Jingkang incident

The Jingkang Incident (Chinese: 靖康事变; pinyin: Jìngkāng Shìbiàn), also known as the Humiliation of Jingkang (靖康之耻; Jìngkāng Zhīchǐ) and the Disorders of the Jingkang Era (靖康之乱; Jìngkāng Zhīluàn), was an episode of invasions and atrocities that took place in 1127 during the Jin–Song wars when the troops of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty besieged and sacked Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the Han-led…