Ming · Ming Emperor

Shizong 世宗

Died AD 1566

Passages
34
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Shizong as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 34 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Shizong 世宗 Shizong
Title emperor
Title Emperor Shizong 世宗
Title Jiajing 嘉靖 Jiajing
Regnal Jiajing Emperor 嘉靖帝
Title Prince of Xing's heir 王世子
Temple Shizong 世宗 Shizong
Temple name Shizong 世宗 Shìzōng
Temple Shizong 世宗 Shìzōng
Temple name Shizong 世宗 Shizong
Posthumous Su Emperor 肅皇帝

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1531
    Explicit · mingshi:065:s0184
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 1534
    Explicit · mingshi:065:s0175
  • Source Date: Text: 世宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1522 · End: AD 1566
    Explicit · mingshi:065:s0018
  • Source Date: Text: 世宗崩 · Western Year: AD 1566
    Explicit · mingshi:058:s0208
  • Source Date: Text: 世宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1522 · End: AD 1566
    Explicit · mingshi:065:s0182
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖三年 · Western Year: AD 1524
    Explicit · mingshi:115:s0092
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖元年 · Western Year: AD 1522
    Explicit · mingshi:115:s0089
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖十七年 · Western Year: AD 1538
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖十八年 · Western Year: AD 1539
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖四十五年十二月庚子 · Western Year: AD 1566
    Explicit · mingshi:019:s0137
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉靖四十四年 · Western Year: AD 1565
    Explicit · mingshi:115:s0109
  • Source Date: Text: 武宗崩後入嗣 · Western Year: AD 1521
    Explicit · mingshi:115:s0078
  • Source Date: Text: 葬永陵 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1522 · End: AD 1566
    Strongly inferred · mingshi:058:s0218

Family

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  • Spouse of Consort Du (杜康妃)
    Kinship Term: consort / 妃 · Union Category: concubinage · Subject Role: consort · Object Role: husband
  • Parent of Crown Prince Zhuangjing (莊敬太子)
    Kinship Term: crown prince / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Child of Empress Xian (獻皇后)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Child of Zhu Youyuan (朱祐杬)
    Kinship Term: prince's heir / 王世子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Prince Jing Gong (景恭王)
    Kinship Term: prince / 王 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Zhu Zaihou (朱載垕)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 3

Career and standing

  • Label: emperor / 皇帝
    Explicit · mingshi:065:s0018
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正德十六年 · Western Year: AD 1521 · Note: two years after Xing prince death in Zhengde 14
    Explicit · mingshi:115:s0078

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: burial · Role: subject · Action: buried-at-Yongling
    Explicit · mingshi:058:s0218
  • Kind: ritual · Role: sponsor · Action: Great Rites controversy
  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: instituted · Label: Plough-Root Carriage first built; Zhongjing and Baohe caps introduced / 耕根車始造;忠靖冠、保和冠 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1522 · End: AD 1566
  • Kind: ritual · Role: commissioner · Action: ordered · Label: ordered the Plough-Root Carriage built for sacred-field ploughing / 詔造耕根車 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉靖十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1531
    Explicit · mingshi:065:s0184
  • Kind: travel · Role: traveler · Action: southern tour to Chengtian · Place: Chengtian / 承天 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉靖十八年三月 · Western Year: AD 1539
    Explicit · mingshi:115:s0158
  • Kind: ritual · Role: participant · Action: visited-temple · Label: visited the temple, leaving the palace in a shoulder palanquin and boarding the state carriage at the Gate of Receiving Heaven / 謁廟,乘肩輿出宮,至奉天門降輿升輅 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉靖十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 1534
    Explicit · mingshi:065:s0175

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 19Volume 19 Annals 19: Muzong · 5 passages
History of Ming, Chapter 58Volume 58 Treatises 34: Rites 12 · 3 passages
History of Ming, Chapter 65Volume 65 Treatises 41: Carriages and Clothing 1 · 4 passages
History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 22 passages
十七年十二月崩,諭禮、工二部將改葬獻皇帝于大峪山,以駙馬都尉京山侯崔元為奉迎行禮使,兵部尚書張瓚為禮儀護行使,指揮趙俊為吉凶儀仗官,翊國公郭勳知聖母山陵事。 In the twelfth month of the seventeenth year she died. Jiajing ordered the Ministries of Rites and Works to move the Xian emperor to Dayu Mountain, naming Cui Yuan, commandant and Jingshan marquis, welcoming envoy; Zhang Zan, minister of war, ritual escort; Zhao Jun, commander, regalia officer; and Guo Xun, defender of the state, to manage the dowager's tomb.