Emperor Gaozu of Sui (隋高祖)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Gaozu of Sui as a ruler. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Gaozu of Sui	隋高祖	Sui Gaozu
Temple	Emperor Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Title	Emperor Gaozu	高祖
Temple	Emperor Gaozu of Sui	隋高祖	Sui Gaozu
Temple	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Temple name	Gaozu	高祖	Gāozǔ
Temple	Sui Gaozu	隋高祖	Sui Gaozu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:145:s0108, liaoshi:054:s0070, suishu:082:s0041

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043
Source Date: Text: 隋高祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 604
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:145:s0108
Source Date: Text: 隋高祖詔求知音者 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 604
Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0070
Source Date: Text: 高祖既平陳 · Western Year: AD 589
Explicit · suishu:082:s0041

Family

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Parent of Sui Yangdi (隋煬帝)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Places and affiliations

Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:145:s0108, suishu:082:s0041, suishu:082:s0199

Events and relationships

Kind: policy · Role: ruler · Action: did-not-esteem-court-music-ordered-deliberation
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:145:s0108
Kind: military · Role: ordering-authority · Action: dispatched-Liu-Fang-against-Linyi · Other Person Id: Liu Fang (劉方) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043
Kind: administrative · Role: issuer · Action: edict-seeking-music-masters
Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0070
Kind: military · Role: conqueror · Action: pacified-Chen · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖既平陳 · Western Year: AD 589
Explicit · suishu:082:s0041

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: received Heaven's mandate and pacified the nine realms · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:082:s0199

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 145Volume 145: Treatises 7 Music 2 · 1 passage

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隋高祖不重雅樂，令儒官集議。 Emperor Gaozu of Sui did not esteem court music and ordered Confucian officials to deliberate the matter.

History of Liao, Chapter 54Volume 54 Treatises 24: Music · 1 passage

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至隋高祖詔求知音者，鄭譯得西域蘇祗婆七旦之聲，求合七音八十四調之說，由是雅俗之樂，皆此聲矣。 When Sui Gaozu issued an edict seeking masters of music, Zheng Yi obtained from the Western Regions the seven-mode system of the Kuchean musician Sujiva and sought to align it with the theory of seven tones and eighty-four modes; from that point, both court ritual and popular music drew on these sounds.

Book of Sui, Chapter 82Volume 82 Biographies 47: The Nanman · 2 passages

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高祖既平陳，乃遣使獻方物，其後朝貢遂絕。 After Emperor Gaozu conquered Chen, Linyi sent envoys bearing native products, but tributary missions soon ceased entirely.

高祖受命，克平九宇，煬帝纂業，威加八荒。 Emperor Gaozu received Heaven's mandate and pacified the nine realms; Emperor Yang succeeded him and extended imperial might to the eight directions.