Worthy Consort Wei (韋賢妃)

Overview

The translated histories identify Worthy Consort Wei as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 9 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	Worthy Consort Wei	韋賢妃	Wei Xianfei
Title	empress dowager	皇太后	Huang Taihou
Title	Empress Xuanhe	宣和皇后	Xuanhe Huanghou
Personal name	Worthy Consort Wei	韋賢妃	Wei Xianfei

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · songshi:110:s0145

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建炎元年 · Western Year: AD 1127
Explicit · songshi:110:s0145
Source Date: Text: 紹興七年三月 · Western Year: AD 1137
Explicit · songshi:110:s0146
Source Date: Text: 紹興十二年八月 · Western Year: AD 1142
Explicit · songshi:110:s0161
Source Date: Text: 紹興十年 · Western Year: AD 1140
Explicit · songshi:110:s0159

Family

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Parent of Gaozong (高宗)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Title: Empress Xuanhe / 宣和皇后 · Action: received · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 建炎元年 · Western Year: AD 1127
Explicit · songshi:110:s0145
Title: Empress Dowager / 皇太后 · Action: received · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 紹興七年三月 · Western Year: AD 1137
Explicit · songshi:110:s0149

Places and affiliations

Place: Cining Palace / 慈寧宮 · Relation: resided-at · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 紹興十年 · Western Year: AD 1140
Explicit · songshi:110:s0159, songshi:110:s0161

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: recipient · Action: received-patent-and-seal · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興十二年十月十八日 · Western Year: AD 1142
Explicit · songshi:110:s0161, songshi:110:s0162

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 9 passages

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遙尊韋賢妃為宣和皇后。 from afar Worthy Consort Wei was honored as Empress Xuanhe.

紹興七年三月，詔略曰：“宣和皇后夙擁慶羨，是生眇衝，乃骨肉之至親，偕父兄而時邁。 In the third month of Shaoxing 7, 1137, an edict in summary read: "Empress Xuanhe long enjoyed blessed favor and thereby bore the young sovereign. She is our closest kin by blood, yet departed with her father and elder brothers in their time.

宜尊為皇太后，令所司擇日奉上冊寶。” She should be honored as empress dowager, and the relevant offices are ordered to choose a day and present the patent and seal."

今太后聖體無恙，信使相望，豈可不舉揚前憲？ Now the empress dowager is in good health and messengers pass continually between us. How can we fail to uphold the former precedent?

禮部、太常言：“寶文欲乞以‘ 皇太后寶’四字為文，合差撰冊文官一員，書冊文官一員，書篆寶文官一員，並差執政。” The Ministry of Rites and the Temple of Rites reported: "For the seal inscription we request the four characters 'Empress Dowager's Seal.' One official should be assigned to draft the patent text, one to inscribe it, and one to inscribe the seal text in seal script; all should be drawn from the chief ministers."

十年，營建皇太后宮，以慈寧為名。 In the tenth year, the empress dowager's palace was built and named Cining.

十二月，帝自常禦殿詣慈寧殿遙賀皇太后，奉上冊寶。 In the twelfth month the emperor proceeded from Changyu Hall to Cining Hall to offer congratulations from afar to the empress dowager and present the patent and seal.

十二年八月，皇太后還慈寧宮，十月十八日，奉進冊寶。 In the eighth month of the twelfth year the empress dowager returned to Cining Palace. On the eighteenth day of the tenth month the patent and seal were formally presented.

其日張設慈寧殿，設坐殿中，皇太后服禕衣即御坐，本殿官設冊寶於殿下，慈寧宮事務官並本殿官並朝服詣殿下，再拜，搢笏，舉冊寶奉進； On that day Cining Hall was prepared and a seat placed in the hall. The empress dowager, wearing the yi robe, took the imperial seat. Officials of the hall set the patent and seal below the hall. Officials in charge of Cining Palace affairs and hall officials alike, in court dress, proceeded below the hall, bowed twice, inserted their tablets, and raised the patent and seal to present them;