Emperor Shizong of Zhou (周世宗)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Shizong of Zhou as a ruler. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Shizong of Zhou	周世宗	Zhōu Shìzōng
Temple	Emperor Shizong	世宗	Shìzōng
Temple	Emperor Shizong of Zhou	周世宗	Zhōu Shìzōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:138:s0028

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 954 · End: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0028
Source Date: Text: 周世宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 954 · End: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0034
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年二月 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0116, jiuwudaishi:138:s0117

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 3 passages

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然涼州夷夏雜處，師厚小人，不能撫有，至世宗時，師厚留其子而逃歸，涼州遂絕於中國。 But Liangzhou was a mixed region of barbarians and Chinese, and Shihou, a man of small character, could not hold it. By Emperor Shizong's reign he abandoned his son and fled home, and Liangzhou was lost to the central realm thereafter.

周世宗時，又以元忠爲歸義軍節度使，元恭爲瓜州團練使。 Under Emperor Shizong of Zhou, Yuanzhong was again appointed military governor of the Army of Returning Allegiance and Yuangong regimental commissioner of Gua Prefecture.

時世宗以玉雖稱寶，無益國用，故因而卻之。 Emperor Shizong held that although jade was prized as treasure it did not serve the needs of state, and on that account he refused it.