Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor Fei 廢帝殷

Fèi dì Yīn

Died AD 561

Passages
32
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Fei as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 32 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Emperor Fei 廢帝殷 Fèi dì Yīn
Title Crown Prince 皇太子 Huáng tàizǐ
Title Emperor Fei 廢帝 Fèi dì
Title Emperor Fei 廢帝
Posthumous name Prince Mindao 閔悼王 Mǐn dào wáng
Title Prince of Jinan 濟南王 Jǐnán wáng
Title Prince of Jinan 濟南
Personal name Yin Yīn
Title young emperor 少主
Title young ruler 幼主
Courtesy name Zhengdao 正道 Zhèngdào

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Age

  • Age: 17 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 皇建二年九月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Lunar Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 561
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0049
  • Age: 6 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0002

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 乾明元年秋八月壬午 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 8 · Day: Sexagenary: 壬午 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0047, beiqishu:005:s0048
  • Source Date: Text: 天保十年十月癸卯 · Regnal Year: 10 · Lunar Month: 10 · Day: Sexagenary: 癸卯 · Western Year: AD 559
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0022, beiqishu:005:s0023
  • Source Date: Text: 乾明元年春正月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0031
  • Source Date: Text: 天保十年十月 · Regnal Year: 10 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 559
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 皇建二年九月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Lunar Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 561
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0049
  • Source Date: Text: 天保元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0002
  • Source Date: Text: 大寧二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 562
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0059
  • Source Date: Text: 天保七年冬 · Regnal Year: 7 · Season: winter · Western Year: AD 556
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0011, beiqishu:005:s0012
  • Source Date: Text: 天保九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 558
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0013, beiqishu:005:s0014, beiqishu:005:s0017
  • Source Date: Text: 乾明元年 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · beiqishu:006:s0043
  • Source Date: Text: 皇建中 · Western Year: AD 560

Family

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  • Kin of Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)
    Kinship Term: close kinsman / 地親
  • Sibling of Prince of Taiyuan (太原王)
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Shared Parentage: uncertain
  • Child of Gao Yang (高洋)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Empress Li (李皇后)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Child of Empress Wenxuan (文宣皇后)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
  • Kinship Role: eldest-son · Count: 1 · Statement: eldest son of Emperor Wenxuan
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0001

Origins and identity

  • Label: Han Chinese ways/temperament / 漢家性質 · Statement: Wenxuan said he had inherited Han Chinese temperament
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0008

Career and standing

  • Title: Prince Mindao / 閔悼王 · Action: posthumously-conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大寧二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 562
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0059
  • Title: Prince of Jinan / 濟南王 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年秋八月壬午 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 8 · Day: Sexagenary: 壬午 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0047
  • Status: crown-prince · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0002
  • Status: killed · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝) · Agent Person Id: Prince Guiyan of Pingqin (平秦王歸彥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 皇建二年秋 · Regnal Year: 2 · Season: autumn · Western Year: AD 561 · Place: Jinyang Palace / 晉陽宮
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保十年十月癸卯 · Regnal Year: 10 · Lunar Month: 10 · Day: Sexagenary: 癸卯 · Western Year: AD 559 · Place: Xuande Hall at Jinyang / 晉陽宣德殿
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0023
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保十年 · Western Year: AD 559
    Explicit · beiqishu:006:s0039
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年秋八月壬午 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 8 · Day: Sexagenary: 壬午 · Western Year: AD 560 · Authority Person Id: Empress Dowager Lou (婁太后) · New Title: Prince of Jinan / 濟南王
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0047
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · beiqishu:006:s0064

Places and affiliations

  • Place: Jinyang / 晉陽 · Relation: returned-from · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年春正月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0034
  • Place: northwest of Wuning / 武寧之西北 · Relation: buried-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大寧二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 562
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0059
  • Place: Jinyang / 晉陽 · Relation: died-at
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0049

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: ritual · Role: host · Action: banned-prince-of-hejian-from-northern-palace-banquet · Other Person Id: Prince Xiaowan of Hejian (河間王孝琬) · Place: Northern Palace / 北宮
  • Kind: personal · Role: benefactor · Action: bestowed-hundred-bolts-of-silk · Other Person Id: Xu Sanchou (許散愁)
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0018
  • Kind: scholarly · Role: lecturer · Action: expounded-classic-of-filial-piety · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 558
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0013
  • Kind: personal · Role: actor · Action: failed-to-execute-prisoner · Place: Golden Phoenix Terrace / 金鳳台 · Other Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
  • Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: moved-to-separate-palace-after-deposition · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年秋八月壬午 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 8 · Day: Sexagenary: 壬午 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0048
  • Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: personally-reviewed-prisoners · Place: Fanglin Garden / 芳林園 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年二月甲辰 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 2 · Day: Sexagenary: 甲辰 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0037
  • Kind: scholarly · Role: questioner · Action: set-classical-questions-at-palace-banquet · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保七年冬 · Regnal Year: 7 · Season: winter · Western Year: AD 556
  • Kind: political · Role: regent · Action: supervised-state-at-jinyang · Place: Jinyang / 晉陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 558
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0013

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: gentle, magnanimous, open; bearing of a sovereign; mastered classics; fine reputation · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0010
  • Assessment: intelligent early; generous and humane; fine reputation in Tianbao · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0050
  • Assessment: quick-witted by nature · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0003
  • Assessment: reformed abuses; teaching and customs shone; gentry fortunate · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0064
  • Assessment: reformed Wenxuan's abuses · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:006:s0158
  • Kind: physical-description · Statement: heart palpitations, stammer, and intermittent mental confusion after being whipped
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0021
  • Kind: speech · Statement: stuttering and slow of speech
    Explicit · beiqishu:006:s0057
  • Item: one hundred bolts of silk / 絹百匹 · Relation: bestowed · Other Person Id: Xu Sanchou (許散愁)
    Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0018

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Emperor Fei · 23 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 6Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Xiaozhao · 9 passages