Shizong (世宗) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Shizong as a ruler. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Shizong	世宗	Shìzōng
Title	Emperor Shizong	世宗
Temple name	Shizong	世宗	Shìzōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jinshi:046:s0010

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1161 · End: AD 1189
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Source Date: Text: 世宗大定二年 · Western Year: AD 1162
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Source Date: Text: 大定二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1187
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Source Date: Text: 大定二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1182
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Source Date: Text: 大定二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1186
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Source Date: Text: 大定二十年 · Western Year: AD 1180
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Source Date: Text: 大定四年 · Western Year: AD 1164
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Places and affiliations

Label: Jin / 金 · Relation: ruled
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Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: author · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Shizong (世宗)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Shizong (世宗)
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Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: freed-double-tax-households · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大定二年 · Western Year: AD 1162
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Kind: fiscal · Role: ruler · Action: ordered-empire-wide-comprehensive-property-inspection · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大定四年 · Western Year: AD 1164
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: worthy · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Item: bond servants and livestock / 奴婢孳畜 · Relation: possessed · Quantity: tens of thousands of bond servants and thousands of livestock · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正隆興兵時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1156 · End: AD 1161
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 46Volume 46 Treatises 27: Finance and Economics 1: Thorough Examination and Organization of Registered Residences · 3 passages

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雖以世宗之賢，儲積之志曷嘗一日而忘之。 Even the worthy Emperor Shizong never let a single day pass without thought for building up reserves.

世宗大定二年，詔免二稅戶為民。 In Shizong's second year of Dading, double-tax households were freed as commoners.

金自國初占籍之後，至大定四年，承正隆師旅之餘，民之貧富變更，賦役不均，世宗下詔曰：「粵自國初，有司常行大比，於今四十年矣。 From the dynasty's founding registers to the fourth year of Dading, after Zhenglong's wars wealth and poverty had shifted and levies grown uneven; Shizong decreed: "Since the founding, officials have held great censuses—forty years have passed.