Overview
Worthy Consort Wei was a consort.
IdentityHistorical · Female
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 1127 建炎元年
AD 1137 紹興七年三月
AD 1142 紹興十二年八月
AD 1140 紹興十年
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Places and affiliations
- At Cining Palace 慈寧宮 · Relation Resided at · From Source Date: Text: 紹興十年 · Western Year: AD 1140
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History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 9 passages
遙尊韋賢妃為宣和皇后。
from afar Worthy Consort Wei was honored as Empress Xuanhe.
紹興七年三月，詔略曰：“宣和皇后夙擁慶羨，是 生眇衝，乃骨肉之至親，偕父兄而時邁。
In the third month of Shaoxing 7, 1137, an edict in summary read: "Empress Xuanhe long enjoyed blessed favor and thereby bore the young sovereign. She is our closest kin by blood, yet departed with her father and elder brothers in their time.
宜尊為皇太后，令所司擇日奉上冊寶。”
She should be honored as empress dowager, and the relevant offices are ordered to choose a day and present the patent and seal."
今太后聖體無恙，信使相望，豈可不舉揚前憲？
Now the empress dowager is in good health and messengers pass continually between us. How can we fail to uphold the former precedent?
禮部、太常言：“寶文欲乞以‘ 皇太后寶’四字為文，合差撰冊文官一員，書冊文官一員，書篆寶文官一員，並差執政。”
The Ministry of Rites and the Temple of Rites reported: "For the seal inscription we request the four characters 'Empress Dowager's Seal.' One official should be assigned to draft the patent text, one to inscribe it, and one to inscribe the seal text in seal script; all should be drawn from the chief ministers."
十年，營建皇太后宮，以慈寧為名。
In the tenth year, the empress dowager's palace was built and named Cining.
十二月，帝自常禦殿詣慈寧殿遙賀皇 太后，奉上冊寶。
In the twelfth month the emperor proceeded from Changyu Hall to Cining Hall to offer congratulations from afar to the empress dowager and present the patent and seal.
十二年八月，皇太后還慈寧宮，十月十八日，奉進冊寶。
In the eighth month of the twelfth year the empress dowager returned to Cining Palace. On the eighteenth day of the tenth month the patent and seal were formally presented.
其日張設慈寧殿，設坐殿中，皇太后服禕衣即御坐，本殿官設冊寶於殿下， 慈寧宮事務官並本殿官並朝服詣殿下，再拜，搢笏，舉冊寶奉進；
On that day Cining Hall was prepared and a seat placed in the hall. The empress dowager, wearing the yi robe, took the imperial seat. Officials of the hall set the patent and seal below the hall. Officials in charge of Cining Palace affairs and hall officials alike, in court dress, proceeded below the hall, bowed twice, inserted their tablets, and raised the patent and seal to present them;