Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

the Founder 太祖

Taizu

Attested AD 466 - AD 479

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

the Founder was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 479 太祖卽位
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 14
AD 466 to AD 471 太祖鎮淮陰
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 7
AD 477 沈攸之難起
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 11

Career and standing

AD 479 太祖卽位
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 14

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 14
Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 7
AD 466 to AD 471 太祖鎮淮陰
At Huaiyin 淮陰 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 7

Works and attributed material

Instruction · Speaker · With Liu Huaiwei (劉懷慰) · Direct quotation · Extent s0018
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 18

Events and relationships

Dismissed armies from tower
AD 477 沈攸之難起 · Military · Commander · At southern side-gate tower 南掖門樓
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 13
Entered court hall
AD 477 沈攸之難起 · Political · Regent
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 11
Ordered deception
AD 479 to AD 482 虜遣偽將薛道摽寇壽春 · Diplomatic · Instigator · With Liu Huaiwei (劉懷慰)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 18
Relation Patron of · Person Xue Yuan (薛淵)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 30, passage 7

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 11: Xue Yuan, Dai Sengjing, Huan Kang, Jiao Du, Cao Hu · 7 passages

本名道淵，避太祖偏諱改。 His birth name was Dao Yuan; he changed it to avoid the Founder's partial taboo on the character dao.

太祖鎮淮陰，淵遁來南，委身自結。 While the Founder was posted at Huaiyin, Yuan stole south and threw himself on the Founder's favor.

太祖使領部曲，備衞帳內，從征伐。 The Founder set him at the head of his household troops, guarding the inner quarters, and sent him on campaign after campaign.

沈攸之難起，太祖入朝堂，豫章王嶷代守東府，使淵領軍屯司徒左府，分備京邑。 When Shen Youzhi rose, the Founder went into the hall of court; Prince of Yuzhang Yi held the eastern headquarters in his place and set Yuan at the head of troops encamped at the minister of public works' left quarters, dividing the capital for defense.

事平，明旦衆軍還集杜姥宅，街路皆滿，宮門不開，太祖登南掖門樓處分衆軍各還本頓，至食後，城門開，淵方得入見太祖，且喜且泣。 When the affair was settled, at dawn the next day the hosts gathered at Old Woman Du's house; every street was full, the palace gates stayed shut, the Founder mounted the southern side-gate tower to send each army back to its post, and only after the meal hour did the gates open—then Yuan could enter and see the Founder, weeping between joy and relief.

太祖卽位，增邑爲二千五百戶。 When the Founder took the throne, Yuan's fief rose to two thousand five hundred households.

虜遣偽將薛道摽寇壽春，太祖以道摽淵之親近，敕齊郡太守劉懷慰曰：「聞道摽分明來，其兒婦竝在都，與諸弟無復同生者，凡此類，無爲不多方誤之，縱不全信，足使豺狼疑惑。」 The northern enemy sent the false general Xue Daobiao against Shouchun; because Daobiao was Yuan's close kin, the Founder instructed Liu Huaiwei, administrator of Qi: "I hear Daobiao is plainly on his way; his sons and daughters-in-law are all in the capital, and with his brothers he will no longer live as one household. For men like this, spare no trick from every side—even if they do not wholly believe you, it is enough to set wolves and jackals doubting one another."