Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Xiao Tuguci 蕭圖古辭

Attested AD 1032 - AD 1084

Passages
7
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Tuguci as an attendant, courtier, diplomat, and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Tuguci 蕭圖古辭 Xiao Tuguci
Courtesy Hening 何寧
Given Tuguci 圖古辭 Tuguci
Given Tuguci 圖古辭
Surname Xiao 蕭 Xiao
Surname Xiao 蕭 Xiāo
Surname Xiao 蕭
Personal Xiao Tuguci 蕭圖古辭 Xiāo Túgǔcí

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Attendant
  • Courtier
  • Diplomat
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:111:s0059
  • Source Date: Text: 大康三年七月辛亥 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0145
  • Source Date: Text: 六年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1060
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:111:s0064, liaoshi:111:s0059
  • Source Date: Text: 八年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1062
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:111:s0065, liaoshi:111:s0059
  • Source Date: Text: 大康 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:097:s0048
  • Source Date: Text: 八年十二月庚辰 · Western Year: AD 1062
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:022:s0011
  • Source Date: Text: 咸雍三年辛亥 · Western Year: AD 1067
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:022:s0113
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:111:s0058

Career and standing

  • Label: Chancellor of the Southern Prefecture / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1062
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0065
  • Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年十二月庚辰 · Western Year: AD 1062
    Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0011
  • Label: administrator of Northern Court privy commissioner affairs / 知北院樞密使事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0063
  • Label: associate Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密副使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0059
  • Label: Left Vice Censor / 左中丞 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0058
  • Label: Northern Court linya / 北面林牙 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0059
  • Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0066
  • Label: administrator of Huanglong Prefecture / 知黃龍府事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0113
  • Label: Defender of the Gate Commandant upper general / 監門衛上將軍 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0145
  • Status: commoner · Action: demoted-to
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0068
  • Status: property-confiscated · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0069

Places and affiliations

  • Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
    Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0048
  • Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:111:s0058
  • Place: Zhute tribe / 楮特部
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0057
  • Place: Huanglong Prefecture / 黃龍府 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1060
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0064
  • Place: Xingsheng Palace / 興聖宮 · Relation: confiscated-to
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0069

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: treacherous, greedy, obstinate · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0067

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 22Volume 22 Annals 22: Daozong 2 · 2 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 1 passage
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秋七月辛亥，護衛太保查剌加鎮國大將軍，預突呂不部節度使之選，室韋查剌及蕭寶神奴、謀魯古並加左衛大將軍，牌印郎君訛都斡尚皇女趙國公主，授駙馬都尉、始平軍節度使，祗候郎君耶律撻不也及蕭圖古辭並加監門衛上將軍。 On xinhai day of the seventh autumn month Defender of the Guard grand guardian Zhala was promoted Pacifying State grand general and hereditary in selection for Tielübu tribal military commissioner; Shiwei Zhala and Xiao Baoshennu and Molugu were all promoted Left Guard grand generals; seal-and-tally langjun Eduwo married the imperial daughter Princess of Zhao, was appointed imperial son-in-law and military commissioner of Shiping Army; attendant langjun Yelü Tabuye and Xiao Tuguci were both promoted Defender of the Gate Commandant upper generals.
History of Liao, Chapter 97Volume 97 Biographies 27: Yelu Wotela, Hai Li, Dou Jingyong, Yelu Yinji, Yang Ji, Zhao Hui, Wang Guan, Yelu Xisun · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 111Volume 111 Biographies 41: Treacherous Ministers 2 · 3 passages
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