Liang Founder (梁祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

Liang Founder was a ruler.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Quanzhong	全忠	Quanzhong

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 898 to AD 905 前年洹水
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passage 64
AD 880 to AD 907 廣明大亂之後
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passages 59, 67

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Liang 梁 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passages 59, 68

Works and attributed material

Letter · Author · Mode named-source-report Source Work Late Tang Eyewitness Records via Zizhi Tongjian Examination of Variants 通鑒考異引唐末見聞錄
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passages 64-66
Speech · Speaker · With Jing Xiang (敬翔) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passages 59-61

Events and relationships

Captured ranked generals at Green Mountain
Military · Commander · At Green Mountain 青山 · Mode named-source-report Source Work 唐末見聞錄
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passage 65
Captured worthy son at Huan River
AD 898 to AD 905 前年洹水 · Military · Captor · With Worthy son of the Martial Emperor (武皇賢郎) · At Huan River 洹水 · Mode named-source-report Source Work 唐末見聞錄
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passage 64

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 60Volume 60 Book of Later Tang 36: Biographies 12: Li Xiji, Wang Jian, Li Jingyi, Lu Rubi, Li Dexiu, Su Xun · 3 passages

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梁祖覽之，至「毒手尊拳」之句，怡然謂敬翔曰：「李公鬥絕一隅，安得此文士！ The Liang Founder read the letter, and at the line "poisonous hands and honored fists" he said with pleasure to Jing Xiang, "Lord Li holds only a corner of the empire—where did he find a writer like this!

又讀至「馬邑兒童」、「陰山部落」之句，梁祖怒謂敬翔曰：「李太原殘喘餘息，猶氣吞宇宙，可詬罵之。」 But when he reached "boys of Mayi" and "Yin Mountain tribes," the Founder turned angry and told Jing Xiang, "Li of Taiyuan is a man on his last breath, yet he still talks as if he could swallow the universe—answer him with abuse."

〈（《通鑒考異》引《唐末見聞錄》載全忠回書云：前年洹水，曾獲賢郎； (Zizhi Tongjian, Examination of Variants cites Late Tang Eyewitness Records: in his reply Quanzhong wrote, The year before last at the Huan River we captured your worthy son;