Five Dynasties · Ruler

Xuanzu 宣祖

Attested AD 920 - AD 956

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xuanzu was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 920 to AD 956 宣祖
Strongly inferred · History of Song 106, passage 229

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Empress Zhaoxian (昭憲皇后)
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
Strongly inferred · History of Song 106, passage 249

Places and affiliations

Polity Song 宋 · Relation Ancestral to
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 229

Events and relationships

Moved to distant line
AD 1103 崇寧二年 · Ritual · Honoree · At west flanking chamber 西夾室 · With Empress Zhaoxian (昭憲皇后)
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 106, passage 249
Shrine shifted upward
AD 1085 元豐八年十一月 · Ritual · Honoree
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 106, passage 229
Temple restored
AD 1105 四年十二月 · Ritual · Honoree
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 106, passage 261

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 106Volume 106 Treatises 59: Rites 9 · 5 passages

自英宗上至宣祖以次升遷。 From Yingzong upward to Xuanzu, each shrine was shifted in succession.

哲宗祔廟，當以神宗為昭，上遷宣祖，以合古三昭三穆之義。」 When Zhezong is enshrined, Shenzong should be zhao and Xuanzu moved upward—in accord with three zhao and three mu."

崇寧二年，祧宣祖與昭憲皇后神主藏西夾室，居翼祖、簡穆皇后石室之次。 In 1103, Xuanzu and Empress Zhaoxian's tablets were moved to distant-line status and stored in the west flanking chamber, next to Yizu and Empress Jianmu's stone chamber.

今存宣祖於當祧之際，復翼祖於已祧之後，以備九廟，禮無不稱。」 To retain Xuanzu when he should be moved to distant-line status and restore Yizu after he was already moved, to complete nine temples—nothing is improper in ritual."

四年十二月，復翼祖、宣祖廟，行奉安禮，惟不用前期誓戒及亞、終獻之樂舞焉。 In the twelfth month of the fourth year, the temples of Yizu and Xuanzu were restored and the installation rite performed, only without the prior oath of abstinence and the secondary and final offerings' music and dance.