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| tyle="background:#ccf; border-bottom:2px solid" colspan=2 align=center |Qin Er Shi (秦二世) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Ancestral name (姓): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Ying (嬴) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Clan name (氏): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Zhao¹ (趙), or Qin² (秦) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Given name (名): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Huhai (胡亥) |
| lign=right style="border-top:3px solid"|Dates of reign: | style="border-top:3px solid"|Oct. 210 BC–beg. Oct. 207 BC |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Official name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Second Emperor (二世皇帝) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Temple name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|None³. |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Posthumous name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|None4 |
| olspan=2 align=center style="border-top:3px solid"|General note: Dates given are in the proleptic Julian calendar. |
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olspan=2 align=center |1. This clan name appears in the Records of the Grand Historian
written by Sima Qian. Apparently, the First Emperor (father of the
Second Emperor) being born in the State of Zhao where his father
was an hostage, he later adopted Zhao as his clan name (in ancient
China clan names often changed from generation to generation),
but this is not totally sure. |
olspan=2 align=center |2. Based on ancient China naming patterns, we can infer that
Qin was the clan name of the royal house of the State of Qin,
derived from the name of the state. Other branches of the Ying
ancestral family, enfeoffed in other states, had other clan
names. Qin was thus possibly also the clan name of
the Second Emperor. |
olspan=2 align=center |3. The royal house of Qin did not carry the practice of temple
names, which were not used anymore since the establishment
of the Zhou Dynasty, so the Second Emperor does not have a
temple name per se. However, his official name "Second Emperor"
can somehow be assimilated to a temple name, being the
name under which the emperor would have been honored
in the temple of the ancestors of the dynasty. |
olspan=2 align=center |4. Posthumous names were abolished in 221 BC by the First
Emperor who deemed them inappropriate and contrary
to filial piety. |