Emperor Yuan 元帝

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Title only

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
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Roles

• Royal Family Member
• Ruler

Family

• Child of High Ancestor (高祖)
  Kinship Term: clan foundation stone / 宗 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
• Parent of Emperor Jing of Liang (敬帝)
  Kinship Term: house / 家 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)

• Kinship Role: brothers · Statement: slaughter of brothers / 昆弟之戮 · Negated: false · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵) · Quantity: plural
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0166
• Kinship Role: kin · Statement: first against kin, then against enemies / 先骨肉而後寇仇 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵) · Quantity: unspecified
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Origins and identity

• Statement: foundation stone of the clan / 盤石之宗 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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Career and standing

• Label: regional commander with charge of dividing Shaan / 分陝之任／連率之長 · Action: held · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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• Status: punishment · Action: imprisoned or pickled trusted generals and chief ministers on slight cause · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0169

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: ruled
  Strongly inferred · liangshu:006:s0164, liangshu:006:s0176
• Place: Jing and Chu / 荊楚 · Relation: resided-in · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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Learning and skills

• Statement: recited the Six Classics and penetrated the hundred schools / 口誦六經，心通百氏 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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Works and attributed material

• Work: Six Classics / 六經 · Relation: recited · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: did not urgently punish usurper-analogues first; slaughtered his brothers first · Other Person Id: Wang Mang (莽) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0166
• Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: failed to prevent fall of Jinling and extinction of Jiangling · Place: Jinling and Jiangling / 金陵、江陵 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0176
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: held the host yet hesitated; watched the nation's change as personal fortune · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0165
• Kind: military · Role: ruler · Action: though the great villain was cut down, western neighbor reproached him and disaster soon followed · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: could not grasp the sword and taste gall, pillow the spear and weep blood, or lead soldiers and stake his life in the vanguard when ruler and parent were in calamity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0164
• Assessment: deep in suspicion, cruel and ruthless, often without propriety; covered wrong with clever debate and harmed people with wrath · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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• Assessment: had Confucius' learning and the Duke of Zhou's talent, yet only increased pride and calamities; could not remedy Jinling's fall or Jiangling's extinction · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
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• Assessment: steadfast in arts and letters yet gathered floating splendor and cast aside loyalty and faith; martial resolve first against kin then enemies · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0174, liangshu:006:s0175
• Assessment: thought himself secure as Mount Tai with plans without omission; deluded by perverse counsel, settled in Jing and Chu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0171