Muzong 穆宗

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0001, liaoshi:008:s0005, liaoshi:021:s0042, liaoshi:030:s0153, liaoshi:058:s0045, liaoshi:072:s0070, liaoshi:078:s0075, liaoshi:090:s0109, liaoshi:090:s0111, liaoshi:103:s0117
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · liaoshi:031:s0025, liaoshi:042:s0231, liaoshi:043:s0011, liaoshi:045:s0313, liaoshi:057:s0015, liaoshi:061:s0040, liaoshi:098:s0001, liaoshi:112:s0092, liaoshi:113:s0133, liaoshi:113:s0145
• Value: male
  Strongly inferred · liaoshi:079:s0037

Roles

• General
• Royal Family Member
• Ruler

Family

• Parent of Yelü Xian (耶律賢)
  Kinship Term: raised / 養 · Parentage: foster · Subject Role: foster-father · Object Role: foster-son

Career and standing

• Status: reigning-emperor · Action: held
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0001, liaoshi:007:s0136
• Status: execution · Action: executed Lang · Authority Person Id: Muzong (穆宗)
  Explicit · liaoshi:113:s0145
• Action: ascended
  Strongly inferred · liaoshi:112:s0113
• Action: took the throne
  Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0138
• Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 951
  Explicit · liaoshi:113:s0145, liaoshi:113:s0087
• Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷初 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 951
  Explicit · liaoshi:078:s0075
• Date Context: Source Date: Text: 穆宗即位 · Western Year: AD 951
  Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0111

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Liao / 遼 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · liaoshi:043:s0011
• Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-with
  Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0070
• Polity Id: liao · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0001, liaoshi:007:s0133, liaoshi:008:s0005, liaoshi:021:s0042, liaoshi:031:s0025, liaoshi:042:s0231, liaoshi:045:s0313, liaoshi:057:s0015, liaoshi:061:s0040, liaoshi:078:s0075, liaoshi:079:s0037
• Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
  Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0045, liaoshi:090:s0001, liaoshi:103:s0117, liaoshi:113:s0133, liaoshi:113:s0145
• Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · liaoshi:112:s0018
• Place: Huai Mausoleum / 懷陵 · Relation: buried-at
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0134
• Place: Yanchang Palace / 延昌宮 · Relation: eponym-of
  Explicit · liaoshi:045:s0313

Learning and skills

• Belief: deluded by shamaness Xiaogu / 惑女巫肖古之言 · Relation: influenced-by
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0073

Works and attributed material

• Kind: edict · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Huage (化哥)
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0125, liaoshi:007:s0126
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Text: 敵來，則與統軍司並兵拒之；敵去，則務農作，勿勞士馬。 · Other Person Id: Siwen (思溫)
  Explicit · liaoshi:078:s0027, liaoshi:078:s0028
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Text: 收汝故人！ · Other Person Id: Yelü Yilage (耶律夷臘葛)
  Explicit · liaoshi:078:s0078
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Huage (化葛)
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0082
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Text: 吾兒已成人，可付以政。
  Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0009
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0065, liaoshi:061:s0066, liaoshi:061:s0067

Events and relationships

• Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: abolished-Bell-Court
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0090
• Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: assassinated · Other Person Ids: Xiaoge (小哥), Huage (花哥), Xingu (辛古) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十九年春正月己巳夜 · Western Year: AD 969
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0133
• Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: castrated-Haili-case · Other Person Id: Haili (海裏)
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0063, liaoshi:061:s0064
• Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: dismembered-seven-deer-keepers · Other Person Ids: Moda (沒答), Haili (海裏) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年戊辰 · Western Year: AD 964
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0006
• Kind: institutional · Role: founder · Action: established · Label: Yanchang Palace / 延昌宮 · Organization: Duoliben orudo / 奪裏本斡魯朵 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延昌宮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 969
  Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0082
• Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: executed-forty-four-deer-keepers · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年六月己未 · Western Year: AD 967
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0080
• Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: executed-Shouge-party · Other Person Id: Shouge (壽哥)
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0077, liaoshi:061:s0078
• Kind: hunting · Role: participant · Action: hunted · Place: Jade Mountain / 玉山 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年六月 · Western Year: AD 964
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0012
• Kind: legal · Role: lawgiver · Action: instituted-sandbag
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0040
• Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: killed-Pode · Other Person Id: Pode (頗德)
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0081
• Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: killed-Xiaogu · Other Person Id: Xiao Gu (肖古)
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0074
• Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: mass-executed-deer-keepers
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0079
• Kind: legal · Role: perpetrator · Action: mass-killings-and-torture
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0068, liaoshi:061:s0069, liaoshi:061:s0070, liaoshi:061:s0071, liaoshi:061:s0075
• Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: ordered-court-assemblies-use-Han-rites-per-Succession-Sage-Emperor · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷元年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 951
  Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0045
• Kind: administrative · Role: issuer · Action: ordered-use-of-Taizong-former-seal · Other Person Id: Yaogu (堯骨) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 穆宗應歷二年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952
  Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0015
• Kind: legal · Role: killer · Action: personally-killed-and-butchered-cook · Other Person Id: Haili (海裏) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年十二月辛未 · Western Year: AD 967
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0089
• Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: prayed-for-rain · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十六年五月甲申 · Western Year: AD 966
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0059, liaoshi:007:s0060
• Kind: ritual · Role: subject · Action: received-posthumous-title · Label: Emperor Xia'an Jingzheng / 孝安敬正皇帝 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1052
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0135
• Kind: ritual · Role: subject · Action: received-temple-name · Label: Muzong / 穆宗
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0133
• Kind: legal · Role: killer · Action: stabbed-attendant · Other Person Id: Dong'er (東兒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十五年三月癸酉 · Western Year: AD 965
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0035
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed Chagai rebellion
  Explicit · liaoshi:113:s0133, liaoshi:113:s0150
• Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: temple-rites
  Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0042
• Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: wished to execute Li Han then confined him · Other Person Id: Li Han (李澣)
  Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0145, liaoshi:103:s0149

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: abandoned to drink and endless hunting; inconsistent rewards and punishments; ignored government; endless killing · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0137, liaoshi:007:s0140
• Assessment: addicted to wine and hunting; neglected government; cruel torturer · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0068, liaoshi:061:s0069, liaoshi:061:s0070, liaoshi:061:s0071
• Assessment: addicted to wine, erratic moods, treated men like weeds · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Xingzong (興宗)
  Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0118
• Assessment: cruel yet reduced corvée and lightened taxes so people rejoiced · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Xiao Hanjianu (蕭韓家奴)
  Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0119, liaoshi:103:s0120, liaoshi:103:s0121
• Assessment: cruelty said confined to inner attendants · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0084
• Assessment: dissipated and cruel; neglected state affairs · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0063, liaoshi:079:s0087
• Assessment: drank heavily and neglected governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0006
• Assessment: not without understanding; saw through the witch's fraud; warned against arbitrary punishments · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:007:s0136
• Assessment: praised Dilu loyalty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0110
• Assessment: sank into debauchery and lost virtue · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:078:s0068
• Kind: character · Statement: drank heavily; often killed over trifles
  Explicit · liaoshi:078:s0076

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0005