Liao Emperor (遼帝) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liao Emperor as a ruler. This record brings together 6 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	Liao Emperor	遼帝	Liao di
Title	Emperor and Grandfather	皇帝阿翁
Title	Liao emperor	遼帝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0015

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 會同十一年正月朔 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:086:s0025
Source Date: Text: 開運四年 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:086:s0015

Career and standing

Label: demotion and enfeoffment of the Young Emperor / 降少帝為光祿大夫…封負義侯 · Action: ordered · Other Person Id: Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0030

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: ruled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0025

Works and attributed material

Kind: letter · Role: author · Other Person Id: Empress Dowager Li (李氏)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0015
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Empress Dowager Li (李氏) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0031

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: pacified-rebel-and-settled-Central-Plain
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0017
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Note: rescued Shi clan and established Jin
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0017, jiuwudaishi:086:s0018

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 86Volume 86 Book of Later Jin 12: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 6 passages

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《契丹國志》載晉出帝降表云：「晉室皇太后媳婦李氏妾言：張彥澤、傅住兒等至，伏蒙皇帝阿翁降書安撫者。 The Khitan State Annals preserves the Deposed Emperor of Jin's surrender memorial, which reads: "The daughter-in-law of the Jin imperial house, Empress Dowager Lady Li, your handmaid, says: When Zhang Yanze, Fu Zhu'er, and the others arrived, I prostrated myself and received Your Majesty the Emperor and Grandfather's gracious letter of reassurance.

皇帝阿翁發自冀北，親抵河東，跋履山川，逾越險阻，立平巨孽，遂定中原。 Your Majesty the Emperor and Grandfather set out from north of Ji, came in person to Hedong, tramped through mountains and rivers and crossed perilous passes, swiftly pacified the great rebel, and thus settled the Central Plain.

又，《帝紀》云：會同十一年正月朔，出帝、太后迎遼帝於封丘門外，帝辭不見，館於封禪寺，遣其將崔廷勛以兵守之。 The Imperial Annals also records that on the new moon of the first month in the eleventh year of Tonghui, the Deposed Emperor and the empress dowager welcomed the Liao emperor outside the Fengqiu Gate; the emperor declined to see them, lodged them at the Fengchan Temple, and dispatched his general Cui Tingxun with troops to guard them.

僧辭以遼帝之意難測，不敢獻食。 The monks refused, citing the unpredictable mood of the Liao emperor, and dared not provide food.

遼降少帝為光祿大夫，檢校太尉，封負義侯，遷於黃龍府，即慕容氏和龍城也。 The Liao demoted the Young Emperor to Grand Master of Splendid Happiness and Inspector-General Grand Marshal, enfeoffed him as Marquis of Unrighteousness, and relocated him to Yellow Dragon Prefecture — the Murong clan's Helong City.

帝使人謂太后曰：「吾聞爾子重貴，不從母教而至於此，可求自便，勿與俱行。」 The emperor sent someone to tell the empress dowager: "I hear your son Chonggui did not heed his mother's teaching and came to this — you may seek your own convenience; do not travel with him."