Overview
The translated histories identify Yaogu as a general, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 168 passages from 39 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Yaogu | 堯骨 | Yaogu |
| Personal | Deguang | 德光 | Déguāng |
| Given | Deguang | 德光 | Deguang |
| Personal name | Deguang | 德光 | Déguāng |
| Title | Emperor | 帝 | |
| Temple name | Emperor Shizong | 嗣聖皇帝 | Sìshèng huángdì |
| Temple | Emperor Taizong | 太宗皇帝 | Taizong |
| Title | Emperor Taizong | 太宗 | Tàizōng |
| Temple | Emperor Taizong | 太宗 | Taizong |
| Title | Emperor Taizong | 太宗皇帝 | |
| Temple name | Emperor Taizong | 太宗 | Taizong |
| Title | Emperor Taizong | 太宗皇帝 | Taizong huangdi |
| Title | Emperor Taizong | 太宗皇帝 | Taizong Huangdi |
| Temple name | Emperor Taizong | 太宗 | Tàizōng |
| Title | Emperor Taizong | 太宗 | |
| Temple | Emperor Taizong | 太宗 | Tàizōng |
| Temple name | Emperor Taizong | 太宗 | |
| Title | Emperor Taizong of Liao | 遼太宗 | |
| Temple | Emperor Taizong of Liao | 太宗 | Taizong |
| Title | grand marshal | 大元帥 | Dà yuánshuài |
| Title | Grand Marshal | 大元帥 | |
| Title | Great Marshal | 大元帥 | |
| Title | Khitan emperor | ||
| Personal name | Liao Taizong | 遼太宗 | Liáo Tàizōng |
| Title | Prince Yaogu | 皇子堯骨 | |
| Title | Prince Yaogu | 皇子堯骨 | Huángzǐ Yáogǔ |
| Posthumous | Succeeding Sage Emperor | 嗣聖皇帝 | Sìshèng huángdì |
| Title | Succeeding Sage Emperor | 嗣聖皇帝 | |
| Temple name | Succession Sage | 嗣聖 | Sìshèng |
| Title | Succession Sage Emperor | 嗣聖皇帝 | Sìshèng huángdì |
| Temple | Taizong | 太宗 | Tàizōng |
| Temple name | Taizong | 太宗 | Tàizōng |
| Temple name | Taizong | 太宗 | Taizong |
| Temple | Taizong | 太宗 | Taizong |
| Temple | Taizong | 太宗 | |
| Personal name | Yaogu | 堯骨 | Yáogǔ |
| Surname | Yelü | 耶律 | Yelü |
| Surname | Yelü | 耶律 | Yēlǜ |
| Personal name | Yelü Deguang | 耶律德光 | Yelü Deguang |
| Personal | Yelü Deguang | 耶律德光 | Yēlǜ Déguāng |
| Personal name | Yelü Deguang | 耶律德光 | Yēlǜ Déguāng |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · liaoshi:002:s0059, liaoshi:005:s0040, liaoshi:030:s0196, liaoshi:033:s0022, liaoshi:034:s0035, liaoshi:035:s0006, liaoshi:044:s0050, liaoshi:054:s0020, liaoshi:055:s0002, liaoshi:056:s0007, liaoshi:058:s0012, liaoshi:060:s0003, liaoshi:072:s0021, liaoshi:072:s0115, liaoshi:075:s0013, liaoshi:078:s0022, liaoshi:085:s0083, liaoshi:103:s0003, liaoshi:105:s0003, liaoshi:108:s0013, xinwudaishi:029:s0011
- Sex: male
- Value: maleStrongly inferred · liaoshi:059:s0016, liaoshi:079:s0006
- Value: maleExplicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0033, xinwudaishi:073:s0184
Roles
- General
- Royal Family Member
- Ruler
Life and dates
Death
- Place: Luancheng / 欒城 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 夏四月丁丑 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0001
- Place: Luancheng / 欒城 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福十二年四月丙子 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0040
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是月，太宗崩 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0044
- Expression: died at Luancheng / 至欒城崩 · Place: Luancheng / 欒城Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0153
- Manner: diedExplicit · liaoshi:103:s0136
- Western Year: AD 947 · Place: LuanchengExplicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0011
- Place: Luancheng / 欒城Explicit · liaoshi:113:s0015
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 太宗大同元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:044:s0050
- Source Date: Text: 天顯十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:036:s0055, liaoshi:036:s0009
- Source Date: Text: 太宗舊寶 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:057:s0015
- Source Date: Text: 會同四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 941Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0060
- Source Date: Text: AD 926-947 · Western Year: AD 926Strongly inferred · liaoshi:030:s0196
- Western Interval: Start: AD 928 · End: AD 947 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0184, s0011Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0184, xinwudaishi:073:s0011
- Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 940Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:058:s0036, liaoshi:058:s0064, liaoshi:059:s0016, liaoshi:059:s0019
- Source Date: Text: 三月 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:058:s0041, liaoshi:058:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 九月壬子朔 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 二月朔 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:058:s0040, liaoshi:058:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 入汴 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0019, liaoshi:076:s0153
- Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 945Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:059:s0020, liaoshi:059:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 943Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:058:s0037, liaoshi:058:s0064
- Source Date: Text: 嗣聖皇帝仆唐立晉 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:087:s0141
- Source Date: Text: 四月 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:058:s0043, liaoshi:058:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 夏四月丁丑 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0001
- Source Date: Text: 大同元年 · Western Year: AD 947
- Source Date: Text: 大同元年正月朔 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0112, liaoshi:058:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 天福十二年；卒於欒城 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0040
- Source Date: Text: 天贊三年 · Western Year: AD 924Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0101
- Source Date: Text: 天贊二年 · Western Year: AD 923Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0060, liaoshi:002:s0068
- Source Date: Text: 天贊二年 · Western Year: AD 923Explicit · liaoshi:075:s0070
- Source Date: Text: 天贊元年 · Western Year: AD 922Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0059
- Source Date: Text: 天贊四年 · Western Year: AD 925Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0122, liaoshi:002:s0139
- Source Date: Text: 天顯元年 · Western Year: AD 926Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0168, liaoshi:002:s0186, liaoshi:002:s0218, liaoshi:072:s0021, liaoshi:072:s0115, liaoshi:075:s0013
- Source Date: Text: 天顯四年 · Western Year: AD 929Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0021
- Source Date: Text: 太宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0024, liaoshi:031:s0043
- Source Date: Text: 太宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947
- Source Date: Text: 太宗伐唐、晉以前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 936Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 太宗克晉 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0020
- Source Date: Text: 太宗入晉之後 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:055:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0083
- Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0003
- Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:108:s0064
- Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴受冊禮 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:079:s0006
- Source Date: Text: 太宗兼制中國 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0012
- Source Date: Text: 太宗制中國 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0007
- Source Date: Text: 太宗即位 · Western Year: AD 927
- Source Date: Text: 太宗崩 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0136
- Source Date: Text: 太宗幸幽州大悲閣 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0065
- Source Date: Text: 太宗得燕 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:060:s0003
- Source Date: Text: 太宗撫有燕薊 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0003
- Source Date: Text: 太宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:108:s0013
- Source Date: Text: 太宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:078:s0022
- Source Date: Text: 太宗時制 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 太宗會同二年 · Western Year: AD 939Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0022
- Source Date: Text: 太宗會同元年 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0064
- Source Date: Text: 太宗會同初 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 太宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0068
- Source Date: Text: 太宗破晉北歸 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:057:s0014
- Source Date: Text: 太宗籍五京戶丁 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:059:s0070
- Source Date: Text: 太宗置五冶太師 · Western Year: AD 927Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:060:s0032
- Source Date: Text: 太祖、太宗經理疆土 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0012
- Source Date: Text: 契丹犯京师 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:029:s0037, xinwudaishi:029:s0088
- Source Date: Text: 是月，太宗崩 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0044
- Source Date: Text: 晉天福四年 · Western Year: AD 939Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:042:s0230
- Source Date: Text: 晉高祖使馮道、劉煦冊應天太后、太宗皇帝 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:054:s0072
- Source Date: Text: 會同三年 · Western Year: AD 940Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0020, liaoshi:054:s0022
- Source Date: Text: 會同中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 938 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0057, liaoshi:056:s0058
- Source Date: Text: 會同九年 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0065, liaoshi:076:s0007
- Source Date: Text: 會同九年 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:113:s0139
- Source Date: Text: 會同元年 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:055:s0118
- Source Date: Text: 會同元年 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:056:s0028
- Source Date: Text: 會同元年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0157
- Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:034:s0035, liaoshi:060:s0018
- Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938
- Source Date: Text: 立敬瑭，破重貴 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:055:s0003
- Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福1年） · Western Year: AD 936Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:008:s0033
- Source Date: Text: 自太宗始也 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0139
- Source Date: Text: 至太宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0059
- Source Date: Text: 至於太宗，立晉以要冊禮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0031
- Source Date: Text: 興宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1031 · End: AD 1055Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:083:s0075, liaoshi:083:s0074
- Source Date: Text: 送高祖至潞州 · Western Year: AD 936Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:010:s0148
- Source Date: Text: 開運四年；呼之為兒 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0020
- Source Date: Text: 高祖即位 · Western Year: AD 936Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:029:s0011, xinwudaishi:029:s0012
Family
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- Parent of Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖)Kinship Term: adoptive father and son / 父子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive-father · Object Role: adoptive-son · Relationship State: formed
- Sibling of Yelü Bei (耶律倍)Kinship Term: brother / 兄弟 · Shared Parentage: full
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder - Spouse of Empress Jing'an (靖安皇后)Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
- Child of Taizu (太祖)Kinship Term: prince / 皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son - Sibling of Li Hu (李胡)Kinship Term: imperial younger brother / 太弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
Kinship Term: Imperial Younger Brother / 皇太弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother - Child of Empress Dowager Shulü (述律)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
- Child of Taizu (太祖)Kinship Term: prince / 皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Parent of Prince of Qi Shulü (齊王述律)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
- Kin of Mada (麻答)Kinship Term: younger cousin / 從弟 · Subject Role: younger-cousin · Object Role: elder-cousin · Line: paternal
Origins and identity
- Ethnicity: Khitan / 契丹
- Label: Khitan / 契丹Strongly inferred · liaoshi:059:s0002, liaoshi:059:s0016
Career and standing
- Label: Grand Marshal of All Armies and Horses / 天下兵馬大元帥 · Action: appointedExplicit · liaoshi:002:s0059
- Label: Grand Master of the Five Smelteries / 五冶太師 · Action: established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗置五冶太師 · Western Year: AD 927Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0032
- Status: emperor · Action: heldExplicit · liaoshi:056:s0007, liaoshi:056:s0112
- Status: used-Han-dress · Label: Chinese-style dress / 漢服 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗入晉之後 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:055:s0016
- Action: executed Qin Jimin and Li Yanshen and confiscated their estates · Targets: Qin Jimin (秦繼旻), Li Yanzhen (李彥紳)Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0010
- As: emperor / 即位Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0239
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大元帥即皇帝位 · Western Year: AD 926Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0021
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 938Strongly inferred · liaoshi:113:s0139
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗即位 · Western Year: AD 927Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0062
- Expression: came to the throne / 即位Explicit · liaoshi:075:s0013
- Western Year: AD 926Derived · xinwudaishi:073:s0185
Places and affiliations
- Polities: liao, KhitanExplicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0185
- Polity: Khitan / 契丹 · Relation: ruledExplicit · xinwudaishi:029:s0011
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-withExplicit · liaoshi:072:s0115, liaoshi:072:s0021
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: ruled-or-servedExplicit · liaoshi:033:s0022
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: ruledExplicit · liaoshi:005:s0001, liaoshi:031:s0024, liaoshi:034:s0004, liaoshi:034:s0035, liaoshi:035:s0006, liaoshi:036:s0009, liaoshi:036:s0055, liaoshi:042:s0228, liaoshi:044:s0050, liaoshi:049:s0020, liaoshi:054:s0020, liaoshi:054:s0193, liaoshi:055:s0002, liaoshi:055:s0016, liaoshi:055:s0118, liaoshi:056:s0007, liaoshi:056:s0112, liaoshi:057:s0014, liaoshi:057:s0065, liaoshi:059:s0016, liaoshi:060:s0003, liaoshi:061:s0012, liaoshi:078:s0022, liaoshi:079:s0006, liaoshi:087:s0141, liaoshi:108:s0013, liaoshi:108:s0064
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · liaoshi:067:s0257
- Place: Huai Mausoleum / 懷陵 · Relation: buried-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九月壬子朔 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0016
- Place: Bianjing / 汴京 · Relation: operated-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:042:s0228
- Place: Central Capital / 中京 · Relation: relocated-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:042:s0228
- Place: Bianjing / 汴 · Relation: enteredExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0031, liaoshi:058:s0038
- Place: Central Capital / 中京 · Relation: associated-withExplicit event contextual date · liaoshi:044:s0050, liaoshi:044:s0051
- Place: Central Capital / 中京 · Relation: ordered-dispatch-toExplicit · liaoshi:054:s0193
- Place: Chongyuan Hall / 崇元殿 · Relation: ascendedExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0038, liaoshi:058:s0040
- Place: Mount Muye / 木葉山 · Relation: built-temple-atExplicit · liaoshi:049:s0065
- Place: tomb thirty li south of Huaizhou / 懷州南三十里 · Relation: buried-atExplicit · liaoshi:031:s0048
- Place: Youzhou / 幽州 · Relation: visitedExplicit · liaoshi:049:s0065
- Organization: great-tent pishi army / 大帳皮室軍 · Relation: founder-ofExplicit · liaoshi:035:s0006, liaoshi:035:s0008
Works and attributed material
- Kind: edict · Role: issuer · Action: levied-troops-warned-against-harming-cropsExplicit · liaoshi:059:s0024
- Kind: edict · Role: issuer · Action: ordered-agriculture-and-sericultureExplicit · liaoshi:059:s0017
- Work: testament proclaimed by Wuyu · Designated Successor: Emperor Shizong (世宗)Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0025
- Kind: edict · Role: author
- Kind: report · Role: author · Other Person Id: Li Hu (李胡) · Statement: court assemblies and daily conduct proceeded according to ritualExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0043
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Quoted: true · Text: 此都軍甚操剌…無大故勿棄之Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0148
- Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0184
- Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0083
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: trueExplicit · xinwudaishi:029:s0050
- Kind: speech · Role: speakerExplicit · liaoshi:075:s0124
Events and relationships
- Kind: ritual · Role: adopter · Action: adopted · Object: Han Chinese rites / 漢禮 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗克晉，稍用漢禮 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0020
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked-YouzhouExplicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0068, liaoshi:002:s0069
- Kind: ritual · Role: institutor · Action: began · Object: birthday and death-anniversary portrait rites for late emperor and empress / 先帝、先後生辰及忌辰行禮 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 自太宗始也 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0139
- Kind: military · Role: conqueror · Action: brought-Yan-Ji-under-ruleExplicit · liaoshi:105:s0003
- Event: buried at Mount Muye · Kind: historical-event · Action: buried at Mount MuyeExplicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0057, xinwudaishi:073:s0120
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against · Other: Later Jin / 晉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同九年，太宗伐晉 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0065
- Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0157
- Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0072, liaoshi:105:s0073
- Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: changed-court-dress-to-brocade-robe-and-gold-beltExplicit · liaoshi:056:s0021, liaoshi:056:s0027
- Kind: administrative · Role: actor · Action: collected-and-relocated-calendrical-specialists · Place: from Bianjing to the Central Capital / 自晉汴京遷於中京 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:042:s0228
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: conquered · Object: Jin / 晉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗克晉 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0020
- Kind: military · Role: victor · Action: defeated-Later-Jin-and-returned-north · Place: Bian palace / 汴宮 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗破晉北歸 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0014
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Shi Chonggui (石重貴) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 破重貴 · Western Interval: Start: AD 946 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:055:s0003
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: destroyed-and-established · Place: Tang and Jin / 唐…晉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938 · Outcome: Jin offered sixteen prefectures of Yan and DaiExplicit · liaoshi:034:s0035
- Kind: ritual · Role: sovereign · Action: entered Bian and received investiture rites · Place: Bian / 汴 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴受冊禮 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0006
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: entered Bianjing and took Jin books and ritual vessels northExplicit · liaoshi:103:s0003
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: entered through Yanmen and defeated Zhang Jingda's Tang army · Other Person Id: Zhang Jingda (張敬達) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福元年九月 · Western Year: AD 936Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0033
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: entered-Bian · Place: Bian / 汴Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: entered-Bianjing-and-seized-ritual-regaliaExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0031
- Kind: military · Role: invader · Action: entered-capitalExplicit · xinwudaishi:029:s0037, xinwudaishi:029:s0088
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: ruler · Action: entered-Jin-and-received-court-congratulations · Place: Chongyuan Hall, Bianjing / 汴京崇元殿 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年正月朔 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0112
- Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: entered-Jin-capital · Place: Jin / 晉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗入晉 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:055:s0016
- Kind: political · Role: installer · Action: enthroned · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 立敬瑭 · Western Year: AD 936Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:055:s0003
- Kind: institutional · Role: founder · Action: established-pishi-army · Detail: Selected finest armor-bearers as the pishi army / 益選天下精甲，置諸爪牙為皮室軍Explicit · liaoshi:035:s0006, liaoshi:035:s0008
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: established-xi-chancellors-and-changgunExplicit · liaoshi:033:s0239
- Kind: institutional · Role: founder · Action: established · Label: Yongxing Palace / 永興宮 · Organization: Guoalian orudo / 國阿輦斡魯朵 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永興宮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0043
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: feasted-ministers-asked-state-affairs · Place: Red Mountain / 赤山 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 945Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0020
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: fixed-four-capitals-renamed-Shangjing · Place: Shangjing / 上京 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乃定四京，改皇都為上京 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:036:s0009, liaoshi:036:s0055
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: beneficiary · Action: gained-Hejian-sea-salt · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0018
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: governed-ChinaExplicit · liaoshi:056:s0007
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: host · Action: granted-banquet · Other Person Id: Wang Tuo (王朓) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同三年 · Western Year: AD 940 · Place: side hall / 便殿Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0020, liaoshi:054:s0021
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: granted-dress-to-aged-ranked-ministers · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同元年 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0028
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: granted-Heli-Luju-lands-for-cultivation · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 940Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0019
- Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: Han-law-for-BohaiExplicit · liaoshi:061:s0059
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: installed-Later-Jin-to-demand-investitureExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0031
- Kind: legal · Role: lawgiver · Action: instituted-wooden-sword-and-clubExplicit · liaoshi:061:s0038, liaoshi:061:s0039
- Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: invested · Other Person Id: Empress Dowager Yingtian (應天皇太后) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉高祖使馮道、劉煦冊應天太后、太宗皇帝 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0072
- Kind: political · Role: recipient · Action: obtained-instruments · Statement: Obtained the Jin dynasty's calendrical instruments, water clock, and armillary sphere · Place: Central Capital / 中京 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:044:s0050, liaoshi:044:s0051
- Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: obtained-jin-court-music-apparatus · Place: Bian / 汴 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0193
- Kind: acquisition · Role: acquirer · Action: obtained · Other Person Id: Wang Bai (王白) · Place: Bian / 汴Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0064
- Kind: acquisition · Role: acquirer · Action: obtained · Other Person Id: Wei Lin (魏璘) · Place: Bian / 汴Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0016
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: host · Action: ordered-native-dances · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同三年端午日 · Western Year: AD 940Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0022
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: ordered-outer-guard-regalia-sent-ahead · Place: Zhongjing Zhenyang / 中京鎮陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三月 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0041
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: ordered-settlement-in-Wugu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗會同二年 · Western Year: AD 939Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0022
- Event: overthrew Later Jin and entered Bian · Western Year: AD 947 · Kind: historical-event · Action: overthrew Later Jin and entered BianExplicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0009, xinwudaishi:073:s0186
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: pacified-Jin · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗定晉 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:036:s0009, liaoshi:036:s0055
- Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: performed-entering-pavilion-rite · Place: Yuanhe Hall / 元和殿 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 940Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0036
- Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: placed-flags-drums-spirit-banners-before-hallExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0062
- Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: prepared-eastern-hunt · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0016
- Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: punished-poison-plotExplicit · liaoshi:061:s0060
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: put-down-rebellionsExplicit · liaoshi:072:s0017
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: raided-XiangExplicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0122, liaoshi:002:s0125
- Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: received-court-congratulation · Place: Chongyuan Hall / 崇元殿 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二月朔 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0040
- Kind: ritual · Role: ruler · Action: received-court-congratulation · Place: Chongyuan Hall / 崇元殿 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年正月朔 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0038
- Kind: political · Role: recipient · Action: received-honorific-titles · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同元年 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:055:s0118
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: registered-Five-Capitals-household-males-for-taxesExplicit · liaoshi:059:s0070
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: renamed-Eastern-Capital · Place: Eastern Capital / 東京 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:036:s0055
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: returned-north-and-adopted-Tang-Jin-institutions · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0113
- Kind: military · Role: conqueror · Action: seized-Yan-established-Southern-Capital · Place: Yan / 燕 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗得燕 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0003
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: settled-Oukun-shilie-opened-Haile-farmlandExplicit · liaoshi:059:s0018
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: subjugated · Place: Bohai / 渤海 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 舉渤海 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:055:s0003
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed-Nanhai-DingliExplicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0168, liaoshi:002:s0169
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: took-PingzhouExplicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0060
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: took-TiezhouExplicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0172
- Kind: ritual · Role: viewer · Action: viewed-Diagram-of-Escort-Ceremonial-Guards · Place: Jizhou / 薊州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 940Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0036
- Kind: ritual · Role: actor · Action: visited-and-enshrined · Place: Youzhou / Mount Muye / 幽州 / 木葉山 · Object: white-robed Guanyin as household deity / 白衣觀音像為家神 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗幸幽州大悲閣 · Western Interval: Start: AD 927 · End: AD 947Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0065
- Kind: travel · Role: ruler · Action: visited-Yan-with-full-imperial-equipage · Place: Yan / 燕 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 940Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0036
- Kind: travel · Role: ruler · Action: visited-Yan-with-full-imperial-equipage · Place: Yan / 燕 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 943Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0037
- Kind: travel · Role: ruler · Action: visited · Place: Liaoyang Prefecture / 遼陽府 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯四年 · Western Year: AD 929Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0021
- Kind: military · Role: ruler · Action: withdrew · Place: Bian/Kaifeng / 汴 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同元年 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:067:s0008
- Explicit · liaoshi:036:s0218, liaoshi:036:s0009
- Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Taizu (太祖)Strongly inferred · liaoshi:034:s0035, liaoshi:034:s0020
- Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Taizu (太祖)Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0021
- Relation: loved-as-son · Person Id: Shizong (世宗)Explicit · liaoshi:005:s0040
- Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Gaozu of Han (漢高祖)Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0020
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: deeply-persuaded-by-advice-to-cherish-the-people · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liaoshi:059:s0023
- Assessment: priorities shown by seizing ritual regalia ahead of holding territory · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0032
- Item: Taizong's former seal / 太宗舊寶 · Relation: associated-with · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 詔用太宗舊寶 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0015
- Item: jade seal / 玉印 · Relation: obtained · Place: Bian palace / 汴宮 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗破晉北歸，得於汴宮 · Western Year: AD 947Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0014
- Item: imperial transmission seal / 傳國寶 · Relation: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同九年 · Western Year: AD 946Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0065
- Item: Son of Heaven chariots and attire / 天子車服 · Relation: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同元年 · Western Year: AD 938Explicit · liaoshi:055:s0118, liaoshi:055:s0119
- Item: imperial ritual regalia since Qin and Han / 秦漢以來帝王文物 · Relation: acquiredExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0033
- Item: Jin Court of Imperial Sacrifices music score, suspended bells, and music stands / 晉太常樂譜、宮懸、樂架 · Relation: obtainedExplicit · liaoshi:054:s0193
- Item: musical instruments, musicians, and imperial regalia / 聲器、工官與法駕 · Relation: receivedExplicit · liaoshi:054:s0072
- Item: surviving regalia of Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang / 周、秦、兩漢、隋、唐文物之遺餘 · Relation: possessedExplicit · liaoshi:055:s0003
Source notes
- Historicity: historical
- Fact: adopted Tianxian in his third regnal year and Huitong in year eleven
- Statement: The great-tent pishi army he established numbered three hundred thousand riders / 大帳皮室軍：太宗置，凡三十萬騎Explicit · liaoshi:035:s0008
References in the histories
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