Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Founding Emperor 太祖

Attested AD 479 - AD 481

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Founding Emperor was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 481 三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 24, passages 118, 120
AD 479 太祖踐阼
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 103
AD 480 建元二年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 24, passages 107-108

Career and standing

AD 479 太祖踐阼
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 103

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 103

Works and attributed material

Edict · Author · With Shilong (世隆) · Mode direct-quotation · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Founding Emperor (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passages 108-115, 120-129, 131-134
Handwritten edict · Author · With Chu Yuan (褚淵) · Mode direct-quotation · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Founding Emperor (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 104

Events and relationships

Sent troops and grain to aid
Military · Ruler · With Shilong (世隆)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 130

Assessments and attributes

Assessment wasted by grief almost beyond recognition; a treasure of the age · With Shilong (世隆) · Mode named-source-report Speaker Founding Emperor (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 104

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 103

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 24Volume 24 Biographies 5: Liu Shilong, Zhang Gui · 7 passages

太祖踐阼，起爲使持節、都督南豫司二州諸軍事、平南將軍、南豫州刺史，進爵爲公。 When the Founding Emperor took the throne, Shilong was called back from mourning as Bearer of the Staff, overall commander of Southern Yu and Si, General Who Pacifies the South, and Governor of Southern Yu, and was raised to duke.

上手詔與司徒褚淵曰：「向見世隆毀瘠過甚，殆欲不可復識，非直使人惻然，實亦世珍國寶也。」 The emperor sent a handwritten edict to Minister of Works Chu Yuan: "I have just seen Shilong—grief has wasted him past bearing, nearly past knowing. It is not only pitiful; he is a living treasure of the realm."

是時虜寇壽陽，上敕世隆曰：「歷陽城大，恐不可卒治，正宜斷隔之，深爲保固。 The enemy were then raiding Shouyang. The emperor ordered Shilong: "Liyang is a great city and may not be made ready in a rush. You should divide and seal it off and hold it in depth.

垣崇祖旣破虜，上欲罷併二豫，敕世隆曰：「比思江西蕭索，二豫兩辦爲難。 After Huan Chongzu had routed the enemy, the emperor wished to fold the two Yu provinces into one. He told Shilong: "The lands west of the Yangtze have grown thin; to run both Yu provinces at once is hard.

世隆性愛涉獵，啓太祖借祕閣書，上給二千卷。 Shilong loved learning and ranged widely in his reading. He asked the Founding Emperor to lend him palace archive books; the throne sent two thousand scrolls.

上敕世隆曰：「比有北信，賊猶治兵在彭城，年已垂盡，或當未必送死。 The emperor wrote Shilong: "Word from the north says the enemy still drill at Pengcheng. Their years are almost spent; they may not come to throw their lives away.

虜退，上欲土斷江北，又敕世隆曰：「呂安國近在西，土斷郢、司二境上雜民，大佳，民殆無驚恐。 When the enemy withdrew, the emperor wished to register native land north of the river and again wrote Shilong: "Lü An'guo has lately, in the west, registered stray households on the Ying and Si borders—with excellent effect; the people were scarcely alarmed.