Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler and General

Grand Ancestor 太祖

Taizu

Attested AD 474 - AD 479

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Grand Ancestor was a ruler and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 479 上受禪
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 201
AD 477 太祖爲領軍
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 194
AD 477 to AD 478 太祖鎮東府
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 198
AD 474 桂陽賊起
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 193
AD 477 蒼梧廢明日
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 195

Career and standing

Commandant of the Guards 領軍
AD 477 太祖爲領軍 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 194
AD 479 上受禪
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 201

Places and affiliations

AD 479 上受禪
Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 201
Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passages 193-194
AD 477 to AD 478 太祖鎮東府
At Eastern Mansion 東府 · Relation Garrisoned
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 198

Works and attributed material

AD 477 蒼梧廢明日
Speech · Speaker · With Cao Hu (曹虎) · Paraphrased · Summary asked Hu where he was going
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 195

Events and relationships

Marched from
AD 474 桂陽賊起 · Military · Commander · At Xinting fortress 新亭壘
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 193
Relation Patron of · Person Cao Hu (曹虎)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passages 193-194, 198
Relation Commander of · Person Dai Sengjing (戴僧靜)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 198

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 193

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 11: Xue Yuan, Dai Sengjing, Huan Kang, Jiao Du, Cao Hu · 5 passages

桂陽賊起，隨太祖出新亭壘出戰，先斬一級持還，由是識太祖。 When the Guiyang rebels rose, he marched with the Grand Ancestor from Xinting fortress, took an enemy head before the rest, and carried it back—by that deed he came under the Grand Ancestor's eye.

太祖爲領軍，虎訴勳，補防殿隊主，直西齋。 Once the Grand Ancestor became Commandant of the Guards, Hu laid his deeds before him and was made chief of the palace-guard company, posted to the Western Studio.

蒼梧廢明日，虎欲出外避難，遇太祖在東中華門，問虎何之？ The morning after the Deposed Emperor of Cangwu was cast down, Hu meant to slip out of the city; at the Eastern Central Flower Gate he met the Grand Ancestor, who asked his destination.

太祖鎮東府，以虎與戴僧靜各領白直三百人。 When the Grand Ancestor held the Eastern Mansion, Hu and Dai Sengjing each commanded three hundred white guards.

上受禪，增邑爲四百戶。 At the Grand Ancestor's accession his fief was raised to four hundred households.