Taizu (太祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Taizu as a ruler. This record brings together 9 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
Temple	Taizu	太祖	Taizu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太祖時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 375 · End: AD 425
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:028:s0147

Career and standing

Action: ordered Mo Ti to die
Explicit · weishu:028:s0156
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖即位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 375 · End: AD 400
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:028:s0200

Events and relationships

Kind: construction · Action: planned an enlarged palace complex at Pingcheng
Explicit · weishu:028:s0153
Kind: military · Action: pursued Lin after he abandoned Shanggu
Explicit · weishu:028:s0149
Kind: military · Action: sent Ti and Wang Jian against Liu Kangqi
Explicit · weishu:028:s0147

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 28Volume 23: Wei Cao, Mo Han, Liu Kuren · 9 passages

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太祖使題與將軍王建等三軍，討慕容寶廣寧太守劉亢埿，斬之。 Taizu sent Ti with General Wang Jian and a three-wing army against Murong Bao's Guangning prefect Liu Kangqi and took his head.

寶上谷太守驎，捐郡逃走，太祖追討，題為大將，別出東道。 Bao's Shanggu prefect Lin deserted his commandery and fled; Taizu pursued him; Ti was made grand general and took a separate eastern road.

後太祖欲廣宮室，規度平城四方數十里，將模鄴、洛、長安之制，運材數百萬根。 Later Taizu planned to expand the palace quarter, surveyed dozens of li around Pingcheng, and meant to imitate Ye, Luoyang, and Chang'an; millions of timbers were hauled in.

太祖時，常典選曹，轉給事中。 Under Taizu he ran the Selection Bureau and later became palace attendant.

建國三十九年，昭成暴崩，太祖未立，苻堅以庫仁為陵江將軍、關內侯，令與衞辰分國部眾而統之。 In Jianguo year 39 Emperor Zhaocheng died suddenly before Taizu could be enthroned; Fu Jian made Liu Kuren General Who Commands the River and Marquis Within the Passes and set him with Wei Chen to divide and govern the tribal following.

於是獻明皇后攜太祖及衞秦二王自賀蘭部來居焉。 Then Empress Dowager Xianming brought Taizu and the Wei and Qin princes from the Helan tribe to live under Kuren's protection.

羅辰奔太祖，事在外戚傳。 Luo Chen fled to Taizu; the fuller account stands in the biography of the empresses' kin.

顯，本名醜伐，既殺眷代立，又欲謀逆，語在太祖紀。 Xian, whose birth name was Choufa, after killing Juan and seizing rule plotted treason as well; that story is told in Taizu's annals.

太祖即位，顯自善無南走馬邑。 When Taizu was enthroned, Xian fled south from Shanwu toward Mayi.