Qing Taizu (清太祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Qing Taizu as a ruler. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Qing Taizu	清太祖	Qing Taizu
Temple name	Qing Taizu	清太祖	Qing Taizu
Title	Qing Taizu	清太祖	Qīng Tàizǔ
Temple name	Taizu	太祖	Taizu
Temple	Taizu	太祖	Tàizǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:142:s0024, qingshigao:143:s0011
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0069

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太祖、太宗創業東方 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1616 · End: AD 1626
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0036
Source Date: Text: 太祖滅葉赫 · Western Year: AD 1619
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0069
Source Date: Text: 清太祖、太宗之治遼東 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1616 · End: AD 1626
Explicit · qingshigao:143:s0011
Source Date: Text: 清太祖嗣服之初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1616 · End: AD 1626
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0024

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0024
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: established-legal-order
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0024
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
Relation: predecessor-of · Person Id: Qing Taizong (太宗)
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:142:s0025

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0069

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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清太祖嗣服之初，始定國政，禁悖亂，戢盜賊，法制以立。 At the outset of his succession, Qing Taizu first settled state affairs, forbade rebellion and disorder, suppressed banditry, and thereby established the legal order.

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.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 1 passage

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父尼雅哈，當太祖滅葉赫，來降，授佐領。 His father Niyaha submitted when the Taizu destroyed Yehe and was made a company commander.