Emperor Zhang 孝章皇帝

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:031:s0083, houhanshu:110:s0116, houhanshu:126:s0240, sanguozhi:031:s0001
• Sex: male
  Explicit · houhanshu:032:s0180, houhanshu:032:s0189, houhanshu:085:s0117, houhanshu:093:s0342, houhanshu:109:s0045, houhanshu:115:s0109, houhanshu:117:s0011, houhanshu:119:s0065, houhanshu:125:s0084, songshu:055:s0011
• Value: male
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0171, xintangshu:184:s0060

Roles

• Ruler

Family

• Child of Empress Dowager Ma (马太后)
  Kinship Term: empress dowager / 太后 · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Parentage: biological
• Spouse of Empress Dou (窦后)
  Kinship Term: empress / 后 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
  Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: empress · Object Role: emperor
• Parent of Emperor He (和帝)
  Kinship Term: father / 章帝 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Kin of Ma Fang (马防)
  Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Subject Role: maternal-uncle · Object Role: sister's-son · Line: maternal
• Child of Mother of Emperor Zhang
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother · Line: maternal
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Line: maternal
• Child of Emperor Ming (顯宗)
  Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

• Label: Suzong / 肃宗 · Action: bestowed
  Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0119
• Action: acceded
  Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0116
• Date Context: Source Date: Text: 章帝即位 · Western Year: AD 75
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:109:s0045

Places and affiliations

• Label: Eastern Han / 东汉 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · houhanshu:117:s0011
• Label: Eastern Han / 汉 · Relation: under
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:115:s0109
• Polity: Eastern Han / 东汉 · Relation: lived-under
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:093:s0342
• Polity: Eastern Han / 东汉 · Relation: ruled
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:125:s0084
• Polity: Eastern Han / 東漢 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · houhanshu:032:s0180, houhanshu:032:s0189, houhanshu:085:s0117
• Polity: Eastern Han / 汉 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0065

Works and attributed material

• Work: hymns for the twelve gates of the Spirit Terrace / 灵台十二门诗 · Relation: author
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0056
• Work: Spirit Terrace twelve-gate poems / 灵台十二门诗 · Relation: author
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0056
• Kind: edict · Role: author · Quoted: true
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0045, houhanshu:109:s0046
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0346, houhanshu:093:s0349
• Kind: testamentary-edict · Role: author
  Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0118

Events and relationships

• Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: announced-sacrifice-to-temple-named-emperors · Place: Bright Hall / 明堂 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 癸酉 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0051
• Kind: scholarly-debate · Role: convener · Action: assembled scholars at White Tiger Hall · Other Person Id: Lu Gong (魯恭)
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0074
• Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: chai-burnt-sacrifice · Place: Mount Tai / 泰山 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 辛未 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0049
• Kind: travel · Role: traveler · Action: eastern-tour-hunt · Place: Mount Tai / 泰山 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二月 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0047, houhanshu:109:s0048
• Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: established-sacrifice-directors · Label: established sacrifice directors and assistants / 置祀令、丞
  Explicit · houhanshu:126:s0240
• Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: lineal-sacrifice-to-five-thearchs · Place: Bright Hall above the Wen / 汶上明堂 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壬申 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0050
• Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: ordered-debate-on-expanded-cults · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元和二年正月 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0045, houhanshu:109:s0046
• Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: return-report-sacrifice · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 庚申 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0055
• Kind: travel · Role: traveler · Action: returned-to-capital · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四月 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0054
• Kind: patronage · Role: patron · Action: rewarded · Other Person Id: Feng Bao (馮豹)
  Explicit · houhanshu:032:s0189
• Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: sacrificed-to-Prince-Gong-and-Confucius-disciples · Place: Lu / 鲁 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元和二年 · Western Year: AD 85
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0053
• Kind: ritual · Role: sponsor · Action: sent-envoys-to-sacrifice-to-Yao · Place: Chengyang Spirit Terrace in Jiyin / 济阴成阳灵台 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二月 · Western Year: AD 85 · Other Person Id: Yao (堯)
  Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0047
• Kind: military · Role: ruler · Action: sent-ma-fang-against-western-qiang
  Explicit · houhanshu:125:s0084
• Kind: court-test · Role: tester · Action: summoned and tested Marquis Shouguang
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0345, houhanshu:093:s0346, houhanshu:093:s0349
• Kind: imperial-tour · Role: emperor · Action: toured Zhao, examined Lu Pi on the classics, and rewarded him · Other Person Id: Lu Pi (魯丕) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元和年間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 84 · End: AD 88
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0289

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: highly esteemed Feng Yan's writings · Other Person Id: Feng Yan (馮衍) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:032:s0180
• Assessment: pitied Zhou Xu's poverty and restored him to office · Other Person Id: Zhou Xu (周䊸) · Provenance: Mode: ruler-judgment · Source Person Id: Emperor Zhang (孝章皇帝)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0117

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0117, houhanshu:119:s0065