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Xuanzu was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Song 宋 · Relation Associated with
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Classed in zhao mu diagrams
AD 1078 元豐元年 · Temple plan · Honoree
Tablets brought to chamber
AD 1080 元豐三年二月 · Enshrinement visitation · Chamber honoree
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History of Song, Chapter 106Volume 106 Treatises 59: Rites 9 · 7 passages
推僖祖侑感生之祀，而罷宣祖配位，以合祖以孫尊之義，餘且如舊制。」
Advance Xizu to assist at the Life-Giving Emperor sacrifice and discontinue Xuanzu's pairing, honoring the ancestor through the grandson; the rest should follow former regulations."
安石曰：「宣祖見配感生帝，欲改以僖祖配。」
Wang Anshi replied, "Xuanzu is presently paired with the Life-Giving Emperor, and they wish to change this so Xizu is paired."
宣祖、真宗、英宗為昭，在左。
Xuanzu, Zhenzong, and Yingzong as zhao, on the left.
宣 祖、真宗、英宗為穆，在右。
Xuanzu, Zhenzong, and Yingzong as mu, on the right.
何洵直圖上八廟異宮，引熙寧儀：僖祖正東向之位，順祖、宣祖、真宗、英宗南面為昭，翼祖、太祖、太 宗、仁宗北面為穆，正得祖宗繼序、德厚流光之本意。
He Xunzhi submitted a plan for eight temples in separate palaces, citing Xining regulations: Xizu east-facing; Shunzu, Xuanzu, Zhenzong, and Yingzong south as zhao; Yizu, Taizu, Taizong, and Renzong north as mu—capturing the intent of orderly succession and enduring virtue.
又援《祭 法》，言：「翼祖、宣祖在二祧之位，猶同祖禰之廟，皆月祭之，與親廟一等，無親疏遠近之殺。
He also cited the Record of Sacrifices, saying: "Yizu and Xuanzu occupy the two distant-line positions yet, like grandfather and father, receive monthly sacrifice equal to direct-line temples, without gradation of close and distant.
至日，奉神主先詣僖祖室，次翼祖室，次宣祖室，次太祖室，次太宗室。
On the day, the spirit tablets were first brought to the Xizu chamber, then Yizu, Xuanzu, Taizu, and Taizong chambers.