Sui and Tang · Sui Crown Prince

Yang Zhao, Prince of Jin 晉王昭

Yáng Zhāo

First attested AD 602; died AD 606

Passages: 15
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Yang Zhao, Prince of Jin was a Sui Crown Prince.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Emperor Xiaocheng	孝成皇帝	Xiàochéng Huángdì
Temple name	Shizong	世宗	Shìzōng

Life and dates

Death

AD 606 大業二年七月癸丑朔二十三日
Cause Illness and exhaustion · At traveling palace 行宮
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 23-24, 26, 265

Age

Years 12 · Context investiture as King of Henan
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 11
Years 3 · Context played with a stone lion at Xuanwu Gate
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 2

Attested activity

AD 602 仁壽二年
Directly stated · Book of Chen 27, passage 192
AD 606 大業二年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 59, passage 265

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Empress Xiao (蕭皇后)
bore 生
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 264
Child of Emperor Yang of Sui (隋煬帝)
eldest son 長子
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 1
Parent of Emperor Gong (Yang You) (恭皇帝)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 94
Parent of Yang Tong (楊侗)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 94, 111
Parent of Yang Tan (楊倓)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 94

Kinship Role sons · Count 3
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 94, 227

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Director of the Palace Secretariat 內史令
AD 601 仁壽初 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 12
General-in-Chief of the Left Guards 左衛大將軍
AD 601 仁壽初 · Held concurrently
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 12
Governor of Yong Province 雍州牧
AD 604 後三年 · Transferred
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 12-13
Posthumously bestowed
AD 618 皇泰元年 · Honor Emperor Xiaocheng; temple name Shizong 孝成皇帝；世宗 · Authority Yang Tong (楊侗)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 113
crown prince 皇太子
AD 605 大業元年 · Invested
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 15
King of Henan 河南王
Invested
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 11

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Prince of Jin 晉王
AD 601 仁壽初 · Transferred
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 12
Entered
Raised in the palace · Authority Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 1

Places and affiliations

Polity Sui · Relation Associated with
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 59, passage 265

Learning and skills

Skill drawing powerful crossbows 引強弩
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 16

Works and attributed material

Reply · Speaker · With Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝) · Mode direct-speech Speaker Yang Zhao, Prince of Jin (晉王昭)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 8-9

Events and relationships

Political · Capital guardian · At capital 京師
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 14
Relation Pupil of · Person Yao Cha (姚察)
Directly stated · Book of Chen 27, passage 192

Assessments and attributes

Assessment frugal and solicitous toward elderly parents of his officials · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 19-21
Assessment innately mature and proper · Mode quoted-judgment Speaker Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 3-4
Assessment modest, gentle, deferential, and slow to anger · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 17-18
Assessment posthumous funerary lament praises his learning, virtue, humility, filial conduct, literary ability, and service · Mode funerary-lament Source Person Id Yu Shiji (虞世基)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 34, 39-40, 49, 55, 61, 68, 92
naturally stout and fell ill from exhaustion after repeated pleading
Health
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 23-24
AD 607 大業三年五月庚辰朔六日
Item Zhuang Mausoleum 莊陵 · Relation Buried at
Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 29

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Chen 27, passage 192

References in the histories

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History

15 passages

Book of Chen, Chapter 27Volume 27: Jiang Zong; Yao Cha · 1 passage

又敕侍晉王昭讀。 He was also ordered to attend Prince of Jin Zhao as reader.

Book of Sui, Chapter 59Volume 59 Biographies 24: Three Sons of Emperor Yang · 14 passages

元德太子昭，煬帝長子也，生而高祖命養宮中。 Yang Zhao, posthumously honored as the Yuande Heir Apparent, was Emperor Yang's eldest son. From birth Emperor Wen ordered that he be raised in the palace.

高祖適患腰痛，舉手憑後，昭因避去，如此者再三。 Emperor Wen happened to be troubled by back pain and raised his hand to lean on the empress; each time Zhao drew aside out of propriety, and this happened three times.

昭應聲而泣。 Zhao burst into tears at once.

煬帝三男：蕭皇后生元德太子昭、齊王暕，蕭嬪生趙王杲。 Emperor Yang had three sons: Empress Xiao bore the Yuande Heir Apparent Zhao and Prince Zheng of Qi; Consort Xiao bore Prince Gao of Zhao.

煬帝即位，便幸洛陽宮，昭留守京師， When Emperor Yang acceded, he went at once to the Luoyang palace while Zhao stayed behind to guard the capital.

大業元年，帝遣使者立為皇太子。 In the first year of Daye, the emperor then sent envoys to invest him as crown prince.

昭有武力，能引強弩。 Zhao was physically strong and could draw powerful crossbows.

詔內史侍郎虞世基為哀冊文曰：:維大業二年七月癸丑朔二十三日，皇太子薨于行宮。 An edict directed Vice Director of the Palace Secretariat Yu Shiji to compose the lamentation text for the funerary book. It read: In the second year of Daye, on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, on the first day of the guichou cycle, the crown prince died at the traveling palace.

皇帝悼離方之雲晦，嗟震宮之虧象，顧守器以長懷，臨登餕而興想。 The emperor mourns the darkened clouds over the land of the departed, laments the broken image of the eastern palace, broods long over the heir who held the vessel of state, and, as the funeral offerings are raised, is stirred to grief.

宇文化及之弑逆也，文都等議，以侗元德太子之子，屬最為近，於是乃共尊立，大赦，改元曰皇泰。 When Yuwen Huaji carried out his regicide, Wendu and the others reasoned that Tong, as a son of the Yuande Heir Apparent, was closest in the imperial line. They jointly enthroned him, proclaimed a general amnesty, and changed the era name to Huangtai.

追尊元德太子為孝成皇帝，廟號世宗。 They posthumously honored the Yuande Heir Apparent as Emperor Xiaocheng with the temple name Shizong.

俄而元德太子薨，朝野注望，鹹以暕當嗣。 Before long the Yuande Heir Apparent died; court and countryside fixed their hopes on Zheng, believing he would be named heir.

元德太子左右二萬餘人悉隸於暕，寵遇益隆，自樂平公主及諸戚屬競來致禮，百官稱謁，填咽道路。 More than twenty thousand attendants of the Yuande Heir Apparent all came under Zheng's command; his favor grew ever greater; from the Princess of Leping and all the imperial kin, gifts poured in; officials paid their respects until the roads were choked.

又以元德太子有三子，內常不安，陰挾左道，為厭勝之事。 Moreover, because the Yuande Heir Apparent had three sons, he was inwardly uneasy and secretly employed heterodox arts to perform rites of magical suppression.