Sui and Tang · Ruler

Emperor Yizong 懿宗

Yìzōng

Attested AD 859 - AD 873

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Yizong was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 859 to AD 873 懿宗咸通
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 152, 154

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 152

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Li Keji (李可及) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 158

Events and relationships

Favored Li Keji
Patronage · Patron · With Li Keji (李可及)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 154, 157, 160
Grieved after Princess Tongchang mourning
Mourning · Grieving parent · With Princess Tongchang (同昌公主)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 156

Assessments and attributes

Assessment weak in virtue; doted on actor Li Keji · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 154
Item two silver flasks of pearls and gems 二銀珰皆珠珍 · Relation Bestowed · With Li Keji (李可及)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 159

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 181 Biographies 106: Chen, Three Li's, Cao, Liu · 7 passages

懿宗咸通中，以本官同中書門下平章事，俄進中書侍郎。 Under Yizong in the Xiantong era he became chief minister from his present rank and soon vice director of the Secretariat.

時帝薄於德，昵寵優人李可及。 The emperor was weak in virtue and doted on the actor Li Keji.

同昌公主喪畢，帝與郭淑妃悼念不已，可及為帝造曲，曰《嘆百年》，教舞者數百，皆珠翠襐飾，刻畫魚龍地衣，度用繒五千，倚曲作辭，哀思裴回，聞者皆涕下。 After Princess Tongchang's mourning ended, the emperor and Consort Guo could not cease grieving; Keji composed 'Lament for a Century' for hundreds of dancers in jeweled dress on carved dragon-and-fish carpets, using five thousand bolts of silk; the mournful lyrics moved all who heard them to tears.

舞闋，珠寶覆地，帝以為天下之至悲，愈寵之。 When the dance ended pearls and gems littered the floor; the emperor called it the deepest sorrow imaginable and favored Keji all the more.

家嘗娶婦，帝曰：「第去，吾當賜酒。」 When a wedding was being celebrated in his household, the emperor said, "Go home; I will send wine."

帝不聽。 The emperor refused to listen.

而神策中尉西門季玄者，亦剛鯁，謂可及曰：「汝以巧佞惑天子，當族滅！」 The Shence vice-director Ximen Jixuan was equally blunt; he told Keji, "You bewitch the emperor with flattery—your clan deserves extinction!"