Gao Dezheng (高德正)

Overview

The translated histories identify Gao Dezheng as a courtier, family member, official, and statesman. This record brings together 41 passages from 8 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Gao Dezheng	高德正	Gao Dezheng
Given	Dezheng	德正	Dezheng
Given name	Dezheng	德政	Dézhèng
Title	Duke of Lantian	藍田公
Surname	Gao	高	Gāo
Personal name	Gao Dezheng	高德正	Gao Dezheng
Personal	Gao Dezheng	高德正
Personal name	Gao Dezheng	高德政	Gāo Dézhèng
Personal name	Gao Dezheng	高德政	Gao Dezheng
Personal	Gao Dezheng	高德政	Gao Dezheng
Courtesy name	Shizhen	士貞	Shìzhēn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · beiqishu:009:s0067, beiqishu:030:s0001
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:014:s0156, beiqishu:033:s0093, beiqishu:035:s0034, beiqishu:040:s0008, weishu:110:s0182

Roles

Courtier
Family Member
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beheaded / 斬之 · Authority Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0174

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 556
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0152
Source Date: Text: 世宗入朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 543 · End: AD 549
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0008
Source Date: Text: 五月 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0120, beiqishu:030:s0123
Source Date: Text: 受禪之日 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0151
Source Date: Text: 天保初 · Western Year: c. AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:014:s0156
Source Date: Text: 文宣禪代前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 550
Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0093
Source Date: Text: 文襄崩 · Western Year: AD 549
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0182
Source Date: Text: 立后 debate at founding · Western Year: AD 550
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:009:s0067
Source Date: Text: 魏武定八年五月 / 天保初 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0050
Source Date: Text: 齊受禪 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:035:s0034

Family

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Ancestor of Gao Wangchen (高王臣)
Kinship Term: eldest grandson / 嫡孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Kin of Li He (李諧)
Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Subject Role: maternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: maternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Sister of Li He (李諧之姊妹)
Kin of Cui Ang (崔昂)
Kinship Term: cousin / 中表
Child of Gao Hao (高顥)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Sister of Li He (李諧之姊妹)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Gao Bojian (高伯堅)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Gao Dezheng
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

Label: Right vice director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書右僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 556
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0152
Label: Palace attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 受禪之日 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0151
Label: Gentleman of the yellow gates / 黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0093
Label: Inspector of Ji province / 冀州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0161, beiqishu:030:s0162
Label: Staff officer to the chancellor's residence / 相府掾 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0092
Label: Staff officer to the grand marshalate / 開府參軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0091
Title: Grand Guardian / 太保 · Action: posthumous
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0178
Title: Duke of Lantian / 藍田公 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0151
Status: executed · Action: executed by Wenxuan, his wealth given to Guiyan · Authority Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0156
Label: toes cut off / 斬去其趾 · Action: punished · Authority Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0165, beiqishu:030:s0169

Places and affiliations

Polity: Eastern Wei / 東魏 · Relation: served
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0091
Polity: Northern Qi / 北齊 · Relation: served
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0151
Place: Su in Bohai / 渤海蓚
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0088

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋) · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Gao Dezheng (高德正)
Explicit · beiqishu:035:s0034

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: urged Gao Yang to accept abdication
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0100, beiqishu:030:s0101
Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: urged installing Lady Duan · Other Person Id: Lady Duan (段昭儀)
Explicit · beiqishu:009:s0069
Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: urged Xianzu to accept abdication · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 魏武定八年五月 / 天保初 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0053
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Yang Yin (楊愔)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0160

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: used spirit to overawe people · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0157

Source notes

Statement: Advocated employing Han men and removing Xianbei / 宜用漢人，除鮮卑
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0176

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 9Volume 9 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 2 passages

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及帝將建中宮，高隆之、高德正言漢婦人不可為天下母，宜更擇美配。 When the emperor was about to establish the central palace, Gao Longzhi and Gao Dezheng said a Han woman could not be mother to the realm and that a more beautiful match should be chosen.

而德正猶固請廢后而立段昭儀，欲以結勳貴之援，帝竟不從而立后焉。 Yet Dezheng still firmly asked to depose the empress and install Lady Duan as Honored Consort, wishing thereby to win the support of meritorious nobles; the emperor in the end did not follow him and established the empress.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 14Volume 14 Biographies 6: Guangping Gongcheng; Yangzhou Gong Yongle; Di Zhangbi; Prince of Xiangle, Xiang Guo; Prince of Shangluo, Si Zong; Zi Yuanhai; Di Sihao; Prince of Pingqin, Guiyan; Prince Pu of Wuxing; Changle, Governor of Lingshan; Sizi Fuhu · 1 passage

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文宣誅高德正，金寶財貨悉以賜之。 When Wenxuan executed Gao Dezheng, he gave Guiyan all of Gao's gold, jewels, wealth, and property.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 22: Cui Xian; Gao Dezheng; Cui Ang · 29 passages

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崔暹高德政崔昂 Cui Xian; Gao Dezheng; Cui Ang

高德政，字士貞，渤海蓚人。 Gao Dezheng, styled Shizhen, was a man of Su in Bohai.

德政幼而敏慧，有風神儀表。 Dezheng was clever and keen in youth, with spirit and dignified bearing.

世宗嗣業，如晉陽，顯祖在京居守，令德政參掌機密，彌見親重。 Gao Cheng succeeded to the enterprise and went to Jinyang; Gao Yang remained in the capital as defender and had Dezheng share in secret affairs, and favor grew still greater.

帝亦回遑不能自決，夜中召楊愔、杜弼、崔季舒及德政等，始定策焉。 Gao Yang also hesitated and could not decide; in the night he summoned Yang Yin, Du Bi, Cui Jishu, Dezheng, and others, and only then settled the plan.

德政與帝舊相昵愛，言無不盡。 Dezheng and Gao Yang had long been intimate and affectionate; in speech nothing was withheld.

散騎常侍徐之才、館客宋景業先為天文圖讖之學，又陳山提家客楊子術有所援引，並因德政勸顯祖行禪代之事。 Regular attendant Xu Zhicai and retainer Song Jingye were versed first in astronomy and apocrypha; also Chen Shanti's household retainer Yang Zishu had connections—all through Dezheng urged Gao Yang to carry out the abdication and succession.

德政又披心固請。 Dezheng again laid bare his heart and pressed the matter without relenting.