Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor Mu 穆帝

Mu Di

Attested AD 295 - AD 316

Passages: 14
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Mu as a ruler. This record brings together 14 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Mu	穆帝	Mu Di
Title	Emperor Mu	穆帝	Mu Di
Temple	Emperor Mu	穆帝	Mùdì
Posthumous	Mu	穆	Mù
Personal	Yilu	猗盧	Yīlú

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:028:s0222

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 猗盧之三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 310
Explicit · weishu:028:s0238
Source Date: Text: 桓、穆之世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 295 · End: AD 316
Explicit · weishu:028:s0222
Source Date: Text: 桓帝至穆帝三年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 304 · End: AD 310
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:028:s0005, weishu:028:s0096

Career and standing

Label: Prince of Dai / 代王 · Action: held
Explicit · weishu:028:s0132

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Action: welcomed Jin people on Wei Cao’s advice
Explicit · weishu:028:s0005
Relation: honored · Person Id: Wei Cao (衞操)
Explicit · weishu:028:s0095
Relation: favored · Person Id: Mo Han (莫含)
Explicit · weishu:028:s0131, weishu:028:s0141

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: honored for governance and military aid alongside Emperor Huan · Provenance: Mode: stele-eulogy · Source Work: Wei Cao’s stele
Explicit · weishu:028:s0011, weishu:028:s0048, weishu:028:s0058

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 28Volume 23: Wei Cao, Mo Han, Liu Kuren · 14 passages

始祖崩後，與從子雄及其宗室鄉親姬澹等十數人，同來歸國，說桓穆二帝招納晉人，於是晉人附者稍眾。 When the founding ancestor passed away, Cao came home with his nephew Xiong and a dozen-odd kinsmen and neighbors, among them Ji Dan, and urged the Huan and Mu emperors to welcome Jin subjects. From then on Jin adherents grew steadily in number.

言：桓穆二帝「馳名域外，九譯宗焉。 Of the Huan and Mu emperors it reads: "Their renown rides beyond the frontier; peoples of nine interpreters bow to them.

又稱：桓穆二帝「心在宸極。 Again of the Huan and Mu emperors: "Their hearts clung to the imperial pole.

桓穆二帝並禮重操。 Both Emperor Huan and Emperor Mu treated Cao with high ceremonial honor.

穆帝三年卒。 He died in the third year of Emperor Mu.

穆帝初，並見委任。 Early in Emperor Mu's reign both were again given weighty trust.

穆帝愛其才器，善待之。 Emperor Mu admired his ability and treated him generously.

及為代王，備置官屬，求含於琨。 When he became Prince of Dai he formed a full court and asked Liu Kun to send Han to him.

唯此一州，介在羣胡之間，以吾薄德，能自存立者，賴代王之力。 Only this province still stands amid the barbarian tide; that I survive at all on my meager merit is because the Prince of Dai upholds me.

入為代王腹心，非但吾願，亦一州所賴。」 To enter and become the prince's trusted confidant is not only my wish—it is what our whole province depends on."

含甚為穆帝所重，常參軍國大謀。 Emperor Mu held him in the highest regard and kept him at the heart of military and civil strategy.

史臣曰：始祖及桓、穆之世也，王迹初基，風德未展。 The historiographer writes: Under the Founding Ancestor and Emperors Huan and Mu, the royal work had barely begun and moral influence had not yet spread.

碑為猗㐌而立，必書晉所授官爵及猗㐌、猗盧二人名，篇乃稱『桓穆二帝』，亦史臣所改。」 The stone was raised for Yiyi and must have named the Jin-bestowed offices and both Yiyi and Yilu; calling them 'the two emperors Huan and Mu' is another historiographer's change."

又猗盧之三年稱「白部大人叛入西河」。 Yilu year 3 also says "the Bai tribe's great chief rebelled and entered Xihe."