Emperor Sizong (莊烈帝)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Sizong as a ruler. This record brings together 5 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 Sizong	莊烈帝	Zhuanglie Di
Regnal	Chongzhen	崇禎
Temple	Emperor Sizong	莊烈帝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:272:s0006

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 崇禎 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1628 · End: AD 1644
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0006
Source Date: Text: 崇禎初 · Western Year: AD 1628
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0005

Places and affiliations

Polity: Ming / 明 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0006, qingshigao:272:s0009

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: ordered calendar reform bureau
Explicit · qingshigao:272:s0006

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 272Volume 272 Biographies 59: Tang Ruowang, Yang Guangxian, Nan Huai Ren · 5 passages

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崇禎初，日食失驗，光啟上言：「台官用郭守敬法，歷久必差，宜及時修正。」 Early in the Chongzhen reign, when a predicted solar eclipse missed, Xu Guangqi submitted a memorial: "The Astronomical Bureau still uses Guo Shoujing's methods; given enough years, error is inevitable—the calendar ought to be corrected now."

莊烈帝用其議，設局修改曆法，光啟為監督，湯若望被徵入局掌推算。 Chongzhen accepted the proposal, set up a bureau to reform the calendar, made Xu Guangqi its superintendent, and called Tang Ruowang in to direct the computations.

莊烈帝知西法果密，欲據以改大統術，未行而明亡。 Chongzhen saw that the Western system was genuinely precise and intended to replace the Datong calendar with it—but the dynasty collapsed before he could act.

順治元年，睿親王多爾袞定京師，是歲六月，湯若望啟言：「臣於明崇禎二年來京，用西洋新法釐正舊曆，制測量日月星晷、定時考驗諸器。 In Shunzhi 1, after Prince Regent Dorgon took Beijing, Tang Ruowang wrote in the sixth month: "I reached the capital in Chongzhen 2, corrected the old calendar by Western methods, and built instruments to measure the sun, moon, and stars, mark shadows, and keep time for verification.

崇禎十年，上疏劾大學士溫體仁、給事中陳啟新，舁棺自隨。 In Chongzhen 10 he memorialized against Grand Secretary Wen Tiren and Censor Chen Qixin, bearing a coffin with him to show he was ready to die for the charge.