Emperor Ming of Song 宋明帝

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · liangshu:007:s0099, nanqishu:020:s0010, nanqishu:053:s0039, songshu:073:s0301
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · nanqishu:017:s0190, nanqishu:021:s0029, nanqishu:031:s0008, nanqishu:048:s0009, nanqishu:056:s0021

Roles

• Royal Family Member
• Ruler
• Student

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Liu Song / 宋 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · liangshu:007:s0099
• Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · nanqishu:017:s0190, nanqishu:020:s0039, nanqishu:056:s0021, songshu:073:s0315

Learning and skills

• Skill: go / 圍碁 · Level: very poor but believed himself third rank
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0052, nanqishu:053:s0054

Works and attributed material

• Kind: edict · Role: author
  Explicit · songshu:073:s0315, songshu:073:s0316, songshu:073:s0317
• Kind: oral assessment · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Shen Xian (沈憲) · Statement: Xian had the talent to govern Guangzhou as inspector
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0166
• Kind: oral question · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Wang Jingwen (王景文) · Statement: He asked whether Wang Jingwen got enough of the rare delicacy.
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0060
• Kind: oral statement · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Chao Shangzhi (巢尚之) · Statement: He asked whether Chao had visited the temple and called building it a great act of merit.
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0046, nanqishu:053:s0047

Events and relationships

• Kind: court-administration · Action: appointed two wind-watch clerks and assigned two observatory astronomers to Yu Yuan to cross-check celestial reports
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0042, nanqishu:053:s0043
• Kind: medical-crisis · Action: overate zhuyi, developed severe swelling, and recovered temporarily after vinegar wine
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0063, nanqishu:053:s0064
• Kind: construction · Action: planned a ten-story pagoda and divided it into two five-story structures when it could not stand
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0045
• Kind: ritual · Role: sovereign · Action: revised-five-chariots-and-debated-five-crowns
  Explicit · nanqishu:017:s0190

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: favored Yu Yuan greatly for learning, official skill, and their old princely-household bond · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Source Person Id: Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0040
• Kind: character-and-physique · Statement: suspicious, corpulent, and averse to drafts
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0042
• Kind: diet · Statement: a hearty eater especially fond of honey-steeped zhuyi, consumed by several bowls
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0059
• Item: Xiang Palace Temple / 湘宮寺 · Relation: built on former residence · Cost: extremely extravagant
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0044