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Overview The translated histories identify Virtuous Consort Zhu as a consort. This record brings together 7 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
Virtuous Consort Zhu
德妃朱氏
Defei Zhu Shi
Title
imperial consort dowager
皇太妃
Huang Taifei
Title
Shengrui
聖瑞
Shengrui
Personal name
Virtuous Consort Zhu
德妃朱氏
Defei Zhu Shi
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Female Life and dates Attested activity Source Date: Text: 哲宗即位Western Year: AD 1085
Source Date: Text: 徽宗即位Western Year: AD 1100
Source Date: Text: 紹聖元年Western Year: AD 1094
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History of Song, Chapter 110 Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 7 passages
哲宗即位，詔尊太后高氏為太皇太后，皇后向氏為皇太后，德妃朱氏為皇太妃。
When Zhezong ascended the throne, an edict honored Empress Dowager Gao as grand empress dowager, Empress Xiang as empress dowager, and Virtuous Consort Zhu as imperial consort dowager.
禮部議：“皇太妃生日節序物色，其冠服之屬如皇后例，稱慈旨，慶賀用箋。
The Ministry of Rites deliberated: "On the imperial consort dowager's birthday, seasonal gifts, and her caps and robes should follow the empress's precedent. She is addressed as 'benevolent decree,' and congratulatory communications should use the letter form.
太皇 太后、皇太后於皇太妃稱賜，皇帝稱奉，百官不稱臣。
The grand empress dowager and empress dowager use the term 'bestow' when addressing the imperial consort dowager; the emperor uses 'present'; and officials do not style themselves as her subjects.
皇帝問皇太妃起居用箋，皇太妃答皇帝用書。”
When the emperor inquired after the imperial consort dowager's health, he used the letter form; when she replied to the emperor, she used the document form."
元祐二年，詔太皇太后受冊依章獻明肅皇后故事，皇太后受冊依熙寧二年故事，皇太妃與皇太后同日受冊，令太常禮官詳 定儀注。
In Yuanyou 2, 1087, an edict ordered that the grand empress dowager receive the patent according to the precedent of Empress Dowager Zhangxian Mingsu, that the empress dowager receive it according to the Xining 2 precedent, and that the imperial consort dowager receive it on the same day as the empress dowager. Officials of the Temple of Rites were ordered to determine the ceremonial regulations in detail.
紹聖元年，詔：“奉太皇太后旨，皇太妃特與立宮殿名，坐六龍輿，張糸散，出入由宣德正門。”
In Shaosheng 1, 1094, an edict read: "Following the grand empress dowager's instructions, the imperial consort dowager was specially granted her own palace and hall names, the use of the six-dragon carriage, deployment of silk streamers, and entry and exit through the Xuande Main Gate."
徽宗即位，加哲宗太妃號曰聖瑞，既又禦文德殿，冊命元符皇后劉氏為太后，並依皇后禮製。
When Huizong ascended the throne, he added the title Shengrui to Zhezong's imperial consort dowager. He then proceeded to Wende Hall and by patent appointed Empress Liu of the Yuanfu era as empress dowager, all according to the empress's ritual regulations.