Taizong (太宗) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Taizong as a ruler. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Taizong	太宗	Taizong
Temple	Taizong	太宗	Taizong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:030:s0015

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 409 · End: AD 423
Explicit · weishu:030:s0015, weishu:030:s0027

Family

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Parent of Shizu (世祖)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Places and affiliations

Polity: Northern Wei / 北魏 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · weishu:030:s0015

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 30Volume 25: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng · 5 passages

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太宗即位，與山陽侯奚斤、北新侯安同、白馬侯崔宏等八人，坐止車門右，聽理萬幾，故世號八公。 At Taizong's accession he joined Xi Jin, Marquis of Shanyang, An Tong, Marquis of Beixin, Cui Hong, Marquis of Baima, and five others — eight men who sat to the right of the Halting-Chariot Gate to hear and settle the realm's business — and men of the time called them the Eight Lords.

晉將劉裕之伐姚泓，太宗假嵩節，督山東諸軍事，傳詣平原，緣河北岸，列軍次於畔城。 When Liu Yu of Jin marched against Yao Hong, Taizong lent Song his staff and made him overseer of armies east of the mountains; he went to Pingyuan, followed the north bank of the Yellow River, and encamped at Pancheng.

太宗寢疾，問後事於嵩，嵩曰：「立長則順，以德則人服。 Taizong, bedridden, asked Song about the succession; Song said: "To set up the eldest is to follow order; to set up by virtue is to win hearts.

太宗即位，除南統將軍、冀州刺史。 At Taizong's accession he was named General of the Southern Command and inspector of Jizhou.

後取人美女以獻太宗，切責之，以舊臣不加罪黜。 Later he took a beautiful woman and offered her to Taizong; Taizong rebuked him sharply yet, as a veteran of the founding, withheld punishment or dismissal.