Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

the Founder 太祖

Taizu

Attested AD 466 - AD 479

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

the Founder was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 479 太祖卽位
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 71
AD 466 to AD 477 太祖撫畜之
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 51

Career and standing

AD 479 太祖卽位
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 71

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 71
Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passages 51, 57

Events and relationships

Gathered dead and sacrificed
Ritual · Officiant
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 68
Sent knife in fish
Aid · Sender · With Xue Yuan (薛淵)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 52
Relation Patron of · Person Dai Sengjing (戴僧靜)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passages 51, 54

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History

8 passages

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 11: Xue Yuan, Dai Sengjing, Huan Kang, Jiao Du, Cao Hu · 8 passages

後將家屬叛還淮陰，太祖撫畜之，常在左右。 Later he led his household in revolt back to Huaiyin; the Founder sheltered and kept him, always at his side.

僧靜於都載錦出，爲歐陽戍所得，繫兖州獄，太祖遣薛淵餉僧靜酒食，以刀子置魚腹中。 Seng Jing was carrying brocade out of the capital when Ouyang Shu took him and threw him into Yanzhou jail. The founding emperor sent Xue Yuan with food and wine, a knife tucked inside a fish.

歸，太祖匿之齋內，以其家貧，年給穀千斛。 Back in camp, the founding emperor hid him in his private quarters and, because the household was poor, gave them a thousand piculs of grain every year.

沈攸之事起，太祖入朝堂，僧靜爲軍主，從袁粲據石頭。 When Shen Youzhi's revolt broke out, the founding emperor entered the audience hall. Seng Jing was an army chief and followed Yuan Can in holding Stone citadel.

太祖遣僧靜將腹心先至石頭，時蘇烈據倉城，僧靜射書與烈，夜縋入城。 The founding emperor sent Seng Jing ahead with his trusted men. Su Lie then held the granary quarter; Seng Jing shot a letter to him and was hauled into the city by rope that night.

將士戰亡者，太祖爲歛祭焉， For officers and men who died in the fighting, the founding emperor gathered the dead and made offering.

太祖卽位，增邑千二百戶。 When the founding emperor took the throne, his fief grew by twelve hundred households.

泰始初，隨太祖東討，遂歸身隨從征伐，小心慎事，以功見賞。 At the opening of the Taishi reign he followed the founding emperor east on campaign, then gave himself to the field; careful in every duty, he was rewarded for merit.