Tula (禿剌) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tula as a named individual. This record brings together 10 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Tula	禿剌

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大德十一年至至大二年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1307 · End: AD 1309
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:117:s0033, yuanshi:117:s0045

Family

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Descendant of Chagatai (察合臺)
Kinship Term: fourth-generation descendant / 四世孫 · Generation Distance: 4
Parent of Alaqtenashiri (阿剌忒納失裏)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Place: Shaoxing circuit / 紹興路 · Action: granted-as-appanage · Item: gold seal / 金印
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0035
Title: Prince of Yue / 越王 · Action: enfeoffed · Reason: ranked merit at Wuzong's accession · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1308
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:117:s0035
Action: confessed-and-executed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wuzong (武宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至大二年春 · Western Year: AD 1309
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0045

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Wuzong (武宗) · Summary: recited the elk-and-hundred-hares proverb · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Tula (禿剌)
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0040, yuanshi:117:s0041

Events and relationships

Kind: succession-crisis · Role: assistant · Action: entered the inner palace with Renzong in the suppression of Ahutai's faction
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0034
Kind: court-incident · Role: intervener · Action: stopped Wuzong from boarding a boat at the Cool Pavilion · Other Person Id: Emperor Wuzong (武宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至大元年秋 · Western Year: AD 1308
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0037
Kind: court-incident · Role: participant · Action: while drunk at a feast on Longevity Hill, threw down his belt and complained of Wuzong's gifts · Other Person Id: Emperor Wuzong (武宗)
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0043

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: habitually sullen and resentful · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0036
Assessment: known from youth for courage and strength · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0032

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History of Yuan, Chapter 117Volume 117 Biographies 4: Belgutei, Jochi, Tula, Yahudou, Kuanchepuhua, Tiemu'er Buhua · 10 passages

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○禿剌 ○ Tula

禿剌，太祖次子察合臺四世孫也。 Tula was a fourth-generation descendant of Chagatai, the Great Ancestor's second son.

仁宗歸自懷孟，引禿剌入內，縛阿忽臺等以出，誅之，大事遂定。 Emperor Renzong returned from Huai and Meng, brought Tula into the inner palace, seized Ahutai and his fellows, had them executed, and the succession was secured.

武宗即位，第功，封越王，錫金印，以紹興路為其分地。 When Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, he reckoned merit and enfeoffed Tula as Prince of Yue, granting a gold seal and the Shaoxing circuit as his domain.

禿剌居常怏怏，有怨望意。 Tula was habitually sullen and nursed grievances.

至大元年秋，武宗幸涼亭，將御舟，禿剌前止之。 In the autumn of the first year of Zhida, the emperor visited the Cool Pavilion and was about to take a boat when Tula stepped forward to restrain him.

禿剌曰：「人有常言：一箭中麋，毋曰自能； Tula said, "There is a common saying: bring down one elk with one arrow, yet do not boast that you alone can do it;

此蓋國俗儕輩相靳之語，而禿剌言之，武宗由是銜焉。 It was a proverb of the steppe by which companions kept one another honest — yet when Tula spoke it, Wuzong took it as a slight and harbored resentment.

既而大宴萬歲山，禿剌醉起，解其腰帶擲諸地，嗔目謂帝曰：「爾與我者，止此爾！」 Later, at a great feast on Longevity Hill, Tula rose drunk, loosed his belt and hurled it to the floor, glared at the emperor and cried, "All you have given me is no more than this!"

二年春，命楚王牙忽都、丞相脫脫、平章赤因鐵木兒鞫之，辭服，遂伏誅。 In the spring of the second year he ordered Prince of Chu Yahudou, Chancellor Toqto, and Vice Minister Ch'in Temür to try the case; Tula confessed, and was put to death.