Qin and Han · Ruler

Emperor Gao 高皇帝

Gao Huangdi

Attested BC 206 - BC 195

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Gao was a ruler.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Gaozu	高帝	Gao Di

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 206 to BC 195 高皇帝受命
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passages 16, 20

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Supreme Emperor (太上皇)
Supreme Emperor 太上
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 40, passage 20

Places and affiliations

Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 16

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 2

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 40Volume 35: Biographies of Zhang, Cao, Zheng · 3 passages

元帝以來，宗廟奉祠高皇帝為受命祖，孝文皇帝為太宗，孝武皇帝為世宗，皆如舊制。 Since Emperor Yuan, the ancestral temples had offered sacrifices to Emperor Gao as the ancestor who received the mandate, to Emperor Wen as Taizong, and to Emperor Wu as Shizong, all according to the old system.

昔高帝以自受命，不由太上，宣帝以孫後祖，不敢私親，故為父立廟，獨群臣侍祠。 Gaozu took the mandate in his own person, not from a "supreme emperor"; Emperor Xuan, exalting an ancestor as a grandson, still shrank from privileging kin and built a father-temple served only by ministers.

漢舊制三年一祫，毀廟主合良高廟，存廟主未嘗合祭。 Under Han practice a triennial xia joined the deposed-line tablets at Gaozu's temple, whereas lines still in their own shrines had not been merged in one rite.