Song Fujin (宋福金) (died 945), formally Empress Yuanjing (元敬皇后, "the discerning and alert empress"), was the empress and second wife of Li Bian (Xu Zhigao), the founding emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Southern Tang (Emperor Liezu), and the mother of four of his five sons, including his successor Li Jing (Xu Jingtong) (Emperor Yuanzong).
It is further not known where she was born, although it is known that her father Song Wen (宋韞) was from Jiangxia (江夏, in modern Wuhan, Hubei).
In her youth, she became caught up in warfare, and was eventually taken into the household of Wang Rong (王戎), a prefect of Sheng Prefecture (昇州, in modern Nanjing, Jiangsu) during Wu.
)[3] In 935, as part of Xu Zhigao's plan to take over the throne, he had Yang Pu create him the Prince of Qi.
[1][5] In 937, Xu Zhigao had Yang Pu yield the throne to him, ending Wu and starting Southern Tang.
"[1] Also, toward the end of his reign, when medications given to him by alchemists altered his personality to be harsher and less patient, it was said that many attendants and officials were punished, but it was often intercession by the empress that saved many people.
However, Empress Song herself did not find this appropriate, pointing out that she did not want to be like Wu Zetian,[1] and the imperial scholar Li Yiye (李貽業) also found it unlikely that Li Bian, who often spoke against the idea of women in control of the state, would authorize such a regency, and Sun thus dropped the idea, fearing a public dispute.