Song Western Taiyi Palace Inscription 宋西太乙宫碑铭

Composed by Song Shou, Academician of the Hanlin Academy in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Included in the Biographical Category of the Dongshen Section of the Daozang.

Song Western Taiyi Palace Inscription

In the sixth year of the Tiansheng reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty (1028), an imperial edict was issued to build the Western Taiyi Palace in the southwest of Kaifeng, the national capital. More than thirty Taoist Priests including Xu Sijian were selected to preside over the palace. Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty and the Empress Dowager both paid personal visits to the palace, and commissioned Song Shou to compose this epigraph to record the event.