Great Ancestor (太祖)

Overview

The translated histories identify Great Ancestor as a named individual. This record brings together 11 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Great Ancestor	太祖
Temple	Great Ancestor	太祖

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 創業之初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1206 · End: AD 1227
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:117:s0004, yuanshi:117:s0012

Family

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Parent of Jochi (朮赤)
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 1
Parent of Chagatai (察合臺)
Kinship Term: second son / 次子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 2
Sibling of Belgutei (別裏古臺)
Kinship Term: youngest brother / 季弟 · Subject Role: younger brother · Object Role: elder brother · Subject Relative Age: younger

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Summary: credited Belgutei's strength and Qasar's archery for his conquest of the realm · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Great Ancestor (太祖)
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0013
Kind: teaching · Role: originator · Summary: left a teaching on governing ordered and disordered realms through law · Provenance: Mode: reported-speech · Source Person Id: Great Ancestor (太祖)
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0091

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 117Volume 117 Biographies 4: Belgutei, Jochi, Tula, Yahudou, Kuanchepuhua, Tiemu'er Buhua · 11 passages

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宗王別裏古臺者，烈祖之第五子，太祖之季弟也。 Imperial Prince Belgutei was the fifth son of the Illustrious Ancestor and the Great Ancestor's youngest brother.

幼從太祖平諸部落，掌從馬。 From boyhood he followed the Great Ancestor in pacifying the tribes and was entrusted with the led horses.

其子孫最多，居處近太祖行在所，南接按只臺營地。 His line grew the largest of all; they camped near the Great Ancestor's traveling court, their pastures bordering Anjitai's encampment on the south.

嘗從太祖宴諸部族，或潛圖害別裏古臺，以刀斫其臂，傷甚。 Once at a feast the Great Ancestor held for the tribes, a man secretly set on harming Belgutei and struck his arm with a blade, inflicting a grave wound.

帝大怒，欲索而誅之。 The Emperor flew into a rage and meant to hunt the man down and execute him.

帝尤賢之。 The Emperor thought him all the more admirable.

帝嘗曰：「有別裏古臺之力，哈撒兒之射，此朕之所以取天下也。」 The Emperor once said, "With Belgutei's might and Qasar's bow, I won the realm — that is the truth of it."

朮赤者，太祖長子也。 Jochi was the Great Ancestor's eldest son.

禿剌，太祖次子察合臺四世孫也。 Tula was a fourth-generation descendant of Chagatai, the Great Ancestor's second son.

牙忽都進曰：「太祖皇帝削平四方，惟南土未定，列聖嗣位，未遑統一。 Yahudou stepped forward and said, "The Great Ancestor subdued the four quarters, yet the south remained unsettled; each succeeding sovereign had no leisure to finish the work of unification.

昔我太祖有訓，世祖誦之，臣與有聞，治亂國者，宜以法齊之，所以辨上下，定民誌。 Long ago our Great Ancestor left a teaching that the Shizu Emperor used to recite — I was among those who heard it: whether a realm is well ordered or in turmoil, it should be brought into harmony by law, so that high and low are distinguished and the people's aims are fixed.