Taizu of Liang (太祖)

Overview

The translated histories identify Taizu of Liang as a general and ruler. This record brings together 44 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese
Personal	Taizu of Liang	太祖
Temple	Taizu of Liang	太祖
House	Zhu house	朱家

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0041

Roles

General
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Manner: murdered · Responsible Person Id: Zhu Yougui (朱友圭) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: the next year; Taizu was murdered · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0019, xinwudaishi:023:s0033

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: from Zhonghe 3 activity through his murder · Western Interval: Start: AD 883 · End: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0096, xinwudaishi:023:s0019

Family

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Parent of Zhu Yougui (朱友圭)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Liang princess married into Wei (梁女)
Kinship Term: Liang princess / 梁女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: Liang princess / 梁女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
Parent of Youzhen (友貞)
Kinship Term: son / 均王 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 均王 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Zhu Youning (朱友寧)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Action: acceded as emperor of Later Liang
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0074

Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Liang · Relation: ruler-of
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0004

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: Han Qing and Li Si’an disregarded Jingren as an outsider and disobeyed him. · Speaker Person Id: Taizu of Liang (太祖) · Other Person Ids: Wang Jingren (王景仁), Han Qin (韓勍), Li Si'an (李思安) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Taizu of Liang (太祖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0127
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: With Wang Maozhang as his general, pacifying the realm would not be difficult. · Speaker Person Id: Taizu of Liang (太祖) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Taizu of Liang (太祖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0046, xinwudaishi:023:s0048

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked Zhao Kuangning and directed campaigns in Zhao and Yan · Other Person Id: Zhao Kuangning (趙匡凝)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0006, xinwudaishi:023:s0012, xinwudaishi:023:s0015, xinwudaishi:023:s0016

References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 44 passages

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師厚在晉，無所知名，後以罪奔於梁，太祖以為宣武軍押衙、曹州刺史。 Shihou made no name in Jin. Later he fled to Liang for a crime, and Taizu of Liang made him yabing of the Xuanwu army and prefect of Cao.

太祖攻趙匡凝於襄陽，遣師厚為先鋒。 Taizu of Liang struck Zhao Kuangning at Xiangyang and put Shihou in the van.

是時，梁兵攻趙久無功，太祖病臥洛陽，少間，乃自將北擊趙。 Liang had besieged Zhao for months without result. Taizu lay sick at Luoyang; when he rallied slightly he marched north in person against Zhao.

師厚從太祖至洹水，夜行迷失道，明旦，次魏縣，聞敵將至，梁兵潰亂不可止，久之無敵，乃定。 Shihou followed Taizu to Huanshui. A night march went wrong; at dawn they halted at Wei county. Word came that enemy commanders were near, and the Liang host dissolved in panic—only after a long wait, with no foe in sight, did they steady.

已而太祖疾作，乃還。 Soon Taizu’s sickness returned and he turned back.

明年少間，而晉軍攻燕，燕王劉守光求援於梁，太祖為之擊趙以牽晉，屯於龍花，遣師厚攻棗強，三月不能下。 The next year, barely recovered, he learned that Jin was attacking Yan and that Prince Liu Shouguang had begged Liang for help. Taizu hit Zhao to pin Jin, camped at Longhua, and sent Shihou against Zaoqiang—which held out three months.

太祖怒，自往督兵戰，乃破，屠之，進圍蓚縣。 Taizu came in fury to direct the assault himself. The city fell and was put to the sword; the army then moved to besiege Zhuo county.

晉史建瑭以輕兵夜擊梁軍，梁軍大擾，太祖與師厚皆棄輜重南走。 Shi Jiantang of Jin hit the Liang camp at night with light troops. The army broke in uproar; Taizu and Shihou cast off their baggage and fled south.

太祖還東都，師厚留屯魏州。 Taizu went back to the eastern capital; Shihou stayed at Weizhou.

明年，太祖遇弒，友珪自立，師厚乘間殺魏牙將潘晏、臧延範等，逐出節度使羅周翰，友珪因以師厚為天雄軍節度使。 The next year Taizu was murdered and Yougui seized the throne. Shihou took the chance to kill the Wei garrison officers Pan Yan and Zang Yanfan, drive out the military governor Luo Zhouhan, and Yougui made him military governor of Tianxiong.

自太祖與晉戰河北，師厚常為招討使，悉領梁之勁兵。 Ever since Taizu’s wars with Jin in Hebei, Shihou had served as pacification commissioner and commanded Liang’s finest troops.