Who are the artists among the emperors of China?

Chen was the last emperor in Wei, Jin and Southern Dynasties. He was a talented musician who was good at creating colourful ci. Yushu Houhuayuan Flower and Lin Chunle were almost household names and very popular at that time. When Chen was in power, he built a big palace and lived a luxurious life. He feasts with concubines and civil servants every day, and leads a drunken life. When the Sui soldiers went south, Chen defeated the enemy without fighting, and still indulged in sensuality. He thought that the natural barrier of the Yangtze River was insurmountable, but he did not agree. Later, he was captured and died. "Businessmen don't know how to hate the country, but they still sing backyard flowers across the river." Later generations regarded Chen Houzhu's songs as the voice of national subjugation.

Li Yu, a leader in the late Southern Tang Dynasty, is versatile, good at singing and dancing, good at writing and painting, especially famous for his ci. Li Yu's ci is vivid in image and language, which occupies an important position in the history of China literature. He is called "the emperor in ci" and has a great influence on later generations. He never knew how to govern the country, nor did he have the spirit and mind of an emperor. Completely devoted to art, politically numb, mediocre people flooded the ruling and opposition parties, leaving no one behind, and the country became increasingly weak and corrupt. When the powerful Northern Song army surrounded Nanjing, he was still in the dark, addicted to poetry and songs, and finally became the emperor of national subjugation. Li Yu wrote sadly in "Farewell to Song": "The most important thing is to hastily bid farewell to the Temple Day, and the teaching workshop still played farewell to Song and cried to Gong E."

Evonne, a native of Song Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty, is a talented painter who is good at calligraphy. He claimed to be a "thin book" and also wrote "Weeds". His paintings attach importance to sketch and are famous for their accuracy and realism. When Song Huizong was in office, he collected antiques, calligraphy and painting, recruited painters and expanded the Hanlin Painting and Calligraphy Institute. Song Huizong also superstitious Taoism, claiming to be the founder of Daojun Emperor, and built a big temple. Although Song Huizong is quite talented in art and has the level of calligraphy and painting, he is not the material to be an emperor. The treacherous court official is in power, and the power is sidelined. The Chaogang is chaotic, the people are poor, and peasant uprisings break out everywhere. After the Song-Jin War broke out, the corrupt and incompetent Northern Song army was vulnerable, and Hui Zong was captured, became the king of a country and died in a foreign country.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty was a "diligent" emperor. His diligence does not lie in governing the country, but in making wood products. All knives, axes, saws and chisels must be operated by him. Ming Xizong is ingenious, and the bed, lacquer ware and comb box are exquisite, which is beyond the reach of ordinary craftsmen. He has a quirk, that is, after appreciating his "works", he immediately destroys them, designs new styles and continues to make them. He enjoyed it, immersed himself in it, couldn't extricate himself, and threw the affairs of state outside the cloud nine. At that time, the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty intensified. There are surging peasant uprisings inside and Manchu soldiers outside, and the mountains and rivers are riddled with holes. Ming Xizong turned a blind eye and turned a deaf ear, leaving eunuch Wei Zhongxian in charge of state affairs. Politics was extremely dark, and the Ming Dynasty was on the verge of extinction.