Song, Liao, and Jin · Ruler

Emperor Zhenzong 宋真宗

Song Zhenzong

Died AD 1022

Passages
13
Chapters
7
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Zhenzong as a ruler. This record brings together 13 passages from 7 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Emperor Zhenzong 宋真宗 Song Zhenzong
Title Emperor 皇帝 Huangdi
Title Emperor Zhenzong 宋真宗 Song Zhenzong
Title Emperor Zhenzong 真宗
Temple Emperor Zhenzong 真宗 Zhenzong
Temple name Emperor Zhenzong 真宗 Zhenzong
Temple Emperor Zhenzong 真宗 Zhēnzōng
Temple Zhenzong 真宗 Zhenzong
Temple name Zhenzong 真宗 Zhēnzōng
Temple Zhenzong 真宗
Temple name Zhenzong 真宗 Zhenzong

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: testamentary instructions issued · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾興元年 · Western Year: AD 1022
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0106

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 乾興元年 · Western Year: AD 1022
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0106
  • Source Date: Text: 北宋真宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 997 · End: AD 1022
  • Source Date: Text: 大中祥符三年 · Western Year: AD 1010
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:144:s0025
  • Source Date: Text: 大中祥符元年 · Western Year: AD 1008
    Explicit · songshi:112:s0150
  • Source Date: Text: 天禧二年四月 · Western Year: AD 1018
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:107:s0013
  • Source Date: Text: 天禧初 · Western Year: AD 1017
    Explicit · songshi:112:s0158
  • Source Date: Text: 景德二年 · Western Year: AD 1005
    Explicit · songshi:112:s0015
  • Source Date: Text: 真宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 997 · End: AD 1022
    Strongly inferred · songshi:112:s0011
  • Source Date: Text: 真宗咸平二年八月 · Western Year: AD 999
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:107:s0009
  • Source Date: Text: 真宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 997 · End: AD 1022
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:144:s0024
  • Source Date: Text: 真宗祥符初 · Western Year: AD 1008
    Explicit · songshi:076:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 祥符故事 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1008 · End: AD 1016
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:118:s0160, songshi:118:s0161
  • Source Date: Text: 至道三年四月 · Western Year: AD 997
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0105

Family

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Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: added-surrounding-inner-guards
    Explicit · songshi:144:s0024
  • Kind: administrative · Role: authority · Action: appointed-Zhang-Shixun-as-prince-friend-and-ordered-return-bow
    Explicit · songshi:118:s0161
  • Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: birthday-festival-established · Label: Chengtian Festival / 承天節
    Explicit · songshi:112:s0011
  • Kind: ritual · Role: initiator · Action: established-celebratory-holidays
  • Kind: scholarly · Role: reigning-emperor · Action: houhanshu-and-xu-han-shu-treatises-combined-during-reign · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 北宋真宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 997 · End: AD 1022
  • Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: issued-escort-diagram · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大中祥符三年 · Western Year: AD 1010
    Explicit · songshi:144:s0025

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 1Introduction · 1 passage
History of Song, Chapter 76Volume 76 Treatises 29: Measures and Calendar 9 · 1 passage
History of Song, Chapter 107Volume 107 Treatises 60: Rites 10 · 6 passages
仁宗天聖元年,禮官言:「真宗神主祔廟,已行吉祭,三年之制,又從易月之文,自天禧二年四月禘享,至今已及五年,合行禘禮。」 In the first year of the Tiansheng era, ritual officials reported: "Now that Emperor Zhenzong's spirit tablet has been installed in the ancestral temple and the auspicious installation sacrifice completed, and with the three-year mourning period observed according to the abbreviated mourning rule, five full years have passed since the dì sacrifice of the fourth month, second year of Tianxi. It is time to perform the dì rite again."
History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 1 passage
History of Song, Chapter 112Volume 112 Treatises 65: Rites 15 · 2 passages
History of Song, Chapter 118Volume 118 Treatises 71: Rites 21 · 1 passage
History of Song, Chapter 144Volume 144 Treatises 97: Ceremonial Guards 2 · 1 passage