Kublai Khan (元世祖)

Overview

The translated histories identify Kublai Khan as a ruler. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Kublai Khan	元世祖	Shìzǔ
Title	Emperor	帝
Personal name	Kublai Khan
Personal name	Kublai Khan		Kublai
Title	Sagely Majesty	聖主
Temple name	Shizu	世祖	Shìzǔ
Temple name	Shizu	世祖	Shizu
Title	Son of Heaven	天子	Tianzi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:179:s0003, yuanshi:199:s0018

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至元二十四年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1287
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:179:s0006
Source Date: Text: 歲丙午 · Western Year: AD 1246
Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0066
Source Date: Text: 歲己未 · Western Year: AD 1259
Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0018

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: ruler
Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0018, yuanshi:199:s0066

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Du Ying (杜瑛)
Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0022

Events and relationships

Kind: honor-grant · Role: grantor · Action: granted-title-to-Zhang-Teli · Other Person Id: Zhang Teli (張特立)
Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0066, yuanshi:199:s0067
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: southern-campaign-to-Xiangzhou
Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0018

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 179Volume 179 Biographies 66: He Sheng, Yang Duoerzhi, Xiao Baizhu · 1 passage

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年十六，入宿衛，凝重寡言，世祖甚器重之。 At sixteen he joined the imperial bodyguard. Grave and sparing of speech, he won the deep esteem of Kublai Khan.

History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 7 passages

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歲己未，世祖南伐至相，召見問計，瑛從容對曰：「漢、唐以還，人君所恃以為國者，法與兵、食三事而已。 In the jiwei year, Kublai Khan on his southern campaign reached Xiangzhou and summoned Ying to ask his counsel. Ying replied calmly: "Since Han and Tang, what rulers have relied on to sustain a state are only three things: law, arms, and grain.

今宋皆蔑之，殆將亡矣，興之在聖主。 Song now scorns all three—it is near ruin; renewal rests with Your Sagely Majesty.

帝悅，曰：「儒者中乃有此人乎！」 The Emperor was pleased and said, "Among scholars there is actually such a man as this!"

瑛复勸帝數事，以謂事不如此，後當如彼。 Ying went on to counsel the Emperor on several points, warning that if matters were not handled one way now, they would turn out another way later.

帝納之，心賢瑛，謂可大用，命從行，以疾弗果。 The Emperor accepted his advice, came to esteem Ying highly, and judged him fit for great office; he ordered Ying to accompany the campaign, but illness prevented it.

今天子神聖，俊乂輻輳，言納計用，先王之禮樂教化，興明修復，維其時矣。 Today the Son of Heaven is sage, the worthy gather at court, and counsel is heeded—this is the moment to revive and restore the rites, music, and civilizing teachings of the ancient kings.

歲丙午，世祖在潛邸受王印，首傳旨諭特立曰：「前監察御史張特立，養素丘園，易代如一，今年幾七十，研究聖經，宜錫嘉名，以光潛德，可特賜號曰中庸先生。」 In the bingwu year, when Kublai received the princely seal in his residence, he first sent word to Teli: "The former censor Zhang Teli has lived in rustic seclusion through the change of dynasties unchanged; he is nearly seventy and devoted to the classics. Let an honorable title glorify his hidden virtue: grant him specially the name Master of the Mean (Zhongyong)."