Taizu (太祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

Taizu was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 948 乾佑初
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 8
AD 951 太祖受命
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 13
AD 951 太祖踐阼
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 40
AD 952 廣順二年秋
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 15

Career and standing

AD 951 太祖受命
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 13

Places and affiliations

AD 951 太祖踐阼
Polity Later Zhou 周 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 40

Works and attributed material

Aunt 叔母
Address · Speaker · With Wife of Chang Si (常思妻) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 14

Events and relationships

Campaigned against
AD 948 乾佑初 · Military · Commander · With Li Shouzhen (李守貞) · At Hezhong 河中
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 8
Nodded to silk offer then cancelled bonds
Political · Addressee · With Chang Si (常思)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passages 17-18
Received Chang Si wife with family courtesy
Ritual · Host · With Wife of Chang Si (常思妻)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 14
Relation Treated as nephew of · Person Chang Si (常思)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 14

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 129, passage 8

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 129Volume 129 Book of Later Zhou 31: Biographies 9: Chang Si, Di Guangye, Cao Ying, Li Yanyun, Li Hui, Li Jianchong, Wang Zhongyi, Sun Hanyin, Xu Qian, Zhao Feng, Qi Cangzhen, Wang Huan, Zhang Yanchao, Zhang Ying, Liu Renshan · 6 passages

Open chapter

乾佑初，李守貞叛於河中，太祖征之，朝廷命思帥部兵以副焉。 In the first year of Qianyou, Li Shouzhen rebelled at Hezhong; Taizu marched against him, and the court ordered Si to lead his division in support.

太祖受命，就加平章事。 When Taizu received the Mandate, Si was at once made a Councilor of State.

初，太祖微時，以季父待思，及即位，遣其妻入覲，太祖拜之如家人之禮，仍呼曰叔母，其恩顧如是。 In the old days, when Taizu was still obscure, he had treated Si as a younger uncle; after he took the throne he had Si's wife come to court, bowed to her with the courtesy of family, and still called her Aunt—such was the grace he showed them.

思將赴鎮，奏太祖云：「臣在宋州出鎮，得絲十餘萬兩，謹以上進，請行征督。」 As Si was about to leave for his new command he memorialized Taizu: "When I departed Song Prefecture I had more than a hundred thousand taels of silk, which I respectfully offer upward; please have it levied and collected."

太祖頷之，尋詔本州折券以諭其民。 Taizu nodded, and soon an edict ordered that prefecture to cancel the tax bonds and notify the people.

太祖踐阼，復授宣徽使、左千牛衛上將軍、檢校太傅。 When Taizu acceded he was again made Commissioner of the Palace Directorate, Grand General of the Left Thousand-Ox Guard, and acting Grand Tutor.