Empress Zhaode (昭德皇后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Zhaode as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Zhaode	昭德皇后	Zhāodé huánghòu
Temple	Empress Zhaode	昭德皇后	Zhāodé huánghòu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
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Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年十月七日 · Western Year: AD 1163
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Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1186
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Source Date: Text: 十五年三月 · Western Year: AD 1175
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Source Date: Text: 大定二年 · Western Year: AD 1162
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Family

Kin of Empress Qinren (欽仁皇后)
Kinship Term: ancestral aunt / 祖姑 · Subject Role: junior kinswoman · Object Role: ancestral aunt · Generation Distance: 2

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: elevated-to-joint-worship · Other Person Id: Emperor Ruizong (睿宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年十月七日 · Western Year: AD 1163
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Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: portrait-temple-built · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1186
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Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: separate-temple-established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大定二年 · Western Year: AD 1162
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Source notes

Historicity: historical
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 33Volume 33 Treatises 14: Rites 6: Original Shrines, Invocation Ceremonies, Pilgrimages, Other Temples · 7 passages

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前期一日，奏告太廟十一室及昭德皇后廟，余如昭德過廟之儀。 One day beforehand, reports were made to the eleven chambers of the Grand Ancestral Temple and the temple of Empress Zhaode; the remainder followed the rites for passing through Zhaode's temple.

昭德皇后廟。 Temple of Empress Zhaode

大定二年，有司援唐典，昭德皇后合立別廟，擬於太廟內垣東北起建，從之。 In Dading 2, the responsible offices cited Tang precedent: Empress Zhaode should have a separate temple established in the northeast within the inner wall of the Grand Ancestral Temple; this was approved.

三年十月七日，太廟祫享，升祔睿宗皇帝並昭德皇后，神主同時製造題寫，奉詣殿庭，謁畢祔于祖姑欽仁皇后之左，享祀畢，奉主還本廟。 On the seventh day of the tenth month of the third year, at the Grand Ancestral Temple's di and xia offering, Emperor Ruizong and Empress Zhaode were elevated to joint worship. Spirit tablets were made and inscribed at the same time, borne to the forecourt, and after audience installed to the left of the ancestral aunt Empress Qinren. When the offering was complete, the tablets were returned to their own temple.

宮闈令升殿，捧昭德皇后神主置於座，贊者曰：「再拜。」 The director of palace gates ascended the hall, bore the spirit tablet of Empress Zhaode, and set it on the seat. The announcer called: "Bow twice."

次引內常侍北向俯伏，跪奏：「請昭德皇后神主奉安於新廟，降殿升輿。」 Next an inner palace attendant was led to prostrate himself facing north and kneel in report: "We request that the spirit tablet of Empress Zhaode be installed at the new temple—descend from the hall and mount the sedan chair."

二十六年，敕別建昭德皇后影廟于太廟內。 In the twenty-sixth year, an edict ordered a separate portrait temple for Empress Zhaode built within the Grand Ancestral Temple.