Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Grand Ancestor 太祖

Tàizǔ

Attested AD 457 - AD 481

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Grand Ancestor was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 481 三年春
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 140
AD 477 元徽五年七月六日夜
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 120
AD 477 太祖鎮東府
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 123
AD 457 to AD 464 宋大明中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 108
AD 479 建元元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 134
AD 474 桂陽事起
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 117

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Ruled · From Source Date: Text: 建元元年 · Western Year: AD 479
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 134
Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 108
AD 477 太祖鎮東府
At East Mansion 東府 · Relation Garrisoned
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 123

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Huan Kang (桓康) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 136
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 130

Events and relationships

Concealed Stone City plot
Political · Concealer · With Huang Hui (黃回), Wang Yixing (王宜與)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 126
Ordered execution
Legal · Authority · With Huang Hui (黃回)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passages 124-125
Sent Kang against northerners
Military · Dispatcher · With Huan Kang (桓康)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 137
Relation Fostered · Person Lu Huang (盧荒)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 120
Relation Served from youth by · Person Yin Lue (尹略)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 147
Relation Fostered · Person Xiang Hei (向黑)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 120

Assessments and attributes

Assessment rejoiced at Kang's Huaiyang victory · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 140

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 108

References in the histories

Search passages

History

11 passages

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

宋大明中，隨太祖爲軍容。 Under Song's Daming reign he entered the Grand Ancestor's service on the army staff.

桂陽事起，康棄縣還都就太祖，會事平，除員外郎。 When Guiyang rose, Kang quit his post and hurried to the capital for the Grand Ancestor; after the trouble passed he received a supernumerary appointment.

康與太祖所養健兒盧荒、向黑於門閒聽得其語。 Kang, together with Lu Huang and Xiang Hei, hard men the Grand Ancestor had reared, caught the exchange from the gate.

太祖鎮東府，除康武陵王中兵、寧朔將軍，帶蘭陵太守，常衞左右。 The Grand Ancestor held the East Mansion and named Kang the Prince of Wuling's central-troop commander, General Who Tranquilizes the North, and acting prefect of Lanling, never far from his side.

太祖誅黃回，回時將爲南兖州，部曲數千，遣收，恐爲亂。 The Grand Ancestor moved against Huang Hui. Hui was on the verge of southern Yanzhou with several thousand house troops; the court sent to take him in, dreading a turn.

回初與屯騎校尉王宜與同石頭之謀，太祖隱其事，猶以重兵付回而配以腹心。 Hui had plotted at Stone City with Wang Yiyu, Colonel of the Martial Riders; the Grand Ancestor buried the affair but still gave him a large command and set trusted men at his elbow.

諸將因此白太祖，以回握彊兵，必遂反覆。 The field officers then warned the Grand Ancestor that Hui, with a hard host in hand, could not stay loyal for long.

康請獨往刺之，太祖曰：「卿等何疑甚，彼無能爲也。」 Kang offered to go in alone and run him through. The Grand Ancestor said: "You all fret too much. He has no power left to move."

太祖謂康曰：「卿隨我日久，未得方伯，亦當未解我意，政欲與卿先共滅虜耳。」 The Grand Ancestor said to Kang: "You have marched at my side for years without a commandery of your own—you may still miss my meaning. I want you beside me when we break the northerners."

太祖喜，敕康迎淮北義民，不剋。 The Grand Ancestor rejoiced and told Kang to bring in the righteous bands north of the Huai; he could not break through.

淮南人尹略，少伏事太祖，晚習騎射，以便捷見使爲將。 Yin Lue of Huainan entered the Grand Ancestor's household young; only later he took up bow and saddle, and his quick hand won him a general's rank.