After the Tang and Song dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty no longer followed the exaggerated trend of abusing the temple number of "a certain ancestor" like the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the steppe Hu regime also learned from it.
Liao Taizu Yelü Yi (Abaoji), Liao Taizong Yelü Deguang, Liao Shizong Yelü Ruan, Liao Jingzong Yelü Xian, Liao Shengzong Yelü Longxu...
The remnants of the fall of the country, the expedition to the western regions, and the founding of the country in thousands of miles, Yelü Dashi, were only Liao Dezong, and did not call them "shizu" who were more suitable according to the practice of previous generations.
Of course, his courtesy name "Emperor Wulie of Heavenly Blessings" was obviously one standard higher than most of the successors, and was only slightly inferior to "Taizu Great Saint Daming God Lietian Emperor" Abaoji, who created the most prosperous world of the Liao Dynasty, "Wenwu Great Filial Piety Emperor" Yelü Longxu.
Jin Tae-tae completes Yan Min (Akuta), Kim Tae-tsung completes Yan Sheng (Wu Begmai), Kim Sejong completes Yan Yong...
However, after sighing Yan Liang, as a generation of male lords who moved the capital to Yanjing, Sinicized and reformed, and wanted to swallow the world, instead of being revered as "Gao Zu" by Chao Ge like his ancestor Yuanhong, he was killed in a mutiny because of the failure of the Southern Expedition, and was first demoted to "Hailing King" and then deposed as "Hailing Shuren", and even a title like the Sui Emperor could not be retained. Who let Guan Yanyong, who seized the throne, have a bitter vendetta against him for forcing him to die?
Li Yuanhao of Western Xia opened the country as empress dowager, and honored his father and ancestors as "Emperor Shenwu of Taizu" Li Jiqian, "Emperor Guangsheng of Taizong" Li Deming.
Li Yuanhao robbed his daughter-in-law and was killed by his crown prince. The foreign relatives did not hide pang to quell the chaos, and after supporting his young son to take the throne, they only honored him as "Emperor Jingzong Wulie".
After Gao Yang's "Northern Qi Weizong" was changed back to "Northern Qi Xianzu", Xia Jingzong Li Yuanhao sadly became the lowest founding emperor in history...
After the establishment of the Mongol Empire, Temujin was actually officially called emperor, and the Mongolian "Hehan/Great Khan" and the Chinese "emperor" are exactly the same meaning. Temujin was called "Emperor Genghis" to the Han officials, and the Chinese characters of the Great Khan's gold medal were so inscribed. On the contrary, "Genghis Khan" is a mixture of names that have appeared since modern times.
After Möngke ascended the throne, he honored his father Tuolei as the "Heroic Emperor". After Kublai Khan ascended the throne, he was called "Emperor of the Great Mongolia" to Han officials, "Emperor of the Great Yuan" after the Yuan Dynasty, and "Great Mongolian Hehan" to Mongolian officials.
According to the Han tradition, he also added temple names to the previous generations of Mongol emperors: "Emperor Taizu Shengwu" Temujin, "Emperor Taizong English" Wo Kuotai, "Ruizong Jingxiang Emperor" Tuolei (posthumously), "Dingzong Jianping Emperor" Guiyou, "Xianzong Huansu Emperor" Meng Ge.
In addition, in order to co-opt the already semi-independent Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate, Kublai Khan also posthumously honored his great uncle Shu Chi as "Emperor Daoning of Yuanmuzong" and his second uncle Chagatai as "Emperor Yingwu of Yuanshengzong", and even carried them all into the seven temples of the Yuan Dynasty.
Kublai Khan himself, for his efforts to defeat the Southern Song Dynasty and unify Kyushu, was honored as "Emperor Wenwu of the Yuan Dynasty".
In the Qing Dynasty, the difference between Nurhaci and Temujin, the "Genghis Emperor", was that he only went from "King of Jianzhou" and "Kundulun Khan" to "Ying Ming Khan of the Overthrowing Nations" before his death, and did not claim the title of emperor, and was not a real founding emperor.
After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, out of the practical need to unite many brothers of the Eight Banners elite soldiers, he honored his father Khan Nurhaci as the "Emperor Taizu", which was a voluntary surrender of the honor of the founding emperor, and it was only natural to get the temple title of "Taizong".
His son, the Shunzhi Emperor Fulin, entered the customs to unify China and called him "Shizu", such as Sima Yan and Kublai Khan, there was no problem.
However, the Yongzheng Emperor Yinchen had to add the "Holy Ancestor" temple number to the Kangxi Emperor Xuanye, and it was too high. —— Tang Zhishengzu is Li Er, the founder of Taoism, and Song Zhishengzu is Zhao Xuanlang, both of which are characters in myths and legends.
The Mongol people have always referred to Genghis Khan Temujin, the Emperor Shengwu of the Yuan Dynasty, as "Shengzu", which is an honorific title for the father of the nation.
In contrast, the Kangxi Emperor, the successor prince, actually falsely called himself "Holy Ancestor", which was far worse than Cao Rui's "Wei Liezu", Sima Shao's "Jin Suzu", and Gao Yang's "Qi Xianzu". ——Even if you turn "Gao Zu" out and use it? Be normal.
It can only be said that because many brothers have always been dissatisfied with his ascension to the throne, the Yongzheng Emperor should overly respect his father and emperor. --Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, not only all of them liked dan medicine and the hobby of raising Daoists, but the "Ming Chengzu" and "Qing Shengzu" they made would only feel laughed and generous if the previous kings of the Han and Tang Dynasties such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of Tang saw it.
After the Yongzheng Emperor himself occupied the orthodox "Sejong" temple, the Jiaqing Emperor Yan, who was the successor of the Qianlong Emperor, had been a puppet for three years because his father had let the throne not give up the imperial power, and he hid great dissatisfaction, naturally he would not be overly respected, and he also invented a new "certain ancestor", so he took out the "Gaozong" that was abandoned by the Yuan and Ming dynasties because of Zhao Zhao and gave it to his father.
After all, there was no Zhongzong after Li Xian, and no Gaozu after Shi Jingyao. As for Emperor Gaozong, it was more than six hundred years after Zhao Shuo that he was turned over by the Jiaqing Emperor and given to the Qianlong Emperor...
Less than ten days after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, the Jiaqing Emperor exterminated his number one loyalist, Niu Cobalt Lu and Zhongtang, who were all "true filial piety" intentions...
——How many emperors will rise and fall, and the loess will be drowned, all in laughter!