Taizu (太祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Taizu as a general and ruler. This record brings together 21 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	Taizu	太祖	Taizu
Posthumous	Ascendant Heaven Emperor	升天皇帝
Title	Emperor	上
Posthumous	Great Sage, Great Brightness, Divine Fierce Heavenly Emperor	大聖大明神烈天皇帝
Posthumous	Great Sage, Great Brightness, Heavenly Emperor	大聖大明天皇帝
Temple	Taizu	太祖	Taizu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0181

Roles

General
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Manner: illness · Place: Fuyu Prefecture / 扶餘府 · Age: Value: 55 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0177, liaoshi:002:s0181

Age

Value: 55 · Reckoning: sui · At: death
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0181

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和二十六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1008
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0194
Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 920
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0010, liaoshi:002:s0013
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 921
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0025, liaoshi:002:s0034
Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 919
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0002, liaoshi:002:s0005, liaoshi:002:s0006
Source Date: Text: 天贊三年 · Western Year: AD 924
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0080, liaoshi:002:s0084, liaoshi:002:s0100
Source Date: Text: 天贊二年 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0060, liaoshi:002:s0068
Source Date: Text: 天贊元年 · Western Year: AD 922
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0048, liaoshi:002:s0059
Source Date: Text: 天贊四年 · Western Year: AD 925
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0121, liaoshi:002:s0138
Source Date: Text: 天顯二年 · Western Year: AD 927
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0193
Source Date: Text: 天顯元年 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0215, liaoshi:002:s0181, liaoshi:002:s0190
Source Date: Text: 重熙二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1052
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0195

Family

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Sibling of Lage (剌葛)
Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain
Sibling of Anduan (安端)
Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain
Parent of Yelü Bei (耶律倍)
Kinship Term: crown prince / 皇太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Empress Dowager (皇太后)
Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Spouse of Empress (皇后)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Child of Saladi (撒剌的)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Yaogu (堯骨)
Kinship Term: prince / 皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Yelü Su (蘇)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 皇弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Shared Parentage: full
Sibling of Yelü Diela (迭剌)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 皇弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Shared Parentage: full

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Khitan / 契丹
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0010, liaoshi:002:s0207

Career and standing

Label: tixin appointment authority / 授惕隱 · Action: conferred · Other Person Id: Yelü Su (蘇)
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0013
As: received the khan's abdication and founded the state / 受可汗之禪，遂建國
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0209

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: ruled
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0001, liaoshi:002:s0181, liaoshi:002:s0190
Place: Zuling / 祖陵 · Relation: buried-at
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0193

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: author · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0084, liaoshi:002:s0085, liaoshi:002:s0086, liaoshi:002:s0087, liaoshi:002:s0088, liaoshi:002:s0089, liaoshi:002:s0090, liaoshi:002:s0091, liaoshi:002:s0092, liaoshi:002:s0093, liaoshi:002:s0094, liaoshi:002:s0095, liaoshi:002:s0096, liaoshi:002:s0097, liaoshi:002:s0098, liaoshi:002:s0137

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against · Target: Wugu / 烏古部
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0006, liaoshi:002:s0007, liaoshi:002:s0008
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: conquered-Bohai · Other Person Id: Da Yinzhuan (大諲譔)
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0138, liaoshi:002:s0216, liaoshi:002:s0221, liaoshi:002:s0151
Kind: cultural · Role: creator · Action: created-Khitan-large-script
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0010, liaoshi:002:s0017
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: hunted-tigers · Place: Eastern Mountain / 東山
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0002
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: personal-campaign · Target: Xiang tribes / 項諸部
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0014, liaoshi:002:s0015
Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: renamed-Bohai-to-Dongdan
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0151
Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: visited-Confucius-temple
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0005
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: western-campaign · Targets: Tuyuhun, Xiang, Zubu
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0100, liaoshi:002:s0131

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: eastern sea to western sands; two hundred years of Liao power not the work of a single day · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0210, liaoshi:002:s0211
Assessment: spared and reemployed rebel brothers Lage and Anduan; compared favorably to Duke of Zhou · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0212, liaoshi:002:s0213