Tang Gaozu (唐高祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tang Gaozu as a ruler. This record brings together 11 passages from 6 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Tang Gaozu	唐高祖	Tang Gaozu
Temple	Emperor Gaozu of Tang	唐高祖
Temple	Gaozu	高祖
Temple name	Gaozu	高祖
Temple	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Temple	High Ancestor	高祖	Gaozu
Title	Supreme Emperor	太上皇
Temple name	Tang Gaozu	唐高祖	Táng Gāozǔ
Temple	Tang Gaozu	唐高祖	Tang Gaozu
Temple name	Tang Gaozu	唐高祖	Tang Gaozu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:143:s0183
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0116, liaoshi:103:s0161, xintangshu:051:s0086
Value: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:079:s0061
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0128

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 晉天福四年十一月 · Lunar Month: 11 · Western Year: AD 939
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:143:s0176
Source Date: Text: 後唐長興元年九月 · Lunar Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:143:s0006
Source Date: Text: 唐之始時至貞觀四年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 618 · End: AD 630
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:051:s0010, xintangshu:051:s0086
Source Date: Text: 唐高祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 618 · End: AD 626
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:079:s0061
Source Date: Text: 唐高祖創立先廟 · Western Interval: Start: AD 618 · End: AD 626
Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0161
Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福4年） · Western Year: AD 939
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:008:s0128
Source Date: Text: 聖宗即位後進讀三紀 · Western Year: AD 983
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:080:s0115, liaoshi:080:s0116

Family

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Spouse of Empress of Tang Gaozu (唐高祖之后)
Kinship Term: empress / 後 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Parent of Emperor Taizong of Tang (唐太宗)
Kinship Term: retired emperor / 太上皇 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Kinship Role: empresses-of-five-emperors · Count: 5 · Note: 五帝五後 ten tablets
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:143:s0182

Career and standing

Label: temple established in the Western Capital / 立廟於西京 · Action: commemorated · Authority Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福四年冬十一月乙亥 · Western Year: AD 939
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0128

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0061
Label: Tang · Relation: associated-with
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:143:s0006
Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0086

Events and relationships

Kind: anecdote · Role: sovereign · Action: stopped hunting after Su Shichang remonstrated · Other Person Id: Su Shichang (蘇世長)
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0061

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0086

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 143Volume 143: Treatises 5 Rites 2 · 5 passages

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既廟號太祖，百代不遷，每遇禘祫，位居東向之尊，自代祖元皇帝、高祖、太宗已下，列聖子孫，各序昭穆南北相向，合食於前。 With the temple name Grand Ancestor, his place would never be moved; at every di or collective sacrifice he held the seat of honor facing east. From the Yuan Emperor of Dai through the High Ancestor and Great Ancestor and below, successive imperial descendants were arranged in zhao-mu order north and south, sharing the feast before him.

聖朝中興，重修宗廟，今太廟見饗高祖、太宗、懿宗、昭宗、獻祖、太祖、莊宗七廟，太祖景皇帝在祧廟之數，不列廟饗。 After the dynasty's revival the ancestral shrines were rebuilt; the Imperial Temple now served seven halls—the High Ancestor, Great Ancestor, Yizong, Zhaozong, Xianzu, Taizu, and Zhuangzong—while Grand Ancestor Emperor Jing was relegated to the distant-lineage shrine and no longer received regular temple offerings.

將來禘禮，若奉高祖居東向之尊，則禘饗不及於太祖、代祖； If the upcoming di rite placed the High Ancestor in the seat of honor facing east, the di offering would not include the Grand Ancestor or the Dai ancestor;

宜立唐高祖、太宗及莊宗、明宗、閔帝五廟。」 Five temples should be established to Tang's High Ancestor, Great Ancestor, Zhuangzong, Mingzong, and Emperor Min."

高祖、太宗與其後暨莊宗、明宗，凡六主在清化裏之寢宮，祭前二日，以殿中傘扇二十，迎置新廟以享祀。 The High Ancestor, Great Ancestor, and their empresses together with Zhuangzong and Mingzong—six tablets in the sleeping palace at Qinghua Lane; two days before the sacrifice, twenty palace umbrellas and fans welcome and install them in the new temple for the offering.

History of Liao, Chapter 79Volume 79 Biographies 9: Shi Fang, Yelu Xianshi, Nu Li, Guo Xi, Yelu Ameili · 1 passage

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以帝數遊獵，襲上書諫曰：「昔唐高祖好獵，蘇世長言不滿十旬未足為樂，高祖即日罷，史稱其美。 Because the emperor went hunting so often, Xi submitted a memorial of remonstrance, saying, "In former times Emperor Gaozu of Tang was fond of the chase; when Su Shichang remarked that less than ten days could hardly count as pleasure, Gaozu gave it up that very day, and the historians praised him for it.

History of Liao, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu Eight Brothers · 2 passages

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臣聞唐太宗侍太上皇宴罷，則挽輦至內殿； Your servant has heard that after banquets with the retired emperor, Emperor Taizong of Tang would draw the imperial carriage himself to the inner hall;

上閱唐高祖、太宗、玄宗三《紀》，得臣乃錄其行事可法者進之。 When the Emperor read the three annals of Tang Gaozu, Taizong, and Xuanzong, Dechen selected and presented their conduct worth emulating.

History of Liao, Chapter 103Volume 103 Biographies 33: Literature 1 · 1 passage

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近者唐高祖創立先廟，尊四世為帝。 Recently Tang Gaozu established the ancestral temple and honored four generations as emperors.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 51Volume 51 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 1 · 1 passage

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此高祖、太宗致治之大略，及其成效如此。 Such was the broad policy by which Gaozu and Taizong brought order—and such were its results.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 1 passage

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冬十一月乙亥，立唐高祖、太宗、莊宗、明宗、湣帝廟於西京。 On yihai of the eleventh month shrines to Tang Gaozu, Taizong, Zhuangzong, Mingzong, and Emperor Min were raised in the Western Capital.