JEN TSUNG

born 1010, China died 1063, China Pinyin Ren Zong (temple name, or miao-hao), personal name (hsing-ming) Chao Chen fourth emperor (reigned 102263) of the Sung dynasty of China, one of the most able and humane rulers in Chinese history. Under him the Sung government is generally believed to have come closer than ever before to reaching the Confucian ideal of just government. During his reign, two political and philosophical groups developed into factions that bitterly disputed each other's policies as well as interpretations of the Confucian Classics. This led to the great disputes in later reigns between the conservatives and the reformers and prevented the development of solutions to the vast problems that began to confront the Sung after Jen Tsung.