Sui and Tang · Ruler

Xuanzong 宣宗

Xuānzōng

Attested AD 846 - AD 859

Passages
3
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xuanzong as a ruler. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

RolesRuler

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xuanzong 宣宗 Xuānzōng
Title Emperor Xuanzong 宣宗 Xuanzong
Temple name Xuanzong 宣宗 Xuānzōng
Temple Xuanzong 宣宗 Xuanzong

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 宣宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 846 · End: AD 859
    Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:175:s0153
  • Source Date: Text: 宣宗既復河、湟 · Western Interval: Start: AD 846 · End: AD 859
  • Source Date: Text: 宣宗更號延資庫 · Western Interval: Start: AD 846 · End: AD 859

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: sovereign · Action: recovered the He and Huang regions · Place: He and Huang / 河、湟
  • Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: renamed frontier reserve treasury the Extended-Funds Treasury

Source notes

  • Field: fiscal-revenue · Statement: After recovering He and Huang, yearly intake of two taxes and wine, tea, and salt monopoly money was 9,220,000 strings; regular yearly expenses on average fell short by more than three million, and offices drew on later years to make ends meet

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 2 passages
New Book of Tang, Chapter 175Volume 175 Biographies 100: Dou, Liu, Two Zhangs, Yang, Xiong, Bai · 1 passage