Song, Liao, and Jin · Ruler

Emperor Shenzong 神宗

Shenzong

Attested AD 1067 - AD 1081

Passages
10
Chapters
5
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Shenzong as a ruler. This record brings together 10 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

RolesRuler

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Emperor Shenzong 神宗 Shenzong
Title Emperor 皇帝 Huangdi
Temple Emperor Shenzong 神宗 Shenzong
Temple Emperor Shenzong 神宗 Shénzōng
Temple name Emperor Shenzong of Song 神宗 Shenzong
Temple Shenzong 神宗
Temple name Shenzong 神宗 Shenzong
Temple Shenzong 神宗 Shenzong
Title Your Majesty 聖躬

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

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Family

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Career and standing

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 治平四年 · Western Year: AD 1067
    Explicit · songshi:144:s0162

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Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: birthday-festival-established · Label: Tongtian Festival / 同天節 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧元年 · Western Year: AD 1068
    Explicit · songshi:112:s0033
  • Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: birthday-rites-suspended · Reason: mourning · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧元年 · Western Year: AD 1068
    Explicit · songshi:112:s0033
  • Kind: political · Role: refuser · Action: refused-honorific-title · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧元年 · Western Year: AD 1068
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0035, songshi:110:s0046

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 107Volume 107 Treatises 60: Rites 10 · 5 passages
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History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 1 passage
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熙寧二年，神宗尊皇太后曹氏為太皇太后，詣文德殿跪奉玉冊授攝太尉曾公亮、金寶授攝司徒韓絳，又跪奉皇太后高氏玉冊授攝太尉文彥博、金寶授攝司徒趙抃，禮畢，百官稱賀。 In Xining 2, 1069, Shenzong honored Empress Dowager Cao as grand empress dowager. At Wende Hall he knelt and presented the jade patent to Acting Grand Commandant Zeng Gongliang and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Han Jiang. He knelt again and presented the jade patent of Empress Dowager Gao to Acting Grand Commandant Wen Yanbo and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Zhao Bian. When the rites were complete, all officials offered congratulations.
History of Song, Chapter 112Volume 112 Treatises 65: Rites 15 · 1 passage
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History of Song, Chapter 118Volume 118 Treatises 71: Rites 21 · 1 passage
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熙寧初，閣門言：「舊制，中書省、樞密院奏事退，再引三班，假日則兩班，或再禦後殿引對，多及午刻，遇開經筵，即至申末，恐久勞聖躬。 At the beginning of Xining, the Gate Office reported: "Under the old system, after the Central Secretariat and Bureau of Military Affairs finished reporting affairs, three ranks were again introduced; on holidays two ranks; audiences in the rear hall often extended to noon; when the classics lecture was held they could last until late afternoon—we fear this would overtax Your Majesty.
History of Song, Chapter 144Volume 144 Treatises 97: Ceremonial Guards 2 · 2 passages
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四年，神宗嗣位，詔太皇太后儀範已定，皇太后合設儀衛：禦龍直、骨朵子直差都虞候、都頭、副都頭各一人，十將、長行各共三十人； In year 4, when Emperor Shenzong succeeded, an edict noted that the grand empress dowager's protocol was already fixed and ordered ceremonial guards for the empress dowager: Imperial Dragon Direct and geku Direct each with one chief commander, one company head, one deputy company head, and 30 squad leaders and rank-and-file;