Ming · Ming Emperor

Emperor Wuzong 武宗

Wuzong

Died AD 1521

Passages: 11
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Wuzong as a ruler. This record brings together 11 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Wuzong	武宗	Wuzong
Title	emperor	帝
Temple name	Wuzong	武宗	Wuzong
Temple name	Wuzong	武宗	Wǔzōng
Title	Wuzong	武
Title	Your Majesty	皇上
Title	Zhengde	正德	Zhengde

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:057:s0012
Sex: male
Explicit · mingshi:058:s0214

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正德十六年 · Western Year: AD 1521 · Note: two years after Xing prince death
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0078

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十二月 · Western Year: AD 1520
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:057:s0022
Source Date: Text: 孝宗崩 · Western Year: AD 1505
Explicit · mingshi:058:s0198, mingshi:058:s0200
Source Date: Text: 明年十一月 · Western Year: AD 1520
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:057:s0016
Source Date: Text: 正德十四年 · Western Year: AD 1519
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0012
Source Date: Text: 正德十四年後二年 · Western Year: AD 1521
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0078
Source Date: Text: 武宗徵宸濠還 · Western Year: AD 1520
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:057:s0125

Family

Kin of Empress Dowager (皇太后)
Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Subject Role: empress-dowager · Object Role: emperor

Career and standing

Status: ill · Label: unwell / 弗豫
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0125

Places and affiliations

Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0012
Polity: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
Explicit · mingshi:058:s0214

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Action: insisted-on-personally-bearing-silks
Explicit · mingshi:058:s0204
Kind: edict · Role: issuer
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0013, mingshi:057:s0014

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: sovereign · Action: captive-presentation-deferred-due-to-illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武宗徵宸濠還 · Western Year: AD 1520
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0125
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: personally-campaigned-against · Other Person Id: Chen Hao (宸濠) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正德十四年 · Western Year: AD 1519
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0012
Kind: ritual · Role: returning-sovereign · Action: triumphal-return · Place: Zhengyang Gate / 正陽門 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二月 · Western Year: AD 1520
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0022

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 57Volume 57 Treatises 33: Rites 11 · 7 passages

正德十四年，帝親征宸濠，禮部上祭告儀注如舊。 In the fourteenth year of the Zhengde reign, the emperor led a personal campaign against the Prince of Ning, Chen Hao, and the Ministry of Rites presented the sacrificial announcement protocols according to precedent.

帝令祭祀俱遣官代。 The emperor ordered that all sacrifices be performed by officials acting in his stead.

明年十一月將凱旋，禮臣言：「宸濠悖逆，皇上親統六師，往正其罪，與宣德間親征漢庶人高煦故事相同。 In the eleventh month of the following year, as the triumphal return approached, ritual officials said: "The Prince of Ning was rebellious and disloyal; Your Majesty personally commanded the six armies to punish his crime—a case identical to the Xuande-era personal campaign against the Han commoner Gao Xu.

請於師還之日，聖駕從正陽門入，遣官告謝天地廟社。 They requested that on the day the army returned, the imperial procession enter through the Zhengyang Gate, and that officials be dispatched to offer thanks at the altars of Heaven and Earth and at the temples of the ancestral spirits and of the soil and grain.

駕詣奉先殿、几筵殿，謁見畢，朝見皇太后。 The imperial procession should proceed to the Hall of Imperial Ancestors and the Hall of Spirit Tablets; after paying respects there, the emperor should have an audience with the empress dowager.

十二月，帝還京，百官迎於正陽門外，帝戎服乘馬入。 In the twelfth month, the emperor returned to the capital; officials welcomed him outside the Zhengyang Gate, and the emperor entered in military dress, mounted on horseback.

武宗徵宸濠還，禮部上獻俘儀，值帝弗豫，不果行。 When Emperor Wuzong returned from campaigning against the Prince of Ning, the Ministry of Rites presented the captive-presentation protocol, but as the emperor was unwell it was not carried out.

History of Ming, Chapter 58Volume 58 Treatises 34: Rites 12 · 2 passages

禮部請以駙馬等官捧帛朝祖，帝曰：「朝祖捧帛，朕自行。」 The Ministry of Rites asked that imperial sons-in-law and other officials bear the silks at the ancestral visit; the emperor said: "For the ancestral visit and bearing the silks, I shall go myself."

蓋孝宗篤於親，喪禮詳且備，故武、世、穆三廟皆宗之。 Hongzhi was deeply devoted to his parents, and his mourning rites were detailed and complete; for this reason the reigns of Wuzong, Shizong, and Muzong all took him as their model.

History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 2 passages

王薨二年而武宗崩，召王世子入嗣大統，是為世宗。 Two years after the prince's death the Wuzong emperor died; the prince's son was summoned to the throne as the Jiajing emperor.

九月，加上尊諡知天守道洪德淵仁寬穆純聖恭儉敬文獻皇帝，廟號睿宗，祔太廟，位次武宗上。 In the ninth month he received the full posthumous title Knowing Heaven, Upholding the Way, Vast Virtue, Profound Benevolence, Broad Solemnity, Pure Holiness, Respectful Frugality, and Cultivated Culture Xian Emperor, temple name Ruizong, enshrined in the Grand Temple above Wuzong.