Taizu (太祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

Taizu was a ruler.

AD 960 建隆元年
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 106, passages 2, 19

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Xuanzu (宣祖)
father 考 · paternal line
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 15, 19
Descendant of Yizu (翼祖)
grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations · Through Xuanzu (宣祖)
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 14, 19
Descendant of Shunzu (順祖)
great-grandfather 曾祖 · paternal line · 3 generations · Through Yizu (翼祖), Xuanzu (宣祖)
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 13, 19
Descendant of Xizu (僖祖)
great-great-grandfather 高祖 · paternal line · 4 generations · Through Shunzu (順祖), Yizu (翼祖), Xuanzu (宣祖)
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 12, 19
Sibling of Taizong (太宗)
elder uncle (of the reigning emperor, i.e. elder brother of Taizong) 伯 · Full siblings · paternal line
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 28, 40
Spouse of Empress Xiaozhang (孝章皇后)
elder uncle's consort 伯妣
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 29
Spouse of Empress Xiaohui (孝惠皇后)
elder uncle's consort 伯妣
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 29
Spouse of Empress Xiaoming (孝明皇后)
enshrined consort 配 · Primary marriage
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 26
Child of Empress Mingxian (明憲皇后)
mother 母 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · History of Song 106, passages 20, 29

AD 960 建隆元年
Polity Song 宋 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 19

AD 960 建隆元年
Edict · Author · Paraphrased
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 2

Enshrined four ancestral temples
AD 960 建隆元年 · Ritual · Presider · At Chongyuan Hall 崇元殿
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 19
Spirit tablet installed
AD 977 太平興國二年 · Ritual · Enshrined · posthumous elevation
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 24, 26

Zhang Qixian proposed the emperor be styled Filial Grandson or Filial Great-Grandson before Taizu and earlier shrines
AD 998 咸平元年 · Field ritual-address
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 39
addressed as elder uncle in ancestral temple debate of 998
Field ritual-address
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 28

History of Song, Chapter 106Volume 106 Treatises 59: Rites 9 · 4 passages