Sui and Tang · Ruler

Zhaozong 昭宗

Zhāozōng

Attested AD 888 - AD 904

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhaozong was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 888 昭宗即位
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 21, passage 70
AD 888 to AD 904 至于昭宗
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 21, passage 77
AD 888 to AD 904 至昭宗時
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 21, passage 114

Career and standing

AD 888 昭宗即位
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 21, passage 70

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 21, passages 70, 77, 114

Events and relationships

Music theory revived with Yin Yingsun
Ritual · Sovereign · With Yin Yingsun (殷盈孫)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 21, passage 77
Prepared suburban and temple rites lacking music stand knowledge
Ritual · Sovereign
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 21, passage 70

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 21Volume 21 Treatises 11: Rites and Music 11 · 3 passages

昭宗即位，將謁郊廟，有司不知樂縣制度。 Zhaozong, on accession, prepared suburban rites; officials no longer knew how to set the music stands.

至于昭宗，始得盈孫焉，故其議論罕所發明。 Not until Zhaozong and Yin Yingsun did theory find voice again; earlier discourse seldom innovated.

至昭宗時，宰相張濬已修樂縣，乃言，舊制，太清宮、南北郊、社稷及諸殿廷用二十虡，而太廟、含元殿用三十六虡，濬以為非古，而廟廷狹隘，不能容三十六，乃復用二十虡。 Under Zhaozong, Zhang Jun—having restored the stands—noted that suburban rites and most halls used twenty frames while the Ancestral Temple and Hanyuan Hall used thirty-six; deeming this unancient and the courts too cramped, he reverted to twenty.