Dou Tai (竇泰) | 24 Histories

Overview

Dou Tai was a general and Official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Shining	世寧	Shining
Posthumous name	Wuzhen	武貞	Wuzhen

Life and dates

Birth

Circumstances born after mother followed portent to move south
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passages 6, 12

Death

AD 537 天平四年
suicide 自殺 · At Little Pass 小關
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 20

Attested activity

AD 536 天平三年
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 19
AD 537 天平四年
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 20

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Luo (羅)
great-grandfather 曾祖 · paternal line · 3 generations
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 3
Sibling of Elder brother of Dou Tai (泰兄)
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 14
Child of Yue (樂)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 4
Child of Mother of Dou Tai (泰母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passages 6, 12
Parent of Xiaojing (孝敬)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 30
Spouse of Wife of Dou Tai (泰妻)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 26

Career and standing

censor-in-chief 御史中尉
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 17
garrison-city commander 鎮城都督
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 16
grand commander of the capital region 京畿大都督
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 17
palace attendant 侍中
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 17
grand commandant 太尉
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 25
grand marshal 大司馬
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 25

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recorder of affairs of the masters of writing 錄尚書事
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 25
posthumous title Wuzhen 諡武貞
Granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 25
Viscount of Guanga 廣阿子
Granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 15

Places and affiliations

Eastern Wei 東魏
Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 19
Northern Wei/Eastern Wei
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passages 3, 19
Qi 齊
Relation Honored by
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 28
Wei 魏
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passages 3-4
At Da'an Hanshu 大安捍殊
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 2
At Guanjin in Qinghe 清河觀津 · Relation Ancestral place
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 3

Learning and skills

Skill riding and archery 騎射 · Level skilled
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 13

Events and relationships

Ambushed and force destroyed
AD 537 天平四年 · Military · Commander · With Yuwen Tai (周文帝) · At Little Pass 小關
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 20
Associated sacrifice in Gao Huan temple
AD 560 皇建初 · Ritual · Honoree
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 29
Campaigned against
Military · Participant · With Xing Gao (邢杲)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 15
Entered by Tong Pass
AD 536 天平三年 · Military · Commander · With Gao Huan (神武)
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 19
Ghostly arrest at censorate before campaign
Omen · Subject
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passages 22-23
Tomb sacrifice on Qi abdication
Ritual · Honoree
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 28

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Relation Treated as kin by · Person Gao Huan (神武)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 27

Assessments and attributes

Assessment courageous and strategic · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 13
Assessment officials feared him despite few impeachments · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 18

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 15Volume 15 Biographies 7: Dou Tai; Wei Jing; Lou Zhao; His Nephew Rui; Kudie Gan; His Son Shiwen; Han Gui; Pan Le · 13 passages

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竇泰尉景婁昭兄子叡厙狄干子士文韓軌潘樂 Dou Tai; Wei Jing; Lou Zhao; nephew Rui; Kudie Gan; son Shiwen; Han Gui; Pan Le

竇泰，字世寧，大安捍殊人也。 Dou Tai, courtesy name Shining, was a native of Da'an Hanshu.

泰貴，追贈司徒。 When Dou Tai rose high, his father Yue was posthumously made minister of education.

俄而生泰。 Soon afterward Dou Tai was born.

泰父兄戰歿於鎮，泰身負骸骨歸尒朱榮。 Dou Tai's father and elder brother died in battle at the garrison; Dou Tai personally carried their bones back to Erzhu Rong.

神武之為晉州，請泰為鎮城都督，參謀軍事。 When Gao Huan became governor of Jin Province, he requested Dou Tai as garrison-city commander and staff officer for military affairs.

泰以勳戚居臺，雖無多糾舉，而百僚畏懼。 Dou Tai, holding high office by merit and kinship, made few impeachments, yet the hundred officials feared him.

天平三年，神武西討，令泰自潼關入。 In the third year of Tianping, Gao Huan campaigned west and ordered Dou Tai to enter by Tong Pass.

四年，泰至小關，為周文帝所襲，衆盡沒，泰自殺。 In the fourth year Dou Tai reached Little Pass, was ambushed by Yuwen Tai, and his whole force was destroyed; Dou Tai killed himself.

初，泰將發鄴，鄴有惠化尼謠云：「竇行臺，去不回。」 At first, when Dou Tai was about to set out from Ye, a ballad of the nun Huihua in Ye said, "Commandery Chief Dou goes and does not return."

未行之前，夜三更，忽有朱衣冠幘數千人入臺，云「收竇中尉」，宿直兵吏皆驚，其人入數屋，俄頃而去。 Before he marched, at the third watch of the night, suddenly several thousand men in red robes and caps entered the censorate, saying they had come "to arrest Censor Dou"; the night guards and clerks were all alarmed; the figures entered several rooms and in a moment were gone.

贈大司馬、太尉、錄尚書事，諡曰武貞。 Posthumously he was made grand marshal, grand commandant, and recorder of affairs of the masters of writing; his posthumous title was Wuzhen.

泰雖以親見待，而功名自建。 Although Dou Tai was treated as kin, his fame and achievement were his own.