Sui and Tang · Emperor

Gaozu 高祖

Attested AD 618 - AD 626

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Gaozu was an emperor.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 618 to AD 626 高祖
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 12, passage 163

Career and standing

associated deity at summer-solstice earth sacrifice 夏至祭皇地祇配
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 163

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 12, passage 163

Events and relationships

Paired with
Ritual · Associated deity · Other August Earth Lord 皇地祇 · Occasion summer solstice 夏至 · posthumous temple association in Tang ritual
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 163

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 163

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 12Volume 12 Treatises 2: Rites and Music 2 · 1 passage

夏至祭皇地祇，以高祖配，五方之岳鎮、海瀆、原隰、丘陵、墳衍在內壝之內，各居其方，而中岳以下在西南。 At the summer solstice, sacrifice to the August Earth Lord, with the High Ancestor as associated deity; directional mountains and garrisons, seas and rivers, plains, wetlands, hills, mounds, and plains and marshes are within the inner enclosure each in his direction, while below the central mountain they are in the southwest.