Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Dynastic founder (Yuwen Tai)

Grand Progenitor 太祖

Taizu

Attested AD 534 - AD 581

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Grand Progenitor as a ruler. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Grand Progenitor 太祖 Taizu
Temple Grand Progenitor 太祖

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 史臣曰 · Western Year: AD 581
    Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:008:s0144
  • Source Date: Text: 太祖受命 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 556
    Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:008:s0102

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: received-mandate · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖受命 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 556
    Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0102

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: great flourishing enterprise did not last two generations · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0144

References in the histories

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Book of Zhou, Chapter 8Volume 8 Annals 8: Emperor Jing · 2 passages