Examples of Yangtze in the following topics:
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- Jin forces halted at the Yangtze River, but staged continual raids south of the river until a later boundary was fixed at the Huai River further north.
- With the border fixed at the Huai, the Song government promoted an immigration policy of repopulating and resettling territories north of the Yangtze River, since vast tracts of vacant land between the Yangtze and the Huai were open for landless peasants found in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces of the south.
- With a permanent navy, the Song were prepared to face the naval forces of the Jin on the Yangtze River in 1161, in the Battle of Tangdao and the Battle of Caishi.
- Kublai continued the assault against the Song, gaining a temporary foothold on the southern banks of the Yangtze.
- From 1268 to 1273, Kublai blockaded the Yangtze River with his navy and besieged Xiangyang, the last obstacle in his way to invading the rich Yangtze River basin.
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- During this time, the Song court retreated south of the Yangtze and established its capital at Lin'an (now Hangzhou).
- One such success was the Song assault against the Southern Tang state while crossing the Yangtze River in 974.
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- The Yellow River and the Huai and Yangtze Rivers, created fertile land, ripe for experimentation with agriculture.
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- Literature, poetry, and painting flourished during the Ming dynasty, especially in the economically prosperous lower Yangtze valley.
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- He built the Lingqu Canal, which joined the Yangtze River basin to the Canton area via the Li River.
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- The remaining Song forces regrouped under the self-proclaimed Emperor Gaozong of Song (1127–1162) and withdrew south of the Yangtze to establish a new capital at Lin'an (modern Hangzhou).
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- These privately made "sycee" first came into use in Guangdong, spreading to the lower Yangtze sometime before 1423, the year sycee became acceptable for payment of tax obligations.