Overview
Empress Zhaode was a consort.
IdentityHistorical · Female
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 1163 三年十月七日
AD 1186 二十六年
AD 1175 十五年三月
AD 1162 大定二年
Events and relationships
Elevated to joint worship
Portrait temple built
AD 1186 二十六年 · Ritual · Honoree
Separate temple established
AD 1162 大定二年 · Ritual · Honoree
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History of Jin, Chapter 33Volume 33 Treatises 14: Rites 6: Original Shrines, Invocation Ceremonies, Pilgrimages, Other Temples · 7 passages
前期一日，奏告太廟十一室及昭德皇后廟，余如昭德過廟之儀。
One day beforehand, reports were made to the eleven chambers of the Grand Ancestral Temple and the temple of Empress Zhaode; the remainder followed the rites for passing through Zhaode's temple.
昭德皇后廟。
Temple of Empress Zhaode
大定二年，有司援唐典，昭德皇后合立別廟，擬於太廟內垣東北起建，從之。
In Dading 2, the responsible offices cited Tang precedent: Empress Zhaode should have a separate temple established in the northeast within the inner wall of the Grand Ancestral Temple; this was approved.
三年十月七日，太廟祫享，升祔睿宗皇帝並昭德皇后，神主同時製造題寫，奉詣殿庭，謁畢祔于祖姑欽仁皇后之左，享祀畢，奉主還本廟。
On the seventh day of the tenth month of the third year, at the Grand Ancestral Temple's di and xia offering, Emperor Ruizong and Empress Zhaode were elevated to joint worship. Spirit tablets were made and inscribed at the same time, borne to the forecourt, and after audience installed to the left of the ancestral aunt Empress Qinren. When the offering was complete, the tablets were returned to their own temple.
宮闈令升殿，捧昭德皇后神主置於座，贊者曰：「再拜。」
The director of palace gates ascended the hall, bore the spirit tablet of Empress Zhaode, and set it on the seat. The announcer called: "Bow twice."
次引內常侍北向俯伏，跪奏：「請昭德皇后神主奉安於新廟，降殿升輿。」
Next an inner palace attendant was led to prostrate himself facing north and kneel in report: "We request that the spirit tablet of Empress Zhaode be installed at the new temple—descend from the hall and mount the sedan chair."
二十六年，敕別建昭德皇后影廟于太廟內。
In the twenty-sixth year, an edict ordered a separate portrait temple for Empress Zhaode built within the Grand Ancestral Temple.