宗祐 Zōngyòu

Zongyou

Zongyou held himself in check and lived frugally, as plainly as a poor scholar; he loved reading and was especially fond of studying the Book of Changes. In the Jiayou years, when his father's cousin Yunchu had not yet named an heir, everyone put Zongyou forward for his worth, and an edict made him Yunchu's heir. He wept and said, "I had the misfortune to lose my father and mother when I was young, and shall grieve and long for them all my life. How could I bear to become another man's heir? I dare to beg this even at the cost of my life." Renzong pitied him and granted his wish. Through successive promotions he became Military Commissioner of the Qinghai Army and Commander Unequalled in Honour, and was enfeoffed as Prince of Chengcheng Commandery. In the eighth month of the fourth year of Shaosheng he was additionally made Acting Grand Minister of Education and became Prince of Pu by Succession. He was already ill by then, but when it was his turn to sacrifice at the garden temple he would not plead illness, and went back and forth continually from autumn into winter. In the spring of the first year of Yuanfu he again hurried there, and died at the shrine. He was posthumously made Grand Preceptor and posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Qin, with the posthumous name Muke. Edit