Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Chen Shubao 陳叔寶

Attested AD 582 - AD 589

Passages
24
Chapters
5
Histories
4

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Shubao as a musician, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 24 passages from 5 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Chen Shubao 陳叔寶 Chen Shubao
Alternate Chen Shubao 陳叔寶 Chen Shubao
Personal name Chen Shubao 陳叔寶
Personal name Chen's last emperor 陳後主
Title Houzhu 後主 Houzhu
Title Last Lord of Chen 後主
Title Lord of Chen 陳主
Title ruler of Chen 陳主
Given name Shubao 叔寶
Title the heir 太子
Title the heir apparent 皇太子
Title the Last Emperor

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Musician
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

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Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: captive · Action: captured-by-Qinhu · Other Person Id: Han Qihu (韓擒虎) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 平陳 · Western Year: AD 589
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:052:s0028, suishu:052:s0167
  • Description: invoked as the doomed last ruler of Chen / 以陳末主數盡為鑒 · Western Year: AD 955 · Kind: historical-event · Action: invoked as the doomed last ruler of Chen

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 29Volume 29: Zong Yuanrao; Sima Shen; Mao Xi; Cai Zheng · 14 passages
初拜吏部尚書,啟後主借鼓吹,後主謂所司曰「鼓吹軍樂,有功乃授,蔡徵不自量揆,紊我朝章,然其父景歷既有締構之功,宜且如所啟,拜訖即追還」。 When he was first made minister of personnel he asked Houzhu to lend him ceremonial music. Houzhu told the office, "Ceremonial music is military music, granted only for merit. Cai Zheng does not know his place and confuses court rules—yet since his father Jingli helped found the state, grant it for now, but take it back as soon as the appointment rite is done."
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 115Volume 115 Book of Later Zhou 17: Shizong Annals 2 · 1 passage
Book of Sui, Chapter 52Volume 52 Biographies 17: Han Qinhu, He Ruobi · 6 passages
Book of Sui, Chapter 79Volume 79 Biographies 44: Imperial Affines · 2 passages
New Book of Tang, Chapter 22Volume 22 Treatises 12: Rites and Music 12 · 1 passage