Song, Liao, and Jin · Ruler

Taizong 太宗

Attested AD 976 - AD 997

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Taizong was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 976 to AD 997 太祖、太宗當迭配帝
Strongly inferred · History of Song 106, passage 160

Places and affiliations

Polity Song 宋 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 160

Events and relationships

Alternate with Taizu as Gods consort at Bright Hall
AD 1072 熙寧五年 · Ritual · Proposed alternating consort · With Taizu (太祖) · Mode named-source-report Speaker Wang Anshi (王安石)
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 160

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 106Volume 106 Treatises 59: Rites 9 · 1 passage

又安石以尊僖祖為始祖，則郊祀當以配天，若宗祀明堂，則太祖、太宗當迭配帝。 Wang Anshi also held that honoring Xizu as founding ancestor meant border sacrifice should pair him with Heaven, and that at the Bright Hall Taizu and Taizong should alternate as God's consorts.