Emperor Wen 隋高祖

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0024, suishu:036:s0256, suishu:044:s0003
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · suishu:072:s0122
• Value: male
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0041

Roles

• Official
• Royal Family Member
• Ruler

Family

• Spouse of Wenxian (文獻)
  Kinship Term: empress-consort / 后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: active
• Spouse of Empress Wenxian (文獻皇后)
  Kinship Term: empress / 后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
  Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: primary-marriage
• Spouse of Empress Dugu (獨孤皇后)
  Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage
• Parent of Sui Yangdi (隋煬帝)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
• Parent of Eldest daughter of Empress Wenxian (文獻皇后長女)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
• Parent of Yang Yong (楊勇)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Taizu (太祖)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
• Sibling of Yang Zan (楊瓚)
  Kinship Term: younger brother by the same mother / 母弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Line: paternal
• Sibling of Yang Zheng (楊整)
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder
• Sibling of Yang Shuang (楊爽)
  Kinship Term: younger half-brother / 異母弟 · Shared Parentage: paternal-half · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

• Label: Chancellor / 丞相 · Action: became · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖為丞相 · Western Year: c. AD 580
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0041
• Label: emperor / 帝 · Action: held
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0102
• Label: carriage, robes, staff, and seasonal delicacies / 輿服機杖，四時珍味 · Action: bestowed-for-filial-devotion · Recipient Person Id: Mother of Xue Jun (薛濬之母) · Associated Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0072
• Label: public commendation of household gate / 表其門閭 · Action: bestowed · Recipient Person Id: Tian Demao (田德懋)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0061
• Label: Senior Yitong / 上儀同 · Action: bestowed · Recipient Person Id: Lu Yanshi (陸彥師)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0043
• Label: repeated commendations and rewards to Yang Qing / 屢加褒賞 · Action: granted · Recipient Person Id: Yang Qing (楊慶)
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0152
• Status: emperor · Label: Emperor Wen / Gaozu / 高祖 · Action: held
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0256
• Label: declined to punish Wang Ban / 舍而不問 · Action: pardoned · Recipient Person Id: Wang Ban (王頒)
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0134, suishu:072:s0135
• Action: accepted abdication and took the throne · Western Year: AD 581
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0182
• Action: received abdication and took the throne · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0044
• Statement: accepted the abdication and took the throne · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0152

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: founded-and-ruled
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0044, suishu:072:s0047
• Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0102, suishu:044:s0018, suishu:072:s0176, suishu:072:s0182

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Content: Xue Jun's grief and emaciation moved him to sorrow · Other Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0078
• Kind: edict · Role: issuer · Content Summary: praised Niu Hui and Niu Shixiong for utmost filial piety and named their residence Accumulated Virtue Lane
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0176
• Kind: historian-appraisal · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0253, suishu:036:s0256, suishu:036:s0259
• Kind: imperial-letter · Role: author · Other Person Id: Tian Demao (田德懋) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0055, suishu:072:s0056, suishu:072:s0057, suishu:072:s0058, suishu:072:s0059
• Kind: patent-of-condolence · Role: author · Other Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0096, suishu:072:s0097, suishu:072:s0098, suishu:072:s0099, suishu:072:s0100, suishu:072:s0101
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0132, suishu:036:s0162, suishu:036:s0164, suishu:036:s0165, suishu:036:s0148

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: sovereign · Action: conquered Chen in the name of righteousness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 朕以義平陳 · Western Year: AD 589
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0134
• Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: fled-in-anger · Place: mountain valleys / 山谷
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0130
• Kind: imperial-honor · Role: ruler · Other Person Id: Liu Shijun (劉士俊) · Action: honored Liu Shijun's household gate upon accession
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0182
• Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: received Wang Ban's plan for conquering Chen and summoned him for an audience · Other Person Id: Wang Ban (王頒)
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0122
• Kind: political · Role: recipient · Action: received-abdication
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0102
• Kind: political · Role: commissioner · Action: sent Yuwen Bi to visit and commend Guo Jun's household · Other Person Id: Yuwen Bi (宇文弼)
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0157
• Relation: distrusted-by-son · Person Id: Sui Yangdi (隋煬帝) · Statement: Between father and son, Emperor Yang still harbored suspicion and distrust.
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0259
• Relation: families-joined-by-marriage · Person Id: Tian Demao (田德懋) · Statement: our families are joined by marriage / 與汝通家
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0057

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: brotherly bonds never warm; household quarrels intolerable · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · suishu:044:s0152
• Assessment: cherished and feared the empress · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0107
• Assessment: commended Lu Yanshi for returning during Wei Jiong's impending revolt · Target Person Id: Lu Yanshi (陸彥師) · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Source Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0043
• Assessment: marveled at Xue Jun's mourning and was emotionally moved · Target Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬) · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Source Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0078, suishu:072:s0079
• Assessment: praised Xue Jun's pure conduct, talent, diligence, integrity, and sincere filial devotion · Target Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬) · Provenance: Mode: quoted-imperial-judgment · Source Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0097, suishu:072:s0098, suishu:072:s0099
• Assessment: That Emperor Wen (Gaozu) could not keep his nine kindreds (九族) in harmony likewise had its cause. · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · suishu:036:s0256
• Item: two hundred bolts of silk and one hundred piculs of grain / 縑二百匹，米百石 · Relation: bestowed · Recipient Person Id: Tian Demao (田德懋)
  Explicit · suishu:072:s0060