Xianzong 憲宗

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0217, yuanshi:003:s0231, yuanshi:003:s0232

Roles

• Ruler

Family

• Kinship Role: consorts · Quantity: unspecified · Label: consorts / 后妃
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0233

Career and standing

• Status: illness · Action: fell-ill · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是月 · Western Year: AD 1259
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0229

Places and affiliations

• Name: Yuan / 元 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0217, yuanshi:003:s0231, yuanshi:003:s0232

Learning and skills

• Belief: shamanism and divination / 巫覡卜筮之術 · Relation: adherent-of
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0239
• Skill: hunting / 畋獵 · Level: avid
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0238

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee: ministers / 群臣
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0236, yuanshi:003:s0237

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: besieged-gates-and-forts · Place: Diaoyu / Hezhou defenses / 一字城、鎮西門等 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 辛巳至五月 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1259 · End: AD 1259
  Strongly inferred · yuanshi:003:s0219, yuanshi:003:s0220, yuanshi:003:s0221, yuanshi:003:s0223, yuanshi:003:s0224, yuanshi:003:s0225
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led-troops-across · Place: Chicken-claw Beach to Stone Mountain / 雞爪灘至石子山 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二月丙子 · Western Year: AD 1259
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0217
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: left-garrison-and-attacked · Place: Chongqing / 重慶 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 秋七月辛亥 · Western Year: AD 1259 · Details: Garrison Left: 3000
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0230
• Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: personally-drafted-and-revised-edicts · Details: Revisions: several times / three or four times
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0235
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: supervised-battle-beneath-walls · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 丁丑 · Western Year: AD 1259
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0218
• Relation: commander-of · Person Id: Wang Tiange (汪田哥)
  Strongly inferred · yuanshi:003:s0226, yuanshi:003:s0217

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: deeply trusted shamans and oracles; consulted them before undertakings almost daily without tiring · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0239
• Assessment: governed ministers with stern discipline · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0236
• Assessment: loved hunting and claimed to follow ancestral custom rather than foreign ways · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0238
• Assessment: resolute, bright, fierce, steadfast; deep in judgment and sparing of speech · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0233
• Assessment: took no pleasure in feasting or extravagance; forbade consorts to exceed proper measure · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0233

Source notes

• Field: reign-length · Statement: reigned nine years · Label: reigned nine years / 在位九年 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 在位九年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1251 · End: AD 1259
  Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0231