The Imperial Jade Capital Collection 宋真宗御制玉京集

Referred to in short as Jade Capital Collection.

Compiled by Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty by imperial order.

According to the Bibliography of the Zhongxing Imperial Academy of the Southern Song Dynasty, this book originally had twenty scrolls.

The surviving version preserved in The Daozang (Taoist Canon) only contains six scrolls, which is included in the Memorial Category of the Dongzhen Section.

This book brings together one hundred and fifty-seven memorials and green prayers submitted by Emperor Zhenzong of Song to celestial deities and ancestors including the Three Pure Ones, the Jade Emperor, the Sacred Ancestor (Zhao Xuanlang), and Emperor Taizu. The contents of these memorials cover thanksgiving for auspicious omens, thanksgiving for rainfall and prayers for rain, thanksgiving for autumn harvests, thanksgiving for the cessation of warfare, prayers for the elimination of locust plagues and fires, prayers for clear weather, thanksgiving for Taoist rituals, thanksgiving for the descent of the Sacred Ancestor, submission of honorific titles for deities, thanksgiving for the descent of celestial scripts, as well as thanksgiving memorials for festivals and the Winter Solstice.

This book serves as an important historical source for studying Emperor Zhenzong of Song’s devotion to Taoism