Shunzhi Emperor (世祖)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shunzhi Emperor 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	Shunzhi Emperor	世祖	Shizu
Temple name	Shizu	世祖	Shizu
Regnal name	Shunzhi	順治	Shunzhi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:142:s0027

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年五月，大清律成 · Western Year: AD 1646
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0036
Source Date: Text: 世祖順治元年 · Western Year: AD 1644
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0027
Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 1645
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0035
Source Date: Text: 十三年，復頒滿文大清律 · Western Year: AD 1656
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0044
Source Date: Text: 十月，世祖入京 · Western Year: AD 1644
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0031

Career and standing

Status: accession · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 即皇帝位 · Western Year: AD 1644
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0031

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0027

Works and attributed material

Work: Great Qing Code with Collected Exegesis and Attached Precedents / 大清律集解附例 · Relation: sponsor
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0041
Kind: edict-preface · Role: author
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0036, qingshigao:142:s0037, qingshigao:142:s0038, qingshigao:142:s0039, qingshigao:142:s0040, qingshigao:142:s0041, qingshigao:142:s0042, qingshigao:142:s0043
Kind: rescript · Role: author
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0034

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: entered-capital-assumed-throne
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0031
Kind: legal · Role: author · Action: wrote-code-preface
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0036

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 · 3 passages

Open chapter

世祖順治元年，攝政睿親王入關定亂，六月，即令問刑衙門准依明律治罪。 In Shunzhi 1, while the regent Prince Rui was entering the passes to quell disorder, in the sixth month he ordered the judicial yamen to adjudicate crimes according to the Ming Code.

十月，世祖入京，即皇帝位。 In the tenth month Shizu entered the capital and assumed the throne.

三年五月，大清律成，世祖御制序文曰：「朕惟太祖、太宗創業東方，民淳法簡，大辟之外，惟有鞭笞。 In the fifth month of the third year the Great Qing Code was completed. Shizu wrote a preface in his own hand: "I reflect that Taizu and Taizong founded the enterprise in the east, where the people were simple and the law was spare—apart from capital punishment there was only flogging.