Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Taizong 太宗

Tàizōng

Attested AD 549 - AD 551

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Taizong as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Taizong 太宗 Tàizōng
Title heir 儲后 chǔhòu
Temple name Taizong 太宗 Tàizōng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: violent-comparison · Statement: ended like Wangyi's calamity / 終類望夷之禍 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0161

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of High Ancestor (高祖)
    Kinship Term: heir / 儲后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: sufferer · Action: born at the wrong time; began like confinement in Youli and ended like Wangyi calamity under rebels and great villains · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0161

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: keen beyond others, splendid spirit and appearance; heard much, reached far, rich in literary ornament · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0159
  • Assessment: writing brilliant but thin, style exhausted licentious beauty, meaning rarely penetrated; mournful tones shifted custom—unlike King Song of Zhou and Emperor Zhuang of Han as a holder of the myriad states · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0160

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 6Volume 6: Emperor Jing · 2 passages