Princess of Zhou and Han (周漢國公主)

Overview

Princess of Zhou and Han was a Royal Family Member.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Duanxiao	端孝	Duanxiao

Life and dates

Birth

Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 186

Death

AD 1262 七月
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 198

Age

22
AD 1262 七月 · Unit sui
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 198

Attested activity

AD 1261 景定二年四月
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passages 191-192
AD 1262 七月
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passages 197-198
AD 1262 明年
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 195
AD 1259 開慶初
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 188

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Zhen (鎮)
married as consort 尚主 · AD 1261 景定二年四月
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 191
Child of Emperor Lizong (理宗)
daughter 女
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 184
Child of Honored Consort Jia (賈貴妃)
mother 母
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 185

Kinship Role sons · Count 0 · Negated true
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 199

Career and standing

Duanxiao 端孝
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 199
Princess of Sheng 升國公主
Changed to
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 187
Princess of Zhou 周國公主
AD 1261 景定二年四月 · Elevated
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 192
Princess of Zhou and Han 周漢國公主
AD 1262 明年 · Elevated
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passages 184, 195
Princess of Rui 瑞國公主
Granted
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 187

Places and affiliations

Polity Song 宋 · Relation Member of
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 184
At Jiahui Gate 嘉會門 · Relation Residence built
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 193

Events and relationships

Came of age selection ordered
AD 1259 開慶初 · Marriage · Subject
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 188
Fell ill
AD 1262 七月 · Medical · Subject
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 197
Glimpsed zhou zhenyan and was displeased
Personal · Observer · With Zhou Zhenyan (周震炎)
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 190
Nine headed bird alighted at residence
AD 1262 七月 · Omen · Subject
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 198
AD 1259 開慶初
Relation Selected then superseded consort candidate · Person Zhou Zhenyan (周震炎)
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passages 189-191

Assessments and attributes

Assessment deeply cherished from birth · Assessor Person Id Emperor Lizong (理宗) · Mode named-person-judgment Source Person Id Emperor Lizong (理宗)
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 186
Item mansion with elevated walkways near the palace gardens 第嘉會門飛樓閣道 · Relation Bestowed
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 193

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Song 248, passage 184

References in the histories

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History

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History of Song, Chapter 248Volume 248 Biographies 7: Princesses, Dachang Princess of the State of Qin, Six Daughters of Taizu, Two Daughters of Zhenzong, Thirteen Daughters of Renzong, Four Daughters of Yingzong, Ten Daughters of Shenzong, Four Daughters of Zhezong, Thirty Three Daughters of Huizong, Two Daughters of Xiaozong, Three Daughters of Guangzong, Daughter of Weihui Xianwang, Daughter of Ningzong, Daughter of Lizong · 13 passages

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周、漢國公主，理宗女也。 Princess of Zhou and Han was a daughter of Emperor Lizong.

帝無子，公主生而甚鍾愛。 The emperor had no sons, and from her birth he doted on the princess.

初封瑞國公主，改升國。 She was first made Princess of Rui, then redesignated Princess of Sheng.

開慶初，公主年及笄，詔議選尚。 Early in the Kaiqing era, when she came of age, an edict was issued to choose a husband for her.

宰臣請用唐太宗降士人故事，欲以進士第一人尚主，遂取周震炎。 The chief ministers proposed following Tang Taizong's precedent of marrying a princess to a scholar and wished to give her to the top jinshi graduate; Zhou Zhenyan was selected.

廷謝日，公主適從屏內窺見，意頗不懌，帝微知之。 On the day of the court audience, she glimpsed him from behind a screen and was visibly displeased; the emperor sensed her dissatisfaction.

景定二年四月，帝以楊太后擁立功，乃選太后侄孫鎮尚主。 In the fourth month of 1261, because Empress Dowager Yang had helped place him on the throne, the emperor chose her grandnephew Zhen as the princess's consort.

擢鎮右領軍衛將軍、駙馬都統，進封公主為周國公主。 Zhen was made a general of the Right Army Guard and commander of the imperial son-in-law's guard; the princess was promoted to Princess of Zhou.

帝俗俚時見之，乃為主起第嘉會門，飛樓閣道，密邇宮苑，帝常御小輦從宮人過公主第。 In his leisure the emperor often visited her, so he built her a mansion at Jiahui Gate with elevated walkways near the imperial gardens; he would often ride a small carriage with palace women to her residence.

明年，進封周、漢國公主，拜鎮慶遠軍承宣使。 The following year she was promoted to Princess of Zhou and Han, and Zhen was made military commissioner of Qingyuan.

七月，主病。 In the seventh month she fell ill.

有鳥九首大如箕，集主家擣衣石上，是夕薨，年二十二。 A nine-headed bird the size of a winnowing tray alighted on the laundry stone at her residence; she died that night at the age of twenty-two.

無子，帝哭之甚哀，諡端孝。 She left no children; the emperor mourned her bitterly and gave her the posthumous epithet Duanxiao.