in fact, Song Huizong and another talented emperor with extremely high art Like the accomplished emperor Li Yu, he was very enthusiastic about political affairs, but it was because of his poor level and incompetence that he ended up in decline.
As the old saying goes, "In his position, he plans his politics." Since Song Huizong has sat on the throne of emperor, we must evaluate him objectively and fairly. In terms of governing the country, he was a foolish king. He had no enterprising spirit at all. He only wanted to have fun and visit brothels. During his time in power, his rule was corrupt. After being captured by the Jin Kingdom, he suffered even more humiliation and had children with many lowly women found by the Jin Kingdom. Regardless of his face and his old age, Song Huizong gave birth to 14 children one after another, which can be said to have left a mark in history. A shame.
Even though Song Huizong was mediocre and useless as an emperor, he still disagrees if he is the most cowardly emperor in history. In fact, there were many foolish emperors in history who may not even be as good as Song Huizong. Except for Song Huizong, In addition to the aforementioned Li Yu, there were also Qin II who regarded deer as horses, Emperor Xian of Han who had been a puppet emperor all his life, etc. Song Huizong can only be said to be mediocre but by no means the only one.