Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor Wen 太祖

Taizu

Attested AD 429 - AD 440

Passages: 14
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Wen was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 429 六年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 63, passages 125-126
AD 440 臥疾者五年……為州凡月餘卒
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 63, passage 174

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Empress Zhang (章太后)
birth mother 所生 · maternal line
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 125
Kin of Prince Yikang of Pengcheng (彭城王義康)
closest kin 至親
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 157
Kin of Lady Su (蘇氏)
worthy kinswoman 懿戚
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passages 126, 134

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liu-song · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passages 125-126

Works and attributed material

AD 429 六年
Edict · Author
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 63, passages 126-131
Letter · Author · With Liu Yiji (劉義季)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passages 174-178

Events and relationships

Accepted advice
AD 429 六年 · Political · Ruler · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁)
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 63, passage 141
Forced acceptance by staff
Political · Ruler · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 143
Increased favor
Political · Ruler · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 153
Mourned in person
AD 429 六年 · Ritual · Mourner · With Lady Su (蘇氏)
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 63, passage 126
Moved to safety
Political · Protector · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 158
Recalled from provincial post
Political · Ruler · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 170

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Sent inquirer
Political · Ruler · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 156
Served with care
Ritual · Mourner · With Lady Su (蘇氏)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 125
Summoned
Political · Summoner · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁) · At Hall for Extending the Worthy in Hualin Garden 華林園延賢堂
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passage 162

Assessments and attributes

Assessment knowledge broad and far-sighted; served the state with complete loyalty; people's hope and state's vessel · With Yin Jingren (殷景仁) · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Emperor Wen (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Song 63, passages 175-176

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History

14 passages

Book of Song, Chapter 63Volume 63 Biographies 23: Wang Hua, Wang Tanshou, Yin Jingren, Shen Yanzhi · 14 passages

太祖所生章太后早亡，上奉太后所生蘇氏甚謹。 The future Emperor Wen's birth mother, Empress Zhang, had died young, and the emperor served Su, a kinswoman of the empress dowager, with great care.

六年，蘇氏卒，車駕親往臨哭，下詔曰：「朕夙罹偏罰，情事兼常，每思有以光隆懿戚，少申罔極之懷。 In the sixth year Lady Su died. The emperor went in person to mourn at her bier and issued an edict: "From early on I have suffered the partial bereavement of losing a parent, and my feelings go beyond the ordinary. I have long wished to honor a worthy kinswoman and give some small expression to boundless grief.

主上聿遵先典，號極徽崇，以貴之義，禮盡於此。 Your Majesty reverently follows the ancient canon and has already given the highest honorable title; in the principle of honoring by rank, ritual is already complete.

蘇夫人階緣戚屬，情以事深，寒泉之思，實感聖懷，明詔爰發，詢求厥中。 Lady Su stands only a step removed in kinship, yet feeling runs deep because of the matter; the thought of cold springs truly moves Your Majesty's heart. Your enlightened edict seeks counsel for the proper course.

上從之。 The emperor accepted his advice.

上使綱紀代拜，遣中書舍人周赳輿載還府。 The emperor had his staff perform the ceremony of acceptance on his behalf and sent Zhou Qiu in a carriage to bring Jingren back to his residence.

知太祖信仗景仁，不可移奪，乃深結司徒彭城王義康，欲倚宰相之重以傾之。 Knowing the emperor trusted Jingren and would not be swayed, he allied himself closely with Prince Pengcheng Yikang, hoping to use the prince's weight as de facto chief minister to bring Jingren down.

義康納湛言，毀景仁於太祖； Yikang took Zhan's side and spoke against Jingren before the emperor.

太祖遇之益隆。 The emperor treated Jingren with still greater favor.

湛議遣人若劫盜者於外殺之，以為太祖雖知，當有以，終不能傷至親之愛。 Zhan proposed sending men disguised as bandits to kill him outside the palace, reasoning that even if the emperor guessed the truth, he would make allowances and could not harm the love between close kin.

上微聞之，遷景仁於西掖門外晉鄱陽主第，以為護軍府，密邇宮禁，故其計不行。 The emperor caught wind of this and moved Jingren to the residence of the Jin princess of Poyang outside the western palace gate, using it as his protector's headquarters close to the inner palace, so the plot could not succeed.

其夜，上出華林園延賢堂召景仁，猶稱腳疾，小床輿以就坐，誅討處分，一皆委之。 That night the emperor summoned him to the Hall for Extending the Worthy in Hualin Garden. Still claiming a foot ailment, Jingren was carried in on a small couch; the emperor entrusted him with every decision in the purge.

太祖謂不利在州司，使還住僕射下省，為州凡月餘卒。 The emperor thought the provincial post was unlucky for him and had him return to the vice director's offices at court. He had been governor barely a month when he died.

上與荊州刺史衡陽王義季書曰：「殷僕射疾患少日，奄忽不救。 The emperor wrote to Prince Hengyang Yiji, governor of Jingzhou: "Vice Director Yin was ill only a few days and then was suddenly beyond help.