Ming · Ruler

Emperor Wuzong 武宗

Wuzong

Attested AD 1505 - AD 1521

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Wuzong was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1505 to AD 1521 武宗
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 52, passage 144

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Offering Emperor Xing (興獻帝)
uncle 叔 · paternal line · Through Emperor Xiaozong (孝宗)
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 146
Child of Emperor Xiaozong (孝宗)
father 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 52, passages 146, 161

Places and affiliations

Polity Ming 明 · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 144

Events and relationships

Temple order compared with offering emperor
Ritual · Tablet referent
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passages 144-146

References in the histories

History of Ming, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 28: Rites 6 · 5 passages

帝令再議，書等言：「將置主於武宗上。 The emperor ordered further deliberation; Shu and others said: “If the tablet is placed above Wuzong.

則武宗君也，分不可僭。 Then Wuzong was sovereign, and the rank could not be usurped.

置武宗下，則獻皇叔也，神終未安。」 If placed below Wuzong, then the Offering Emperor was his uncle, and the spirit would never be at peace.”

右贊善郭希顏又欲於太祖廟文世室外，止立四親廟，而祧孝宗、武宗。 Right Adviser Guo Xiyan also wished, outside Taizu’s temple and Wen’s Eternal Chamber, to establish only four parental temples and remove Xiaozong and Wuzong from the line.

二十四年六月，新太廟成，遂奉睿宗於太廟之左第四，序躋武宗上，而罷特廟之祀。 In the sixth month of the twenty-fourth year the new Grand Temple was completed; Ruizong was then received in the fourth place to the left of the Grand Temple, advanced in order above Wuzong, and special-temple sacrifice was abolished.