On this page
Overview Names Identity Roles Life and dates Places and affiliations Works and attributed material Events and relationships References in the histories
Overview The translated histories identify Emperor Ming of Liu Song as a ruler. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Emperor Ming of Liu Song
太宗
Tàizōng
Temple name
Emperor Ming
太宗
Tàizōng
Title
Emperor Ming
Temple
Emperor Taizong
太宗
Title
Emperor Taizong
太宗
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Source Date: Text: 太宗世Western Interval: Start: AD 465End: AD 472
Source Date: Text: 太宗初即位Western Year: AD 465
Source Date: Text: 太宗臨崩Western Year: AD 472
Source Date: Text: 泰始三年Western Year: AD 467
Works and attributed material Events and relationships Kind: political ·
Role: ruler ·
Action: accepted-advice-and-shelved-proposal ·
Other Person Id: Jia Yuanyou (賈元友) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Book of Song, Chapter 55 Volume 55 Biographies 15: Zang Dao, Xu Guang, F Long · 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 86 Volume 86 Biographies 46: Yin Xiaozu, Liu Mian · 7 passages
太宗初即位，四方反叛，孝祖外甥司徒參軍潁川葛僧韶建議銜命徵孝祖入朝，上遣之。
When Emperor Ming had just ascended the throne, rebellions erupted throughout the realm. Xiaozu's nephew Ge Sengshao of Yingchuan, a staff officer in the Secretariat, urged that an imperial summons bring Xiaozu to the capital, and the emperor dispatched him.
太宗即位，加寧朔將軍，校尉如故。
When Emperor Ming ascended the throne, Mian was additionally made general who pacifies the north while retaining his colonelcy.
景遠尋病卒，太宗嘉其功，追贈冠軍將軍、豫州刺史，追封含洭縣男，食邑三百戶，以文萇代為汝陰太守。
Jingyuan soon fell ill and died. Emperor Ming praised his achievements and posthumously appointed him champion general and governor of Yu Province, enfeoffed him posthumously as baron of Hanquang with a fief of three hundred households, and made Wenchang administrator of Runan in his place.
淮西人賈元友上書太宗，勸北攻懸瓠，可收陳郡、南頓、汝南、新蔡四郡之地。
Jia Yuanyou of the Huai West region submitted a memorial to Emperor Ming urging a northern attack on Xuanhuo, by which the lands of Chen, Nan Dun, Runan, and Xincai commanderies could be recovered.
太宗納之，元友議遂寢。
Emperor Ming accepted this, and Yuanyou's proposal was set aside.
勔馳驛以聞，太宗大喜，以珍奇為使持節、都督司、北豫二州諸軍事、平北將軍、司州刺史，汝南、新蔡縣侯，食邑千戶；
Mian sent word by post relay to report it. Emperor Ming was greatly pleased and made Zhenqi bearer of the credentials staff, commander of military affairs in Si and Northern Yu provinces, general who pacifies the north, and governor of Si Province, marquis of Runan and Xincai with a fief of one thousand households;
太宗臨崩，顧命以為守尚書右僕射，中領軍如故，給鼓吹一部。
When Emperor Ming lay dying he entrusted him by final command as guardian minister and right vice director of the Secretariat, general of the central army unchanged, and granted one set of martial music.