Song Gaozu 宋高祖

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · liangshu:020:s0004, songshu:003:s0003, weishu:030:s0016
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · songshu:071:s0005

Roles

• General
• Ruler

Family

• Kin of Liu Sikao (劉思考)
  Kinship Term: clan younger cousin / 族弟 · Subject Role: clan-younger-cousin · Object Role: clan-elder-cousin
• Spouse of Empress Jing (敬皇后)
  Kinship Term: consort / 妃 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: widowed
  Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
• Parent of Princess Kuaiji (會稽公主)
  Kinship Term: eldest daughter / 長女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
• Parent of Prince Yikang of Pengcheng (彭城王義康)
  Kinship Term: fourth prince / 第四皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 4
• Parent of Crown Prince (皇太子)
  Kinship Term: heir / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Emperor Xiaomu (孝穆皇帝)
  Kinship Term: late father / 皇考 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Child of Empress Mu (穆皇后)
  Kinship Term: late mother / 皇妣 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
• Parent of Liu Yizhen (劉義真)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Liu Yilong (劉義隆)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Prince Yigong of Jiangxia (江夏王義恭)
  Kinship Term: sons / 諸子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Sibling of Liu Daolin (劉道憐)
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder
• Sibling of Liu Daogui (劉道規)
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder

• Kinship Role: daughters · Count: 2 · Note: 諸主 princesses married out; (plural; exact count unstated)
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0201
• Kinship Role: sons · Count: 2 · Note: 諸子 morning greetings; (plural; exact count unstated)
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0205

Career and standing

• Title: Duke of Song / 宋公 · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 義熙十二年 · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 416
  Explicit · songshu:073:s0012
• Action: acceded · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受命 · Western Year: AD 420
  Explicit · songshu:073:s0014
• Source Date: Text: 永初元年夏六月丁卯 · Western Year: AD 420
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0001, songshu:003:s0018

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Eastern Jin / 東晉 · Relation: served
  Explicit · weishu:030:s0016
• Polity Id: eastern-jin · Relation: served
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0004, songshu:003:s0012
• Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · liangshu:020:s0004, songshu:003:s0001, songshu:003:s0019
• Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: ruled
  Strongly inferred · songshu:071:s0005
• Place: Pengcheng / 彭城
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0087
• Place: Chuning Mausoleum, Mount Jiang, Jianye County, Danyang / 丹陽建康縣蔣山初寧陵 · Relation: buried-at
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0192
• Place: Jiankang Palace / 建康宮 · Relation: resided-at
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0021
• Place: southern suburb / 南郊 · Relation: ritual-at
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0001

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Princess Kuaiji (會稽公主) · Mode: quoted
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0028
• Kind: admonition · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Crown Prince (皇太子)
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0181, songshu:003:s0182, songshu:003:s0183, songshu:003:s0184
• Kind: edict · Role: author · Mode: quotation
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0003, songshu:003:s0004, songshu:003:s0005, songshu:003:s0006, songshu:003:s0007, songshu:003:s0008, songshu:003:s0009, songshu:003:s0010, songshu:003:s0011, songshu:003:s0012, songshu:003:s0013, songshu:003:s0014, songshu:003:s0015, songshu:003:s0016, songshu:003:s0017, songshu:003:s0018, songshu:003:s0019, songshu:003:s0020
• Kind: edict · Role: author
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0022, songshu:003:s0023, songshu:003:s0024, songshu:003:s0025, songshu:003:s0026, songshu:003:s0027, songshu:003:s0028, songshu:003:s0029, songshu:003:s0030, songshu:003:s0031, songshu:003:s0032, songshu:003:s0033, songshu:003:s0034
• Kind: hand-edict · Role: author
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0185, songshu:003:s0186, songshu:003:s0187, songshu:003:s0188, songshu:003:s0189

Events and relationships

• Kind: ritual · Role: actor · Action: accession-sacrifice · Place: southern suburb / 南郊
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0001, songshu:003:s0021
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked · Other Person Id: Yao Hong (姚泓) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 伐姚泓 · Western Interval: Start: AD 416 · End: AD 417
  Explicit · weishu:030:s0016, weishu:030:s0026
• Kind: scholarly-visit · Role: ruler · Action: attended Zhou Xuzhi's hall in person · Other Person Id: Zhou Xuzhi (周續之) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 420 · End: AD 422
  Explicit event contextual date · songshu:073:s0015, songshu:073:s0016
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned north · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 義熙十二年 · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 416
  Explicit · songshu:073:s0012
• Kind: ritual · Role: actor · Action: changed-mourning-rite · Note: Zheng Xuan 27 months over Wang Su 26
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0112
• Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: great-amnesty
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0027
• Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: mourned-prince-of-lingling · Other Person Id: Emperor Gong of Jin (晉恭帝)
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0233
• Relation: consort-of · Person Id: Niece of Yao Xing (姚興從女) · Note: temporary favor then dismissed
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0196, songshu:003:s0197

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: pure and frugal · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0193, songshu:003:s0198, songshu:003:s0202, songshu:003:s0203
• Item: amber pillow / 虎魄枕 · Relation: received · Action: pounded-and-distributed
  Explicit · songshu:003:s0194, songshu:003:s0195
• Item: cotton jacket and padded coat / 納布衫襖 · Relation: owned · Made By Person Id: Empress Jing (敬皇后)
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0027, songshu:071:s0028

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0005