Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor Chu 出帝

Chū dì

Attested AD 532 - AD 534

Passages: 14
Chapters: 6
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Chu as a ruler. This record brings together 14 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Chu	出帝	Chū dì
Title	Deposed Emperor	出帝	Chū dì
Title	Deposed Emperor	出帝	Chu di
Title	Emperor Chu	出帝	Chū dì
Title	Emperor Chu	出帝	Chūdì
Title	Emperor Chu	出帝	Chu Di
Title	Emperor Who Fled the Capital	出帝	Chudi
Title	Fleeing Emperor	出帝	Chudi
Title	the fleeing emperor	出帝
Alternate	the fleeing emperor	出帝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:024:s0030, weishu:027:s0100, weishu:030:s0153, weishu:081:s0139, weishu:086:s0015, weishu:092:s0114

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 出帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 534
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Source Date: Text: 出帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 534
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0015
Source Date: Text: 出帝初，轉太傅，錄尚書事。 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 534
Explicit · weishu:030:s0153
Source Date: Text: 出帝初 · Western Year: AD 532
Explicit · weishu:081:s0139
Source Date: Text: 出帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 534
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:027:s0100

Career and standing

Action: enthroned
Explicit · weishu:086:s0015

Places and affiliations

Polity: Northern Wei / 北魏 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · weishu:092:s0114
Polity: Northern Wei / 魏 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · weishu:086:s0015

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 24Volume 20: Emperor Wencheng's Five Princes · 2 passages

出帝時，封潁川郡王，委以腹心之任。 Under Emperor Chu he was made Prince of Yingchuan commandery and given the emperor's innermost trust.

出帝初，贈太保，王如故，諡曰文宣。 When the Deposed Emperor came to the throne he was posthumously titled grand mentor, his princedom left as before, with the posthumous name Prince Wenzuan.

Book of Wei, Chapter 27Volume 22: Emperor Xiaowen's Five Princes · 3 passages

從出帝沒於關西。 He followed the Deposed Emperor west of the Pass and perished there.

宇文黑獺害出帝，寶炬乃僭大號。 Yuwen Heituo slew the Deposed Emperor; Yuan Baoju then seized the imperial title.

出帝初，除大司馬。 At the Deposed Emperor's accession he was made grand marshal.

Book of Wei, Chapter 30Volume 25: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng · 3 passages

出帝初，轉太傅，錄尚書事。 At the fleeing emperor's accession he was made grand tutor and recorder of the Masters of Writing.

出帝入關，稚時鎮虎牢，亦隨赴長安。 When the fleeing emperor entered the passes, Zhi was at Hulao and followed him to Chang'an.

出帝與齊獻武王構隙，加子彥中軍大都督、行臺僕射，鎮弘農，以為心膂。 When the fleeing emperor and Duke Xianwu of Qi fell out, Ziyan was made central-army grand commander and mobile secretariat vice director at Hongnong as a trusted pillar.

Book of Wei, Chapter 81Volume 76: Lu Tong, Zhang Lie · 1 passage

出帝初，訴復業。 At the start of Emperor Chu's reign his family appealed and recovered their property.

Book of Wei, Chapter 86Volume 81: Qi Jun, Shan Wei, Liu Renzhi, Yuwen Zhongzhi · 4 passages

時高乾邕、魏蘭根等固執言，遂立出帝。 Gao Ganyu, Wei Langen, and others held stubbornly to their view, and so the fleeing emperor was enthroned.

及出帝失德，齊獻武王深思儁言，常以為恨。 When the fleeing emperor proved unworthy, King Xianwu of Qi often thought back on Jun's words and regretted them.

斛斯椿之搆間也，出帝令儁奉詔晉陽，齊獻武王集文武與儁申釋，儁辭屈而退。 When Dusi Chun stirred up discord, the fleeing emperor sent Jun to Jinyang with an edict; King Xianwu of Qi assembled his civil and military officers to clear matters with Jun, and Jun, defeated in argument, withdrew.

出帝初，為著作郎，兼中書令，既非其才，在史未嘗執筆。 At the start of the fleeing emperor's reign he was made compilation gentleman and concurrently director of the secretariat; the post was beyond his ability, and in the history office he never actually wrote.

Book of Wei, Chapter 92Volume 86: Filial Piety: Zhao Yan, Zhang Sunlu, Qifu Bao, Sun Yide, Dong Luosheng, Yang Yin · 1 passage

有司奏聞，出帝詔標門閭。 The relevant offices reported to the throne. Emperor Chu decreed that his gate and hamlet be marked.