Ancient China · Religious Leader

Sage Ancestor 聖祖

Shengzu

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sage Ancestor was a Religious Leader.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Strongly inferred · History of Song 98, passage 72

Career and standing

Sage Ancestor 聖祖
AD 1111 to AD 1118 政和中 · Received presentation · At Fangzhou 坊州 · Zhenghe classification of Fangzhou presentation as a great sacrifice is retrospective cult dating, not the figure's own activity
Directly stated · History of Song 98, passage 72

Places and affiliations

Polity Song 宋 · Relation Ancestral cult of
Strongly inferred · History of Song 98, passage 72

Events and relationships

Court presentation
AD 1111 to AD 1118 政和中 · Ritual · Honored recipient · At Fangzhou 坊州
Directly stated · History of Song 98, passage 72

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 98Volume 98 Treatises 51: Rites 1 · 1 passage

政和中，定《五禮新儀》，以熒惑、陽德觀、帝鼐、坊州朝獻聖祖、應天府祀大火為大祀； Under Zhenghe, when the New Protocols of the Five Rites was established, Mars, the Hall of Yang Virtue, Emperor Nai, Fangzhou's presentation to the Sage Ancestor, and Yingtianfu's sacrifice to the Great Fire were classified as great sacrifices;