Sui and Tang · Tang Emperor

Taizong 太宗

Tàizōng

Attested AD 626 - AD 649

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Taizong was a Tang Emperor.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 626 to AD 649 唐太宗
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 229, 249, 254, 256

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 229, 249

Works and attributed material

Tang legal institutions 國家法度
Relation Established
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 229

Events and relationships

Removed Sui cruelty and established lenient law
Founding · Ruler · With Gaozu (高祖)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 249

Assessments and attributes

Assessment benevolent · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 250

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 229
Later sovereigns no longer possessed Taizong's aspiration
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 254
Laws of Gaozu and Taizong were barely preserved in later ages
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 256

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 56Volume 56 Treatises 52: Punishment and Law · 4 passages

大理少卿崔𣏌奏曰：「國家法度，高祖、太宗定制二百餘年矣。 Assistant Director of the Court of Judicial Review Cui Yuan memorialized: "The state's laws and institutions were established by Gaozu and Taizong more than two hundred years ago.

蓋自高祖、太宗除隋虐亂，治以寬平，民樂其安，重於犯法，致治之美，幾乎三代之盛時。 From Gaozu and Taizong's removal of Sui cruelty and disorder, their lenient and moderate governance made the people secure and wary of breaking the law—their achievement in good governance nearly matched the flourishing age of the Three Dynasties.

自此以後，兵革遂興，國家多故，而人主規規，無復太宗之志。 From this time onward warfare arose and the state faced many troubles; sovereigns grew petty-minded and no longer possessed Taizong's aspiration.

而高祖、太宗之法，僅守而存。 The laws of Gaozu and Taizong were barely preserved.