Zhuangzong 莊宗

Other names

Career and standing

• Radiant Sagely Spirit Compassionate Filial Emperor 光聖神閔孝皇帝
  AD 926 天成元年七月丁卯 · Bestowed
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 213
• heir-apparent 公子
  Heir apparent · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 220
• Granted
  Pardon · With Magistrate of Zhongmou (中牟縣令) · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 230
• Ordered
  Threatened execution · With Magistrate of Zhongmou (中牟縣令) · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 227
• succeeded the throne 嗣位
  AD 923 莊宗之嗣位 · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 216

Places and affiliations

• Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Ruled
  Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 213, 216, 232
• AD 926 是月丙子
  At Yong Mausoleum 雍陵 · Relation Buried at
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 214
• At Hedong 河東 · Relation Based in · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 216
• At Yellow and Fen rivers 河、汾 · Relation Rose from · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 234
• At Zhongmou 中牟 · Relation Visited · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 225

Learning and skills

• Skill music 音律 · Level loved · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 220
• Skill composing tune lyrics 自撰曲子詞 · Level practiced · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 220-221

Works and attributed material

• imperial compositions 御製
  Relation Author · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 221
• Edict · Author · Direct quotation · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 216-218
• Judgment · Subject · Paraphrased · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 234-242

Events and relationships

• Avenged house and revived dynasty
  Political · Restorer · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 234
• Buried
  AD 926 是月丙子 · Ritual · Deceased · At Yong Mausoleum 雍陵
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 214
• Destroyed
  Military · Victor · Counterpart Later Liang 朱梁 · Outcome Liang destroyed despite mustering the realm · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 219
• Had troops sing his lyrics in battle
  Military · Commander · Outcome Men forgot death · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 221-223
• Hunted at Zhongmou
  Personal · Participant · At Zhongmou 中牟 · With Magistrate of Zhongmou (中牟縣令) · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 225-227
• Hunted
  Personal · Participant · Outcome Trampled crops · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the Five Dynasties History 五代史補
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 224

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment dark-arrow dice rules taken as omen of death by stray arrow · Mode hearsay Source Work Lost Text of the Five Dynasties History 五代史闕文
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 233
• Assessment heroic rise and restoration matched Shaokang and Guangwu · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 234
• Assessment won the realm with great labor then lost it swiftly through pride, ease, lust, hunting, actor interference, and hoarding · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 235-242

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 213
• Invented dark-arrow dice rules counting only the bottom face after seeing a hidden linked pattern
  Mode named-source-report Source Work Lost Text of the Five Dynasties History 五代史闕文
  Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 231