Yang Zhao 楊昭

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Value: male
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Roles

• Royal Family Member
• Ruler

Family

• Child of Empress Xiao (蕭皇后)
  Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
• Child of Yang Guang (楊廣)
  Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
• Parent of Emperor Gong (Yang You) (恭皇帝)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Yang Tong (楊侗)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Yang Tan (楊倓)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

• Kinship Role: sons · Count: 3
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Career and standing

• Label: Director of the Palace Secretariat / 內史令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽初 · Western Year: AD 601
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• Label: General-in-Chief of the Left Guards / 左衛大將軍 · Action: held concurrently · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽初 · Western Year: AD 601
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0012
• Label: Governor of Yong Province / 雍州牧 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後三年 · Western Year: AD 604
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0012, suishu:059:s0013
• Honor: Emperor Xiaocheng; temple name Shizong / 孝成皇帝；世宗 · Action: posthumously bestowed · Authority Person Id: Yang Tong (楊侗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 皇泰元年 · Western Year: AD 618
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• Title: crown prince / 皇太子 · Action: invested · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大業元年 · Western Year: AD 605
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0015
• Title: King of Henan / 河南王 · Action: invested
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0011
• Title: Prince of Jin / 晉王 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽初 · Western Year: AD 601
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0012
• Status: raised in the palace · Action: entered · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖文皇帝)
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0001

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Sui · Relation: associated-with
  Explicit event contextual date · suishu:059:s0265

Learning and skills

• Skill: drawing powerful crossbows / 引強弩
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0016

Works and attributed material

• Kind: reply · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖文皇帝) · Provenance: Mode: direct-speech · Speaker Person Id: Yang Zhao (楊昭)
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0008, suishu:059:s0009

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: capital guardian · Place: capital / 京師
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0014

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: frugal and solicitous toward elderly parents of his officials · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0019, suishu:059:s0020, suishu:059:s0021
• Assessment: innately mature and proper · Provenance: Mode: quoted-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖文皇帝)
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0003, suishu:059:s0004
• Assessment: modest, gentle, deferential, and slow to anger · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0017, suishu:059:s0018
• Assessment: posthumous funerary lament praises his learning, virtue, humility, filial conduct, literary ability, and service · Provenance: Mode: funerary-lament · Source Person Id: Yu Shiji (虞世基)
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• Kind: health · Statement: naturally stout and fell ill from exhaustion after repeated pleading
  Explicit · suishu:059:s0023, suishu:059:s0024
• Item: Zhuang Mausoleum / 莊陵 · Relation: buried-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大業三年五月庚辰朔六日 · Regnal Year: 3 · Lunar Month: 5 · Day Of Month: 6 · Sexagenary Month First Day: 庚辰 · Western Year: AD 607
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