Overview
Taizu was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 435 元嘉十二年
AD 440 十七年
AD 443 二十年
AD 444 二十一年
AD 449 二十六年
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id liu-song · Relation Ruled
Works and attributed material
- Edict · Author · Direct quotation
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Events and relationships
Wished to attack
AD 443 to AD 444 上欲伐林邑 · Military · Initiator · At Linyi 林邑
Worshipped at capital tombs
AD 449 二十六年 · Ritual · Sovereign
- Relation Sovereign of · Person Shen Yanzhi (沈演之)
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment grieved deeply for Yanzhi · With Shen Yanzhi (沈演之) · Mode historian-judgment
References in the histories
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Book of Song, Chapter 63Volume 63 Biographies 23: Wang Hua, Wang Tanshou, Yin Jingren, Shen Yanzhi · 11 passages
演之與景仁素善，盡心於朝庭，太祖甚嘉之，以為尚書吏部郎。
Yanzhi had long been close to Jingren and gave his full loyalty to the court. The emperor praised him highly and made him gentleman of the ministry of personnel.
太祖謂之曰：「侍中領衛，望實優顯，此蓋宰相便坐，卿其勉之。」
The emperor told him, "As palace attendant commanding the guard, your standing is eminent and bright. This is virtually the chief minister's seat. Do your utmost in it."
上欲伐林邑，朝臣不同，唯廣州刺史陸徽與演之贊成上意。
The emperor wished to attack Linyi. Most court ministers disagreed, but Governor Lu Hui of Guangzhou and Yanzhi alone supported the plan.
及平，賜群臣黃金、生口、銅器等物，演之所得偏多。
After the campaign succeeded, the emperor gave gold, captives, bronze vessels, and the like to his ministers, and Yanzhi received a larger share than most.
上謂之曰：「廟堂之謀，卿參其力，平此遠夷，未足多建茅土。
The emperor told him, "You shared in the court's planning, but pacifying these distant peoples is not enough to merit many new fiefs.
曄懷逆謀，演之覺其有異，言之太祖，曄尋事發伏誅。
Ye harbored treasonous designs. Yanzhi sensed something amiss and reported it to the emperor. Ye's plot was soon exposed and he was executed.
素有心氣，疾病歷年，上使臥疾治事。
He had long suffered from heart trouble and was ill for years, yet the emperor had him conduct affairs from his sickbed.
性好舉才，申濟屈滯，而謙約自持，上賜女伎，不受。
He loved to advance talent and help those who had been passed over, yet he remained modest and restrained. When the emperor gave him female performers, he refused them.
二十六年，車駕拜京陵，演之以疾不從。
In the twenty-sixth year the emperor went to worship at the capital tombs, but Yanzhi did not accompany him because of illness.
上還宮，召見，自勉到坐，出至尚書下省，暴卒，時年五十三。
When the emperor returned to the palace he summoned Yanzhi, who forced himself to attend. After leaving the audience he reached the lower offices of the secretariat and died suddenly, at the age of fifty-three.
太祖痛惜之，追贈散騎常侍、金紫光祿大夫，諡曰貞侯。
The emperor grieved deeply for him and posthumously made him routinely attached gentleman and grand master of splendid happiness with golden seal, with the posthumous title Marquis Zhen.