Chonggui 重貴

Other names

Family

• Spouse of Empress Feng (馮皇后)
  empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
  wife 妻 · Primary marriage
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 15, 40
• Parent of Yanbao (延寶)
  son 子 · Uncertain parentage
  father 子 · Uncertain parentage
  Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 51
• Parent of Yanxu (延煦)
  son 子 · Uncertain parentage
  father 子 · Uncertain parentage
  Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 51
• Child of Empress Li (李氏)
  mother 母 · Uncertain parentage
  mother and son 子母 · Uncertain parentage
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 22, 40
• Child of Gaozu (高祖)
  son 子 · Uncertain parentage
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 22, 31, 46

• Kinship Role household · Quantity hundred mouths
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 39

Career and standing

• emperor 出帝
  AD 943 出帝天福八年 · Held
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 13
• AD 942 先君即世
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 31

Places and affiliations

• Polity Later Jin 晉 · Relation Ruled
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 13, 24

Works and attributed material

• AD 946 開運三年
  Surrender memorial · Author · With Yelü Deguang (耶律德光) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 23-40
• AD 946 開運三年十二月
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Fan Zhi (範質) · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Chonggui (重貴)
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 21-22

Events and relationships

• Came by palanquin, was refused audience, and was lodged at Fengchan Temple
  AD 947 四年正月丁亥朔 · Captivity · Captive · At Fengchan Temple 封禪寺
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 53
• Left as the son to remain, on the Khitan emperor’s counsel
  AD 936 先帝起太原時 · Succession · Chosen son · With Yelü Deguang (耶律德光) · At Taiyuan 太原
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 22
• Prepared to burn himself
  AD 946 開運三年十二月 · Military · Intended suicide
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 19
• Suffered hunger then secretly begged the guards for food
  AD 947 四年正月 · Hardship · Sufferer
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 54, 57
• Waited bound with the dowager and his wife
  AD 946 開運三年 · Surrender · Supplicant
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 40
• Would not heed the dowager
  Political · Ruler · With Empress Li (李氏)
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 15

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment ruin followed because he would not heed the dowager · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 15

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 13