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Taizu was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Song 宋 · Relation Associated with
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Classed in zhao mu diagrams
AD 1078 元豐元年 · Temple plan · Honoree
Tablets brought to chamber
AD 1080 元豐三年二月 · Enshrinement visitation · Chamber honoree
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History of Song, Chapter 106Volume 106 Treatises 59: Rites 9 · 6 passages
而馮京欲以太祖正東向之位，安石力主元絳初議，遂從 之。
Feng Jing wished Taizu to occupy the correct east-facing position, but Wang Anshi strongly upheld Yuan Jiang's initial proposal, and this was adopted.
翼祖、太祖、太宗、仁宗為穆，在右；
Yizu, Taizu, Taizong, and Renzong as mu, on the right;
陸佃言：「太祖之廟百世不遷，三昭三穆，親盡則迭毀。
Lu Dian stated: "Taizu's temple is never moved for a hundred generations, while three zhao and three mu are successively destroyed when affection is exhausted.
復圖上八廟昭穆之制，以翼祖、太祖、太宗、仁宗為昭，在左；
They resubmitted a diagram of the eight-temple zhao-mu system: Yizu, Taizu, Taizong, and Renzong as zhao, on the left;
何洵直圖上八廟異宮，引熙寧儀：僖祖正東向之位，順祖、宣祖、真宗、英宗南面為昭，翼祖、太祖、太 宗、仁宗北面為穆，正得祖宗繼序、德厚流光之本意。
He Xunzhi submitted a plan for eight temples in separate palaces, citing Xining regulations: Xizu east-facing; Shunzu, Xuanzu, Zhenzong, and Yingzong south as zhao; Yizu, Taizu, Taizong, and Renzong north as mu—capturing the intent of orderly succession and enduring virtue.
至日，奉神主先詣僖祖室，次翼祖室，次宣祖室，次太祖室，次太宗室。
On the day, the spirit tablets were first brought to the Xizu chamber, then Yizu, Xuanzu, Taizu, and Taizong chambers.