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Overview The translated histories identify Emperor Ruizong as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 17 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Emperor Ruizong
睿宗
Ruìzōng
Posthumous name
Emperor Jiansu
簡肅皇帝
Temple
Emperor Ruizong
睿宗
Ruìzōng
Temple
Emperor Ruizong
睿宗皇帝
Posthumous name
Emperor Ruizong Lide Xianren Qisheng Guangyun Wenwu Jiansu
睿宗立德顯仁啟聖廣運文武簡肅皇帝
Temple name
Ruizong
睿宗
Ruìzōng
Temple
Ruizong
睿宗
Ruizong
Descriptive kinship
the late emperor's father
皇考
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Source Date: Text: 三年十月七日Western Year: AD 1163
Source Date: Text: 十五年二月Western Year: AD 1175
Source Date: Text: 大定三年Western Year: AD 1163
Source Date: Text: 大定二十一年五月十二日Western Year: AD 1181
Source Date: Text: 大定二年Western Year: AD 1162
Source Date: Text: 大定元年十一月十六日Western Year: AD 1161
Source Date: Text: 太祖諸子Western Interval: Start: AD 1115End: AD 1123
Family
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Kin of Empress Qinren (欽仁皇后) Kinship Term: ancestral aunt / 祖姑Object Role: ancestral aunt
Child of Empress Xuanxian (宣獻皇后) Kinship Term: bore / 生Parentage: biologicalSubject Role: motherObject Role: son
Spouse of Empress Qinci (欽慈皇后) Kinship Term: consort / 后Union Category: marriageRelationship State: active
Spouse of Empress Zhenyi (貞懿皇后) Kinship Term: consort / 后Union Category: marriageRelationship State: active
Child of Taizu (太祖) Kinship Term: father / 父Parentage: biologicalSubject Role: fatherObject Role: son
Parent of Emperor Shizong of Jin (金世宗) Kinship Term: father / 父Parentage: biological
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History of Jin, Chapter 32 Volume 32 Treatises 13: Rites 5: Conferring of Posthumous Titles · 6 passages
大定三年，增上睿宗尊諡。
In Dading 3 the court augmented Ruizong's posthumous title.
先是，元年十一月十六日，追冊皇考曰簡肅皇帝，廟號睿宗，皇妣蒲察氏欽慈皇后，皇妣李氏貞懿皇后。
Earlier, on the sixteenth day of the eleventh month of the first year, the late emperor's father was posthumously enshrined as Emperor Jiansu, with the temple name Ruizong; his mother of the Pucha clan was titled Empress Qinci, and his mother of the Li clan was titled Empress Zhenyi.
二年八月一日，有司奏：「祖宗諡號或十六字，或十四字，或十二字，即今睿宗皇帝更合增上尊諡，於升祔前奉冊寶。」
On the first day of the eighth month of the second year the relevant offices memorialized: 'The posthumous titles of the imperial ancestors run to sixteen, fourteen, or twelve characters; Emperor Ruizong should now receive an augmented posthumous title, with registers and seals presented before he is enshrined in the main ancestral line.'
十七日，左平章元宜等奏請增上尊諡曰睿宗立德顯仁啟聖廣運文武簡肅皇帝。
On the seventeenth day Left Chief Councillor Yuan Yi and others memorialized, asking that the augmented posthumous title be Emperor Ruizong Lide Xianren Qisheng Guangyun Wenwu Jiansu.
有司奏：「睿宗皇帝未經升祔，合無于衍慶宮聖武殿設神禦床案？」
The relevant offices memorialized: 'Emperor Ruizong has not yet been enshrined in the main ancestral line; should a spirit couch and table be set up in the Shengwu Hall of Yanqing Palace?'
又言：「大定三年追尊睿宗皇帝禮儀，大安殿前立黃麾仗一千人，應天門外行仗二千人，皇帝服通天冠、絳紗袍，隨冊寶降自西階，搢圭，跪，捧冊寶授太尉。
They stated again: 'In the Dading 3 ritual for posthumously honoring Emperor Ruizong, one thousand yellow-banner guards were stationed before Da'an Hall and two thousand outer guards before Yingtian Gate; the emperor wore the tongtian crown and crimson gauze robe, followed the registers and seals down the western steps, inserted the jade tablet, knelt, and presented the registers and seals to the Grand Mentor.
History of Jin, Chapter 33 Volume 33 Treatises 14: Rites 6: Original Shrines, Invocation Ceremonies, Pilgrimages, Other Temples · 10 passages
大定二年，以睿宗禦容奉遷衍慶宮。
In Dading 2, the imperial portrait of Emperor Ruizong was ceremonially moved to Yansqing Palace.
十五年二月，有司言東京開覺寺藏睿宗皇帝皁衣展裹真容，敕遷本京祖廟奉祀，仍易袍色。
In the second month of the fifteenth year, the responsible offices reported that Kaijue Temple in the Eastern Capital held the true portrait of Emperor Ruizong in black robes with outspread wrapping. An edict ordered it moved to the capital's ancestral temple for worship and the robe color changed.
明年四月，詔依奉安睿宗禮，奉安世祖禦容于衍慶宮。
In the fourth month of the following year, an edict directed that the imperial portrait of Emperor Shizu be installed in Yansqing Palace following the rites used for Emperor Ruizong.
乃敕于聖武殿東西興建世祖、太宗、睿宗殿位。
An edict then ordered halls for Emperors Shizu, Taizong, and Ruizong built to the east and west of Shengwu Hall.
既而複欲擇地建太宗殿於歸仁館，有司言：「山陵太祖、太宗、睿宗共一兆域，太廟世祖、太祖、太宗、睿宗亦同堂異室。
Later they again wished to build a hall for Emperor Taizong at Guiren Lodge. The responsible offices reported: "At the mountain tombs, Emperors Taizu, Taizong, and Ruizong share one burial precinct; in the Grand Ancestral Temple, Emperors Shizu, Taizu, Taizong, and Ruizong share one hall with separate chambers.
乃定世祖殿曰廣德、閣曰燕昌，太宗殿曰丕承、閣曰光昭，睿宗殿曰天興、閣曰景福。
Shizu's hall was named Guangde and his pavilion Yanchang; Taizong's hall Picheng and pavilion Guangzhao; Ruizong's hall Tianxing and pavilion Jingfu.
次睿宗禦容奉安於天興殿，禮亦如之。
Next Emperor Ruizong's portrait was installed at Tianxing Hall with the same rites.
是年五月，遷聖安寺睿宗皇帝禦容于衍慶宮，皇太子親王宰執奉迎安置。
In the fifth month of that year, Emperor Ruizong's portrait was moved from Sheng'an Temple to Yansqing Palace; the crown prince, princes, and chief councillors welcomed and installed it.
大定二十一年五月十二日，睿宗忌辰，有司更定儀禮。
On the twelfth day of the fifth month of Dading 21, the anniversary of Emperor Ruizong's death, the responsible offices revised the ritual protocol.
三年十月七日，太廟祫享，升祔睿宗皇帝並昭德皇后，神主同時製造題寫，奉詣殿庭，謁畢祔于祖姑欽仁皇后之左，享祀畢，奉主還本廟。
On the seventh day of the tenth month of the third year, at the Grand Ancestral Temple's di and xia offering, Emperor Ruizong and Empress Zhaode were elevated to joint worship. Spirit tablets were made and inscribed at the same time, borne to the forecourt, and after audience installed to the left of the ancestral aunt Empress Qinren. When the offering was complete, the tablets were returned to their own temple.
History of Jin, Chapter 69 Volume 69 Biographies 7: Taizu Sons: Zong Jun Formerly Named Eluguan, Zong Jie Formerly Named Meiliye, Zong Qiang Formerly Named Alu, Son: Shuang (Formerly Named Alin) Kexi, a Suo, Zong Min Formerly Named Alubu, Yuan Formerly Named Changsheng · 1 passage