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Overview The translated histories identify Emperor Taizong 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 Taizong
太宗
Tàizōng
Posthumous name
Emperor Tiyuan Yingyun Shide Zhaogong Zhehui Rensheng Wenlie
體元應運世德昭功哲惠仁聖文烈皇帝
Posthumous name
Emperor Wenlie
文烈皇帝
Temple name
Taizong
太宗
Tàizōng
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Source Date: Text: 天會十三年三月七日Western Year: AD 1135
Source Date: Text: 天會十四年八月庚戌Western Year: AD 1136
Source Date: Text: 皇統五年閏十一月Western Year: AD 1145
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History of Jin, Chapter 32 Volume 32 Treatises 13: Rites 5: Conferring of Posthumous Titles · 5 passages
天會十三年三月七日，遣攝太尉皇叔祖大司空昱奉玉冊、玉寶，上尊諡曰文烈皇帝，廟號太宗。
On the seventh day of the third month, Tianhui 13, the court sent the Acting Grand Mentor, the emperor's grand-uncle Yu, Minister of Works, to present jade registers and seals and confer the posthumous title Emperor Wenlie, with the temple name Taizong.
太宗文烈皇帝繼志卒伐，奮張惶威。
Emperor Taizong, the Wenlie Emperor, carried on that purpose to its end and spread a majesty that made the realm tremble.
仍請以始祖景元皇帝、景祖惠桓皇帝、世祖聖肅皇帝、太祖武元皇帝、太宗文烈皇帝為永永不祧之廟。
We further ask that the Founder Emperor Jingyuan, Jingzu Emperor Huihuan, Shizu Emperor Shengsu, Taizu Emperor Wuyuan, and Taizong Emperor Wenlie be designated as temples that shall never be removed from the main ancestral line.
是歲閏十一月，增上祖宗尊諡，始祖景元皇帝曰懿憲景元皇帝，德皇帝曰淵穆玄德皇帝，安皇帝曰和靖慶安皇帝，獻祖定昭皇帝曰純烈定昭皇帝，昭祖成襄皇帝曰武惠成襄皇帝，景祖惠桓皇帝曰英烈惠桓皇帝，世祖聖肅皇帝曰神武聖肅皇帝，肅宗穆憲皇帝曰明睿穆憲皇帝，穆宗孝平皇帝曰章順孝平皇帝，康宗恭簡皇帝曰獻敏恭簡皇帝，太宗文烈皇帝曰體元應運世德昭功哲惠仁聖文烈皇帝，徽宗景宣皇帝曰允恭克讓孝德玄功佑聖景宣皇帝，已上廟號如故。
In the intercalary eleventh month of that year the court augmented the posthumous titles of the imperial ancestors: Founder Emperor Jingyuan became Emperor Yixian Jingyuan; Emperor De became Emperor Yuanmu Xuande; Emperor An became Emperor Hejing Qing'an; Xianzu Emperor Dingzhao became Emperor Chunlie Dingzhao; Zhaozu Emperor Chengxiang became Emperor Wuhui Chengxiang; Jingzu Emperor Huihuan became Emperor Yinglie Huihuan; Shizu Emperor Shengsu became Emperor Shenwu Shengsu; Suzong Emperor Muxian became Emperor Mingrui Muxian; Muzong Emperor Xiaoping became Emperor Zhangshun Xiaoping; Kangzong Emperor Gongjian became Emperor Xianmin Gongjian; Taizong Emperor Wenlie became Emperor Tiyuan Yingyun Shide Zhaogong Zhehui Rensheng Wenlie; Huizong Emperor Jingxuan became Emperor Yungong Kerang Xiaode Xuangong Yousheng Jingxuan—the temple names listed above remained unchanged.
元年十一月十六日，詔曰：「前君乃太祖之長孫，受太宗之遺命，嗣膺神器，十有五年。
On the sixteenth day of the eleventh month of the first year an edict stated: 'The former ruler was the eldest grandson of Emperor Taizu; he received Emperor Taizong's testamentary mandate, succeeded to the throne, and reigned for fifteen years.