Qing Taizong (太宗) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Qing Taizong as a ruler. This record brings together 3 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	Qing Taizong	太宗	Taizong
Temple name	Taizong	太宗	Taizong
Temple	Taizong	太宗	Tàizōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:142:s0025, qingshigao:143:s0011

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天聰七年 · Western Year: AD 1633
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0025
Source Date: Text: 太祖、太宗創業東方 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1627 · End: AD 1643
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0036
Source Date: Text: 清太祖、太宗之治遼東 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1626 · End: AD 1643
Explicit · qingshigao:143:s0011

Family

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Kin of Ashi Darhan (阿什達爾漢)
Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 國舅 · Subject Role: maternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: maternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Mother of Taizong (太宗之母)
Child of Mother of Taizong (太宗之母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Line: maternal

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0025
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:143:s0011
Place: eastern Liao / 遼東 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · qingshigao:143:s0011

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: dispatched-shengjing-statutes · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天聰七年 · Western Year: AD 1633
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0025
Kind: political · Role: founder · Action: founded-enterprise-in-east
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0036
Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: ruled · Place: eastern Liao / 遼東
Explicit · qingshigao:143:s0011

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 · 2 passages

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太宗繼武，於天聰七年，遣國舅阿什達爾漢等往外籓蒙古諸國宣布欽定法令，時所謂「盛京定例」是也。 Taizong continued the martial tradition; in the seventh year of Tiancong he sent his maternal uncle Ashi Darhan and others to the outer Mongol states to proclaim the imperially ordained statutes—what was then known as the "Shengjing Established Precedents."

三年五月，大清律成，世祖御制序文曰：「朕惟太祖、太宗創業東方，民淳法簡，大辟之外，惟有鞭笞。 In the fifth month of the third year the Great Qing Code was completed. Shizu wrote a preface in his own hand: "I reflect that Taizu and Taizong founded the enterprise in the east, where the people were simple and the law was spare—apart from capital punishment there was only flogging.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 143Volume 143 Treatises 118: Penal Law 2 · 1 passage

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清太祖、太宗之治遼東，刑制尚簡，重則斬，輕則鞭撲而已。 During the early Qing rule of the eastern Liao under the Taizu and Taizong emperors, penal law remained simple: serious offenses meant decapitation, minor ones no more than whipping and beating.