Gaozu (高祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gaozu as a ruler. This record brings together 7 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Title	Emperor Gaozu	高祖
Temple	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Temple name	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:030:s0051, weishu:096:s0226
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · weishu:111:s0250

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 高祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 471 · End: AD 499
Explicit · weishu:030:s0051, weishu:030:s0096, weishu:030:s0102
Source Date: Text: 高祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 471 · End: AD 499
Strongly inferred · weishu:096:s0241
Source Date: Text: 高祖延興元年十二月 · Western Year: AD 471
Explicit · weishu:111:s0250

Places and affiliations

Polity: Northern Wei / 北魏 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · weishu:030:s0051
Polity: Northern Wei / 北魏 · Relation: ruled
Strongly inferred · weishu:111:s0250

Source notes

Statement: Collation note discusses a solar-eclipse entry dated to Yanxing 1 under Gaozu and judges the calendar day impossible for an eclipse.
Explicit · weishu:111:s0250

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 30Volume 25: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng · 5 passages

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後高祖追錄先朝功臣，以嵩配饗廟庭。 Later Gaozu, honoring the founders, had Song given a place in the ancestral temple.

高祖初，拜殿中尚書、侍中。 Early in Gaozu's reign he was made Director in the Palace Department and attendant-in-ordinary.

高祖以其幼承家業，賜名稚，字承業。 Gaozu, seeing him take up the house while still a boy, gave him the name Zhi, styled Chengye.

為前將軍，從高祖南討，授七兵尚書、太常卿、右將軍。 As forward general he followed Gaozu south and received the posts of minister of the seven arms, grand minister of ceremonies, and right general.

昔高祖昇平之年，無所乏少，猶創置鹽官而加典護，非為物而競利，恐由利而亂俗也。 Even in Gaozu's peaceful years, without want, he set salt officers and overseers—not for profit but lest profit corrupt custom.

Book of Wei, Chapter 96Volume 90: Retired Officals: Sui Kua, Feng Liang, Li Mi, Zheng Xiu · 1 passage

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謐嘗詣故太常卿劉芳推問音義，語及中代興廢之由，芳乃歎曰：『君若遇高祖，侍中、太常非僕有也。』 Mi once visited former Minister of Ceremonies Liu Fang on sounds and meanings; speaking of dynastic rise and fall, Fang sighed: "Had you met Gaozu, Secretariat Director and Minister of Ceremonies would not have been mine."

Book of Wei, Chapter 111Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 · 1 passage

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高祖延興元年十二月癸卯日有蝕之按是年十二月乙酋朔，癸卯是十九日，不應有日蝕。 The entry "In the twelfth month of Yanxing 1, on guimao day, the sun was eclipsed" is erroneous: that year's twelfth month began on yiyou, and guimao is the nineteenth day—no eclipse should occur then.