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Emperor Taizong of Tang 唐太宗

Táng Tàizōng

Attested AD 618 - AD 649

Passages
30
Chapters
18
Histories
6

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Taizong of Tang as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 30 passages from 18 chapters across 6 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Emperor Taizong of Tang 唐太宗 Táng Tàizōng
Temple Emperor Taizong 太宗 Tàizōng
Temple Emperor Taizong 太宗 Taizong
Temple name Emperor Taizong 太宗
Temple name Emperor Taizong 太宗 Tàizōng
Title Emperor Taizong 太宗 Tàizōng
Title Emperor Taizong 文皇帝
Temple Emperor Taizong of Tang 唐太宗 Tang Taizong
Personal name Emperor Taizong of Tang 唐太宗 Táng Tàizōng
Title Emperor Taizong of Tang 唐太宗 Tang Taizong
Temple name Emperor Taizong of Tang 唐太宗
Title Emperor Taizong of Tang 太宗
Title Emperor Taizong of Tang
Temple Great Ancestor 太宗 Taizong
Title Prince of Qin 秦王
Temple Taizong 太宗 Tàizōng
Temple name Taizong 太宗 Tàizōng
Temple Taizong 太宗 Taizong
Temple name Taizong 太宗
Title Tang Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
Temple name Tang Taizong 唐太宗 Tang Taizong
Temple Tang Taizong 唐太宗 Táng Tàizōng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

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Family

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Career and standing

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Events and relationships

  • Kind: institutional · Role: founder · Action: added-guard-units · Detail: Added the Qin, Xun, Yi, and Qianniu guards / 加親、勛、翊、千牛之衛
    Explicit · liaoshi:035:s0003
  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: approved-proposal · Other Person Id: Dai Zhou (戴胄)
    Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0075
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Goryeo · Place: Zhongjing area / 中京地 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 唐太宗伐高麗 · Western Year: AD 645
    Explicit · liaoshi:039:s0008
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Goryeo
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0077
  • Kind: filial · Role: actor · Action: drew carriage for retired emperor after banquet · Other Person Id: Tang Gaozu (唐高祖)
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0054
  • Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: established-eastern-selection · Place: Luozhou / 洛州
    Explicit · xintangshu:045:s0219
  • Kind: administrative · Role: founder · Action: established-Songmo-protectorate · Other Person Id: Kuge (窟哥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 又置松漠都督府 · Western Year: AD 648
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0137
  • Kind: administrative · Role: founder · Action: established-Xuan-prefecture · Other Person Id: Juqu (據曲) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 唐太宗置玄州 · Western Interval: Start: AD 626 · End: AD 649
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0136
  • Event: northern campaign associated with the naming of Cockcrow Mountain · Kind: historical-event · Action: northern campaign associated with the naming of Cockcrow Mountain
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0093
  • Kind: music-reform · Role: commissioner · Action: ordered-revision-of-court-music · Other Person Id: Zu Xiaosun (祖孝孫)
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:145:s0054, jiuwudaishi:145:s0112
  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: proposed-self-recommendation
    Explicit · xintangshu:045:s0117, xintangshu:045:s0118
  • Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: restricted-ordinary-dress-except-major-audiences-and-sacrifices · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貞觀已後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 627 · End: AD 649
    Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0101
  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: sought-prefectural-recruitment
    Explicit · xintangshu:045:s0113, xintangshu:045:s0114
  • Relation: commander-of · Person Id: Su Zhi (蘇支)
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:039:s0009
  • Relation: appointing-authority-of · Person Id: Juqu (據曲)
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0136
  • Relation: appointing-authority-of · Person Id: Kuge (窟哥)
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0137

Source notes

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 143Volume 143: Treatises 5 Rites 2 · 4 passages
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既廟號太祖，百代不遷，每遇禘祫，位居東向之尊，自代祖元皇帝、高祖、太宗已下，列聖子孫，各序昭穆南北相向，合食於前。 With the temple name Grand Ancestor, his place would never be moved; at every di or collective sacrifice he held the seat of honor facing east. From the Yuan Emperor of Dai through the High Ancestor and Great Ancestor and below, successive imperial descendants were arranged in zhao-mu order north and south, sharing the feast before him.
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 145Volume 145: Treatises 7 Music 2 · 2 passages
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唐太宗復古道，乃用祖孝孫、張文收考正雅樂，而旋宮八十四調復見於時，在懸之器，方無啞者，安、史之亂，京都為墟，器之與工，十不存一，所用歌奏，漸多紕繆。 Emperor Taizong of Tang restored the ancient tradition and had Zu Xiaosun and Zhang Wenshou revise the court music, so that the eighty-four circulatory modes reappeared and no instrument in the bell-chime ensemble remained mute. The An and Shi rebellion left the capital in ruins; scarcely one instrument or craftsman in ten survived, and the music performed grew ever more corrupt.
History of Liao, Chapter 32Volume 32 Treatises 2: Management of Guards 2 · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 35Volume 35 Treatises 5: Military 2 · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 39Volume 39 Treatises 9: Geography 3 · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 54Volume 54 Treatises 24: Music · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 56Volume 56 Treatises 26: Ceremonial Guards 2 · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu Eight Brothers · 4 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 90Volume 90 Biographies 20: Xiao Ala, Yelu Yixian, Xiao Taowei, Xiao Talage, Yelu Dilu · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 103Volume 103 Biographies 33: Literature 1 · 2 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 109Volume 109 Biographies 39: Music and Imperial Officials · 1 passage
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History of Song, Chapter 359Volume 359 Biographies 118: Li Gang 2 · 1 passage
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 45Volume 45 Treatises 40: Selecting and Appointing Officials 2 · 2 passages
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 51Volume 51 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 1 · 3 passages
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu · 2 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 2: Khitan 2 · 1 passage
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History of Yuan, Chapter 179Volume 179 Biographies 66: He Sheng, Yang Duoerzhi, Xiao Baizhu · 1 passage
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