Song, Liao, and Jin · Ruler

Gaozong 高宗

Attested AD 1127 - AD 1162

Passages
23
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Gaozong as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 23 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Gaozong 高宗 Gaozong
Temple Emperor Gaozong 高宗 Gāozōng
Temple name Gaozong 高宗 Gaozong
Title Guangyao Shousheng Supreme Emperor 光堯壽聖太上皇帝 Guangyao Shousheng Taishang Huangdi
Title Retired Emperor 太上皇
Title Retired Emperor 上皇
Title Supreme Emperor 太上皇帝 Taishang Huangdi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Age

  • Years: 36 · Reckoning: years on the throne · Statement: 朕在位三十六年
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0059

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 建隆四年 · Western Year: AD 963
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 紹興三十二年六月 · Western Year: AD 1162
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:144:s0135
  • Source Date: Text: 紹興三十二年六月十日 · Western Year: AD 1162
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0050
  • Source Date: Text: 高宗 · Western Year: AD 1162
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0004
  • Source Date: Text: 高宗將迎韋太后 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1127 · End: AD 1162
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:144:s0128

Family

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  • Child of Empress Dowager Wei (韋太后)
    Kinship Term: empress dowager / 太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Relationship State: active
  • Spouse of Supreme Empress (太上皇后)
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
  • Child of Song Huizong (宋徽宗)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Emperor Xiaozong of Song (宋孝宗)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Relationship State: active
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Worthy Consort Wei (韋賢妃)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Title: Guangyao Shousheng Supreme Emperor / 光堯壽聖太上皇帝 · Action: received · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 紹興三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1162
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0167, songshi:110:s0170
  • Title: Supreme Emperor / 太上皇帝 · Action: received · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 紹興三十二年六月十日 · Western Year: AD 1162
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0050
  • Role: abdicated · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興三十二年六月十一日 · Western Year: AD 1162
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0050, songshi:110:s0053

Places and affiliations

  • Polity: Song / 宋 · Relation: ruled
    Explicit · songshi:144:s0128
  • Place: Deshou Palace / 德壽宮 · Relation: resided-at · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 紹興三十二年六月十日 · Western Year: AD 1162
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0050, songshi:110:s0073

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 19 passages
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俟宰臣以下再拜舞蹈、三稱萬歲、起居、稱賀畢，康伯等升殿奏：“臣等言：願陛下即御坐，以正南面，上副太上皇帝傳授之意。” When the chief ministers and others had finished bowing twice, performing the dance, shouting "Long live the emperor!" three times, reporting on his health, and offering congratulations, Kangbo and the others ascended the hall and said: "We beg Your Majesty to take the throne at once and face due south, in fulfillment of the Supreme Emperor's intent in passing on the succession."
前導官導皇帝入小次，簾降，俟太上皇帝即御坐，小次簾卷，前導官導皇帝升殿東階，詣殿上折檻前，奏請拜，皇帝再 拜訖，前導官導皇帝稍前，躬奏聖躬萬福訖，復位，再拜訖，導皇帝詣太上皇帝御坐之東，西向立。 Advance officers led the emperor into the small resting pavilion and lowered the curtain. When the Supreme Emperor had taken the throne, the curtain was raised. Advance officers led the emperor up the eastern steps to before the folding balustrade and requested that he bow. After the emperor bowed twice, they led him slightly forward to report on the Supreme Emperor's health, then led him back to bow twice again, and finally to stand east of the Supreme Emperor's throne, facing west.
帝始禦後殿，宰臣陳康伯等奏：“臣等朝德壽宮，太上皇宣諭，車駕每至宮，必於門外降輦，已再三勉諭，既行家人之禮，自宜至殿上降輦。” When the emperor first proceeded to the rear hall, Chief Minister Chen Kangbo and others reported: "When we attended at Deshou Palace, the Supreme Emperor instructed that whenever Your Majesty's carriage arrives at the palace you must dismount outside the gate. He has urged this repeatedly. Since this is a family rite, you should naturally dismount at the hall."
自後帝詣德壽宮恭請太上、太后至南內，或幸延祥觀靈隱寺天竺寺、恭進太上聖政、冊命皇太子，起居稱謝。 Thereafter the emperor went to Deshou Palace to respectfully invite the Supreme Emperor and the empress dowager to the Southern Inner Palace, or took them to Extended Felicity Abbey, Lingyin Temple, and Tianzhu Temple, or respectfully presented the Supreme Emperor's Sagely Governance, or invested the crown prince, reporting on their health and offering thanks.
皇帝再拜訖，西向立，次太傅以下再拜稱賀致詞曰：“攝 太傅、尚書左仆射臣康伯等稽首言：伏惟光堯壽聖太上皇帝陛下肅臨寶位，誕受丕稱，獨推天父之尊，普慰帝臣之願。” When the emperor had finished bowing twice, he stood facing west. The Grand Preceptor and those below then bowed twice and offered congratulations with a formal address: "Acting Grand Preceptor and Director of the Left Secretariat, your subject Kangbo and others kowtow and report: Humbly considering that Your Majesty the Guangyao Shousheng Supreme Emperor solemnly presides over the throne and has newly received this great title, uniquely extending the honor due Heaven's father and universally fulfilling the wishes of the emperor's ministers."
History of Song, Chapter 144Volume 144 Treatises 97: Ceremonial Guards 2 · 4 passages
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