Emperor Wu of Song (宋武帝)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Wu of Song as a ruler. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Wu of Song	宋武帝	Song Wudi
Temple	Emperor Wu of Song	宋武帝	Song Wudi
Temple	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Temple	Song Gaozu	宋高祖	Song Gaozu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:042:s0011
Sex: male
Explicit · nanqishu:010:s0058

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宋武帝大明六年 · Western Year: AD 462
Explicit · liaoshi:042:s0011
Source Date: Text: 建元三年 · Western Year: AD 481
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:010:s0054, nanqishu:010:s0058

Places and affiliations

Polity: Liu Song · Relation: ruled
Explicit · nanqishu:010:s0058

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 42Volume 42 Treatises 12: Celestial Phenomena 1 · 1 passage

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宋武帝大明六年，祖沖之上《甲子元曆》法，未及施用，因名《大明曆》。 In the sixth year of Emperor Wu of Song's Daming reign (462 CE), Zu Chongzhi presented the Jiazi Epoch Calendar methods; before adoption they were called the Great Brightness Calendar.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 10Volume 10 Treatises 2: Rituals 1 · 1 passage

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靈筵雖未升廟堂，而舫中即成行廟，猶如桓玄及宋高祖長沙、臨川二國，竝有移廟之禮。 Though the spirit-seat had not reached the temple, the barge itself served as a traveling shrine—as with Huan Xuan and, under Song Gaozu, the Changsha and Linchuan domains, which all observed temple-transfer rites.