High Middle Ages · East Asia · Culture

1110

Huizong paints auspicious cranes

1110

The Song emperor recorded a flight of white cranes over his palace gate by painting them in exquisite detail on a silk scroll, inscribing the occasion in his own slender gold-wire calligraphy. The painting survives as one of the finest imperial artworks in Chinese history. The emperor saw the cranes as an omen of heavenly favor, though his reign would end in captivity and disgrace at the hands of the Jurchen.

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Before and after in East Asia

Before: 1109: Goryeo court commissions the Tripitaka
After: 1111: Su Song's astronomical clock at Kaifeng

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1109: Goryeo court commissions the Tripitaka
After: 1111: Ananda Temple completed at Pagan

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.