Shao means: first, continuation; second, guidance. In the year 1127, the Northern Song dynasty fell. Immediately thereafter, the ninth prince Zhao Gou ascended the throne at Shangqiu amid the expectations of the multitude, inheriting the Song lineage, and changed the reign era to Jianyan.

However, within three months, Li Gang was dismissed as chancellor, Chen Dong was killed, Yue Fei was expelled from the military, Zong Ze was abandoned in Dongjing, and the arrangements for resisting the Jin in Hebei were completely dismantled... After so many efforts, the civil and military officials finally unified their thinking and established the glorious anti-Jin route of supporting the Zhao official's southward journey to Huainan and then to Yangzhou. But just after setting out, having paid homage to the Daoist ancestor at the Mingdao Palace in Bozhou, this Zhao official plunged headfirst into the world-famous Nine Dragon Well, and after emerging, no longer recognized his own trusted confidant.