Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor Ming 高宗

Gaozong

Attested AD 494 - AD 498

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Ming was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 498 永泰元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passages 270, 273
AD 494 to AD 498 高宗
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 198
AD 494 高宗誅諸王
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 189

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passages 189, 270

Works and attributed material

Refused then assented to memorial
AD 498 永泰元年 · Reply · Author · With Xuan (鉉)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 273

Events and relationships

Executed princes
AD 494 高宗誅諸王 · Political · Executor
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 189
Killed
AD 498 永泰元年 · Political · Killer · With Xuan (鉉)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 270

Assessments and attributes

Assessment careful and upright, risen from common cloth together · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 198

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 16: Gao Zu's Twelve Princes · 2 passages

高宗誅諸王，以鉉年少才弱，故不加害。 When Emperor Ming executed the princes, Xuan was young and slight in ability and was spared.

豈不以群王少弱，未更多難，高宗清謹，同起布衣，故韜末命于近親，寄重權于疏戚，子弟布列，外有強大之勢，疏親中立，可息覬覦之謀，表裡相維，足固家國。 Was it not because the princes were young and untested, the High Emperor careful and upright, having risen from common cloth together, that he tucked his last words among close kin and lodged heavy power with distant kin — brothers deployed outside with strong force, distant and close balanced within to still greedy designs, inner and outer sustaining each other, enough to secure the house?