Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler and Statesman

Founding Sovereign 太祖

Tàizǔ

Attested AD 477 - AD 480

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Founding Sovereign was a ruler and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 477 to AD 479 太祖參政
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 11
AD 480 建元二年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 25-26

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 25-26
Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 11
At eastern palace 東府 · Relation Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 16

Works and attributed material

AD 480 建元二年
Edict · Author · Direct quotation
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 26-39
Letter · Author · With Yu Wanzhi (虞玩之) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 11-12
Speech · Speaker · With Yu Wanzhi (虞玩之) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 18

Events and relationships

Relation Correspondent of · Person Yu Wanzhi (虞玩之)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 11

Assessments and attributes

Assessment pleased with Wanzhi's frugality · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 20

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 11

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 34Volume 34 Biographies 15: Yu Wanzhi, Liu Xiu, Shen Chong, Yu Gaozhi, Wang Chen · 8 passages

時太祖參政，與玩之書曰：「張華爲度支尚書，事不徒然。 At the time the founding sovereign was directing affairs of state and wrote to Wanzhi: "When Zhang Hua served as minister of revenue, his work was not in vain.

太祖鎮東府，朝野致敬，玩之猶躡屐造席。 When the founding sovereign held the eastern palace, court and countryside paid him homage; Wanzhi still wore clogs and came straight to his mat.

太祖取屐視之，訛黑斜銳，蒵斷，以芒接之。 The founding sovereign picked up the clogs to look at them—worn black, toes slanted and sharp, the vamp split and patched with straw.

太祖善之，引爲驃騎諮議參軍。 The founding sovereign was pleased with him and brought him in as fierce-cavalry staff adviser.

霸府初開，賓客輻湊，太祖留意簡接，玩之與樂安任遐，俱以應對有席上之美，齊名見遇。 When the hegemon's office first opened, guests crowded in like wheel spokes; the founding sovereign took care whom he admitted. Wanzhi and Ren Xia of Le'an alike were famed for the grace of their table talk and were equally favored.

遐字景遠，好學，有義行，兼與太祖素游，褚淵、王儉竝見親愛。 Xia, styled Jingyuan, loved learning and had a sense of duty; he had long been the founding sovereign's companion, and Chu Yuan and Wang Jian alike held him dear.

上患民間欺巧，及卽位，敕玩之與驍騎將軍傅堅意檢定簿籍。 The emperor worried over popular fraud and trickery; upon his accession he ordered Wanzhi and rampant-cavalry general Fu Jianyi to examine and fix the registers.

今陛下日旰忘食，未明求衣，詔逮幽愚，謹陳妄說。 Now Your Majesty, the sun at the zenith yet forgetting food, seeks his robes before dawn—the edict reaches even this obscure fool; I venture my reckless counsel.