Ming · Royal Family Member

Offering Emperor Xing 興獻帝

Xingxian Di

Attested AD 1487 - AD 1519

Passages: 13
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Offering Emperor Xing was a Royal Family Member.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Offering Emperor	獻皇帝	Xianhuangdi
Temple name	Ruizong	睿宗	Ruizong

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1487 to AD 1519 獻皇帝追稱帝號，未爲天子
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 52, passage 142

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Emperor Wuzong (武宗)
uncle 叔 · paternal line · Through Emperor Xiaozong (孝宗)
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 146
Parent of Emperor Shizong (世宗)
birth father 本生父 · paternal line
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passages 137, 141
Sibling of Emperor Xiaozong (孝宗)
brothers 兄弟 · Uncertain siblings
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 52, passages 159, 161

Career and standing

imperial title 帝號
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 142
Ancestor 宗
AD 1538 嘉靖十七年 · Styled
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 52, passage 158
never Son of Heaven 未爲天子
Never son of heaven · Negated true
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 142

Places and affiliations

Polity Ming 明 · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 132

Events and relationships

Enshrined in grand temple
Ritual · Enshrined · At Grand Temple 太廟
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 162
Eternal temple moved and renamed temple of the offering emperor
AD 1536 嘉靖十五年 · Ritual · Recipient
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 52, passage 157
Pavilion sacrifice at family temple
AD 1523 嘉靖二年四月 · Ritual · Recipient · At family temple of the Offering Emperor Xing 興獻帝家廟
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 52, passage 132
Proposed to share temple as zhao
AD 1543 嘉靖二十二年 · Ritual · Proposed coresident · With Emperor Xiaozong (孝宗)
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 52, passage 163
Received in fourth place left of grand temple above wuzong
AD 1545 嘉靖二十四年六月 · Ritual · Enshrined · With Emperor Wuzong (武宗)
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 52, passage 168
Special temple sacrifice abolished
AD 1545 嘉靖二十四年六月 · Ritual · Recipient
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 52, passage 168

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Worshiped in hall of observing virtue
Ritual · Recipient · At Hall of Observing Virtue 觀德殿
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 140

References in the histories

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History

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History of Ming, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 28: Rites 6 · 13 passages

嘉靖二年四月，始命興獻帝家廟亭祀，樂用八佾。 In the fourth month of the second year of Jiajing, orders were first given for pavilion sacrifice at the family temple of the Offering Emperor Xing, with music using eight rows of dancers.

至爲本生父立廟大內，古所未有，惟漢哀爲定陶共王建廟京師，不可爲法。」 As for building a temple within the inner palace for one’s birth father, there has never been such a thing in antiquity; only Han Aidi built a temple in the capital for Prince Gong of Dingtao—this cannot serve as a model.”

四年四月，淵已授光祿寺署丞，覆上書請立世室，崇祀皇考於太廟，禮部尚書席書等議：「天子七廟，周文、武並有功德，故立文、武世室於三昭穆之上。 In the fourth month of the fourth year, Yuan had already been appointed vice director of a bureau of the Court of Imperial Entertainments and again memorialized requesting establishment of an Eternal Chamber and exalted sacrifice to the imperial father in the Grand Temple; Minister of Rites Xi Shu and others deliberated: “The Son of Heaven has seven temples; Zhou Wen and Wu both had merit and virtue, and therefore established the Wen and Wu Eternal Chambers above the three zhao and three mu.

獻皇帝追稱帝號，未爲天子。 The Offering Emperor was posthumously given an imperial title but was never Son of Heaven.

置武宗下，則獻皇叔也，神終未安。」 If placed below Wuzong, then the Offering Emperor was his uncle, and the spirit would never be at peace.”

十五年，以避渠道，遷世廟，更號曰獻皇帝廟，遂改舊世廟曰景神殿，寢殿曰永孝殿。 In the fifteenth year, to avoid a canal, the Eternal Temple was moved and renamed the Temple of the Offering Emperor; the old Eternal Temple was then changed to the Jingshen Hall, and the sleeping hall to the Yongxiao Hall.

今皇考與孝宗當同一廟。」 Now the imperial father and Xiaozong should share one temple.”

遂奉獻皇帝祔太廟。 The Offering Emperor was then enshrined in the Grand Temple.

二十二年，更新太廟，廷議睿宗、孝宗並居一廟，同爲昭。 In the twenty-second year the Grand Temple was renewed; court deliberation held that Ruizong and Xiaozong should both dwell in one temple, together as zhao.

已而左庶子江汝璧請遷皇考廟於穆廟首，以當將來世室，與成祖廟並峙。 Soon thereafter Left Mentor Jiang Rubi requested moving the imperial father’s temple to the head of the mu temples, to serve as the future Eternal Chamber, standing alongside Chengzu’s temple.

二十四年六月，新太廟成，遂奉睿宗於太廟之左第四，序躋武宗上，而罷特廟之祀。 In the sixth month of the twenty-fourth year the new Grand Temple was completed; Ruizong was then received in the fourth place to the left of the Grand Temple, advanced in order above Wuzong, and special-temple sacrifice was abolished.

隆慶元年，禮科王治請罷獻皇祔廟，而專祀之世廟，章下所司。 In the first year of Longqing, Wang Zhi of the Ritual Section requested abolishing the Offering Emperor’s enshrinement in the temple and sacrificing to him exclusively in the Eternal Temple; the memorial was sent down to the responsible offices.

天啓元年，太常少卿李宗延奏祧廟宜議，言：「睿宗入廟，世宗無窮之孝思也，然以皇上視之，則遠矣。 In the first year of Tianqi, Vice Minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Li Zongyan memorialized that removal from the temple line should be deliberated, saying: “Ruizong’s entry into the temple was Shizong’s boundless filial thought, yet viewed by the present emperor it is already distant.