Five Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor Min 閔帝

Min di

Attested AD 934

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Min was a ruler.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	young emperor	少帝

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 934 應順初
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 99, passages 20-22, 24, 29

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 99, passage 20

Events and relationships

Attendants plotted to kill Jin Gaozu
AD 934 應順初 · Political · Beneficiary of plot
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 99, passages 21-22
Fled and entered Weizhou
AD 934 應順初 · Political · Fugitive · With Jin Gaozu (晉高祖) · At Weizhou 衛州
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 99, passage 20
AD 934 應順初
Political · Handed over · With Wang Hongzan (王宏贄) · Mode named-source-report Source Work Veritable Record of Han Gaozu 漢高祖實錄
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 99, passage 29

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 99Volume 99 Book of Later Jin 1: Gaozu Annals 1 · 5 passages

應順初，晉高祖鎮常山，唐明宗召赴闕，會閔帝出奔，與晉高祖相遇於途，遂俱入衛州，泊於郵舍。 Early in the Yingshun era, while Jin Gaozu held Changshan, Tang Mingzong summoned him to court. Emperor Min was then fleeing, and the two met on the road; they entered Weizhou together and stayed at a relay inn.

閔帝左右謀害晉高祖，帝密遣禦士石敢袖鎚立於晉高祖後，及有變，敢擁晉高祖入一室，以巨木塞門，敢尋死焉。 Min's courtiers plotted to kill Jin Gaozu. The future emperor secretly posted the guard Shi Gan behind him with a hammer hidden in his sleeve. When the attack came, Gan hustled Gaozu into a room, barred the door with a heavy beam, and was killed in the fight.

帝率眾盡殺閔帝左右，遂免晉高祖於難。 He then led his men in slaughtering Min's entire retinue and so saved Jin Gaozu from the plot.

〈（《通鑒考異》引《漢高祖實錄》云：是夜，偵知少帝伏甲，欲與從臣謀害晉高祖，詐屏人對語，方坐庭廡。 (Zizhi Tongjian Collation, citing the Veritable Record of Han Gaozu, says that night he learned the young emperor had hidden troops and meant with his followers to kill Jin Gaozu; he pretended to dismiss everyone for a private talk and was sitting in the corridor.

乃逾垣出就洪信兵，共護晉高祖，殺建謀者，以少主授王宏贄。）〉 He climbed the wall, joined Hongxin's force, protected Jin Gaozu together with them, killed the conspirators, and delivered the young emperor to Wang Hongzan.))〉