Sui and Tang · Ruler

Zhongzong 中宗

Attested AD 684 - AD 710

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhongzong was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 684 to AD 710 武氏、中宗繼以亂敗
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 11, passage 23

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 11, passage 23

Assessments and attributes

Assessment associated with turmoil and ruin · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 11, passage 23

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 11Volume 11 Treatises 1: Rites and Music 1 · 1 passage

武氏、中宗繼以亂敗，無可言者，博士掌禮，備官而已。 The Wu clan and Zhongzong followed with turmoil and ruin—nothing worth speaking of; doctors of ritual held ritual in name only, filling posts and nothing more.