Jin Gaozu (晉高祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Jin Gaozu as a ruler. This record brings together 5 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	Jin Gaozu	晉高祖	Jin Gaozu
Temple	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Title	Jin Gaozu	晉高祖	Jin Gaozu
Posthumous	Sheng Wen Zhang Wu Ming De Xiao Emperor	聖文章武明德孝皇帝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:144:s0009

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 晉天福四年十二月 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 939
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0072
Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:144:s0075, jiuwudaishi:144:s0134, jiuwudaishi:144:s0136
Source Date: Text: 晉高祖奄登大寶 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 942
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0009

Career and standing

Label: ascended the throne / 奄登大寶 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉高祖奄登大寶 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 942
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0009

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Jin / 晉 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0009

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0075, jiuwudaishi:144:s0076, jiuwudaishi:144:s0077, jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:144:s0079

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: bestowed-gold-and-silk · Other Person Id: Cui Zhuo (崔棁) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年冬至 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0145
Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: held-winter-solstice-court · Place: Chongyuan Hall / 崇元殿 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年冬至 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0136
Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: ordered-revival-of-two-dances
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0009

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: greatly pleased with the restored rites · Provenance: Mode: narrative
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0145

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 144Volume 144: Treatises 6 Music 1 · 5 passages

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洎晉高祖奄登大寶，思迪前規，爰詔有司，重興二舞。 When Jin Gaozu at last took the throne, he sought to follow the precedents of old and ordered the responsible offices to revive the two ritual dances.

晉高祖聖文章武明德孝皇帝廟室酌獻，舞《咸和之舞》。 For the libation offering at the temple chamber of Jin Gaozu, the Sheng Wen, Zhang Wu, Ming De, Xiao Emperor, the Dance of Universal Harmony was performed.

〈（《歐陽史·崔棁傳》：高祖詔太常復文武二舞，詳定正冬朝會禮及樂章。 (Ouyang's History [New History of the Five Dynasties], Biography of Cui Zhuo: Gaozu ordered the Court of Imperial Sacrifices to restore the civil and military dances and to fix in detail the rites of the winter court assembly and the music sections.

其年冬至，高祖會朝崇元殿，廷設宮懸，二舞在北，登歌在上。 That year at the winter solstice, Gaozu held court at Chongyuan Hall. Court suspended bells and chimes were set up in the hall, with the two dances to the north and ascending song above.

禮畢，高祖大悅，賜棁金帛，群臣左右睹者皆贊嘆之。 When the rites were complete, Gaozu was greatly pleased and bestowed gold and silk on Zhuo. All the ministers and onlookers praised and marveled at it.