Taigong (太公) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Taigong as a general, named individual, and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Taigong	太公	Taigong
Title	Grand Duke	太公	Taigong
Title	Grand Duke of Qi	太公	Taigong
Title	King Wu Cheng	武成王	Wucheng Wang

Identity

Historicity: Uncertain
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:057:s0029

Roles

General
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Qualitative: legendary antiquity
Explicit · mingshi:057:s0029
Source Date: Text: 告武成王廟 · Western Year: AD 1368
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:057:s0040, mingshi:057:s0024

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qi
Explicit · hanshu:027:s0006
Polity: Zhou
Explicit · hanshu:027:s0002

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 27Volume 24b: Treatise on Trade 2 · 2 passages

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太公為周立九府圜法：黃金方寸，而重一斤； The Grand Duke of Qi is said to have established for Zhou the Nine Treasuries circular standard, fixing the weight of gold first: one square inch of yellow gold weighed one jin;

太公退，又行之于齊。 Taigong later implemented similar principles in the state of Qi.

History of Ming, Chapter 57Volume 57 Treatises 33: Rites 11 · 2 passages

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唐則告於廟社，又告太公廟。 Under the Tang, announcement was made at the temples of the ancestral spirits and of the soil and grain, and also at the Temple of the Grand Duke.

其告武成王廟儀，前二日，大將省牲。 For the protocol of announcing at the Temple of King Wu Cheng, two days beforehand the grand general inspects the sacrificial victims.