Emperor Shizong of Zhou (周世宗)

Overview

Emperor Shizong of Zhou was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 954 to AD 959 世宗時
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 138, passage 28
AD 954 to AD 959 周世宗時
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 138, passage 34
AD 959 顯德六年二月
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 138, passages 116-117

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 3 passages

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然涼州夷夏雜處，師厚小人，不能撫有，至世宗時，師厚留其子而逃歸，涼州遂絕於中國。 But Liangzhou was a mixed region of barbarians and Chinese, and Shihou, a man of small character, could not hold it. By Emperor Shizong's reign he abandoned his son and fled home, and Liangzhou was lost to the central realm thereafter.

周世宗時，又以元忠爲歸義軍節度使，元恭爲瓜州團練使。 Under Emperor Shizong of Zhou, Yuanzhong was again appointed military governor of the Army of Returning Allegiance and Yuangong regimental commissioner of Gua Prefecture.

時世宗以玉雖稱寶，無益國用，故因而卻之。 Emperor Shizong held that although jade was prized as treasure it did not serve the needs of state, and on that account he refused it.