cials debated whether or not the spirit tablets of the Solemn and Brilliant August Empress and the Luminous and Successful August Empress (Empress Dou, Wu Zhao's daughter-in-law) should be set alongside his. Arguing that precedent would only allow one spirit tablet in the ancestral temple, minister Chen Zhenjie memorialized, "In my humble consideration, the Luminous and Successful August Empress possesses the virtue of Taisi, and already receives ancestral offerings along with Ruizong. However the Solemn and Brilliant Empress is not the equal of Qi's mother and therefore should be honored in another temple."伏惟昭成皇后，有太姒之德，已配食于睿宗；则肃明皇后，无启母之尊，自应别立一庙。[24]（[24] JTS 25.951）Later in Xuanzong's reign, the family of Empress Dou (Wu Zhao's daughter-in-law) confirmed the exalted historical reputation of their eminent kinsmen in Advisor to the Heir Apparent Pei Yaoqing's (681-743) epitaph inscribed for the stele marking the spirit path of Empress Dou's younger brother. A section of the inscription reads: "My elder sister equaled the virtue of Tushan; she was the 'King Wen's mother' of her time."[25]（[25] QTW 297.3016）吾姊合涂山之德，时维文母。The Apotheosis of the Mother of Qi: Two Sisters and Wu Zhao's Sacred GeographyAccording to the Shanhaijing, "The Great Room of Mount Songgao is to the west of Chengyang. This is where the Mother of Qi transformed into a stone."[26]（[26] Taiping yulan 887.3943, referring to Shanhaijing）Qi was born on the site of Yu the Great's enfeoffment at Xia near modern-day Dengfeng, at the very foot of Mount Song.[27]（[27] Dengfeng xianzhi, (Dengfeng: Dengfeng geming weiyuanhui wenhuaju, 1979), 81. According to Legends of the Five Marchmounts [Wu yue shihua] (Beijing: Zhonghua, 1982), 107, Yu's father Gun was also known as Earl Chong (chong bo), and chong ( )and the song ( ) of Mount Song, share a common linguistic origin.）More than thirty feet tall and 150 feet in perimeter, the Ston
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